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--- Quote ---"[Shvarts' exhibit] turns what is a serious decision for women into an absurdism," Rahman said. "It discounts the gravity of the situation that is abortion."
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What she said. I honestly don't know why anyone would willingly induce multiple miscarriages. I'm pro-choice, but what she did is pretty disgusting to me and also pretty scary, because she put her life at risk by doing it however many times she did.
Narr:
I had just been linked that abortion story in an IRC channel I frequent.
That's utterly disgusting. Pro-life or pro-choice, it's still utter garbage in terms of being "art." As someone in the IRC channel said, it's like claiming serial murder is art.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: Linds on 17 Apr 2008, 11:26 ---because she put her life at risk by doing it however many times she did.
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And that's why it's really good art.
a pack of wolves:
It's nothing like claiming serial murder is art unless you're pro-life, which she very obviously isn't. Neither am I, so this doesn't offend me in the slightest.
I actually rather like the idea of this piece, I'd be interested to see it. It raises questions about what a person's body can be used for and whether or not we have the right to censure someone for actions taken upon themselves. Personally I'd say she's perfectly within her rights to do whatever she wishes with her own body, and I like the fact that this piece is entering into that dialogue. It's doing it in a way obviously designed to cause controversy but I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with that. Look at Bob Flanagan, he was hardly subtle but there was a lot of depth to what he did.
Lines:
I don't see it as good art. I'm glad she wanted to spark conversation between art and the human body, but I think she was severely lacking in how her project addressed abortion. In this aspect and also from that article, she didn't seem to realize this and try to attempt to defend that part of her work. (She may have at the forum, but I don't know this as I wasn't there, so I can only base this off of the article.) And the idea of walking into a gallery and seeing the videos and the sculpture and wanting to vomit and/or cry do not help me appreciate it. She may be living up to her standard of art, but I don't share her opinion in the slightest.
Also, an artist not caring about their health is kind of silly. We work around hazardous and poisonous materials everyday and preventing accidents is kind of important. (My current number ones are good ventilation and not catching on fire.) Hooray for art being number one, but you can't make art when you're dead.
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