"It's Not A Hoax!"
Filed under: Icky Icky Poo
Aliza Shvarts, in her own words.
"For the past year, I performed repeated self-induced miscarriages. I created a group of fabricators from volunteers who submitted to periodic STD screenings and agreed to their complete and permanent anonymity. From the 9th to the 15th day of my menstrual cycle, the fabricators would provide me with sperm samples, which I used to privately self-inseminate. Using a needleless syringe, I would inject the sperm near my cervix within 30 minutes of its collection, so as to insure the possibility of fertilization. On the 28th day of my cycle, I would ingest an abortifacient, after which I would experience cramps and heavy bleeding.
To protect myself and others, only I know the number of fabricators who participated, the frequency and accuracy with which I inseminated and the specific abortifacient I used. Because of these measures of privacy, the piece exists only in its telling. This telling can take textual, visual, spatial, temporal and performative forms — copies of copies of which there is no original.
This piece — in its textual and sculptural forms — is meant to call into question the relationship between form and function as they converge on the body. The artwork exists as the verbal narrative you see above, as an installation that will take place in Green Hall, as a time-based performance, as a independent concept, as a myth and as a public discourse.
It creates an ambiguity that isolates the locus of ontology to an act of readership. An intentional ambiguity pervades both the act and the objects I produced in relation to it. The performance exists only as I chose to represent it. For me, the most poignant aspect of this representation — the part most meaningful in terms of its political agenda (and, incidentally, the aspect that has not been discussed thus far) — is the impossibility of accurately identifying the resulting blood. Because the miscarriages coincide with the expected date of menstruation (the 28th day of my cycle), it remains ambiguous whether the there was ever a fertilized ovum or not. The reality of the pregnancy, both for myself and for the audience, is a matter of reading.
This ambivalence makes obvious how the act of identification or naming — the act of ascribing a word to something physical — is at its heart an ideological act, an act that literally has the power to construct bodies. In a sense, the act of conception occurs when the viewer assigns the term “miscarriage” or “period” to that blood.
In some sense, neither term is exactly accurate or inaccurate; the ambiguity is not merely a matter of context, but is embodied in the physicality of the object. This central ambiguity defies a clear definition of the act. The reality of miscarriage is very much a linguistic and political reality, an act of reading constructed by an act of naming — an authorial act.
It is the intention of this piece to destabilize the locus of that authorial act, and in doing so, reclaim it from the heteronormative structures that seek to naturalize it.
As an intervention into our normative understanding of “the real” and its accompanying politics of convention, this performance piece has numerous conceptual goals. The first is to assert that often, normative understandings of biological function are a mythology imposed on form. It is this mythology that creates the sexist, racist, ableist, nationalist and homophobic perspective, distinguishing what body parts are “meant” to do from their physical capability. The myth that a certain set of functions are “natural” (while all the other potential functions are “unnatural”) undermines that sense of capability, confining lifestyle choices to the bounds of normatively defined narratives.
Just as it is a myth that women are “meant” to be feminine and men masculine, that penises and vaginas are “meant” for penetrative heterosexual sex (or that mouths, anuses, breasts, feet or leather, silicone, vinyl, rubber, or metal implements are not “meant” for sex at all), it is a myth that ovaries and a uterus are “meant” to birth a child.
When considering my own bodily form, I recognize its potential as extending beyond its ability to participate in a normative function. While my organs are capable of engaging with the narrative of reproduction — the time-based linkage of discrete events from conception to birth — the realm of capability extends beyond the bounds of that specific narrative chain. These organs can do other things, can have other purposes, and it is the prerogative of every individual to acknowledge and explore this wide realm of capability."
Stop posting this stuff about her. She wants the attention and you are giving it to her. Just ignore it!!!
wuuaht
Hoebag is effin psycho! I don't know who she is trying to kid; she had no clue what she was doing!
She posted an profile on "millionair efriends com". She’s resorted to online dating? Is she looking for true love there?
Is it too late to abort her? She's a waste of oxygen!
I laugh about ppl who think they are super-intellectual mega-artists but are actually just being ridiculous without noticing…. she's one of these.
Stupid stupid attention seeking bitch! This made me feel sick to my stomach reading about her yesterday. Regardless of whether its real of fake, shes put the whole thing out there. You art school bitch, next time you go for your 5 mins, have a think about what your stupid actions could do. I know a couple of women who went through heart breaking miscarraiges and it has scarred them for life. Hope you get lynched, you cold blooded witch.
what a load of rubbish
She's got one hell of a unibrow! Ugly cunt.
