Abortion Art--HOORAY!

[Elok]

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/schoolzone/archives/136783.asp

Read about this in the WaPo today. First she says she did it, then that she faked it, and now, apparently, that she actually did it but can't be sure she was preggers. Artificial insemination costs money, of course, but who knows what a Yale art major considers a wise investment? The reality of the exhibit is of secondary concern to me, given the number of abortions in America every day.

What I wonder is, what's up with this chick? Was she looking for notoriety or a book deal, or did she live in enough of a bubble to think this would be just another weird art project? Does she already have a plan to check her mail for letter bombs and track down all the death threats she might get? Most of all, I wonder: WTF?

Explanation for those who can't be arsed to read: this Yale art student supposedly spent several months getting artificially inseminated while taking abortifacients, and turning the resulting miscarriages into material for an art project (including, apparently, a plastic cube full of blood and vaseline, plus some video footage).

EDIT: http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24559

Linked to in the article, but I thought I'd direct-link too. It's WTF-tastic. She's a PoMo, of course...

[Q Classic]

The answer, of course, is that the girl needs psychological help.

[Whoha]

If I could find a picture I'm sure I'd be grossed out, but one wasn't available.

[Jon Miller]

JM

[SlowwHand]

A guy was just speaking of this to me earlier here at work. I'm assuming it's the same thing. I'm not clicking the link.

[Elok]

It doesn't contain pictures of the "art," just her explanation of the process and the deranged reasoning behind it. It's the best argument against allowing postmodernism to continue its existence since the Sokal affair.

[SlowwHand]

And she had it cleared by her instructor or whomever beforehand. There's a person right there that needs to be looking for a new job, wanting to or not. Disgusting.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Re: Abortion Art--HOORAY!

Originally posted by Elok
She's a PoMo, of course...

PoMo

[Jaguar]

The school has been going WTFbonkers over this. Pretty much everyone read the article yesterday and totally went "WTF." Then administration said it was a hoax, but oddly, the News didn't put any sort of retraction on its website. Then I heard from a friend who works there that they had, erm, "evidence" that it wasn't a hoax. :vomit:

[DaShi]

Didn't some MIT kid wear some electronics around her kneck at an airport in order to make a scene a while back?

[Kuciwalker]

Not quite comparable, DaShi.

[DaShi]

Good, because that wasn't my intent.

[Jaguar]

If this is a hoax, I think this girl and the MIT kid are pretty comparable, although the MIT kid is probably stupider because that's obviously going to get you arrested.

If this isn't a hoax...

[TCO]

What she should have done instead was got a little kid killed it and made some art out of it's body. made it up like it was a cdharade and than showed it was true. Just like that Hitchcock movie, THE ROPE. Yeah!

[DaShi]

Didn't someone eat a baby on British TV once? Why do I know all this?