Yale student abortion art controversy

Yale student abortion art controversy

Yale University art student Aliza Shvarts caused major controversy in 2008 for her proposed senior performance art project.

Initial reports

On April 17, 2008, the "Yale Daily News" printed an article detailing the process by which Shvarts reportedly inseminated herself artificially as many times as possible over the course of nine months, during which she also induced abortions using abortifacient drugs. The proposed exhibition of the project was to feature video recordings of the forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process. [] Prior to studying at Yale, Shvarts was a student at the Buckley School in Los Angeles, where she won an award for "good leadership and good citizenship". [cite news |first=Tom |last=Leonard |title=Abortion art a hoax, claims university |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1895884/Abortion-art-a-hoax%2C-claims-university.html |work=The Telegraph |publisher=Telegraph Media Group Limited 2008 |date=2008-04-21 |accessdate=2008-04-30 ] Feminist political commentator Amanda Marcotte praised Shvarts because she "managed to demonstrate the logic that drives things like blood libels and witch hunts, where a group believes the impossible because it confirms their irrational hatred for a person they've turned into The Other." [cite web
url=http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2008/04/21/a-for-abortion-art
title=A+ for Abortion Art
publisher=RH Reality Check
accessdate=2008-04-22
last=Marcotte
first=Amanda
authorlink=Amanda Marcotte] Shvart's announcement of the art project was hailed by science fiction author Charles Stross as the "most inspired publicity-stunt debut in the art world since Damien Hirst." [cite web |url=http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010154.html |title=Newsweek Invents An Alarming Trend |accessdate=2008-05-01 |last=Stross |first=Charlie |authorlink=Charlie Stross |date=2008-04-17 |work=Making Light ] Warren Ellis concurred, claiming that Shvarts "might be the first “great” conceptual artist of the internet age."cite web |url=http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=5840 |title=The Aliza Shvarts Thing |accessdate=2008-04-30 |last=Ellis |first=Warren |authorlink=Warren Ellis |date=2008-04-17 |work=WarrenEllis.com ]

References

External links

* [http://www.alizashvarts.com/ Aliza Shvarts' web site]
* [http://www.yaledailynews.com/photos/view/11387 Image of Shvarts at work on the 2008 project]
* " [http://my1stperiod.com/2064/2106.html The Ming Period] " - an autobiographical account of Shvarts first period


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