Art major Aliza Shvarts '08 wants to make a statement.
Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art
project, a do***entation 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 relation****p 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.
But Shvarts insists her concept was not designed for "shock
value." [Sure]
"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." ["Some
people" implies not very many, implying it isn't that big of a deal]
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.
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