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"It's Not A Hoax!"

Filed under: Icky Icky Poo

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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."

672 comments to “"It's Not A Hoax!"”

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  1. jeff says – reply to this


    101

    who cares? this is supposed to be "celebrity juice" who the fuck cares about her?

  2. Brookie says – reply to this


    102

    what is wrong with her? Big deal she goes to yale and uses BIG WORDS in this speach. Frankly I could care less for the reason its sick, twisted and disturbing. Sure enough I bet she has mommy issues.

  3. daniel says – reply to this


    103

    lmao. she's fugly as hell…and obviously crazed….we should abort her…permanantly…to think thought hat she could have permanantly injured herself or someone else :s and there were other people in on it too…? they need pimp slapped. :P

  4. Zoe says – reply to this


    104

    Perez, this is the sickest thing I've ever heard. What about the millions of women struggling to get pregnant, or dealing with miscarriages and abortions? Frankly, I think you need to stop giving this messed up chick the attention. It's hurtful to many, and she needs serious help. Besides, when I come to perez hilton I want to see stuff about stars, not messed up weirdos.

  5. tucsonmom says – reply to this


    105

    What a sick sad little girl! She's looking for attention anyway possible. This girl needs help, not the media. I wonder if she's realizes how many women she hurts with this.

  6. Sam says – reply to this


    106

    this girl is a disgusting fucking pig who should be taken out to the middle of a field and shot to death. then they should hang her body in the middle of a fuckign museum and call it art.

  7. idiot idiot idiot idiot says – reply to this


    107

    she got her 15 min..so now she should just shut up

  8. Kasey says – reply to this


    108

    sick bitch my mother went through two miscarriges and it was the most painful thing my family went through. You should be ashamed.

  9. Evo says – reply to this


    109

    I actually think this is kind of interesting. Very controversial, as it always is when women decide to take control of their reproductive choices. Ultimately, this is her decision and I support her right to do so. Would I do it? Probably not, it makes me uncomfortable personally, but I support her right to do this. She's right when she says that essentially conception only occurs or doesn't occur when the outside party makes a judgment about the blood coming from her body being either a miscarriage or a period. Interesting.

  10. p says – reply to this


    110

    artists are a waste of life, im done caring about this "project"

  11. Andrea says – reply to this


    111

    Too bad her mother didn't abort her. Someone is screaming for attention.

  12. bekka says – reply to this


    112

    BURN IN HELL BITCH!!!

  13. Jade says – reply to this


    113

    Whatever spin she puts on this is absolutely ridiculous. Calling it art is an insult to real artists. She is a murderer and should be prosecuted.

  14. veronica nova-jean says – reply to this


    114

    This garbage sounds like a bunch of gibbergabber with a few big words thrown in the mix! WTF? does this: "it is a myth that ovaries and a uterus are “meant” to birth a child." even mean?? That is exaclty what it was meant for! It is not a myth… That's why mean do not have that organ. It is meant for reproduction. Dumb shit.. I thought they let smart people in Yale not radical idiots!

  15. sTAR says – reply to this


    115

    Bla bla blaaa. God this girls likes to hear herself talk. What is she Socrates??? Hun, please clue us in on the other functions of the uterus. While you are at it, tell us what our other organs can do beyond their scientific function. She must exhaust her brain talking so laboriously (get it labor…haha) about form and function and interpretation.

  16. cat says – reply to this


    116

    Serioulsy shut up… waste of space!!!

  17. Emma says – reply to this


    117

    God I hate her.

  18. jazzle says – reply to this


    118

    ew this bitch is psycho

  19. kevin says – reply to this


    119

    I wonder how many dudes are thinking," Oh, yeah, no need to pull out with this one."

  20. Jenny1 says – reply to this


    120

    This "woman's" actions are so horrifyingly grotesque and obscene that there are no words to accurately describe.

    Almost 2 decades ago someone took a crucifix and immersed it in a jar of urine and claimed it as art and this country stood back and tolerated it as "art" and freedom of speech…. Now a woman impregnates herself for the specific purpose of massacring the child(ren) inside of her and to display the butchered remains–in the name of freedom of speech/art.
    What has happened here is nothing short of a serial killer who taped/saved memories of her slayings.
    May God have mercy on us for allowing such things to happen under the pretense of "freedom of choice"

  21. danni says – reply to this


    121

    P.S. big up and respect to mothers who actually HAVE miscarried…. :)

  22. stef says – reply to this


    122

    well i think its interesting and just because none of you would do it or understand it doesn't mean you should discredit it. thats just as shitty.

