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Yale Senior Self-aborts Several Times For Art And Political Discourse by Sisikill: 7:05pm On Apr 18, 2008
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.

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

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Re: Yale Senior Self-aborts Several Times For Art And Political Discourse by doyin13(m): 8:07pm On Apr 18, 2008
Gross. . . . . shocked shocked shocked

This spectre of modern art and its intention to shock in the name of fame,
gets only more grotesque with every new work.
Re: Yale Senior Self-aborts Several Times For Art And Political Discourse by tpia: 12:57am On Apr 19, 2008
the girl is clearly crazy.

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