I just an article about a Yale senior who is…
“artificially inseminating ‘as often as possible’ while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages.” Yup, in an attempt to start a dialogue about art and its relationship to the body, Shvarts is displaying plastic sheeting reportedly smeared with the uterine blood and tissue from her various miscarriages and projecting video of herself miscarrying into a bathtub. “I believe strongly that art should be a medium for politics and ideologies, not just a commodity,” Shvarts tells the Yale Daily News. “I think that I’m creating a project that lives up to the standard of what art is supposed to be.”
And the more I think about it, the more this girl pisses me off. You can’t just do something shocking and “edgy” and say, “It’s art; it’s a dialogue.” It’s not fucking art. Art is not wearing fringe-y boots and hurting your body.
If this girl thinks she is making art, then G.G. Allin is fucking John Lennon.
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ha! GG Allin. that’s pretty good.
[…] by the discussions I’ve seen on a few message boards and a conversation I just had with a friend of mine, all this piece has succeeded in doing is scandalizing people. Observers aren’t talking […]
The problem with declaring that something “isn’t fucking art” is that the next question is, “Well, what IS art?” And then you’re leaping onto a perpetual motion machine of subjectivity. The truth is, ANYTHING can be considered art if someone says it is. The argument is whether it’s good art or bad art. In this case, I’d say it’s bad art because the only discourse this project is going to start is surface level: Should somebody splattering uterine blood on a sheet and projecting footage of them miscarrying in a bathtub be considered art? Ms. Shvarts claims she wants to spark a discussion about the relationship between art and the human body, but ain’t nobody gonna be talking about that, believe me. Thus, Shvarts has failed to accomplish what she allegedly set out to do.
It’s the same reason why GG Allin’s career can ultimately be called a failure: He wanted to bring “danger” back to rock’n'roll, but his lasting legacy is that of a novelty act, mostly because he misinterpreted the original threat of rock music: America was afraid of rock’n'roll because of its social implications — it transcended racial divides and empowered youth in a way little else had up to that point in our country’s history, and it scared the status quo. Eating your own shit and beating up the audience was never what frightened anybody about rock’n'roll. It’s just dumb. Thus, Allin failed. But he still deserves to be called an artist.
Moron.
She was making an outrageous claim to demonstrate how stupid people are in believing anything they hear. Congratulations! You are stupid!
reminds me of something my cousin forwarded me… not sure if it’s true, but supposedly some guy found a homeless dog and hung it from a rope in an art gallery… then the patrons just walked around for days and watched it starve to death… and it was called “art.”
There’s my happy story for the week! Hope it’s not true…
basically, any tool who just does something politically or socially edgy and calls it art is usually a no talent bum.
Hoax or not, who’s really stupid? Those who “fall” for her gag… or the artist who does something completely lame and pretentious, just to prove how dumb we all are….
I think it’s a hoax that it’s a hoax. I induce baby material nightly exclusively for artistic expression.
yes, i’m an idiot, we’re all idiots…but she’s still the one wearing that high-waisted leopard print skirt, which is an atrocity in and of itself
@Eddie Pasternak
Oh yes. Anyone who won’t critique the horrific as art is surely lacking. I mean, hey, ethnic civil war is just an installation piece, eh?
Oh, what? That was disingenuous? I mean, this idiot’s dopey little attention stunt didn’t actually hurt anyone, though? It was just an “expression” or some such?
Yeah, that’s right. So it’s “art” for non-morons because it’s inane and inert.
Grow up.
Moron.
The problem is that anything can be art, as we have never found an objective yardstick that we all agree can measure artistic greatness.
Clearly, what she is doing is both uninspirational and designed to get column inches, and that’s the irony of it all. The more people take offense and denounce it, the more publicity and exposure the artist receives, which further validates any claim to it being art.
Tracey Emin anyone?