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For senior, abortion a medium for art, political discourse
yaledailynews.com — Beginning next Tuesday, art major Aliza Shvarts ’08 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. The future of AMerica is on display. What sick girl
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- exgop, on 04/18/2008, -3/+16This is what an Ivy league school teaches these days? I bet Mom abd Dad are proud of their little girl.
- nlatimer, on 04/18/2008, -3/+10What would her kids think?
Oh wait, nevermind.- exgop, on 04/18/2008, -2/+2You just made my day that was very very funny, sad but funny
- DaviDTC, on 04/18/2008, -1/+1I bet her parents wish they would of tried this experiment some 20 years ago.
- dumpyhumpy, on 04/18/2008, -1/+9Sorry for the thread hijack, but its a hoax. Its *****
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/20 ...- Harabeck, on 04/18/2008, -0/+3This is a good time for a thread hijack. Good to know.
- pintomp3, on 04/18/2008, -0/+1do you have a more reputable source than newsbusters?
- nlatimer, on 04/18/2008, -3/+10What would her kids think?
- Trister0, on 04/18/2008, -3/+8Wow, this is just disgusting. Way to help your right to choose cause!
- eternal464, on 04/18/2008, -0/+1dont digg, on the top ten already. how does this crap happen?
- opethlike, on 04/18/2008, -3/+16Nothing short of shocking. No matter what side of the fence you are on with abortion, this is horrible.
- TeacherOfHeroes, on 04/18/2008, -0/+2This seems like a touchy topic, so I'm not sure how this comment will go over - I'm trying to represent both sides, so here goes.
According to some arguments about the nature of human life, she hasn't really done anything "bad". IF she aborted early enough. From a purely empirical perspective, if you terminate before things like a brain, a heart, a nervous system, etc... develop, then its completely different than aborting a baby at 6 months or so when it not only has those things, but increasingly has a chance of *living* after being removed from the womb prematurely.
The counterpoint to that argument is that regardless of how old the unborn child is, there is a *reasonable expectation* that it will become a human life. This is also what separates a newly fertilized egg from that proverbial flake of skin on your arm. (There's another argument regarding the sanctity of life, and when (if ever) humans are given a soul, but that's too religiously charged, so better to not include it if possible.)
Either way, for such a personal issue, everyone should decide for themselves which side of the fence they land on. - scuvball, on 04/18/2008, -0/+1Totally agree... an accidental pregnancy/abortion is one thing, but this has very shaky grounds no matter how you look at it.
- TeacherOfHeroes, on 04/18/2008, -0/+2This seems like a touchy topic, so I'm not sure how this comment will go over - I'm trying to represent both sides, so here goes.
- hokie47, on 04/18/2008, -5/+16How about she blows out her brains and people use it as the medium for art.
- CmdrTrekk, on 04/18/2008, -0/+1Not a bad idea...
- opethlike, on 04/18/2008, -3/+1Down, anyone have a mirror?
- twiztidsinz, on 04/18/2008, -0/+1mirror from Digg frontpage earlier today: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/17/yale-stud ...
- opethlike, on 04/18/2008, -4/+7Site is slow, here is the article, i am blown away.
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.
Art major Juan Castillo ?08 said that although he was intrigued by the creativity and beauty of her senior project, not everyone was as thrilled as he was by the concept and the means by which she attained the result.
?I really loved the idea of this project, but a lot other people didn?t,? Castillo said. ?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.?
Although Shvarts said she does not remember the class being quite as hostile as Castillo described, she said she believes it is the nature of her piece to ?provoke inquiry.?
?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.
School of Art lecturer Pia Lindman, Schvarts? senior-project advisor, could not be reached for comment Wednesday night.
Few people outside of Yale?s undergraduate art department have heard about Shvarts? exhibition. Members of two campus abortion-activist groups ? Choose Life at Yale, a pro-life group, and the Reproductive Rights Action League of Yale, a pro-choice group �? said they were not previously aware of Schvarts? project.
Alice Buttrick ?10, an officer of RALY, said the group was in no way involved with the art exhibition and had no official opinion on the matter.
Sara Rahman ?09 said, in her opinion, Shvarts is abusing her constitutional right to do what she chooses with her body.
?[Shvarts? exhibit] turns what is a serious decision for women into an absurdism,? Rahman said. ?It discounts the gravity of the situation that is abortion.?
