But You’re Not Innocent
Ink with perticipatory performance, 2019
This performance was first shown at Analysand by Roller Door Projects. The audience was invited to leave handprints on my body, using the sumi ink I produced from a grinding stone.
But You’re Not Innocent is a meditation on consent, and what it means to inhabit a female body bound by societal judgement that values sexual purity. The manual grinding of ink speaks to gendered labour and blame, that is often placed upon victims of sexual assault.
