This is horrible. The woman should be shot.

Hellolost · **Joined:** Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:58 am **Posts:** 2120

This is an article taken from Perez Hilton.com. I did not write this. I am actually horrified by this

http://perezhilton.com/2008-04-17-abortions-art

Abortion = Art????
Filed under: Icky Icky Poo > Wacky, Tacky & True

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.

What do U think?

johng · **Posted:** Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:42 pm

DGM · **Posted:** Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:49 pm

undead · **Joined:** Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:54 pm **Posts:** 861

Hellolost · **Joined:** Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:58 am **Posts:** 2120

Now she came forward and said she did do it. I think she got scared.

Aliza Shvarts, in her own words.

"For the past year, I performed repeated self-induced miscarriages. I created a group of fabricators from volunteers who submitted to periodic STD screenings and agreed to their complete and permanent anonymity. From the 9th to the 15th day of my menstrual cycle, the fabricators would provide me with sperm samples, which I used to privately self-inseminate. Using a needleless syringe, I would inject the sperm near my cervix within 30 minutes of its collection, so as to insure the possibility of fertilization. On the 28th day of my cycle, I would ingest an abortifacient, after which I would experience cramps and heavy bleeding.

To protect myself and others, only I know the number of fabricators who participated, the frequency and accuracy with which I inseminated and the specific abortifacient I used. Because of these measures of privacy, the piece exists only in its telling. This telling can take textual, visual, spatial, temporal and performative forms — copies of copies of which there is no original.

This piece — in its textual and sculptural forms — is meant to call into question the relationship between form and function as they converge on the body. The artwork exists as the verbal narrative you see above, as an installation that will take place in Green Hall, as a time-based performance, as a independent concept, as a myth and as a public discourse.

It creates an ambiguity that isolates the locus of ontology to an act of readership. An intentional ambiguity pervades both the act and the objects I produced in relation to it. The performance exists only as I chose to represent it. For me, the most poignant aspect of this representation — the part most meaningful in terms of its political agenda (and, incidentally, the aspect that has not been discussed thus far) — is the impossibility of accurately identifying the resulting blood. Because the miscarriages coincide with the expected date of menstruation (the 28th day of my cycle), it remains ambiguous whether the there was ever a fertilized ovum or not. The reality of the pregnancy, both for myself and for the audience, is a matter of reading.

This ambivalence makes obvious how the act of identification or naming — the act of ascribing a word to something physical — is at its heart an ideological act, an act that literally has the power to construct bodies. In a sense, the act of conception occurs when the viewer assigns the term “miscarriage” or “period” to that blood.

In some sense, neither term is exactly accurate or inaccurate; the ambiguity is not merely a matter of context, but is embodied in the physicality of the object. This central ambiguity defies a clear definition of the act. The reality of miscarriage is very much a linguistic and political reality, an act of reading constructed by an act of naming — an authorial act.

It is the intention of this piece to destabilize the locus of that authorial act, and in doing so, reclaim it from the heteronormative structures that seek to naturalize it.

As an intervention into our normative understanding of “the real” and its accompanying politics of convention, this performance piece has numerous conceptual goals. The first is to assert that often, normative understandings of biological function are a mythology imposed on form. It is this mythology that creates the sexist, racist, ableist, nationalist and homophobic perspective, distinguishing what body parts are “meant” to do from their physical capability. The myth that a certain set of functions are “natural” (while all the other potential functions are “unnatural”) undermines that sense of capability, confining lifestyle choices to the bounds of normatively defined narratives.

Just as it is a myth that women are “meant” to be feminine and men masculine, that penises and vaginas are “meant” for penetrative heterosexual sex (or that mouths, anuses, breasts, feet or leather, silicone, vinyl, rubber, or metal implements are not “meant” for sex at all), it is a myth that ovaries and a uterus are “meant” to birth a child.

When considering my own bodily form, I recognize its potential as extending beyond its ability to participate in a normative function. While my organs are capable of engaging with the narrative of reproduction — the time-based linkage of discrete events from conception to birth — the realm of capability extends beyond the bounds of that specific narrative chain. These organs can do other things, can have other purposes, and it is the prerogative of every individual to acknowledge and explore this wide realm of capability."

Hero Killer Id · **Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:37 pm

wow and eww. that is just horrible.

RayGarton · **Joined:** Sat Apr 09, 2005 11:02 pm **Posts:** 143

I don't mean to offend anyone, but I find this terribly funny. I've read a number of articles about it and I believe it really was a hoax. The young woman who perpetrated it is no doubt an annoyingly pretentious boob with a unibrow and all of Andrea Dworkin's books on her shelf, but I have to admit ... anyone who can pull off a stunt like this, AND piss off two self-important pricks in leadership positions on both sides of the abortion issue (both of whom are men, by the way, which is VERY significant and at the very heart of the surrounding problem) is okay in my book. I have a soft spot in my heart for rebels, troublemakers, and practical jokers -- I was one back my Seventh-day Adventist school days (I had to be to remain sane). When I read the press release about this yesterday, I was horrified and sickened, but hey, it's her body, and her mess. But when I learned later that it was a hoax and that Ted Miller of NARAL Pro-Choice America and Peter Wolfgang of the anti-choice group the Family Institute of Connecticut were outraged and throwing foot-stomping, fist-pounding tantrums, I laughed so hard I almost fell on my ass.

Laurel in Ely · **Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:05 pm

Yale: Student's artwork purporting to show abortion a hoax.
April 18, 2008, 8:50 AM EST
A Yale University art student's claim that she induced repeated abortions on herself and used the blood for her senior project is false, school officials said after her account was published in the student newspaper.

Hey Ray, you nailed it. Just a sick hoax.

DGM · **Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:23 pm

Jesus, people... Didn't anyone read my link? Sheesh.

Laurel in Ely · **Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:39 pm

johng · **Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:50 pm

DGM · **Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:53 pm

DGM · **Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:00 pm

horrordude · **Posted:** Sat Apr 19, 2008 1:14 am

Oh yeah, this is the problem when mentally challenged people have too much time on their hands.

These are the people in the world that are right out of a Ketchum novel. I hate to use a brilliant horror author like Jack to make a point on people like this, but it illustrates how horrifying whackos in the news are.

I say capture and starve people with no brains; you could televise it and charge extra for high definition.

ttzuma · **Joined:** Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:15 pm **Posts:** 13517

horrordude · **Posted:** Sat Apr 19, 2008 7:33 pm

Well, I was being what you could call: ironical. But what I meant was, to give the people who get off on sick crap a tast of their own medicine. That might be the only thing worth a damn in the bible: an eye for an eye.

This is horrible. The woman should be shot.

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