CLAY member Jonathan Serrato ?09 said he does not think CLAY has an official response to Schvarts? exhibition. But personally, Serrato said he found the concept of the senior art project ?surprising? and unethical.
?I feel that she?s manipulating life for the benefit of her art, and I definitely don?t support it,? Serrato said. ?I think it?s morally wrong.?
Shvarts emphasized that she is not ashamed of her exhibition, and she has become increasingly comfortable discussing her miscarriage experiences with her peers.
?It was a private and personal endeavor, but also a transparent one for the most part,? Shvarts said. ?This isn?t something I?ve been hiding.?
The official reception for the Undergraduate Senior Art Show will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on April 25. The exhibition will be on public display from April 22 to May 1. The art exhibition is set to premiere alongside the projects of other art seniors this Tuesday, April 22 at the gallery of Holcombe T. Green Jr. Hall on Chapel Street. - aquarajustin, on 04/18/2008, -4/+6What a ***** disgusting human being. This is as low as you can go.
- LadyAmerica, on 04/18/2008, -10/+11Utter depravity! But what do you expect when human life has been so cheapened by legalized abortion?
- designer, on 04/18/2008, -3/+9I think we need to redefine what art is.
- cquinnd, on 04/18/2008, -0/+1Art is often defined as something designed to elicit controversy.
- dinostabOMG, on 04/18/2008, -0/+1"We" have been working on that for a while now.
- mindy624, on 04/18/2008, -7/+9This girl called what she did 'miscarriages' , but what she had was abortions..Miscarriages are what happens in nature.
What she did was an atrocity and a crime against humanity. But I was reading this article, it says she artificially 'inseminated' herself.
So...that begs the question: where did she get this semen? Did she have sex with a young man, save the condom and after he left, thinking he had 'safe sex' she took a turkey baster and....er.
you know? And did he consent to her doing this, so she could just then kill the 'products of conception'? Probably not.
Or did she have friends collects the stuff for her?
This whole incident is so sleazy, so filthy, so degrading to everything decent and human it makes you ill just to think about it.
m~ - EvilDoer, on 04/18/2008, -2/+15Look at the bright side, she didn't pass on the "jackass" gene to another human. Here's to hoping that when she finally decides to actually have kids, she can't.
Oh was that last comment to harsh? - mrpetey, on 04/18/2008, -13/+11Here you have the produce of leftiest, progressive, liberal thought. A serial killer gets credit for an art project - and she is proud of it. No respect for the sanctity of human life, let alone respect for herself. Maybe not tomorrow, but I hope at some time in life this pathetic little girl looks back in horror at what she has done.
- mindy624, on 04/18/2008, -4/+4Amen.
m~ - lhbaker, on 04/18/2008, -3/+3Actually, she voted Republican. I can't prove that, but you can't prove otherwise.
- toddkitta, on 04/18/2008, -0/+0You are absolutely right. Nailed it 100%. Honestly, let's keep politics out of it though (leftist)... this is all about being "progressive" and moral relativism. It's a crock and a lie. It's "great" this is what we have the right to choose in this country.
- mindy624, on 04/18/2008, -4/+4Amen.
- govsucks, on 04/18/2008, -15/+11Well, you know she votes democrat. Such respect for human life, can we abort her now please.
- nastronomical, on 04/18/2008, -14/+10Liberalism at work. And these people have the best in mind for America?
- lhbaker, on 04/18/2008, -3/+3What the ***** does this have to do with liberalism? You think liberals are buying tickets? See, we don't like dead things, like babies and soldiers. You guys seem okay with that kind of stuff.
- rjwusa, on 04/18/2008, -2/+1You mean you don't like dead babies when the brains are sucked out before the head delivered or after? I don't quite think I understand where you're coming from.
- lhbaker, on 04/18/2008, -3/+3What the ***** does this have to do with liberalism? You think liberals are buying tickets? See, we don't like dead things, like babies and soldiers. You guys seem okay with that kind of stuff.
- JointVenture, on 04/18/2008, -5/+9Wow, I'm pro choice, but this ***** needs to be beaten.
I hope she has done permanent damage to herself.- pintomp3, on 04/18/2008, -1/+1exactly. i'm pro-choice, not pro-abortion.
- ozymandias2012, on 04/18/2008, -3/+13Not that the Mona Lisa impresses me that much but why can't modern artist just paint masterpieces anymore? I get that they want to be different and express themselves as individuals but somehow putting your dried up miscarriages on display just doesn't strike me as "art", it's just gross. It's the same as classifying what someone like Howard Stern does on the radio as culturally significant when really it's just a bunch of people getting paid to act like assholes.
