It’s not serial murder; it’s breakfast!
Tara was nice enough to send me this link about a Yale student allegedely inseminating and then aborting herself “as often as possible”. She is using the blood and videos from the miscarriages/abortions in an art project that will be on display later in the year. Thanks Tara!
Art major Aliza Shvarts’ project has attracted reactions of disgust and outrage since the Yale Daily News broke the story of her upcoming exhibit on Thursday.
“It’s clearly depraved. I think the poor woman has got some major mental problems,” said National Right to Life Committee President Wanda Franz. “She’s a serial killer. This is just a horrible thought.”
Critics on campus said the exhibit sounds like a shock-and-awe look at the highly sensitive issue of abortion and called it a sick stunt to get attention.
But Shvarts said the goal of the project is to spark debate and discussion about the connection between art and the human body.
At Wonkette SayItWithWookies offers:
Y’know, nowhere in the article does it say any of these insemination attempts was successful, or that she took any kind of pregnancy test. And I have a feeling that an abortifacient would produce more or less the same result whether a woman was pregnant or not (what with an early-stage foetus being too small to see anyway).
Hate to throw a bucket of blood on this parade, but I’ll bet you dollars to zygotes that she didn’t throw the baby out with the bloodbath.
Personally I think this is fine. If someone wants to get pregnant and then abort it, collect the juices and smear them on a cube with video playing on the walls that is fine by me. I just worry about her Rug Doctor bill. Oh dear, was that a double entendre? Thoughts?
Here is the article at Yale Daily News and an interesting story by the artist about her first period.
UPDATE:
Ms. Shvarts (which rhymes with farts) has posted a statement. I like to think that she was giving her womb a good napalming every few weeks but apparantly not (or so she says)
Ms. Shvarts is engaged in performance art. Her art project includes visual representations, a press release and other narrative materials. 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.
She is an artist and has the right to express herself through performance art.
Had these acts been real, they would have violated basic ethical standards and raised serious mental and physical health concerns.