Athena
April 18th, 2008, 05:46 PM
Yale: Student's Abortion-Art Is Hoax
Friday, Apr. 18, 2008 By AP/PAT EATON-ROBB
(HARTFORD, Conn.) - The story about Aliza Shvarts' project, published Thursday in the Yale Daily News, swept across blogs and media outlets — including the Drudge Report, Fox News and The Washington Post — before Yale issued a statement saying it investigated and found it all to be a hoax that was Shvarts' idea of elaborate "performance art."
Shvarts told the student paper that she planned to display a work that consisted of a cube lined with plastic sheets with a blood—and—petroleum—jelly mixture in between, onto which she would project video footage of herself "experiencing miscarriages in her bathroom tub."
The newspaper's account detailed "a nine—month process during which (Shvarts) artificially inseminated herself 'as often as possible' while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages."
Shvarts told the paper her goal was to spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body.
Groups both for and against abortion rights expressed outrage over the affair.
Ted Miller, a spokesman for NARAL Pro—Choice America, called the concept offensive and "not a constructive addition to the debate over reproductive rights."
Peter Wolfgang, executive director of the Family Institute of Connecticut, an anti—abortion group, said his anger was not mitigated by the fact that Shvarts was never pregnant.
"I'm astounded by this woman's callousness," he said. "There are thousands of women in this country who are dealing with the pain of having had an abortion, with the trauma of having suffered a miscarriage. For her to make light of that for her own purposes is just beyond words."
Source (http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1732162,00.html)
__________________
This is so bizarre, I don't even know what to say about it. But, I've got questions!
Is she an artist bravely pushing the envelope, or is she a callous bitch?
Are you personally offended by her proposed project, or the fact that it was all a ruse?
Do you find it humorous that she managed to piss off both pro and anti-abortion groups, like I do?
Okay.......Go.
Friday, Apr. 18, 2008 By AP/PAT EATON-ROBB
(HARTFORD, Conn.) - The story about Aliza Shvarts' project, published Thursday in the Yale Daily News, swept across blogs and media outlets — including the Drudge Report, Fox News and The Washington Post — before Yale issued a statement saying it investigated and found it all to be a hoax that was Shvarts' idea of elaborate "performance art."
Shvarts told the student paper that she planned to display a work that consisted of a cube lined with plastic sheets with a blood—and—petroleum—jelly mixture in between, onto which she would project video footage of herself "experiencing miscarriages in her bathroom tub."
The newspaper's account detailed "a nine—month process during which (Shvarts) artificially inseminated herself 'as often as possible' while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages."
Shvarts told the paper her goal was to spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body.
Groups both for and against abortion rights expressed outrage over the affair.
Ted Miller, a spokesman for NARAL Pro—Choice America, called the concept offensive and "not a constructive addition to the debate over reproductive rights."
Peter Wolfgang, executive director of the Family Institute of Connecticut, an anti—abortion group, said his anger was not mitigated by the fact that Shvarts was never pregnant.
"I'm astounded by this woman's callousness," he said. "There are thousands of women in this country who are dealing with the pain of having had an abortion, with the trauma of having suffered a miscarriage. For her to make light of that for her own purposes is just beyond words."
Source (http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1732162,00.html)
__________________
This is so bizarre, I don't even know what to say about it. But, I've got questions!
Is she an artist bravely pushing the envelope, or is she a callous bitch?
Are you personally offended by her proposed project, or the fact that it was all a ruse?
Do you find it humorous that she managed to piss off both pro and anti-abortion groups, like I do?
Okay.......Go.