I am happy that I did not show outrage in my comments which mirrored Vincenzo Kolchak’s certainty that the artist was only foolin.’
Shvarts, Yale clash over project
By Zachary Abrahamson, Thomas Kaplan and Martine Powers
Aliza Shvarts ’08 was never impregnated. She never miscarried. The sweeping outrage on blogs across the country was apparently for naught — at least according to the University.
“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,” Yale spokeswoman Helaine Klasky said in a written statement Thursday afternoon.
But in interviews — and through the display of evidence — Thursday night, Shvarts stuck to her original story: Yale, she says, is turning its back on her in the face of overwhelming media pressure.
*
In her studio on Thursday, art major Aliza Shvarts ’08 —
whose senior project ignited an uproar on campus
and across the country — shared footage that she
says shows her inducing miscarriages and bleeding into a cup.
*
Images: (Elevator scene-The Shining) via faculty.washington.edu; (Elsa Lancaster-Bride of Frankenstein) img5.allocine.fr via screenrush.co.uk; (Yale sweatshirt) via images.footballfanatics.com;(Television) via technofile.com