- sertelt, on 04/18/2008, -2/+2See also http://www.lifenews.com/state3131.html
- NoAccounting4me, on 04/18/2008, -4/+20For the love of Maude, people, THINK!
"Shvarts declined to specify the number of sperm donors she used, as well as the number of times she inseminated herself...."
"...The abortifacient drugs she took were legal and herbal..."
"...she did not feel the need to consult a doctor..."
"...These videos, captured on a VHS camcorder, will show her experiencing miscarriages in her bathrooom tub...."
"...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..."
Here we have a display of (alleged) blood wrapped in plastic away from all inspection, home-made videotapes shot in a private bathroom with no one else present, no medical documentation, no perscriptions for drugs, no documented pregnancy tests, just the work of an ART STUDENT who "wants to make a statement".
You're being had. It's a hoax. It's an art instillation meant to stir up publicity and controversy, and there is ZERO evidence that ANY of it is real.
I know everyone's eager to believe things that support their own prejudices, but come on folks, THINK!- JointVenture, on 04/18/2008, -4/+2If you're right then she is even more of a ***** and should be thrown out of school for "cheating".
- NoAccounting4me, on 04/18/2008, -2/+5OK, in addition to thinking, I'm adding 'reading comprehension' to the list..
"The goal in creating the art exhibition, Shvarts said, was to spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body."
It's not a history paper or a math exam where you get to check the teacher's book for the answer key. It's an ART EXHIBITION. It doesn't have to be "true" or "false". Her goals weren't accuracy or truthfulness, but creating 'conversation and debate'.
Explain how, as a hoax, this art exhibition is cheating. Explain why she should be thrown out of school for successfully inspiring EXACTLY the response she stated she was trying for. Explain why she's a "*****" for creating an art exhibit that made people think and talk and debate.
I'd love to hear those explanations!- JointVenture, on 04/18/2008, -4/+1Because she's lying and saying she actually did it.
WTF? you're whole statement is a theory.
- JointVenture, on 04/18/2008, -4/+1Because she's lying and saying she actually did it.
- NoAccounting4me, on 04/18/2008, -2/+5OK, in addition to thinking, I'm adding 'reading comprehension' to the list..
- ktoth04, on 04/18/2008, -1/+3I hope you are right.
- Sinnic, on 04/18/2008, -0/+1I'm not sure what the physiological ramifications are regarding experiencing multiple forced abortions during a short time frame, nor if it's possible to determine whether a miscarriage is 'real' from limited video evidence. I hope your cynicism is vindicated.
In other news, I hear Aliza may be the center of a flash mob dedicated to uncontrollable urination at some point in the future. Apparently it's this art project or something. - madfrogurt, on 04/18/2008, -0/+1Don't you think it's at least somewhat possible that someone would go this far? We've already seen "Piss Christ" and his followup of semen and blood in jars, so don't you think this is the next step in shock art?
- JointVenture, on 04/18/2008, -0/+1I want to see a picture of the *****.
- JointVenture, on 04/18/2008, -4/+2If you're right then she is even more of a ***** and should be thrown out of school for "cheating".
- solid12345, on 04/18/2008, -3/+4May the Shvarts be with you!
- fearlessfx, on 04/18/2008, -1/+1I see you are channeling the wisdom of Yogurt.
- andibarnes, on 04/18/2008, -5/+4I'm pro-choice, but this degrades human life to such an extent, that it surely can't be legal?
- geneikillua, on 04/18/2008, -2/+1Sad thing is, even if this is a hoax, were it real, it would be totally legal. That's how far this philosophy of 'choice' has brought us.
- toddkitta, on 04/18/2008, -0/+0geneikillua is right... of course this is legal. What do people expect when everything goes?? We asked for this. This progressive thinking our country is so fond of is going to drive us into the toilet.
- jodofashodo, on 04/18/2008, -5/+6Holy ***** *****...This is worse than that guy who just chained a dog up to a wall, watched it die, and called it art. If you don't have enough money, were raped by your dad, can't handle having a baby, etc...Then for all means, have an abortion. But to just have fun, purposefully inseminate yourself and then terminate it just cause...***** you lady, you're an *****.
- mindy624, on 04/18/2008, -1/+1no!!
...that really happened?
I thought my son was kidding.
