Here is an article I found from Yale University's Daily News that is absolutely repulsive and makes me sick to my stomach. The academic community encourages students to create "thought-provoking" art pieces and this is the stuff that people with no morals come up with. This world is a sick place...
For senior, abortion a medium for art, political discourse
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.
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clipped from www.yaledailynews.com
hey joe - i saw on your facebook that you have a blog, so i deceided to come by and see. when i read this, i looked up the story on the internet and one of the best things that i have read about this is the following:
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"Schvarts said, once again, that “her goal was to spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body.
She thereby put herself in a position where people suspected that she was either a sociopathic auto-abortionist or a hoax artiste and joker. Today and tomorrow her identity will be that of a monster, alternating between killer and joker. So it will continue in the future, her identity and reputation ping-ponging between killer and joker. Nobody likes a joker. Nobody likes a killer. Nobody wants to be around either. For what is a joker but a liar who tells spectacular and embarrassing lies? And what is a killer but a liar who arbitrarily claims the ultimate knowledge of whether someone else deserves to die and the right to kill?
In the future, there will always be whispers behind her back, “Is she a killer?”
And the answer will come back, “I don’t know.”
http://wolfpangloss.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/buchenwald-and-yale/
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thought i would share.
wow yeah that is real good way to look at it. for me it really comes down to the fact that the depiction of abortion was used as art which is just downright disgusting no matter which label she receives. but yeah, either way nobody likes a killer or a liar.
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