  23. Psych Ward Anyone? says – reply to this


    123

    I guess I kind of understand the "meaning" behind the "project," but regardless, she's still psychotic and stupid for feeling the need to portray her "theory" in such a grotesque way.

  24. Mylian says – reply to this


    124

    How utterly boring. She was never ever pregnant and the only thing she recorded and sampled blood from was her damn period.

    HAHA!

  25. Haywood Jablome says – reply to this


    125

    I'm not going to get mad at her or disparage her. Not only is her right to do with her body what she will protected by law, but I support that right wholeheartedly. Do I agree with what she's done? Dear God, no. I think it's abhorrent, and terribly misguided in an attempt to make her point. She could have done it much more effectively through a well-crafted thesis that would have been considered a valid viewpoint by a far wider audience. She will not open minds with this project; she will repulse them and her point will be lost. I'll chalk that up to immaturity and grand ideas about her "art", as well as her wish to be considered a cutting-edge artiste. Sadly for her, with the exception of immaturity (which she nailed beautifully) she's failed on all counts.

  26. iliana says – reply to this


    126

    bitch only wants her 15 minutes she has no clue what shes talking about, shes a waste of skin and bones

  27. KK says – reply to this


    127

    SHE DOESNT EVEN MAKE SENSEEEEEE! WHAT A DISGUSTING BITCHH! SHE SHOULDNT BE ALLOWED TO HAVE CHILDREN-EVERRR

  28. a girl says – reply to this


    128

    she's not an artist so much as a philosopher, and a pretty poor one at that.
    she claims menstrual blood and miscarriage are matters of perception, which they are not. Granted a fountain and a urinal are not the same thing, and giving the name of the former to the latter is considered art. But Duchamp already did that no?

    If she was going to be provacative she could, at the very least, have been original. This perception question is tired.

    Shenanigans.

  29. medstudent says – reply to this


    129

    Forget her thoughts and ideas … the fact of the matter is that she claims to have impregnated herself every month and then "aborted" the fetus within that same month, she then kept the blood and used it in her "art." Sounds more like she just had a period every month and saved the blood. You can't be sure that you are pregnant that early. That's gross. There is no "natural abortifacient" and even if there was, that doesn't really prove the point she is trying to make. If she wants to really experience an abortion, she should let it grow in her for at least 6 weeks, and then go to the doctor to scrape out her uterus .. THAT is suffering and THAT is real. But no, she sounds like a total fake to me.

  30. Kayla says – reply to this


    130

    WOW THAT ENTIRE STATEMENT OF HERS MADE NO FUCKING SENSE. SHE IS A FUCKING WACKJOB. I WISH I COULD SHOOT THIS FUGLY BITCH IN THE FACE.

  31. cottonmouth says – reply to this


    131

    i dont think she really knows what she's talking about to be honest. i dont know why she wants to push hr body to this extent…

    "it is a myth that ovaries and a uterus are “meant” to birth a child." ok…?

    "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." this i totally get. but playing with life and death in such a fickle manner..

    i think if anything, this kind of performance is commenting on the power humans have over life and death with new scientific advances, such as those employed by her (the artificial insemination and abortifacients), human's playing god with life and death, as well as obviously the taboo of abortions, which really begs the question, what is consciousness? or rather, when is consciousness? are these little zygotes human? or merely the potential to be human? under what circumstances is it ok for someone to decide to take another human life? does a small cluster of cells even count as a human life? what is life?

    i think she was getting at something, but at the same time, she was completely off the mark.

  32. German Duckie says – reply to this


    132

    Now i understand it i guess: This sick woman is just a masochist and wants to enjoy "the cramps" after the 28th day!!!!?

    She can have MINE I am experiencing every month WITHOUT any aborting drugs!

    I honestly think, here in Germany she would already have been put in a sort of mental asylum had she announced this

  33. jaqui chan says – reply to this


    133

    THIS CRAZY BITCH NEEDS TO BE IN A MENTAL WARD THEN TRANSFERED TO A FUCKIN PRISON SO THE WOMEN IN THERE WHO MISS THEIR KIDS CAN KICK HER STUPID ASS FOR SOMETHING SO FUCKIN DISGRACEFUL. SHE WILL DEFENITELY BURN IN HELL WITH GASOLINE UNDIES ON!! SHE'S A FUCKIN NUTCASE AND ANYBODY WHO SHARES HER VIEW ON THIS IS ALSO!

