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.
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“I believe strongly that art should be a medium for politics and ideologies, not just a commodity,” Shvarts said. “I think that I’m creating a project that lives up to the standard of what art is supposed to be.”
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.
(Via: yaledailynews)
Excuse me while I look around for the jaw that I just dropped.
I think I’m going to vomit. Serious queasy stomach. Isn’t there a petition I can sign to stop this like the starving dog one?
This is disgusting. I’m pro-choice for when a woman NEEDS an abortion. But to get pregnant for the mere reason to induce miscarriages? That’s just sick. The evil said of me is hoping she isn’t able to have kids because of her “art project.”
Also from the article:
But Shvarts insists her concept was not designed for “shock value.” “I hope it inspires some sort of discourse,” Shvarts said. “Sure, some people will be upset with the message and will not agree with it, but it’s not the intention of the piece to scandalize anyone.”
Bullshit. The only discourse resulting from a project like that will be the reduction of basic human rights with Shvarts’ name mentioned every time.
