Elena Debold Artist Talk
Helping Hands:
I am currently developing new works having to do specifically with sexual assault and abuse. The performance I hope to show at the Graduate Research Conference brings together my stories as a survivor of sexual assault with the stories of others in an intimate performance. Throughout the performance, I will be receiving physical therapy (on my thighs, stomach, and hips) for an injury sustained from my assaults. While undergoing this often painful therapy, I will orally tell selected stories collected from fellow survivors. Through this performance I aim to give voice to survivors while physically undergoing and showing my own healing process.