  34. Taniulu says – reply to this


    134

    IF I HAD THAT HAIRCUT, I'D BE DOING JUST ABOUT ANYTHING TO PULL PEOPLE'S ATTENTION AWAY FROM IT TOO!
    She obviously needs several counseling sessions. And if she really is doing this to herself, look at it on the bright side, by this time she's "experimented" so much with herself with out medical attention, that hopefully she won't be able to procreate. Isn't that a SUPER MEGA PLUS????

  35. turkey baster bush says – reply to this


    135

    She looks like she smells "down there". I want Perez to find her exes and get the inside scoop!

  36. Cindy says – reply to this


    136

    As someone who has suffered greatly through 4 miscarriages, I am appalled by this woman. And, although I am Catholic, I do believe a woman has a choice. But, this is so beyond having an abortion. She has taken the most beautiful thing a woman can do and turned it in to something disgusting. And, I don't care if it's real or not, she's still putting it out there as though she really did it. She has turned the most precious thing in the world into a mockery. I hope she does rot in hell - whether she really did it or not.

  37. f*ckmepump says – reply to this


    137

    so basically this metal retard went to yale saved her period and then called it art. she could have have stayed home for this one. who cares!

  38. me says – reply to this


    138

    wow people. relax.
    i would react negatively if she did this knowing she was pregnant. but she didn't and took the drugs to "abort" during her period. calling her a "cunt" and that she doesn't deserve oxygen is a little much. is that the only reaction you can come up with? kinda sad that you can't say something meaningful in response.
    her purpose is to spark dialoge about life… and when life exists and how politics come into play. you make yourself look like an idiot when you respond with childish name calling.

  39. kayla says – reply to this


    139

    i think what she has to say is very interesting. it's obvious that she's an intelligent woman, and a woman who is (obviously) in control of her own body. the people who say that what she said is "a load of gibberish," they clearly don't understand words that consist of more than two syllabuls. although i don't necessarily agree with what she claims to have done, it's still an interesting idea.

  40. astrid says – reply to this


    140

    Re: Andee
    Excatly! I agree - when was new art ot provocative? I think it is faboulous, and besides - early miscarriges like these shouldn't harm her body. And its a narrative. I love it!!
    Miscarrige og period?! all in the narrative. Fan-fucking-tastic! Congrats to Perez on the opening of an artgallery!

  41. gaby says – reply to this


    141

    this stupid bitch needs to be locked away somewhere where she cant keep doing this shit..how is she gonna say she wasnt even sure if she was ever pregnant but yet she also says she did this procedure by "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" what a fucking contradiction! shes sick and she needs a fucking psychiatrist for some mental help or just put the bitch in jail to rot until she dies!

  42. momof2 says – reply to this


    142

    Sick, she needs to be committed. She makes Britney look like mother of the year. Total slap in the face to someone like me on fertility treatments for 7 years praying for children. This "person" (and I use that word loosely) is seriously f'd up. I think this may be the most disgusting thing I have ever heard of.

  43. D. says – reply to this


    143

    Re: Jen
    You took the words right out of my mouth.

  44. CORNCHEX says – reply to this


    144

    I thought it was an old pic of Madona.

  45. cjm says – reply to this


    145

    Hope her parents are proud of what they spend tutition on. Yale should be real proud too of what their art dept. does. I don't believe she was ever pregnant-she did not say she ever took a pregnancy test and some can do it before your pregnancy is expected. The crap she took probably caused the pain/cramps. Notice her periods came always on the 28th day. IDIOT.

    'it is a myth that ovaries and a uterus are “meant” to birth a child.'

    Myth? someone better explain to me where my kids came from then. . She needs a biology class. It is also very insulting to me since I had 3 miscarriages, none of it was art, it was losing a life that was created. It was and still is painful. I hope that she is not able to reproduce.

  46. JJ says – reply to this


    146

    Goddamn, I couldn't even make it through that windbag's pile of horseshit! Would the act of my palm smacking her face be considered art? What a pretentious turd!!

  47. turkey baster bush says – reply to this


    147

    She looks like she she would smell "down there" I want Perez to find her exes and get the inside scoop!

  48. libellule696 says – reply to this


    148

    She need to stop drugs; she lost a lot of neuron!!
    "The corps can use for other thing", well..can i use your head for practice soccer?!?

