Monika Rostvold, an art student at Texas State University, sparked a frenzy both on campus and online Monday when she sat on the steps of her university's library wearing nothing but a blindfold, a nude-colored thong, and pasties (see Naked Youths Take to Mexican Streets to Protest Student Killings Documented by Edgar Olguin).
Monika Rostvold, a student at Texas State University, enacted a 45 minute long performance art demonstration as part of an art project focusing on the objectification of female bodies on campus. She sat on her university's library steps in nothing but a blind fold and sat silently throughout the whole performance. "I wanted people to view my body as beauty and power and not a sexual object . . .