Comments on: abortion as art?

By: june

june — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:49:26 +0000

The one day poem piece is perfection. I’m not saying that you can or should take away the moral aspect of whats-her-face’s “art,” but she should be put on academic probation and sent to her room to rethink her major because she is just NOT getting it as an art major. (And clearly, first, she needs to, ya know, get professional psychological help….and in my opinion, repent.)

By: Chad

Chad — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:18:07 +0000

Poopy fart.

I choose poopy fart.

By: sharolyn

sharolyn — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:43:00 +0000

Chad, your response made me LOL because I was thinking that would be cool to do with any of the scriptures referencing light, such as I John: ” 5This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. 7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

I don’t mean to get all Janice Christian on you. You can pick a swear word in caps for the end.

By: Cerise

Cerise — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:40:44 +0000

Hey, not my fault your site is wiggy.

By: Chad

Chad — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:34:16 +0000

I think that “Art” would have benefitted from some profanity.

By: michael lee

michael lee — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:25:21 +0000

OK, ok, we get it Cerise. You like it. No need to go on and on.

By: Cerise

Cerise — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:20:12 +0000

[claps hands] Ooh, neat.

By: Cerise

Cerise — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:19:34 +0000

[claps hands] Oooh, neat.

By: Gretchen

Gretchen — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:34:30 +0000

Wow, that was really awesome.

By: michael lee

michael lee — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:04:20 +0000

now THIS is how you do installation art!

By: Daniel Semsen

Daniel Semsen — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:10:08 +0000

wow…this is really wacky…in a horrible, horrible way.

By: Cerise

Cerise — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:27:50 +0000

I’m going to weigh in – I’m heartened to see that at the end of the article PC just posted the link to, it says that people on both sides of the abortion discussion are pretty appalled. I think that yes, if you believe that abortion is wrongful killing of a human baby, this would be especially grieving and repugnant. But even people who don’t feel that way are weighing in, and I think that’s cool. Even they are saying – “wow, she’s being really, really cruel in the face of women who have lost a little one and feel anguish over it”. I personally believe (and I haven’t settled my own mind about abortion, so don’t think I’m going there) that she’s at worst committing multiple murders and calling it art and at BEST messing horribly with her body and with reproduction in general, which ought to be handled with kid gloves and a great deal of respect. And grossing everyone, EVERYONE out in the process. This goes way beyond Piss Christ in my opinion. Though I really didn’t have a problem with that exhibit, to be honest.

I think she’s being disingenuous at best, saying that what she’s doing isn’t meant to be provocative. Oh, REALLY. I agree that she’s got…issues is hardly the word for it… I mean, I’m still glad that we live in a place where she CAN do this sort of thing and not get locked up, I really am, but I think she’s getting way, WAY more attention than she deserves. I wish at least that she’d acknowledge the shock value factor. Her being all surprised at the reaction is just lame. I think that pisses me off the most.

Plus, the exhibit just sounds like 10 kinds of unsanitary.

By: PortcullisChain

PortcullisChain — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:36:19 +0000

Well, maybe she really is that insane. Shvarts (I can’t get Mel Brooks voice out of my head), is calling the University a liar. http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24528
-PC

By: june

june — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:57:12 +0000

“The entire project is an art piece, a creative fiction designed to draw attention to the ambiguity surrounding form and function of a woman’s body.”

Performance art tends to chap my hide. If the above was really her artistic goal, she really, really, really deserves an F. Having never taken a class in performance art (I assume there are classes) I wonder about how students are graded.

And here’s a little tip to art students everywhere: if ambiguity is your goal, don’t start with the female body. There must be a big chunk of that sentence that was edited out…”the ambiguity of ???? surrounding form and function of a woman’s body”…because I’m not sure there is much of anything that could be more UNambiguous than a woman’s body. Duh.

By: Portcullischain

Portcullischain — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:43:20 +0000

Chad,
But I didn’t have any information on her flatulence, so hat tip to you. ;)
-PC

By: Chad

Chad — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:40:36 +0000

Oops… PC was already on this. Sorry…

By: Chad

Chad — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:39:22 +0000

Turns out…

It’s all part of the show, everyone, it’s all part of the show.

She still can’t speak worth a fart.

By: june

june — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:25:55 +0000

Mike,
It says that the art world is twisted beyond belief. Recently, we had dinner with a fascinating couple: she is my son’s piano teacher (an all-around accomplished musician and clinician) and he is either a psychiatrist or a psychologist (and I’m REALLY sorry to be so lame about not knowing). Anyway, he was telling us that he can hardly stand to sit through a sermon and doesn’t even like the word “Christian” any more due to all he has heard from his Christian clients/patients over the years. I think that Christians who are visual artists may get to a similar point about the term “artist.” I suppose it’s not surprising, in a way, that the visual arts routinely fall prey to the worst of the human condition…it makes me wonder if God were to make humans again if he do it minus the visual part.

I know I don’t make a lot of sense. I skipped most of my art major senior seminar class. It shows. They still let me graduate…cuz they felt sorry for me. (For reals.)

By: michael lee

michael lee — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:09:07 +0000

So … next question. What does it say about the state of the art world, and the state of academia, that this seems so entirely plausible?

By: PortcullisChain

PortcullisChain — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:41:38 +0000

Yale says shame on us for believe such a wacky story.
michellemalkin.com/2008/04/17/yale-says-its-artistic-prodigy-was-just-engaging-in-performance-art/