Monday, April 21, 2008
Yale to Cancel Controversial 'Abortion Art' Exhibit Unless Student Admits It's Fiction
FOXNews.com: "'In this case, we will not permit her to install the project unless she submits a clear and unambiguous written statement that her installation is a work of fiction: that she did not try to inseminate herself and induce miscarriages, and that no human blood will be physically displayed in her installation,' Yale College Dean Peter Salovey said in a statement released Monday."
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While I definitely don't believe in censorhsip, I do think there is a time and place for certain kinds of "contraversial" art. When you are part of an academic setting, the rules change, and I agree that the implications of this project go too far beyond the classroom for it to be appropriate. However, I definitely applaud her success at getting people talking about the art. I think that even if she doesn't eve exhibit this piece, she will have been successful at sparking discussion. I expect this project to have serious implications for the work of future students and the way in which people think about contraversial art, to what extent art can relate to our bodies, and how art can be used to engage ourselves in current events and issues.
I would be very, very pissed if someone told me my project had to be taken down/etc after my adviser and the department head had approved it. I'd be even more pissed if the university tried to make me admit that my art was a giant story. Does it really matter that this uses human blood? I doubt the girl had a miscarriage, according to the article, she was just using blood from her normal periods. Pretty good coincidence if she managed to align those two events.
Where are these faculty members' spines in this one? I guess the exhibit and the whole problem with university censorship isn't that important to them.. (Or it'll be hard for them to find another job if they bother standing up to the institution...)
This has to be a very difficult situation for everyone. As an artist, the last thing you want is for your ideas to be silenced due to something controversial. As such a well-established institution, I'm sure Yale doesn't want the bad press that would inevitably come from such an... interesting... exhibit.
This the smartest and yet dumbest publicity for this artist. First off, it's insane to go up against Yale especially when you are so close to graduating, and yet now she has a name. She's that crazy abortion artist. Did Yale not realize this publicity could be the only reason she would make such insane claims and they are now in fact feeding the stunt?
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