"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."
Finally someone posts something actually intelligent in this celebrity dirt blog
What a crock…just because she injected semen into herself does not mean she was pregnant…she just had a her time of the month as usual….
Uh, what did she just say??
Re: Art Historian –
I'd like to hear more thoughts you have on the matter.
Does this stunt (and ANYTHING for that matter) truly fall under "performance art"?
I guess the real question is—what IS performance art?
Is it a garbage art category where you can throw anything in the category and call it performance art?
Aliza SHARTS.
REALLY GOOD ART !!!!!!!!!!! IT SHULD TOTALLY BE ON THE LOUVRE..
FAR FROM CONSERVATIVE AMERICA WHO CANT STAND THAT REAL ART ITS MEASURED FOR HOW MUCH IT CAN STIR CULTURE . JUST AS IT IS EVIDENCE HERE
she is so going to hell
When she gets older she will look back on this and realize what a pretentious little obnoxious windbag she was and will be embasrassed. I know. I went to a VERY liberal university. You take all these women studies classes and learn about how opressed and objectified you are. It's rammed down your throat. Then you create "art" to express the rage and injustice of it all.
_________________WOW HER MOTHER MUST BE SO PROUD ______________
WHAT A FUCKING RETARD.
You sure can use big words girl, but what are you really saying? You are drowning in your own narcissism!
Remember, you can jump up and down, and cry like a child to be seen in the world. You can change minds, cause a reaction, and struggle to prove the world that you're right and "they" are wrong. The truth is, the energy of your actions is not a positive one. My point is that whatever you're trying to accomplish, whether it's a media project, or an installation piece, it's garbage. It has no enlightening value, and by the way, I support a woman's right to choose. so take this and include it in your dissertation.
this is sick. i dont even know why she is in the news. she should be put in jail. its not art its a personal choice that women have to make and she is making a mockery out of it.
This is brilliant. She is challenging some deeply held, extremely parochial assumptions about what is "natural" and what isn't and how easily abused that word is.
Frankly, Ms. Perez, is work like this that helps make space for you-someone who would have been considered "unnatural" not too long ago, as a queer man, who is disobeying "natures" law. Instead of jumping on the bandwagon and joining the shill, puritannical chorus below, you should at least make an attempt to read what she's saying about how we comprehend the functions of the body and how it leads us to labling things(people) as natural or unnatural.
She was never pregnant. She should fail this project.
I hate all this back and forth. Quit posting and maybe she'll go away. She's getting the attention she wants.
Aliza Shvarts is CERTIFIED CRAZY!
As a mother of two, I was originally appauled by this idea, and couldn't possibly view it as modern art. But knowing these facts now, that she a) never took a pregnancy test and b) injested these drugs on her 28th day of her cycle… she may not be the heartless monster we think she is. A babys heart does not begin to beat until week 5-6. This is the same as fertility clinics killing embryos that won't implant or have a disease. And she may have never been pregnant to begin with.
I love how people are like "I don't get the stupid big words! Shez a crazy beeyotch!" If you don't understand a word, look it up. If you don't, you're the one who is stupid. Most of you don't understand how a woman's body works. This happens ALL THE TIME without a woman noticing it because it's just a cluster of cells and undistinguishable from a regular period. If you're trying to get pregnant this has happened to you.
When you say "I support a woman's right to chose this goes beyond that" you are a hypocrite. You are saying "I support a woman's right to chose…except for this choice." She's forcing people to reveal their hypocrisy, which is the only way it can be challenged. If it's a hypothetical, you can't predict your reaction. So now you know…you're pro-choice-ish, i.e. not pro-choice at all. Kudos to her.
And when she grows up she won't be able to have kids as her body will be conditioned to miscarrying. Who the hell wants to watch her bleeding into a cup? It should NEVER be shown to ANYONE.
Re: nancy –
Thanks should go out to everyone who is posting objective, considerate answers here. It's the only way that wading through the rest of these death threats seems worthwhile.
morals are not culturally relativist. all of the value judgments that every person posting here brings with their comments are the product of the context in which they were born. nothing that any of you say is 'right' or 'moral' except when you place it within the constraints of your own beliefs and upbringings. and all of it is socially constructed. don't crucify this girl, at least she's making you talk. now, please try thinking about it before you post.
Re: Andee – Yeah! Just like Hilter!
Them's a lot of words for a sick piece of shit to say…I just can't stop thinking about the people–some that I know–who have had natural miscarriages…something so horrible that happened to them is something someone else thinks of as "art" and pushes that thought onto others.
