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.
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“I believe strongly that art should be a medium for politics and ideologies, not just a commodity,” Shvarts said. “I think that I’m creating a project that lives up to the standard of what art is supposed to be.”
The display of Schvarts’ project will feature a large cube suspended from the ceiling of a room in the gallery of Green Hall. Schvarts will wrap hundreds of feet of plastic sheeting around this cube; lined between layers of the sheeting will be the blood from Schvarts’ self-induced miscarriages mixed with Vaseline in order to prevent the blood from drying and to extend the blood throughout the plastic sheeting.
Schvarts will then project recorded videos onto the four sides of the cube. These videos, captured on a VHS camcorder, will show her experiencing miscarriages in her bathrooom tub, she said. Similar videos will be projected onto the walls of the room.
(Via: yaledailynews)
Excuse me while I look around for the jaw that I just dropped.
may have been an elaborate media hoax. True or not, I think...just aped Marc Quinn, upped...
If I had a picture of myself slack-jawed...shocked, I would insert it here.
think this student will get EXACTLY what she was looking for…discussion....applaud her...
holy shit. what has our higher-education system produced?!? i dont care if you are pro-life or pro-choice, this is NOT...
umm wtf??? how is yale allowing this????
this is seriously one of the most intense things i have ever heard of in my entire life.
Crap.Wow…I am Pro-Choice but this is a bit much…why would you compromise your body in that way?
will be thinking...what she did to herself all day....you...
most outlandish way i’ve ever heard...a woman exploiting her body
this seems to me to...the most obvious and selfish way to get attention for ones “art”. as...
Intriguing. I can see...protesters outside of...exhibition...
Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process...
My friend forwarded the article to me. I forwarded it to my officemates and we’ve been discussing it for at least a half...
Uhmmmm WTF? This...phycotic, who would put themselves through that trauma intentionally? I...
I look around for...jaw that I just dropped.
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