God help us!
m~ - jon30041, on 04/18/2008, -0/+1Art is becoming toying with life and death... Honestly, such... careless actions and disrespect for life itself is what gets me. Women can have abortions... but to do THIS... getting pregnant with the INTENT of aborting? THAT is what's wrong in this picture.
- DeathJux, on 04/18/2008, -1/+2I'm pretty sure that it was discovered that the first story about the "starving dog" was false, and that it was actually fed and released at the end of the exhibit.
This is like people still citing the woman suing McDonald's for the burns she received from the hot coffee as an example of a frivolous lawsuit, when in fact she received 3rd degree burns on her crotch from negligently hot coffee. I don't know about you, but I'd be rather upset if I received 3rd degree burns on my crotch.- flip2trip, on 04/18/2008, -2/+1How hot is negligently hot coffee? Coffee, to be brewed properly, has to have water at about 200 degrees. Water boils at 212. So what is negligent levels? 211? 210?
- mindy624, on 04/18/2008, -1/+1no!!
- emptyinside, on 04/18/2008, -2/+3check out this girls story of her first period, you know she just blew this issue of her mom not being present for her first period into this whole sordid affair (well, SEVERAL sordid affairs)
http://my1stperiod.com/2064/2106.html?*session*id* ...
i can't stand art for artist's sake. i don't learn anything or think about anything new when i see sheets of miscarriage blood. - Hyperion1144, on 04/18/2008, -5/+4So, I think I am starting to learn something here. From this story, and the story previously about the 'artist' who deliberately starved a dog to death in the name of "art," I think I am coming to a conclusion. It is this: within the moral framework of the artist's universe, there is no higher Good, no greater Moral Imperative, than the Holy Discussion.
Anything, ANYTHING is permissible, so long as it generates dialog, discourse, and discussion. There is no higher Good an artist can hope to ever achieve beyond this.
Therefore, artists are perhaps the most morally corrupted and ethically bankrupt people on the planet, and their humanity is itself is questionable at best.
F-U-C-K A-R-T. There's my discourse, you sick bitch.- PATSCRU, on 04/18/2008, -0/+1lol flyoverstate.
- ktoth04, on 04/18/2008, -3/+1This isn't going to make me popular, but here goes.
By talking about this here we are doing exactly what she wanted us to do. I too, hope that its faked. I am pro-choice, and think everyone should have the right to do what they want with their bodies. I think it's morally wrong, and even sick if she actually did do what she is saying she did. But here is the thing - If it inspires people to think about their views on abortion, if it inspires people to change their views, to speak about their views, to support their views. It may be worth it.
Let me put it another way. Do you support stem cell research? For the sake of science, and the greater good, scientists fertilize and then subsequently destroy eggs. She did essentially the same thing for the sake of art and political discourse. I don't think we can condemn her for what she did,; I think all we can do is argue if her reasons for doing so, and the results of her actions were worth it.
If it makes 100 women think twice before they abort their child, I say it just might have been.- Harabeck, on 04/18/2008, -0/+1The thing about embryo research is that if they are not harvested for stem cells, the embryos simply sit in a refrigerator until their shelf life expires.
- PATSCRU, on 04/18/2008, -3/+5Good art in the postmodern idiom is meant to inflame and provoke....Consider it IRL trolling with a good footing in the conceptual, and consider yourselves royally trolled.
- theutopian, on 04/18/2008, -3/+3I echo everyone else comments, that this girl is depraved. Listen, my wife and I decided to start a family eariler this year. She got preggers pretty quickly and we were verey excited. Then the bleeding started... wasn't a misscarriage but an ecptopic pregnancy. Not much of a difference except it required surgery instead of it just washing itself out. We were devastated and it was one of the most horrible things that we have gone through together. My wife is absolutely gutted. My point is that, this girl willfully impregnated herself repeatedly, ended it repeatedly and video taped it for 'art.' My wife and I would give anything for her to still be pregnant. My wife would have died for the child she was carrying and here this dumb bitch throws around the gift of life like it means nothing. I'm pro-choice, but this is an abuse of the right the same way shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater is an abuse of free speech. ***** you, you dumb Yale bitch. Thanks to Facebook and social netwokring and the glories of the internet, this will NEVER be forgotten. Enjoy your screwed up life you selfish, cold, cruel human being.