FIRSTTT ?!?!
FUCKING DISGUST! I read this post the other day and thought wow! Ugly cow
Isn't a bit unhealthy to have repeated abortions? She sounds like she maybe needs some counselling, regardless of whether or not her story is true…
wut
What a complete and utter sociopath.
:/
second. what a bitch.
wtf ok
She ugly, no attention to her please! Anyways.. ojala que sea la segunda o tercera en comentar, asi para hacerme famosa… lol
what the hell
What a bunch of gibberish. If she really did what she said, she'll be in a mental ward very soon. Move on to other things, Big Head Mario, and take the spotlight off this deranged woman. She's mental to even FAKE such a heinous act.
She is still a sick bitch!
I agreee with mary. This is what she wanted all along. To be on TV and be a viral news story. Never has that term been more accurate. Please don't talk about this item anymore. She is using all of us.
1st…whatever psycho!!!
GROSS.
Sick…she's definitely sick…
how could she even joke about something like this? so sad.
This smacks of fraud. I wouldn't be surprised if it was an elaborate hoax.
first…yay.
She is going straight to Hell
This bitch is fucking cookoo!
This Chick has some serious issues…
Perez, this has already been proven to be a hoax. This dumb broad is simply an attention whore and you're giving her exactly what she wants. The rest of the internet is over it, but as always, you're late in giving up.
Oh yeah, is Fidel still dead?
What a selfish, self-serving asshole.
first.
pssyyyccho
Shove this self important cunt in a chipper - now that's art!!!
What the effin' HELL???
She's a raving lunatic with a sick and twisted mind. Stop posting her rants, all she wants is fame and she is definitely getting it as long as you, and every other news outlet keeps posting her bullshit.
What the? She should be sterilized!
Porque no dejas de escribir sobre esta puta. Joder…deja ya
what a frickin' loser!
I want to know how she 'artificially inseminated' herself…thinking turkey baster?
I hope she packed the sunscreen because its really hot in HELL!
2nd????
I weep at the complete intellectual vacuum this shows in our elite universities. Not only did what she said dance around subjects like Michael Flatley, the fact is she could have said the same thing in 2 paragraphs. What you see with her is somebody who is used to having teachers say "Please turn in a 15 page paper by Friday" She only has 9 pages of info but she inflates, repeats, and mixes the wording and language to produce the extra 6 pages. Unfortunatly, after years of doing so she no longer has the ability to express herself any other way. It's sad, I almost feel like I'm reading something written by somebody with Downs Syndrome and a spell checker.
may this idiot NEVER reproduce.
Yeah, I want to send my kids to the ivy league. I hope they turn out just like her.
Second post.
I dont even know who the f**k this girl is?
disgusting
Wow, this chick is warped.
what a crazy bitch. i hope she permanetly fucks herself up!
I agree with Mary. She's such an ignoramus! I don't care if she's lying or not. Either way I hope that she really sees the pain she's causing to mothers who have miscarried their babies.
first
first?
Very well said. Her thesis is thought provoking and challenging to societal norms. I figured an advisor would approve the project being done int he first place for a reason.
I bet her parents are proud….What a loser…
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WTF?
well i hope her stay in Hell was worth this.
FIRST
Wait, so did she do it?!? I can't read "hippie". Some one please translate!!!!!!
first of all Gere, that's getting extremely annoying.. stop promoting your crap site here.
second, what was this biyatch blabbing about? im sorry i didn't have my dictionary handy… was she explaining herself or trying to cram as many SAT words in one essay as possible?
first!
shes mad
WHAT A PIECE OF SHIT!!!! WHAT IF HER MOTHER DID THAT HER????
I understand a damn word she said
this crazy bastard needs jesus in her heart!! is she that freaking bored??!!! wht the hell is wrong with her i mean seriously go outside and play if youre that freaking bored and youre such a freaking loser!!!go get a makeover you seriously need one!! douchebag!!!!
she is pathetic
In other words, she's just really F*cked up.
So many weirdos out there….
wtf?
She is an absolute waste of time and AIR!!!!!
she's insane.
Psycho.
she is a fucking no good CUNT!! HOw dare she self induce miscarriages!! I hope that she gets AIDS and dies!!!
Why isn't this on the news?
ok first…….
total freak, who does that.
