Beginning next Tuesday, [Yale art major Aliza] Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself “as often as possible” while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process. 

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Notice to Seniors:

This Friday is the final day for submitting your proposals to the Yale Senior Project Funding Committee.  Please fill out the application in full, and sign the final page. Be specific with your lists of materials you will need and the costs you expect to incur: proposals with insufficient detail will removed from consideration.  Below is a list of projects chosen for funding in the past, along with the amount of funding each received.

<> Daily Ipecac Ingestion: Results, Analysis, Implications. Media: graduated cylinders, microscope slides, one bathtub. (Sara Meier, Biochemistry; $230)
<> That SmArts. Room-sized canvases created by stubbing student’s big toe and recording the resulting RGB hue daily. (Matty Price, Art; $600)
<> Untitled. Implementing Mad Cow-infected brains as a painting medium. (Roland Washington, joint Art/Biology; $3000)
<> The Aesthetics of Gross. Video record of self eating nothing but hair and nail trimmings over a two-week period. (Bryan Eng, joint Drama/Art; $30)
<> Does Rubbing Oneself With Leeches Make One More or Less Attractive to Leeches? Inquiry into the pheromonal qualities of blood and cringing. (Esmerelda Whitfield, Biology; $75)
<> E.T. Go Death. Discovery of life on Mars; examination of effects of Napalm on aforementioned. (Seth Sarrochold, joint Astronomy/Chemistry; $4.3 billion)
<> Untitled. Covering self with honey, camping tentless in bear territory. Periodically shouting, “Bears are sissies!” Codification of the ethics of mauling. (Cameron Berrie, Philosophy; $750)
<> Spiciness Comparison: Who Is More Spicy, Thai Babies or Mexican Babies? Self-explanatory. (Anna McNeil, International Studies; $200,000)

Tags: art, yale, the aesthetics of gross, abortions