  49. ReRe says – reply to this


    149

    FUCK THIS BITCH!! All she wants is media attention!

    Try doing a project on suicide, bitch!

  50. ... says – reply to this


    150

    This just seems mad to me

  51. Christina says – reply to this


    151

    I think this dumb bitch likes to hear herself speak!

  52. pry says – reply to this


    152

    if what she says is true, then the form and function meeting in the body would exist even without ever carrying out this spermination/abortion act. so why do it?

  53. Art Historian says – reply to this


    153

    Re: Andee – If this is art, then please tell me where the beauty or message is in this piece? If she does, indeed, have a message, then she should learn how to express it in a way that others will understand. As it is right now, this woman is full of gibberish and doing her best in orchestrating an attack upon herself. She'd better be careful. She's diving into some deep, dangerous waters.

  54. yll0416x says – reply to this


    154

    As a woman who has gone through a NON "self-induced miscarriage" it pains me to see that someone would choose to do this to their body and to an (or in this case several) unborn child. This is a slap in the face to those of us who had a difficult time trying to conceive and have had miscarriages. Chosing to create a fetus just so that you can end its life for an art project is not only disgusting, its absolutely reprehensible! This woman should be ashamed of herself for even breathing the same air the rest of us do….IT'S A SHAME HER MOTHER DIDN'T HAVE THIS IDEA FIRST SO THAT SHE WOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN BORN !!!!!

  55. Kitty says – reply to this


    155

    Re: cambel

    Kudos. What you said is so true and truly awesome.

  56. WHATTHEFUCK SH NEEDED to BE ABORTED says – reply to this


    156

    THIS BITCHES MAMA SHOULD HAVE ABORTED HER CRAZY ASS.

  57. Lila says – reply to this


    157

    OMG what the fuck is wrong with this girl…she's got issues!!!…..

  58. Janine says – reply to this


    158

    This girl is taking her menstral cycle and turning into a tone of BS and offending thousands of women. She is insulting and she hasn't matured yet as an adult and she has no idea how offensive and disgusting she is.

  59. foof says – reply to this


    159

    she should do a piece on amputation. see how that works for her.

  60. Lu says – reply to this


    160

    yeah stop giving this girl all of this media attention

  61. carly says – reply to this


    161

    MORE POWER TO HER!!

  62. christina says – reply to this


    162

    Re: me
    You are just as cruel as she is…shes a monster. This is not art, its human sacrfice. Wheater she was pregnant OR NOT, she inseminated her self hoping to get pregnant ONLY TO ABORT IT….Its disgusting and she should fuking burn in hell. No morals bitch is wat she is!

  63. Dee says – reply to this


    163

    Seriously, I do not want to hear about this, it physically makes me ill. As a married woman who has tried to conceive for more then 3 years with no success, it disgusts me that someone can make so light of such a serious situation. She should be permanently shut up!

  64. Jose Luis says – reply to this


    164

    She's sooo fucked up and so stupid, I cant believe it… she is not an artist and she should be locked in a madhouse

  65. Hollianne says – reply to this


    165

    this is absolutely ridiculous!!! I'm surprised you don't have something funny painted over her face Perez! that's just foul…I haven't the slightest what she is talking about..it sound like a bunch of big word hoopla. I know it's her own body but does she understand that she is creating and taking another life like she thinks she's God or something? I really hope when it comes time she is not able to reproduce due to all the crap she just put her body through. grrrrr

  66. jokerface says – reply to this


    166

    I hope this sick crazy broad did permanent damage to her uterus so she can't ever have children. IMAGINE THE EXPERIMENTS SHE WOULD CONDUCT ON THEM!!! I HOPE SHE BURNS IN HELL!

  67. Kristen says – reply to this


    167

    As both a scientist and a writer, I can tell you that the goal of writing is to convey information. Using complex syntax unnecessarily in order to prove your intelligence is NOT the sign of a smart person. It is an indication that she wants to look smart rather than actually communicate her ideas. In other words, she's full of herself.

  68. MMMMMMM YA SHES CRAZY!! says – reply to this


    168

    SHES FALLEN OFF HER FUKIN ROCKER!!
    CRAZY BITCH!

  69. nancy says – reply to this


    169

    Brilliant I say, way to take a stab at the normal narratives people place of the human body.

    but sadly the unwashed masses will just see OMFG BABIEZ!!1!! and react without taking the time to actually think about what shes trying to do.

