Few people declare they are going to murder a lot of people and then go about doing so without anyone of a mind to stop them. This story will shock you. It almost made me throw up.
April 17, 2008 - (Yale Daily News) - Art major Aliza Shvarts ’08 wants to make a statement.Rest of article here.
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.”
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How horrible. This is the kind of crap that makes me think that the end of time isn't too far off.
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