hi. oh, did you know yalies suck?

i'm sure by that now you've heard of that yale student (does anything good come from this institution?), aliza s'farts, who allegedly impregnated herself multiple times only to induce miscarriages so as to use the blood in these miscarriages in a "daring, edgy" piece of performance art and, hopefully, open up a "dialogue about art and human body."  at first, it was, like, for real.  then, not really. then, no, it really is real*.  then, like, her youtubes vid was totes yanked.  then, like, my brain revolted and stabbed my cranium w/ a unified bolt of synapses.  quoth s'farts:

"I hope it inspires some sort of discourse . . . Sure, some people will be upset with the message and will not agree with it, but it's not the intention of the piece to scandalize anyone."

of course, this last piece is total horseshit. she absolutely wanted to scandalize people, which, of course, she did. i have to be honest w/ you, when something like this comes down the pike and enters into the collective pop culture consciousness, my "scandalize" meter automatically flatlines: i just can't be bothered to be annoyed at something so obviously meant to garner someone desperately coveted attention. because that's what this is about, is it not? aliza s'farts and her desperate, gushing need for attention? well, here it is. no, what really annoyed me about s'farts is her statement on politics and art, so endemic amongst twentysomething art students. quoth:

"I believe strongly that art should be a medium for politics and ideologies, not just a commodity . . . I think that I'm creating a project that lives up to the standard of what art is supposed to be."

wrong, wrong, and bad wrong. art and politics do not mix. the end. sorry to be absolutist about this, b/c i know absolutism is always wrong** but art is about nuance, grey areas, complexity, ambiguity; politics is none of these things. politics is entertainment and cheap-shot sloganeering. there was nothing artful about what s'farts did. it was a dog and pony show, a five sentence wikipedia entry, only to grow and expand on account of vandals. what she did was political, yes, but not artistic.

and, please, this individual is not "mentally ill" and does not need "help." she is yet another entitled, narcissistic tool in an endless line of many, viciously clawing for her 15 minutes. so, again, here it is. and now if you'll excuse me, i'm going to get a headstart on the weekend drunkery; yay me for contributing to this mess and being a part of the problem.


*no one knows for certain if the stuff really happened, man, b/c there are no such things as certainties, man, except for, like, the assertion that there are no certainties. man.
**c'mon, that's funny