Yale Daily NewsWow! I thought I was good at abortion art but I could never have done that. Not because of any moral dilemna or lack of creativity but physiologically I can't get pregnant so I couldn't force myself to have an abortion for the sake of art.
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.
But alas, my hopes of finally finding that one artist who understood my wants and needs from art were also aborted. Turns out she's just a faker. Again from YDN:Aliza Shvarts ’08 was never impregnated. She never miscarried. The sweeping outrage on blogs across the country was apparently for naught — at least according to the University...How disappointing. Isn't that just how it goes? When I did my abortion piece I wanted to nail a pregnant teenage girl to the cross but due to social concerns settled on a mannequin. And people still were outraged.
“The entire project is an art piece, a creative fiction designed to draw attention to the ambiguity surrounding form and function of a woman’s body,” Yale spokeswoman Helaine Klasky said in a written statement Thursday afternoon.
Keep up the good work, Aliza. Drop me a line? Maybe we could do some collabortive work.
1 comment:
Although I do think artists should ever be stifled I think this type of work (even had it been real) is crap. There is not talent involved and very little creativity. I know this makes me a turd but I just fail to see the value as art. I also know that stating that art has to have some value makes me extra turdy. A canvas painted yellow with a black strip or a cross in urine just makes people talk and drives controversy. It is does this very well and that is all I like about it. Even Pollack's work was interesting to look at, even if not overly talent consuming.
What I want to see is for art to branch. We already have art and craft why not "visual protest" or "procretest (creative protest)". Then we can stop calling all this BS art and call it what it is. What it is... protest or outcry, not art.
Then again if people just did not give a shit and let their undies bunch so there would be no reason for the artist to entertain themselves in such a manner.
Post a Comment