    What I find incredibly funny is that within her cultural sphere (yale, high art, etc) shes probably not going to receive much negative feedback, if anything this will open more doors for her than your typical undergrad art major can dream of.

    I think she did a really awesome thing, I only wish I had thought of this when I had my miscarriage.

  70. Veeronica says – reply to this


    170

    This bitch is an idiot, we already know what she is trying to exopes, she doesn't have to spermante herself and then may or may not kill for a thesis, idiot bitch.

  71. Oh man... says – reply to this


    171

    Well okay. Of course our bodies organs and insides have other functions or capabilities besides what we have defined their uses as, but did you have to inject yourself with random semen and bleed into a cup to prove that? Sorry but this is not "art". Maybe I'm too mainstream or something but stuff like this seems more like a waste of time rather than a great way to "open our eyes" to our bodies capabilities. I bleed every month too…I've never been pregnant therefore never had a miscarriage so I can't say what that would be like but to be honest…I'd never want to know.

  72. christy says – reply to this


    172

    i don't like this chick at all. what's with all the bullshit 'art' these days? we need real talent. no more idiots. maybe people should have an art license.

  73. Andrew says – reply to this


    173

    This girl is a total moron, and she could have said everything she wanted to say in about 2 sentences. Jesus, I've never seen so much bullshit packed into a worthless explanation, and I'm a journalism major.

  74. Megan says – reply to this


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    I could not believe this I am a woman that has gone through infertility treatments. I am feel for all those women out there that want to have babies and can't. You know it takes a lot more then a turkey baster to get pregnant. So I doubt she was ever pregnant. If she had to go through as much as I have or saw whet infertility does a woman maybe she would have thought twice.

  75. T says – reply to this


    175

    I cannot understand a damn word this bitch is saying! Guess that is why I'm not at Yale aborting my babies.

  76. Wendy says – reply to this


    176

    Heh… in case none of you have noticed… your anger over something that may have never happened is exactly what this project is supposed to highlight and question. You're playing right into her hands (and not b/c she's attention seeking) and manifesting the purpose of her art.

    She wins.

  77. PinkLover says – reply to this


    177

    Anywho else just wanna punch this stupid chick in the face and get it over with.
    Agree with Mary - the #1 comment. I like to read about what's going on but at the same time it's just giving this stupid stupid girl the attention she wants.

  78. Denise says – reply to this


    178

    WOW, what a murder! She's a fuckin cunt, for even doing this. THAT ISN"T ART!!! That's disgusting!!!! She should be shot! Stop posting about her, she'll eventually go away!

  79. Shawnajosephine says – reply to this


    179

    I had to look most of her big words up in the dictionary and she makes no sense….

  80. wendy says – reply to this


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    … and, really, what she has written here isn't gibberish and it isn't really something you can easily "find" in "any feminist textbook" at all. she's drawing on ideas from foucault, derrida, bourdieu… even eliade… and doing it in a fairly organized, cogent and comprehensive way.

  81. Elias says – reply to this


    181

    disgusting human being….!

  82. Felicity says – reply to this


    182

    What a fucking lunatic… she thinks she's smart and her disgusting art serves a purpose… WOMEN ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE BABIES and the only reason you didn't was because you took a MAN-MADE DRUG. Dumb, ugly ass bitch.

  83. S says – reply to this


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    "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."

    she is an idiot.

  84. Jess Graham says – reply to this


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    Interesting that some comments are saying 'ignore her, she's ugly'. So I guess we're only supposed to pay attention to what the 'beautiful people' have to say? Riiight. I'll get right on that.

    In the meantime, way to go Perez! for posting her artist's statement! If people are going to judge her every which way, it's really important to hear what she has to say. Even if it's written in mind-numbing academic-speak, or says things that people think are loony. First Amendment, y'all…

  85. Miller says – reply to this


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    "it is a myth that ovaries and a uterus are “meant” to birth a child."
    Thousands of years of human existence bedamned! Now I can really learn what my ovaries are for thanks to an pseudo-intellectual ivy league brat that takes art wayyyy too seriously. You stuck semen up your cooch (without the fun) and bled into a cup, thats psychosis not art. Idiot.

  86. flux says – reply to this


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    So.. whats the issue here guys?

    I don't see a single thing wrong with what she's done.

    Sounds like ur all being outraged for the sake of it, or because you think you SHOULD be. not necessarily because you actually are. shame on you, not her.