I'm actually nauseous. That she can conceptualize her uterus or ovaries being used for other reasons is lunacy. Why would you want to expand on the validity of usefulness for these body organs. She would have better served (gross OVERSTATEMENT) by using her brain function as an organ of choice. She is stupid. Yes, I name called. So, there.
yuck she's so one of those people who are so unfortunate with their social skills that they resort to bizarre desperate acts to get attention. I mean injecting random sperm into herself with her diabetic friends syringe and filming herself bleeding into a cup in a shower. Not to mention "shower stall" is she really doing this in her dorm showers?? HOW ARTSY FUCKINGFARTSY! what a genius!
This girl is absolutely disgusting. Pro-life or Pro-choice, no matter which side of the line you're on this is absolutely disgusting, and a flagrant disregard for the sanctity of life. It makes me physically sick and upset that this silly girl is pulling a stunt like this for attention. Art my ass. She just wants her 15minutes by doing something controversial. How is this art? How can you call collecting your bodily fluids in a cup art? I don't like my own period, why the fuck would I want to look at yours?
Your 'narrative' claims that you are exploring beyond the normative function of your organs. You want to incite public discourse. You better realize that your actions have an effect on a body more than your own. People who choose to grossly abuse the right, in some states at least, for a woman to get an abortion are what will stop a 12 year old girl raped by her dirty uncle from getting an abortion. You're what will stop a woman drugged and raped from having the choice to abort if she becomes pregnant. Roe v. Wade was such a long time ago that people–governments–have already began to change abortion laws. This is not helping in any way the moral conversation about abortion rights, or the rights of women. Your 'art' is spitting in the face of women and families who have suffered the pain of a miscarriage, the loss of a child. It is just such a callous disregard to the seriousness of a miscarriage or abortion.
Absolutely disgusting.
So she's ultimately saying that my reproductive organs can do things other than reproduce and feed a child. I wonder what? Can they sing and dance? Can they give me directions to the store? Can they morph into the genitalia of a man? That is so strange. I understand and can somewhat agree with all her gibberish about our miserable heteronormative reality and its consequences, up until she says that our very organs are also a victim of this. Please! Last time I checked a vagina was a vagina and not a cow or a bird or a piece of licorice. Words and conceptual art will never change that.
Re: mermar –
we wouldnt make exceptions for a woman's right to choose if the abortions were done in a justified cause. To simplify it for you, the world is not black and white. There are many gray areas, and an ethically unjust incident like this fits into that category. To abort in order to cause a reaction is simply unethical and you may be able to use big words but if you can not understand that, you are an idiot.
Why all the remarks about her "BIG WORDS?" Can most of you people not understand them, so you feel threatened? She's an artist and some art isn't just pretty paintings on the wall.
Is she trying to say my reproductive system does magic tricks, I didn't know about this whole time?……
I am disgraced she owns a vagina!
Can someone explain to me in 2 or 3 sentences what exactly this girl is doing? I don't get it.
This is really disgusting and cruel. I belive women have the right to chose an abortion, but it is a sad difficult choice and often scars the woman for life. This just makes a mockery of it, it's totally unneccesary.
WHAT A BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!, she is a terrible person, she will go to jail!
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I get it. I would like to see the exhibit.
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She is a heartless murderer and completely full of shit. I just suffered a miscarriage recently. It was heartbreaking…and she is doing this on PURPOSE? I hate her, and have never even met her.
Many of her stated myths are actual fact. I hope this bitch burns.
Re: Lea – AMEN!!!!
I'll break it down for you: I had people donate sperm. They are anonymous. I inserted the sperm directly into my cervix using a turkey baster. I then took some herbal supplement, which I will not name, to try and induce a miscarriage. I never took a pregnancy test, so I am not too sure I was ever pregnant. There was blood and cramps, which occured on the 28th day of my cycle and may have been a period or may have been a miscarriage, I'm not sure. This ambiguity made me happy and is the most interesting part of my art work. In fact, it is the central part of my piece and allows me to show that by calling what happened a miscarriage, we have turned it into a reality based on the heteronormative (i.e., punitive rules that make us conform to hetero-ness) structures we are forced to live within. You want my vagina to be used only for reproducing, not for art or anything else, I am trying to show you that it can be used for other things, like art. This is what my project is about.
Why is anyone paying any attention to her? I don't get it.
Maybe if I use a lot of big words they won't realize what a douche I am!
