Posted on 05/03/2008 10:58:24 AM PDT by The_Republican
Four years at Yale costs $180,000. Here is how senior Aliza Shvarts planned to conclude hers: The art major would repeatedly artificially inseminate herself, then induce miscarriages, which she would record on video. She would build a four-foot-wide plastic cube and wrap it in layers of plastic. Between the layers would be Vaseline mixed with blood from the miscarriages. She would hang the cube at an exhibition and project video of the miscarriages onto four of its sides.
"This piece," Shvarts wrote in the Yale Daily News, "is meant to call into question the relationship between form and function as they converge on the body. . . . It creates an ambiguity that isolates the locus of ontology to an act of readership."
Horror spread across the Internet. Pro-choice activists, antiabortion activists and pretty much everyone else denounced Shvarts. Eventually, Yale officials said that her "piece" never should have been authorized; they announced that she had faked the miscarriages, and they barred her from exhibiting unless she admitted this in writing and promised not to display human blood.
Shvarts defiantly claimed that the self-induced miscarriages were real and showed student journalists a video of her apparently bleeding into a cup. The senior art show closed Thursday, minus her contribution.
Yale has taken unspecified "appropriate action" against two faculty members who apparently allowed Shvarts's project. But the damage control smells faintly of hypocrisy. Yale is normally absolutist about academic freedom. If the miscarriages were a hoax, as Yale insists, where was the health danger that officials cited as an argument against the project?
Whether Shvarts is telling the truth, as Yale claims, was simply engaged in bizarre "performance art," the real issue is this: Where did she get such a gruesome, pornographic idea? And who taught her to confuse with art?
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This type of "education" is a hoax.
This is the Washington Post, not the Washington Times. I thought they bought the whole liberal line.
So, Dr. Shvarts, enlighten us: what is the purpose of the uterus?
I suggest you donate yours to science. You can live without it, and you won't ever have to be a slave to the "myth" of childbirth (and no poor innocent child will ever be subjected to you as a biological mother).
The decadence of the liberal elites continues. If she had been a conservative and wanted to show the sanctity, the beauty and the presciousness of human life she would have been expelled by now.
No decadence here. this woman needs psychiatric care. this is way beyond normal. It is a form of self mutilation. I am assuming her diagnosis is Borderline Personality Disorder...but Freeper shrinks correct me if you have another idea.
That the university could not see the mental illness of this young woman is beyond me. It is almost on the level of Van Gogh who had serious mental problems ( the ear) even though he was a great artist when he was not in the throes of his sickness.
Look at it from the university’s side. Yale let this chick come fingerpaint and play in their sandbox for four years, and the university pocketed $180,000.
ROFLAMO!!
that is just priceless! You are sooo right.
Freepers are so intelligent.
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