Digg thisToday brought a development in the Aliza Shvarts abortion art controversy.
Yale is so over the ambiguity surrounding the art major’s senior thesis and wants a clear answer about what she did and whether her art project contains real human blood:
In the normal course of events, Ms. Shvarts’s project would be installed at the School of Art for critique and discussion with a committee of faculty. In this case, we will not permit her to install the project unless she submits a clear and unambiguous written statement that her installation is a work of fiction: that she did not try to inseminate herself and induce miscarriages, and that no human blood will be physically displayed in her installation.
I’m assuming she’s not going to be happy about this, especially as she defended the shocking work by explaining “the nature of the piece is that it did not consist of certainties.”
And I doubt she’ll call Yale’s bluff, because despite her protestations that she didn’t think people would react so strongly to it, she must be enjoying the national attention of which most established artists can only dream.
Still, getting her to be explicit about her actions will go a long way toward discrediting it as a hoax (which I think most people are hoping, regardless of their opinions on abortion) or proving that she is certifiably crazy.
A pathetically shallow response to a pathetic attempt to garner attention at the expense of human decency. Yale has a major public relations problem, how to appear to care (to people of integrity) without giving the impression that they give a sh-t (to people who believe this is “art”). Lots of luck……don’t you think it is time to take a stand? Give off the dime and stand for something, Yale.
Nice of Yale to finally step up to the plate and publicly demand an “unambiguous” answer from this ridiculously ambiguous art student that represents the school while she’s there. But I agree with Ben and am calling “shenanigans” on their too-little-too-late posturings as well.
Ms. Serious Artist has a serious Borderline Personality Order. She is probably loving this attention. Do I think it is a hoax? Not at all. I think she probably did a half ass job of inseminating herself but has some bizarre love for her own bodily fluids. All I have to say is, ignore her and she will crawl under a rock. We can hope.