Can we stop giving her all of this media attention? It's only going to make people want to go see her show..
I hope she's freakin' sterile now
this is one psycho bitch!! but i must say, Perez, you need to stop giving her so much attention. It's unfortunate when great minds, (like i think she has) focus on such senseless stuff.
First she stated that this project was purely art, but no where in her explanation does she mention this. Sounds like a science experiment to me and not a very productive one at that!
I think it's interesting. And we're all talking about it.
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Her writing is so masturbatory.
THE ONLY TRUE-REAL ARTIST HERE IS GOD…
GOD GIVES, GOD TAKES…
GOD brought you into this world and he will take you out of it…
The last three paragraphs of what she says make a serious and valid point about societal norms and boundaries. If we ascribe fixed and inflexible meanings to bodies and genders we reach a point where anything that lies outside those boundaries (homosexuality for example, or women having the right to choose whether to be defined as mothers) is automatically condemned. Whilst you might not agree with her actions, having responses of total moronic hatred directed against her personally simply proves her point. It is her body and her choice, and no one has the right to feel like the potential lives she may or may not have ended are anything to do with them. Stop and consider why your response may be so vitriolic, why are you so upset about this? Not very long ago people reacted the same way to people of different skin colours, nationalities, sexualities and genders. Sadly some still do.
Oh shiz, homegirl needs to get a real job. She better not be fucking getting any financial aid or scholarships to go to that school…is that how our tax monies get spent………….way to go yale, you've got a great team in your admissions department!
I cannot believe what this girl is doing to herself. I am going through fertility treatments and it pains me to read about someone who is abusing their body for what they are claiming to be art. I hope that one day she realizes the harm she caused herself as well as the hurt feelings she is causing women who are struggling with trying to have a healthy pregnancy and baby.
That shit you posted that she wrote seemed like a huge pile of gobbly-dee -gook. What a load of total crap… no one gives a fuck about your dumbass project BITCH!!
Excellent example of psuedo intellectualism. She'd be a big hit at Upper Westside cocktails parties. And at Berkley. And in San Francisco. Fit right in….
I haven't heard about this until now,and it makes me sick.Wouldn't this be tantamount to MURDER???
Interesting if its true.
Sucky if its not.
P.S. why is everyone so quick to protect her bloody discharge? Her point (if she's real) is that IT'S BLOOD. Do you cry everytime a woman has a period too?
Wow she sure does thing she's important doesn't she. I wonder how long it took for her to come up with that bullshit. Is that what they teach at Yale?
This dumb bitch needs a good beating with an ugly stick.. stupid cunt
what a fucking idiot….waste of a life.
she sounds like the fucking UnaBomber.
Why gives this nutjob any ink? She is crazy. She is not making a point, she is hurting herself. All this does is make me wanna be prolife.
The gurl needs help. The school is right to make her look crazy too. Its an embarrassement and ceraintly a far cry from research. One of research's underlying themes is ethics. What she is doing to her body may actually be the reason for her wanting an exhibit. Its all in her head. She is better off fighting prolifers on economics, not on self-mutilation. People are fuking nuts. I thought Brittany was the craziest you covered, this gurl takes the cake.
I sure hope MY tax money didn't fund this crazy chicks education
Re: cambel – … Thank you, well said! As I was trying to get through the redundancies, I couldn't help but think that this woman must be pulling words out of the thesaurus at random. She wants to sound 'like an intellectual art student' but in my opinion, she's coming off ignorant.
I hope you guys realize that this is exactly the point of her installation. To create a reactionary dialogue between complete strangers on whether what she did was right or wrong. Personally I think she's a nut job. But does any one remember the "Meat Dress" at the National Art Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It's the same thing, she's just pushing the boundaries of acceptable art forms in the eyes of the public. Besides as she said herself it was never certain if she was ever pregnant or not.
She is horrible. Someone needs to check her mental status. So many ppl have a horrible time getting over having miscarriages. Leave her alone and don't talk about her anymore. She is crazy and doesn't deserve anymore attention.
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She's insane.
This girl needs to volunteer for Habitat or some other hard working charity in order to bring some meaning and action to her life. She's a legend in her own mind and she has spent way too much time in there. Her actions disgust me, but I'm thankful she did not reproduce.
Everyone commenting on this is so dumb…half of you idiots probably dont even understand what she is doing cuz your reading comprehension is that of a 9 yr old, you idiots, get a fucking education! at least this bitch has one
So she thinks it is a myth that ovaries and the uterus are meant for purposes of procreation? What the hell else are they good for?? Um, nothing. What a sick, attention-starved little girl. I hope she never truly experiences the pain, emotional and physical, of a miscarriage. It is a pain that never really goes away and it is a shame that she feels the need to belittle the very real experiences of many women for "art".
