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...recently, shock-art has had a little extra spice added. In their thirst for authenticity, artists are increasingly trying to bring real acts of cruelty and horror into the art gallery—Shvarts?? miscarriage extravaganza is just one example. In Nicaragua, Costa Rican artist Guillermo Habacuc Vargas found himself a stray dog, tied it up in the corner without food or water, and let visitors watch it die (though there remains speculation over whether the dog was removed before it actually expired...
...becoming the inferior “entertainment”—indeed the boundary between the two is often blurry. The important distinction is in the degree and subtlety of thought involved, both that which goes into the creative product and that which it provokes. The stupidity of Shvarts?? and others’ projects stems from the sense that the pure, ugly spectacle is all that there is to be had here. We might as well attend a Victorian freak show or circus for all the stimulation such displays will supply...
...potential for all sorts of newfangled dead baby jokes is the question of why anyone would even begin to take this girl seriously. Over the past two weeks, the Aliza Shvarts story has been picked up by a number of national media outlets. This coverage tends to presume that Shvarts??s project was remotely academic, which it was not.That Shvarts??s abortion adventure has been awarded this sort of earnest attention represents our biggest problem. In the academy, there has been such a rush to demonstrate a collective commitment to sociopolitical progressivism?...
...morning. According to the artist’s statement, Shvarts used a needle-less syringe to artificially inseminate herself, and then took abortifacient drugs to induce bleeding. She said she repeated this over the course of nine months, documenting the process by video and preserving the blood. Hours after Shvarts?? press release, Yale University issued a statement calling her entire piece a “creative fiction.” The university alleges that before beginning her project, Shvarts had agreed to refrain from actually inseminating herself. In response, Shvarts defended her claim, calling the university?...
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