The story continues. Via Museum of Hoaxes, we learn that Yale art student Aliza Shvarts is contradicting a Yale spokesperson's claim that the student's senior project involving serial pregnancies and induced miscarriages is a "creative fiction."
In follow-up statements to the Yale Daily News Shvarts insisted that she really did inseminate herself with a syringe and took abortifacient herbs to induce bleeding, though she doesn't know whether she was ever actually pregnant.
"No one can say with 100-percent certainty that anything in the piece did or did not happen," Shvarts was quoted as saying, "because the nature of the piece is that it did not consist of certainties."
Neither, therefore, did this report. I will update you with further uncertainties as they develop.
Read more about it:
• Schvarts Disputes Yale's Claim - Yale Daily News
• Shvarts Explains Her 'Repeated Self-Induced Miscarriages' - Yale Daily News
• Abortion as Art - Museum of Hoaxes
Previously:
• Aliza Shvarts 'Abortion Art' Project a 'Creative Fiction,' Yale Says
In follow-up statements to the Yale Daily News Shvarts insisted that she really did inseminate herself with a syringe and took abortifacient herbs to induce bleeding, though she doesn't know whether she was ever actually pregnant.
"No one can say with 100-percent certainty that anything in the piece did or did not happen," Shvarts was quoted as saying, "because the nature of the piece is that it did not consist of certainties."
Neither, therefore, did this report. I will update you with further uncertainties as they develop.
Read more about it:
• Schvarts Disputes Yale's Claim - Yale Daily News
• Shvarts Explains Her 'Repeated Self-Induced Miscarriages' - Yale Daily News
• Abortion as Art - Museum of Hoaxes
Previously:
• Aliza Shvarts 'Abortion Art' Project a 'Creative Fiction,' Yale Says
Comments
This person needs to be put in a straight jacket and charged with crimes against humanity. Just my opinion. I am sorry Aliza but you need HELP! Don’t put anymore people through your charade. I am a mother to be and I talk with parents everyday about their losses. You do not have the right to mock humanity.
Somebody please lock this person up and throw away the key, Aliza is a nut cast.
I think she’s a genius, albeit an eccentric one. The people who got all freaked out (oblivious to far worse things that are the stock in trade of our society) are the real nut jobs.
Life finds a way. Humanity finds a way to kill it. Making a satire of this is art.
Her Mother should have had an abortion
This is the opposite of art, and it certainly isn’t satire. Swift would only stare in horror at the fact that people actually defend this self-indulgent bourgeois silliness.
Hope she gets cancer
Comment to #3. If you read her later interviews, she insists that this is true, that she actually did repeatedly insemenate herself and induce miscarrages(sp?). Thats at least a little disturbing. The school is also at fault for allowing her to use this as her senior project. Just my opinion.
Why are you all so sensitive. Its art, nothing else. Stop being sissies!
As a performance artist myself, i’ll say this.
I believe this to be a performance, but i wouldn’t call it art in the presence of people who haven’t studied the genre.
It’s a demonstration of political activism- a huge factor in the development of performance as a genre outside of “theatre”. But, because it is not theatre and does not rally against a specific political entity, it falls into the category of art by default.
I don’t think that performance on its own is “art”. I think that it’s just performance. In conceptual art, deception is a medium that artists use at free will. I think she’s lying about having actually had the abortions. She probably felt that she needed to in order to save the piece, because the administrator intervened so early on.
Experiencing the tale as a hoax initially is a totally different thing than experiencing the tale as truth, or contested truth.