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The Ship Is Sinking
Emma Sulkowicz is a widely known artist for their art piece Mattress Performance but there are also other art pieces that not a lot of people know about or don’t know what it’s really about and how it’s supposed to be expressed. Although the Mattress Performance piece gained Emma Sulkowicz a lot of exposure, so did the art piece “The Ship Is Sinking”. The reason why this art piece gained a lot of attention was because of the way it was expressed through an act of bondage performance, where the professional male figure known as “Master Avery” played the male role of the art presentation “Mr.Whitney” where he propped Sulkowicz up into the air. In the art piece Sulcowikz wore a white bikini with the “Whitney” logo, while being tied with rope and hung from the ceiling on a wooden beam. The purpose of this art piece was so that Emma would be seen as the figurehead of the ship and the remarks that were said about them did both assault and strengthen Sulkowicz. The reason Emma is wearing nude sparkly high heels and a thong biking was to convey the look of what a woman looks like in a beauty pageant because there is so much pageantry within art itself. If you are seeing this art piece and go in with the mindset that it is a man's artwork you are upset and revolted by the sight of it, but then when you find out that this art piece was made by a woman, you tend to see a very empowering side to what important message that is trying to be made. In the article, “The Ship is Sinking: Sulkowicz Strikes Back” talks about the art piece and how it affected them so then went about saying “White cis men have the privilege of making art that can be divorced from their lives,” she explained. “It’s a privilege that I don’t really have so I’m trying to work in a way that makes the best use of that position as I can.” Sulkowicz still wanted to make their best attempt at how a man would portray his art through his life differing from how they express their own art. This piece was very touching in different ways because some people felt disturbed or it brought them laughter or even joy and made them want to join in on the display of art. By the time the gallery was beginning to close they started to flicker their lights signaling that they are closing soon, because elf that many of the spectators were in anger because Emma was still not finished with their performance, so even though they turned out the lights in the museum the audience members gathered up their flashlights from their phones and continued to watch Sulkowicz’s performance that way until it was completely finished. Everyone was so amused by this piece that they wanted to see it till the end rather than just leaving when the museum closed and because of Emma’s art pieces, it caused so many speculations and assumptions to arise, they had to deal with a big burden. Being able to express the pain they felt and endured is what Sulkowicz portrays in their work, rather than saying that because of what happened they did this piece. Sulkowicz manages to physically put themself within their artwork and express it in that way. Because of this art piece “The Ship Is Sinking” and the various other art statement pieces Sulcowikz has done, this caused them to be honored by the Feminist Majority Foundation for their art and the way they express it to help others.