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Updated: Saturday, September 6, 2008 at 8:59pm

All the world’s a … performance-art show?

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I Zink Therefore I Am
Published Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Last Friday, the News ran a story about Aliza Shvarts’ senior art project. For her project, Shvarts claims to have inseminated herself repeatedly and then used herbal drugs to induce miscarriages, the video of which she hoped to project onto a plastic cube smeared with a mixture of Vaseline and miscarriage blood. This has generated controversy.
#1 By Columbian (Unregistered User) 7:58am on April 23, 2008

Actually, I don't care about any of the 'ambiguity'.

I am disappointed at the REALITY of academic standards at a peer institution falling to base levels. What does it say about Yale University that this whole project - performance art or not - is actually being considered for academic credit. There is no proof that Shvarts gave more than 10-15 minutes worth of effort to her project. This surely cannot be something which qualifies someone for satisfactory completion of a senior thesis.

If Yale does grant Miss Shvarts the rights and privileges pertaining to a degree from Yale College, all graduates from four-year liberal arts colleges are all debased.

There is no ambiguity there.

#2 By anon (Unregistered User) 12:28pm on April 23, 2008

I applaud you - first genuinely humorous response to this controversy I've read.

#3 By OB WAN (Unregistered User) 2:53pm on April 23, 2008

Bravo, young Jedi, on exposing the Dark Side of the Shvartz. Oops, gotta go. My Wookie is making art on the carpet...

#4 By (Anonymous) 5:03pm on April 23, 2008

haha someone (#1) didn't get into their first-choice college. Hey Columbian, is learning to recognize satire not part of the Core Curriculum?

#5 By so tired of controversy (Unregistered User) 8:07pm on April 23, 2008

thanks for making me laugh

#6 By Frank Krasicki (Unregistered User) 8:18pm on April 23, 2008

Yeah. There's no "brilliant ambiguity" here.

My disappointment is that Tale claims "that Shvarts would “deliberately lie to the press in the name of art.”

Undergraduates in danger of failing their senior project have lots of reasons to lie. Please leave art out of the conversation.

#7 By Anonymous C. 9:00pm on April 23, 2008

Michael Zink's satire is very often trite or overdone, but this column is a breath of fresh air in the midst of this controversy.

#8 By (Anonymous) 8:34am on April 24, 2008

Wookiee.

Two e's.

Seriously.

#9 By ayla (Unregistered User) 5:21am on May 28, 2008

thanks for making me laugh.

you made my day.

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