Some people agree with using art to promote politics, and some don’t. You can talk amongst yourselves how you feel about this one.
A female Yale art major, Aliza Shvarts is unveiling her senior art project soon, a study of a nine-month process of her continually artificially inseminating herself while taking herbal pills to induce miscarriages.
She doesn’t say how many times she inseminated herself and doesn’t care what the process has or will do to her body.
The exhibition is video recordings of her miscarriages… and blood samples from them.
It’s definitely raising debate on the Yale campus.
“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.”
As conceptual art, I think it’s brilliant. Of course you may disagree. The exhibit will be on display April 22 to May 1 at Yale.
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