- Naidim, on 04/18/2008, -2/+2Her idea of "Art" leaves much to be desired: http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=5838
- jacko7, on 04/18/2008, -2/+2How about if we don't give her the attention she obviously craves?
- TylerDCA, on 04/18/2008, -2/+2Some people are just sick in the head...
- DaviDTC, on 04/18/2008, -2/+2And Yale is going to let her do this? Cant they stop it?
- stellandfly, on 04/18/2008, -2/+2Holy *****. Bitch needs to get her head checked. This is absolutely revolting.
- rewindforward, on 04/18/2008, -2/+1Apparently this is her: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmD-wLdCgVw
- sertelt, on 04/18/2008, -0/+3Pssibly a hoax, see http://www.lifenews.com/state3134.html
- whatthefu, on 04/18/2008, -1/+1WHAT THE *****
- madfrogurt, on 04/18/2008, -1/+1I don't think her art counselor would have signed off on the project if it actually involved multiple pregnancies. A single ectopic pregnancy would be life threatening, and I would think there would be some permanent harm to the uterus for this much abuse in such a short time due to scar tissue and bleeding.
I'm all for the First Amendment (radically so) but as a teacher, he is wrong if he allows her to put her life at risk. I can only hope that this is a massive publicity stunt, and not the works of a madwoman that are smiled upon. - HenvY, on 04/18/2008, -1/+1Although it's probably not true, if it is, the only conversation that needs to be started is about whether to commit her.
- madfrogurt, on 04/18/2008, -1/+2I do have to give her points for having the most flame bait art project ever made. With both abortion and shock art combined, everyone can be offended regardless of political persuasion.
For her followup, I can only assume that she will take a pregnancy to 9 months, have a partial birth abortion in a nativity scene set and nail the fetus to a cross labeled "Jesus Was A *****." - dumpyhumpy, on 04/18/2008, -9/+1ITS A HOAX
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ITS A HOAX- DeathJux, on 04/18/2008, -0/+2I heard that it might be a hoax, has anyone else heard this?
- lhbaker, on 04/18/2008, -6/+2If human blood and dead babies are art, George Bush is the new Picasso.
- p0s3r, on 04/18/2008, -2/+1BDS knows no bounds.
- 3tcp, on 04/18/2008, -1/+1Any national discourse that this would inspire would be focused on how much damage an individual needs to do to themselves before the government steps in to stop/help them.
On a side note I find it odd that she didn't go all out and sculpt Jesus out of all the dead tissue. - MeatyDoughnut, on 04/18/2008, -2/+1Hmmm, yes, yes. I see...hmmm. This piece represents the eternal struggle of man. Genius!
- bookishboy, on 04/18/2008, -0/+3Although not "the real deal", It's actually brilliant, and it holds a very unforgiving mirror up to the arguments of many on the pro-choice side of the abortion debate. If abortion ought to be completely legal, "because it's her own body", "because it's not a baby, it's just a fetus/collection of cells/etc", then how do we address the issue of someone who aborts repeatedly for fun? For pleasure? For artistic merit? If it is her own body, and she's simply expelling masses of tissue rather than unborn babies, why do we have a sense of disgust for her (supposed) actions which goes above and beyond garden-variety self-mutilation?
- hilikus34, on 04/18/2008, -0/+1WTF? How is this ***** considered art?
- Desidarius, on 04/18/2008, -0/+3It's a hoax.
- peevatoe, on 04/18/2008, -2/+1a pretty funny hoax
- slifty, on 04/18/2008, -0/+1Ahhh man, she trolled everyone on the internet all at once!
- robalesi, on 04/18/2008, -0/+1 It's a hoax. She's a Hack.
- slifty, on 04/18/2008, -0/+1I feel like I have seen this before...
- Drogoganor, on 04/18/2008, -0/+1Holy ***** rightwing hysteria batman! Don't pat yourselves on the back too hard for your supposed moral superiority - it's a hoax!
- robocop1, on 04/18/2008, -0/+1What the hell are you talking about?? Digg is as liberal as you can get.
- qber, on 04/18/2008, -0/+2Buried for being a dupe of an earlier story as well as a hoax which was exposed and explained by another earlier story. Move along folks, nothing to see here.
- robocop1, on 04/18/2008, -0/+2It's a ***** hoax,stop digging this.
- tranklan, on 04/18/2008, -1/+1Wow... the chick is brilliant. Anything to be "original," right? Anything to get a little bit of attention. Well you got it, all for your art being unethical *****. Congratulations!!
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