This is one of the more sad things I've experienced in a long time. What's most sad is that the student likely believes that she is thinking on some higher plane or is taking art to the next level when, in fact, she is being strikingly immature and is suffering from her own ignorance.

You would think that some art professor at Yale would have stepped in and said, "Seriously - you don't know what you're talking about. What you're doing is, frankly, stupid."

While I agree that art can be a medium for political discourse, this simply does not qualify. Part of me hopes that she's never able to reproduce because of what she's put her body through - but that isn't a very Godly way to react.

If, at some point, she comes to her senses, she will likely need many years of therapy to undo what she's done to herself - not to mention having to deal with the fact that she can't undo anything she's done to the dozens(?) of lives for the sake of her "art".

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This epitomizes the hubris and reality disconnect of today's society. That anyone could think such repeated murders could be "art" need therapy. I just...words can't describe. I mean...gah. It hurts.

Calling this a 'project,' as she does, makes far more sense than calling it 'art.' How can it possibly be 'art' or even 'Art' (note the capital)? If Art is merely self-expression, for pete, then taking the stairs at work is Art.

I just read about this on Jill Stanek's blog. I am so disturbed by this. I mean I read the abortion news every day and you get to a point where most things don't suprise you....but this one did. I just cannot imagine why a woman would do that to herself....

"This whole incident is so sleazy, so filthy, so degrading to everything decent and human it makes you ill just to think about it."

This was said by one of those who responded on the original website. The thing is, this act wasn't "degrading to everything human," it was an utterly human act. That is humanity at its most fallen. The same humanity that shouts from the rooftops the evils of abortion, but is completely unphased by poverty, disease, hunger, slavery, and violence. The humanity that shouts the importance of feeding the hungry and clothing the needy but then rejoices at the killing of the unborn. This act doesn't degrade humanity, its the result of an already degraded humanity.

To hear an account of such a thing and still to believe that humanity is progressing or evolving is utter foolishness.

I can't even bring myself to click on "here..." Whatever it is, calling it art is very, very heartbreaking.

I cursed when I read the story. Out loud. Not that one sin makes another sin OK, but that's how it wrenched me, when I read this story.

The Art world in universities is totally disconnected from the way real people think. I remember when an artist relative of mine, who himself would think things are art that you wouldn't, told me about a lady in his art school that did a project called "dead plant", where she lay in a sandbox naked during the artshow. That was her project. What passes as art nowadays is horrible, but excesses in that regard don't surprise me anymore.

But purposely getting yourself pregnant over and over, and purposefully killing your babies, over and over, and filming it as "art"?

I'm not sure the woman is sane. Really. Or perhaps as some of you implied, perhaps that's how far from "sanity" our society has gone. Maybe we're all collectively crazy.

"Miscarriage" is putting it kindly.

Serial killing makes more sense to me. I wrote about it too, not in depth, but I linked to the story. The horror is nearly universal.

To be cold-blooded about this for a moment, I'd say that this is ideal pro-life art. A pro-lifer couldn't actually do it in good conscience, of course, which makes it even better. So far (as you noted, Jared), pro-choicers generally seem to find this disgusting. Now they need to figure out why. Perhaps pro-lifers will make a compassionate, reasoned effort to help them do that.

I see what you're saying, Jonathan. I do hope we on the pro-life side can handle this correctly, as far as discussing with the pro-choice side.
That said, I still wish this had never happened. It's still hard for me to grasp someone committing so many murders.
Also, I refuse to refer to this serial killing "project" as Art.

I felt an uncommon rage when I read this, but in doing some more research it looks like this was a hoax (a very sick one): http://nysun.com/news/national/yale-students-art-project-creative-fiction

Disgusting.

Blake, thanks for the head's up.

From the article you linked:

Yale would not have permitted a project of the sort described in the student newspaper. "Had these acts been real, they would have violated basic ethical standards and raised serious mental and physical health concerns."

As if pretending to do this doesn't raise mental health concerns.

As someone who knows the hurt of a miscarried pregnancy, I find this sort of "performance art" incredibly offensive and hurtful.
I wonder if they would have allowed it if she was pretending to undergo concentration camp horrors.

So I get back on the net this evening to discover that the truth is not as the original report would have us believe. Still, even attempting to portray such a thing, whether real or not, is sick beyond words.

Well, I feel a lot better right now knowing that this girl didn't actually do all of these things, but I think that either Yale art students have too much time on their hands or this girl is really sick and needs help.

Or, perhaps, both.

This kind of thing is pervasive on elite campuses. There is no freedom of thought except the freedom granted people who have no moral compass to attack those who have managed to maintain a shred of decency. These are the places where, ostensibly, our nation's leaders are being trained for service to our country and humanity, but they are nothing more than cespools of depravity. This is also, by the way, the heritage of Barak H. Obama (who animatly supports partial birth abortion and who hangs out with this crowd that ruthlessly and relentlessly attacks Judeo-Christian American values).

Nowhere is religious persecution more apparent than at our nation’s universities. Unfortunately, I’m not sure how much longer the righteous blood of our nation’s founders will support this evil and permit these people to totally ignore the foundations of civilization to the destruction thereof. By the grace of God and by the efforts of millions of righteous men and women are these people at liberty to commit such reprehensible acts. The sheer audacity and stupidity of these people lies in the fact that they seem totally ignorant that their comfort, security and liberty to do such things flows from the very principles they attack.

that article said something about a girl wanting to impregnate herself with chimp sperm... thats sick...

ick and praying

Ah, here's what I was talking about:

Art, or not art, hoax, or no hoax, Shvarts’ project is a huge tragedy for the pro-choice movement in this country.

That, uh, last part is supposed to be italicized, cuz it ain't my words. Got the tags wrong.