Student claims to have induced as many miscarriages as possible for "art"
Thursday, April 17th, 2008 - 4:24pm
Saw this on Fark. The story is this "art" student artificially inseminated herself as often as possible, then took herbal drugs that caused her to miscarry. She filmed the miscarriages and smeared the... results... on plastic sheets.
Honestly, this sounds like a hoax to me. At least I really hope it is.
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F*ck... if that`s true.. I mean, it makes me all dizzy even when imagining someone thinking this up as a hoax..
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That is one seriously sick individual.
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I never get art.
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I'm with Staats. Whatever happened to just using your imagination and painting pictures of miscarriages like artists used to do in the good old days? Norman Rockwell used to do like 3 illustrations of miscarriages a month for the Saturday Evening Post, and people loved him for it.
I'm also calling BS, primarily because I don't think it's as simple as taking a few herbs to cause a miscarriage without any other negative effects.
Well it depends upon what you consider a miscarriage... and yes it can be that simple anything that effectively kills the baby will generally cause a miscarriage, and honestly if you want to define it broadly enough, the morning after pill also causes miscarriage (the one that prevents the fertilized egg from attaching to the wall).
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I object to people resorting this when they could just as well showcase a messy bed or a dog cut in half! Honestly, where's the creativity?
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It wouldn't surprise me if there are herbs that can trigger a miscarriage. I just doubt that there's a way to do it safely or reliably.
The label "art" can be applied to anything, including the results of mental illness. And even the mentally ill can produce great art. But in this case? I think she's a very troubled individual.
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The story's been repudiated.
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I called it! I'm a genius!
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This story did strike me as way too conveniently inkeeping with the Fox Nuisance portfolio to be for real.
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It's the press release that's the art piece. Or part of it, anyway. I thought it was a quite clever one, really.
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Yeah, the link has already been updated to reflect hoax.
Why am I tempted to treat "artists" like Britain handled criminals. Pick some island, send them all, and let them be "artsy" there. I don't mean painters, sculptors, writers, etc. I mean "artists", you know, people like this.
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I think this girl got exactly what she wanted, her 15 minutes of fame. Hoax or not, I still think she's disturbed.
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We're just not sophisticated enough to "get" her "art".
Thank goodness.
Maybe I'll yell fire in a crowded theater and say it was designed to draw attention to the power that a single word can have.
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I know it's supposedly a hoax, but...
Here's a proposal: Before anyone like this person is taken seriously, make sure she takes a painting, writing, sculpting, acting, dancing or music test, something that proves she is indeed an accomplished artist at one of the major recognized arts.
Let her prove she is awesome at a classical art before she calls herself an Artíste.
Otherwise, she is just an attention whore, and the media is giving her all that she wants.
Artists like Picasso or Dalí earned the right to draw and create however the f*ck they wanted because they had the technique down when they were 12 years old. This person with the miscarriages? Just an idiot. Same with the dude that did Piss Christ, and the guy that let a dog starve to death, and the dorks with the toilets in the museum. Because as far as I know, doing creepy stuff you think up while you're taking lsd is not a recognized art.
I think the hippies got too carried away with the "Yeah, art is subjective and it's all about how it makes you feel man", and now we have this crap, and we don't have an equivalent of Pollock or Dalí for our times.
edit: Yeah, I guess this sort of bothers me, I'm not against abortion but this is just crappy.
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