I would be surprised if many of your readers would even understand the language used in this article. You might want to add a link to an online dictionary, as I'm sure much is lost on these idiots who consider The Hills newsworthy.
Re: viola – You SHOULD be ashamed. I'm pro-choice, too. CHOOSE WHETHER OR NOT TO GET PREGNANT. Irresponsible, selfish bitches.
The only thing this has accomplished is to show how fucking closed and simple minded American really are especially the ones reading this blog…omg i HATE this country everyone is so dumb seriously half the comments talk about what she is wearing….who the fuck cares….i saw like three intelligent responses the rest of the people were blabbing about pro life bullshit seriously Americans are sooo dumb get me out of this country !!!!
Re: viola – Whether you believe a woman should be allowed to abort or not AND whether or not this story is true… This woman "claims" to have been impregnated only for the purpose of ABORTING it and flat out WRONG. I'm not for abortion, but realize people are going to do what they want. Doing this on purpose just to show you have POWER is stupid and wrong on every level.
I sure hope every prospective employer sees this…and then doesn't hire her because she's a psycho. And you can't pay the bills with obscure art.
I do agree with her stance on the following, well said my dear!
Ms. Shvarts said: 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.
She needs psychiatric help. Having been through the world of fertility treatments (including insemination) I can assure you that she didn't get pregnant each month. So she didn't have miscarriages, and she didn't perform abortions. All she did was collect her regularly scheduled monthly menstrual fluid…and then talk about it in really big words.
Gee, neat.
Whatever herbal concoctions she took probably just damaged her and caused internal bleeding.
Let's hope that the herbs also rendered her infertile.
I hate to think what sort of "art project" she would inflict upon her children….
It's weird that everyone is so against what she is doing. Like, she's right. She didn't "abort" anything. She may or may not have been pregnant, and if she was, it was for a few days. What her point is is that pregnant can be a judgement call. If someone is pregnant and doesn't know it, and never misses a period, and just miscarries right after they get pregnant, then to them that was just a period. So what determines life other than what we perceive life to be? It's her body, and millions of women terminate pregnancies every year. And when they do it, it isn't just an egg that was just fertilized a week or two ago, often times it is a baby, almost fully formed, in the second or third trimester. She's doing something seemingly controversial to spark debate about something that needs to be debated. Of course she wanted it to get news coverage. That's the point of it. What she did was the equivalent of taking a morning after pill that happens to work a couple weeks later, instead of a day after. Most people see nothing wrong with that though, because it isn't really a kid yet. Which is exactly her point.
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Totally agree. Remember when they started saying the world was round and how crazy and sick people thought that was. Not sure this is too much different.
Re: sadgirl –
GOOD LORD PEOPLE! THINK THIS THROUGH! USE YOUR BRAINS!!!
She was NEVER pregnant….there were no 'unborn' children. She wasn't having miscarriages or performing abortions - she was getting her period. PERIOD!
She makes some good points but it's still unsettling… of course I don't think it's meant to be a warm and fuzzy exhibition. If one read into the larger ideas that she's challenging, I think she's actually quite brave to be taking on such established and often sacred territory. It's not normal, but "normal" is just a statistic… I think that's one of the major points she is trying to make.
sick, demented mind of this woman, absolutely disgusting and immoral!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aliza's great. For real. It's easy to judge when all you have to go on is what Perez Hilton says. If Aliza's exhibit offends you, then don't go.
The 28th day would be your normal menstrual cycle you wacko!
I wonder if she ever plans to have kids when shes older………
this is fukin sik man i mean why wud ya even do that its fukin arr i dnt even kno wot to say that women is an evil fukin sikk bitch.. she shud be put in a fukin syko home silly stupid cunt init
I can't imagine how excited her parents (and never-to-be grandparents?) must be about paying for her Yale education. What a waste of oxygen. Too bad her mother wasn't a "performance artist", if you get my drift…..
She is dumb! I'm all for women's rights, but this hoe has taken it too far. What a loser! SHe needs to be examined. I thought Yale was for smart people. Does she even have a GED?
that's actually fascinating. and no, she's not psycho.
she's making a philosophical argument. people are freaking out because of they have self-imposed meaning on her action. they are projecting. that is the art. decouple the idea of a menstrual cycle from reproduction. look at the blood as merely a red object. it's like einstein's theory of relativity: there is no measurement objective, only measurement relative. relative to what is an important part of the question. her "art," relative to YOU, says as much about you as it does her "art."
of course, only .0001% of the people that hear about this fiasco will understand the point she's trying to make.
