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The 4th wall is a theatre term for the invisible wall between performers and the audience. When performers speak directly to the audience it’s considered breaking the 4th wall. As the sociologist Erving Goffman’s dramaturgy suggests, we are constantly performing our identities. The interviews on this page were an attempt to enquire beyond the performativity of self.

Dec 9

Dec 9 Initiation: An Ancient Ritual in a Modern World—Samoan Tatau.

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(Things & Ink, issue 8. Republished in INKED, issue 27) ‘The first hit, your mind is full of so many thoughts; mostly you’re thinking, “Shit, what have I done; what am I doing; I can’t do this”.

Sep 11

Sep 11 Tattooing in Australian Prisons

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(Things & Ink, issue 7. Republished in INKED, issue 28) “It’s another world in prison, there’s dos and don’ts out here, and then there’s dos and don’ts in there. I used to just go with the flow, and do tattoos.”

Jul 19

Jul 19 Hanging with Badsville: hook, line, and body modifications

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(Things & Ink, issue 6. Republished in Melbourne Permanent, issue 1) "When you’re getting them pierced, it feels pretty brutal. So you can understand the heightened response your body and mind are having to the pain.”

Jul 8

Jul 8 O-inked: Is Tattooing a Pig Art?

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(Modern Farmer, 01/05/2014. Republished in Melbourne Permanent, issue 1) "Maybe it was Little Minnesota, the Texas Tattooed Pig, who finally made the most sincere statement of the night when he urinated in his plastic pigsty."

Mar 2

Mar 2 Posthumous Conversations: My Transcendental Experience Taking Ayahuasca with a Shaman

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(The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, 09/09/14) I became synesthetic—inhaling my visions, exhaling what was heard”

Feb 15

Feb 15 Home-made Tattoos: Unregulated, Unprofessional, Unstoppable

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(Things & Ink, issue 3) "I said to them all, ‘look, this isn’t the right ink, I don’t want you all getting infected from it,’ but they were all like UGHRAAAAA, TATTOO US TATTOO US WE DON’T CARE. I had like seven people lined up."