if you are not too busy and in NYC this weekend...

[FoBoT]

you might want to check this out

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nat...plans-to-have-her-baby-in-an-art-gallery.html

Marni Kotak, who is 36 and eight months pregnant, is planning to go through the birth of her first child in front of an audience in an art gallery in the Bushwick neighborhood. The gallery has installed a shower and a refrigerator and already has about 15 people signed up to watch.

Please Note: for the exhibit, Microscope will extend our regular hours to 7 days a week from 11am-6pm until the birth has occurred.

http://www.microscopegallery.com/?page_id=1978

 

[NikolaeVarius]

No, its not art.

 

[amdhunter]

Ugh. Maybe if she were prettier - who wants to see that give birth?

 

[uclaLabrat]

There's a special kind of crazy in the water over here.

 

[Hawkes505]

I've already watched documentaries of mothers giving birth and it was nothing I'd want to see again, videotaped or live. D:

 

[FoBoT]

... it was nothing I'd want to see again, videotaped or live. D:

but it is art


in an ART gallery

by an ARTIST

 

[tboo]

Is the spaghettio girl going to be the opening act?

 

[darkxshade]

I'll be taking a piss into jar at the art gallery across the street for half the price. Come watch me instead. Multiple showing available.

 

[SandEagle]

when my kid was born, i just stared aimlessly at the ceiing and whistled. most agonizing time of my life, whew!

 

[SandEagle]

but it is art


in an ART gallery

by an ARTIST

would you take a child to see it? no? then its not art.

 

[SandEagle]

art has to be safe for all ages

 

[Skitzer]

I've seen both my kids born. Not for the squeamish.
Personally I believe that birthing is a kind of private affair. But whatever trips your trigger.

 

[darkxshade]

art has to be safe for all ages

music & movies is art and they are rated for ages

 

[SlitheryDee]

I'll pass. Children are beautiful things. The act of squirting them out into the world is not.

 

[FoBoT]

would you take a child to see it? no? then its not art.

the internet said it is art
can't you read

 

[Born2bwire]

Kotak will move onto another performance titled "Raising Baby X" in which she "re-contextualizes the everyday act of raising a child into a work of performance art..."

Holy shit. I never thought people actually said this kind of crap.

 

[SandEagle]

Ugh. Maybe if she were prettier - who wants to see that give birth?

even if it was jessica alba shooting thAT thing out, i wouldnt want to see it. gross. one of the reasons i decided not to be a doctor

 

[actuarial]

art has to be safe for all ages

And the pussification of America continues.

 

[IcePickFreak]

And the pussification of America continues.

Quite literally in this case. :hmm: :awe: D:

 

[Lifted]

Doing this during flu season is brilliant. I didn't see anything stating this would be happening behind glass, though I hope they just left that part out.

 

[SandEagle]

And the pussification of America continues.

oh the irony. an actuary talking about pussification.

 

[IcePickFreak]

Doing this during flu season is brilliant. I didn't see anything stating this would be happening behind glass, though I hope they just left that part out.

I think they're just doing like Gallagher did and giving the front row some plastic for cover.

 

[D1gger]

I didn't actually watch my children being born. I was in the room, holding my wife's hand and giving her support, but I did not look, especially as the first one was by c-section.

 

[nanette1985]

Considering how many people were in the room when I gave birth - husband, doctors, nurses, orderlies, aides, and god knows who else - I may as well have charged admission.

I didn't watch. I was too busy pushing the little devils out. Ick.

 

[FoBoT]

I didn't actually watch my children being born. I was in the room, holding my wife's hand and giving her support, but I did not look, especially as the first one was by c-section.

same. both mine were cut out. i didn't look. wouldn't have looked if not C-section as i faint at the sight of blood