  87. Ashley says – reply to this


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    I dont understand how this is "progressive art". In order to "progress" you have to be heading somewhere. This is heading NOWHERE. It's not going to change the realm of the art world. It's going to be forgotten about in a year from now. People will say, "Hey, remember the pyscho who did that art project self-aborting?"… and the answer will be… "No." And the last paragraph reads about how she is showing the organs can do other things than reproduce. Well, uhh yes. Women have had "abortions" "miscarriages" since the beginning of time. What exactly NEW are you showing us here. NOTHING. This is nothing more than her proving to the world that she has lost of every moral fiber in her body.

  88. me says – reply to this


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    HEY ALIZA_—–

    If you wanted to be famous SO BADLY, you should have at least waxed your bushy eyebrows, mustache and tried to tame that BUSH on your head.

    Ugly girl getting attention the only way she knows how. (And not through her looks or intelligence,mind you).

    I'd like to hear a comment from her parents.

  89. michelethebelle says – reply to this


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    She needs to shut the fuck up with her stupid attempt at sounding like an educated "ARTIST" - it probably took her 12 hours of thesaurus reading to come up with this lame shit. She sounds like a moronic bitch who could care less about herself or anyone else. Rot in hell bitch.

  90. rigbee says – reply to this


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    …….Oh my God…….

    She's a lunatic.

    Does she even understand what she's saying? Of course a uterus is "meant" for birthing a child. That is why males don't have the babies. …..Oh I can't believe I have even let such a attention-whore my time.

  91. nana says – reply to this


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    though semi ridiculous, but for art sake you people are not even listening to her discourse. It's extreme, yes, but the ontology she speaks of is interesting? It's arousing.

  92. Debbie says – reply to this


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    Another fine mess Yale has produced. Way to go.

  93. Mel Von B says – reply to this


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    This is so ridiculous, its absurd to think that a stunt like this will begin discourse about changing societal issues. If anything it'll put off 90% of people. She should talk to a bulimic, and start a convo there, saying "I want to dispell the biology that mouths are meant to eat food, we should all stuff it in our asses!" And how funny she never went to a doctor, if she did permanent damage to her body, too damn bad, karma has a funny way of rearing its head, and how ever so appropriate in this matter. She is so full of shit, one thing is to stir up the pot and discuss sex, but to say that ovaries and uteruses are meant for giving birth, thats just stupid, what are they there for then. The miscarriages aside, her arrogance and ignorance are so disgusting, it makes people want to get violent!

  94. leesh says – reply to this


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    well now that you put it that way it makes so much sense.. bitch is a liar and clearly needs an abortion like she needs a hole in her head.

  95. me@hotmail.com says – reply to this


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    "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. "

    Sweetie, you are REALLY stretching it here.

    I don't understand why this famewhore is pulling this shock & awe publicity stunt and hiding behind the guise and safety of "Performance Art"?

    Wussy.

    They all must be spinless nerds over at Yale. Grow some balls bitch and call it how the entire world sees it- a publicity stunt!

    You are the ONLY one validating your thoughts on this stunt. Do some serious relflection you dumb ugly bitch.

  96. MARYBETH says – reply to this


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    OK I JUST READ THIS SHIT 2 TIMES AND I STILL HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT SHE JUST SAID. I MUST BE REALLY STUPID. TO MADE BUG WORDS. SHE'S SHOULD GET INTO MAJOR TROUBLE FOR THIS SHIT.

  97. SSs says – reply to this


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    So past her very large vocabulary the point is to define normal?! In the end she found it is not normal for a reproductive system to reproduce? This system can do other things? Like what? Grow flowers? Just because she was able to maniupulate her body into mabey being pregnant and then not does not prove anything other then she's one sick twisted bitch that seems to be struggling for control over her life.

  98. k says – reply to this


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    since she possibly never even was pregnant, whats everyones huge problem with it? she has some interesting things to say, if only your readers had the level of intelligence to understand it

  99. juana says – reply to this


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    I think this is a brave, thoughtful and beautiful act by a concerned and talented artist. She has highlighted the importance of a woman's right to choose. This is why I strongly support Barrack Obama in his fight for women's rights. I hope the Obama campaign strongly considers using her brave example of why he must become president.

  100. Emily says – reply to this


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    ok, I actually had more respect for her when I thought it was a hoax. She's trying to say that ovaries and a uterus are there for some purpose OTHER than making a child? I think if that were true, men would have ovaries and a uterus.

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