This visual is a good demonstration of the uprising that occurred after Emma Sulkowicz made her endurance performance art statement, which is the case I have chosen to examine in my paper as it relates to the issue of consent in sexual violence at universities. This image illustrates that in everyone's hands are signs with anti-rape chants and phrases written upon them, but most importantly are the mattresses on which some of these chants and phrases are written. The significance of the "mattress signs" stands for the mattress that Sulkowicz claimed she was raped on and that she carried around in protest against rape and the school's unjustifiable response to her case and Nungesser. This piece of performance art was the beginning of a set of protests across the nation. Here at Rutgers University there was a commemorative protest where students would carry around pillows to signify the rape, with words stitched into the fabric, or mattresses like Sulkowicz's.
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