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This Artist Filmed Her Own Fake Rape
Daily Beast ^ | May 24, 2016 | Lizzie Crocker

Posted on 05/24/2016 1:11:05 PM PDT by C19fan

Sophia Hewson, an Australian-based contemporary artist, has made headlines with a video of what she’s calling a “rape representation.” On view at Melbourne’s Mars Gallery and titled are you ok bob?, the three-minute piece shows the artist staring blankly into the camera while “Bob,” a pseudonym, strikes her during intercourse and attempts to force her head to one side. Hewson, who wears a white T-shirt, pushes back each time and defiantly confronts the viewer.

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography
KEYWORDS: art; porn; pornography; prostitution; rape
Yawn.
1 posted on 05/24/2016 1:11:05 PM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Not even original. The mattress skank did that first.


2 posted on 05/24/2016 1:12:06 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: C19fan

She’s an artist, she’s an actress.


3 posted on 05/24/2016 1:15:21 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: C19fan
shows the artist staring blankly into the camera while “Bob,” a pseudonym, strikes her during intercourse and attempts to force her head to one side.

Meh. I've seen worse of HBO and FXX.

4 posted on 05/24/2016 1:18:46 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: C19fan

Isn’t this Islamophia?


5 posted on 05/24/2016 1:19:24 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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To: C19fan

Is the art titled: Life with muslims?


6 posted on 05/24/2016 1:19:43 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: C19fan

more people are going to view it as porn than as art or a political statement


7 posted on 05/24/2016 1:31:35 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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"Heh, why did she go through all that trouble when she could have had the real thing?"


8 posted on 05/24/2016 1:39:40 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: C19fan

If she wanted to be edgy she should have cast a transgender Palestinian as the rapist. :)


9 posted on 05/24/2016 1:45:29 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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“...the three-minute piece shows the artist staring blankly into the camera while “Bob,” a pseudonym, strikes her during intercourse and attempts to force her head to one side.”

She must be a Twin Peaks fan.

Freegards


10 posted on 05/24/2016 1:48:47 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: C19fan

Rip-off of Fifty Shades of Grey.


11 posted on 05/24/2016 3:10:45 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Game of Thrones.
True Blood.


12 posted on 05/24/2016 3:11:18 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I’m an artist, I work in profanity and insults.


13 posted on 05/24/2016 3:42:56 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (EAT THE YOUNG! 100 million guppies can't be wrong.)
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To: C19fan

So what is her art? Drawing attention to herself?

I draw with graphite and charcoal. I paint with oil paint on canvas. I am an artist.


14 posted on 05/24/2016 3:49:28 PM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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