Posted by: Sister Toldjah on April 17, 2008 at 2:37 pm
… then it’s probably one of the most, if not THE most, disgusting “art displays” I’ve ever heard of:
Art major Aliza Shvarts ‘08 wants to make a statement.
Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself “as often as possible” while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.
The goal in creating the art exhibition, Shvarts said, was to spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body. But her project has already provoked more than just debate, inciting, for instance, outcry at a forum for fellow senior art majors held last week. And when told about Shvarts’ project, students on both ends of the abortion debate have expressed shock — saying the project does everything from violate moral code to trivialize abortion.
But Shvarts insists her concept was not designed for “shock value.”
“I hope it inspires some sort of discourse” Shvarts said. “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.”
The “fabricators” or donors, of the sperm were not paid for their services, but Shvarts required them to periodically take tests for sexually transmitted diseases. She said she was not concerned about any medical effects the forced miscarriages may have had on her body. The abortifacient drugs she took were legal and herbal, she said, and she did not feel the need to consult a doctor about her repeated miscarriages.
Shvarts declined to specify the number of sperm donors she used, as well as the number of times she inseminated herself.
Yuval Levin is skeptical:
Color me dubious about the Yale art project story. In talking to a few knowledgeable docs this morning, the facts don’t add up very well. Self-insemination of the sort she seems to be claiming is no easy feat, and “herbal” abortifacients are extremely dangerous and not at all reliably effective. It’s highly unlikely that these two improbable elements would both be carried off successfully multiple times, and with no side effects. It’s more likely that her senior art project is to see how many people she can upset with a hoax.
I hope he’s right. I mean, I know far left feministas have advocated and in all too many cases done some very very disturbing, disgusting things, but this would take it to an all new low level of depravity. I really don’t want to believe that any woman out there would be so incredibly stupid.
Fri AM Update: My intrepid commenters are on the case, and have linked up to a NY Sun story where Yale officials stated yesterday that the story was a hoax. All the same, it’s disturbing that anyone would make up such a claim. I hope Aliza Shvarts isn’t a symbol of things to come from other young women in this country. If so, the jobs of anti-feminists like myself have just gotten a lot tougher.
Maybe the art project itself, is the rumor of the non existent art project.
Yale Student’s ‘Abortion Art’ Claim a Scam
Newsbusters rips apart this girls ‘art project’ tearing it down to the fundementals.
Is it real, or is it fake?
And if you tell someone it is real, and it looks real, does it make it real?
The more I read on this, the more I think this is a fraud.
The real issue isn’t if she really was pregnant or just collecting normal period products, it is that anyone could think that something like this is remotely proper, a good idea or “Art”. To even imply that getting pregnant and “getting rid” of it is to be taken so lightly is frightening at all levels. This goes beyond “choice”, this is the product of a very disturbed mind. And as one of the millions of women who truly had a miscarrage, it is an insult to me and my husband and everything that we went through during that difficult time. This young woman needs some serious help and so does anyone else who knew about this and encouraged it.
I do art. Some people say I’m good at it. Some of its for fun some it carries a message. Whats this ladies message? ‘Help, i’m mentally disturbed’ or ‘this is the best i can come up with after all the partying i did in school’.
Maybe she’ll have a career in the future as a shock jock, because she anin’t no artist.
Such a lofty goal……….right up there with the idiot *arteest* that leashed a starving dog to a line just out of reach of food. Which begs the question, what is this wonder child starving from, other than the obvious?
The more I think about it……the artificial insemination was done years ago to her shallow mind.
Whether fake or real, this woman does need serious counselling. How soon before she will believe that certain “elements” of our society can be turned into art projects?? This deception is very scarey, and Yale needs to deal with this woman.
Here is what I posted on SCOTUS thread about this article:
Scripture is very clear when it states that in the end the world will be filled with violence and a great deception. I have to think this qualifies as both if real, and if fake it qualifies as the latter. – Lorica
It is a Hoax – A Lie – or in her words “creative fiction”.
Is creative fiction the same thing as lying your butt off?
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Is this a case of look at me!
Look at me!!!
or a back down after the backlash that occurred?
I think it was more a case of attention getting myself.
All art is intrensically a lie.