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Article: The Art of Folly at Yale; -
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- May 3, 2008
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Four years at Yale costs $180,000. Here is how senior Aliza
Shvarts planned to conclude hers: The art major would repeatedly
artificially inseminate herself, then induce miscarriages, which she
would record on video. She would build a four-foot-wide plastic cube
and wrap it in layers of plastic. Between the layers would be
Vaseline mixed with blood from the miscarriages. She would hang the
cube at an exhibition and project video of the miscarriages onto
four of its sides.
"This piece," Shvarts wrote in the Yale Daily News, "is meant to
call into question the relationship between form and function as
they converge on the body. . . . It creates an ambiguity that
isolates the locus of ontology ...
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