WTFever. I am so over this freak show. She could have done something a hell of a lot more positive with her time if she was that desperate for attention, and NOT have millions of people wanting her head on a platter.
And "it's a myth that ovaries and uterus are meant for creating a child"? Ummm…beg your pardon, but what the hell else are they for?? Lots of body parts have multiple functions, but the ovaries and uterus pretty much solely exist to make a baby. That's why we bleed like stuck pigs once a month, you dumb cunt. Sheesh.
Re: Disgusting! –
Yeah! That's a great idea, let's bring back lynching! (insert expressin of complete disbelief that someone just suggested lynching as a response to an art students project…)
if a chick like that can get into yale, then i'm a monkey's uncle. if i was yale, i'd kick her sick ass out so fast her head would be spinning. she's like the little kid in first grade who intentionally hurts herself and then blames it on the girl she hates. she's pathologically ill on so many levels it's disturbing. there's a fundamental piece of the cranial puzzle she is sorely lacking. it's pretty obvious that this chick has some sort of personality disorder and has a history of mental dysfunction. i wonder if she has a chart somewhere in some mental facility. demented, demented.
besides all this, she's academically irresponsible and reckless. where are her academic advisors in all this? they also should be held responsible.
I don't get it. First I read about some South American who chained a stray dog up in his gallary and let people watch him die and he called that "ART" then I found an article about a european woman who liked to adopt stray cats,rabbits, chickens, and mice and cut their heads off and put it on a vase just to take a photograph which those hang in her gallaries and she calls that "Art" Wasn't there a time when people tortured animals were seen as Dangerous by the vast majority of the population? and now were actually screwing with the human body. Where is the true creativity? It's mindless. I really wonder how far this will end up going. What's next?
i agree with dc lez. the rest of you are responding emotionally and with bias toward the pro-choice/pro-life issue, without any kind of intellectual capacity to understand it beyond that. it's not your body. it's hers. so insulting her looks and calling her psycho reveals your own ignorance.
but it doesn't matter: you're the same people that insist on weighing in on celebrity issues. i hardly think the artist is really going to care what you call her.
what she did is extremely self-destructive and inmature, however all she said is that she doesn't know weather she was ever really pregnant or not, and that its all a matter of interpretation because menstrual blood only becomes a miscarriage when someone names it that way,In a weird sense is almost as if she were defending the idea of legal abortion, explaining that a pregnancy is only a pregnancy not when the baby is conceived but when the idea of it is! its really sad..but she got what she wanted ..attention !
I am in no way defending this!! I think it is horrible and I think she doesn't understand the value of life in general including her own.I think Art schools should Include an Ethics class to help this students understand the difference between artistic expression and atrocious acts that are only made for the purpose of getting attention.
Re: ellie –
Ellie, for someone who misspelled most of your post, you have a lot of nerve calling someone else stupid…
Re: Andee –
agreed. what is scary, is the overwhelming response in the negative (and violent too). i guess i was naive to think our society was more open minded.
What a raft of shit that is!!!! It's nothing more than mental masterbation and I think she has been injecting a needleless syringe filled with BS into her self important brain for years now. I, too, went to art school and we were trained to have a certain integrity and decorum about our work, not a lot of sensationalist, shocking for shock's sake, crap. Believe me, the world knows the difference. She IS not an artist, one who hones and practices the craft of making art, she is a spoiled, elitist brat who thinks her shit don't stink and that she is better and smarter that those around her. Her "artist" statement was nothing more than a bunch of pseudo-intellectual bull shit that doesn't even make frickin' sense. She gives the rest of us real artists who are working hard to make the world a little nicer place a bad name and I hate her for that. Imagine all the art grants, what few are remaining, will be that much harder to get!!! She screwed everybody with her BS and I hope she never makes a dime making her "art". Her parents must be so proud and her adviser should be fired for allowing such indulgent crap. The Yale Art School should be massively apologizing to the world for letting this asshole sully their school and reputation, not to mention offend millions of people. They suck and if I were an alumnus of Yale, I would never, ever, ever give another dime to that f**ked up institution.
She will in the end have to answer for every child she murdered.
A very sad and pathetic individual she is.