Sometimes people use the excuse of "art" in order to get away
with craziness!
Aliza Shvarts, a Yale art major, has done
something different for her senior art project this year.
The "artist" has documented herself throughout a 9 month process
where she artificially inseminated herself and then periodically
took abortifacient drugs in order to induce miscarriages.
The exhibit, which will begin next Tuesday, will include video
recordings of the forced miscarriages.
WTF?!?!?! Ewwww!!!!!
It will also include preserved samples of the blood during the
process.
According to Shvarts, her goal was to "spark conversation and
debate on the relationship between art and the human body."
Students have expressed shock upon hearing of the exhibit.
Rightfully so!
Shvarts insists that her art isn't for shock value.
Liar. She says, "I hope it inspires some sort of
discourse. Sure, some people will be upset with the message and
will not agree with it, but it's not the intention of the piece to
scandalize anyone."
As for the "donors", she claims they were not paid for their
"services". She also claims to have required them to periodically
take tests for STDs, though did not want to disclose the number of
sperm donors used.
As for the medical risk related to multiple abortions, Shvarts
says she was not worried. She said the abortifacient drugs she took
were herbal and legal, and decided she didn't need to consult a
doctor.
IDIOT!!!!!
What if she's caused herself serious and permanent
damage????
At least this "artist" has one fan. Juan Castillo, another
senior art major, said he was intrigued by the beauty of her
project. He says, "I really loved the idea of this project, but a
lot other people didn't. I think that most people were very
resistant to thinking about what the project was really about. [The
senior-art-project forum] stopped being a conversation on the work
itself."
As for the actual exhibit, Schvarts will feature a large cube
hanging from the ceiling. Wrapped around that cube will be hundreds
of feet of plastic sheeting which will be lined with her blood from
the miscarriages.
Ewwww!!!!
The old blood will be mixed with vaseline to prevent it from
drying.
Double EWWWWWW!!!
She will also project the recorded videos of herself, showing the
miscarriages she had in her bathtub, onto the sides of the
cube.
Similar footage will also be projected onto the walls of the
room.
We're starting to get a bit queezy!
This is TOO MUCH!!!!!!
Shvarts adds, "It was a private and personal endeavor, but also
a transparent one for the most part. This isn't something I've been
hiding." Adding, that she believes "strongly that art should be a
medium for politics and ideologies, not just a commodity. I think
that I'm creating a project that lives up to the standard of what
art is supposed to be."
We're all for a woman's right to choose, but this is abusing
that right.
We don't know what to think anymore.
*edit* "Ms. Shvarts is engaged in performance art," a Yale
spokeswoman, Helaine Klasky, said. "She stated to three senior Yale
University officials today, including two deans, that she did not
impregnate herself and that she did not induce any miscarriages.
The entire project is an art piece, a creative fiction designed to
draw attention to the ambiguity surrounding form and function of a
woman’s body."