SHE'S AN IDIOT….half of what she is saying is lifted directly out of feminist theory textbooks and great lecturers on the ideas of bodily ownership, expression and freedom.
i've heard all of this stuff before, but with more meaning and sincerity behind it. not just from some girl in leopard shorts and fringy boots trying to be radically female.
she's just another hack, trying to be original and thought provoking, but instead she has ended up looking like another silly art student with a outrageous idea and no strength to hold it up
She is despicable. I would like to drown her in her own menstrual blood.
Die, Hag!
She could have gotten her point across simply by stating "I was bored and lonely. Not all this bullshit trying-to-impress-the-reader jargon.
I think that she has created a wonderful project. People are just far too reactionary. Take some time to think about the progressive implications of what she is doing, she's a smart girl. And radical in the sense of past revolutionaries of art - sometimes it scares people at first.
Make sure to take lots of sunscreen and have fun burning in hell!
Sick.
ummm….yeah….could somebody shut her up please? I'm tired of hearing from her and about her … or anything regaurding her
This lady is crazy, not because of what she is doing, but look what she's wearing!? ima throw up. oh dearrr.
Something bad wil happen to her body. Watch!
Totally grossed out!
this girl is SICK and needs help asap!
[[[[[[[[[[[[ hey bitch…I hope U get a hold of Satan Sperm]]]]]]]]
zzz and when u try 2 abort…satan won't let U…zzzzzzzzzzzzz
[[[[ then the baby/antichrizt ripz out of y'r body ]]]]]]]]]]
zzz and leavez u lying helplezz/u dizcuzting piece of zhit.zzzzz
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get her lucifer..zhe
dezervez U
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Re: Gere – YOU AND YTHAT WEBSITE YOU ARE WORKING FOR MAKE ME FUCKING MAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: Gere –
stop changing your name and posting about your shit website. if its that good, read that and stop peddling your shit on perez.
i was so bored by reading her post ………. no wonder why she had to come up with such a crazazay story….she is soooooo boring otherwise. yaaaaaawn.
It sounds like she is trying to justify what she is doing by using her 'art' as a cover.
Her body= Her choice…
I, and countless other women, have aborted by choice and feel no shame.
I, and countless other women, have miscarried with no choice and also feel no shame.
Get over it, people.
HOW FUCKING SAD… This bitch is sick, first of all I don't understand all of the long ass words she is using, but I'm not dumb enough to realize that even though she comes around as really smart, she is the MOST ignorant person I've heard of… I can't believe this bitch, I never damn anyone, but this person deserves to die. Ew, She makes me so fucking sick
stop posting stuff about her. that's what she wants.
Wow, I didnt think she could make herself look even crazier, but she did.
Re: cambel – I AGREE!!!
honestly…what the fuck is wrong with you? for starters, you are possibly the one of the most disgusting ppl i have ever laid eyes on and could your haircut get any more horrible? doubt it.
if i ever run into you i will probably rap a steel pipe around your head. you are so sick and twisted…. i'm about to 302 you bitch. you need help with your life… but definetely your hair too. the hair needs to go. no wonder you had to artificially inseminate yourself cuz obviosuly no one would stoop low enough to fuck you.
PS. PEREZ I LOVE YOU, YOUR LOVELY.
This girl is absolutely duranzed… Crazy. That campus needs to keep her in check and a watchful eye on her. Its crazy people like that that go around hurting others. I'm Pro Life so obviously I disagree with the abortion thing totally but the way she is doing this is disgusting, immoral and sick. She needs psychiatric help and she is definitely mentally unstable. I also agree with Mary. This is an attention seeking media whore and she wants people to think this is art. How is killing an unborn child art. IT MURDER!!!
I don't know, how is she any different than Madonna, it's all performance.
She is because we are….
You are SICK woman! What you did was sick and sadistic and you are the type of person in this world that need to disappear. I am absolutely appalled. Although it may be a woman's right to choose what happens with her body, under no circumstance should anything happen like what you have done. There's a little thing I like to call karma, you know, what goes around comes around. Enjoy your twisted 15 minutes of shame and I hope shit hits the fan and explodes in your face and covers you so deep that you cannot rid yourself of it. You have no heart. Just because you attend Yale and call yourself an "artist" does not entitle you to such disgusting acts. You should disappear.
seriously go die somewhere… your one fucked up woman
This is very, very sad.
God be with those unborn children.