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Ms. Carry Art

Filed under Art Reviews, Controversial Art

How would you feel about viewing Aliza Shvarts’ newest artistic creation? It’s a mixture of performance art, language arts and visual art; in this work she artificially inseminated herself and forced miscarriages upon herself, with abortifacient medication, not once –not twice; how about as many times in nine-months as she could following the following procedure. Using a syringe, between the 9th and 15th days of her menstrual cycle, she would artificially inseminate her cervix within 30 minutes of collecting sperm from donors. There is a very graphic account of this in her words as a Yale Daily News article.

Before I continue, if you don’t know who Aliza Shvarts is, it’s time you learned. Aliza is not just a senior in Davenport College, Yale, with awards for citizenship and leadership; she is also an acclaimed artist on many levels and is even regarded as “the first great conceptual artist of the internet age.” Her newest creation is intended to be a large cube suspended in the center of a room. The cube will be wrapped in hundreds of feet of plastic-wrap; smeared in between each layer of plastic will be blood from her self-induced miscarriages. Vaseline will be smeared with the blood to preserve it. Then a video will be projected onto all four sides of the cube showing her in a bathroom in the process of miscarrying her potential children. This was her senior project.

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