WHEN DOES ART GO TOO FAR?

A student at Yale named Aliza Shvarts has taken to artificially inseminating herself for nine months and aborting the growing fetus. She has craftily thrown in some plastic sheeting covered in blood, taken a video of herself miscarrying in a bathtub and labeled it art.

Shvarts is claiming the project is meant to "start a dialogue about art and its relationship to the body," an old as hell topic (please see: every performance artist ever) and that she is "creating a project that lives up to the standard of what art is supposed to be."

But is it? This behavior seems extreme and has people understandably upset on both conservative and liberal sides. Right wingers believe this is the kind of gross irresponsibility that all women will use when purchasing the Plan B pill over the counter thus adding fuel to their argument against its availability. Left wingers see it as setting back the pro-choice agenda. Both feel its insensitivity to couples who struggle with fertility problems and the abhorrent way it casts-away value for human life.

When does art become an acting out of a psychosis? When you hurt other people or it involves cruelty? Where is the line and what are the repercussions?

Another example of this Guillermo "Habacuc" Vargas, who tied up a dog and starved it while he played the Sandinista anthem backwards and set 175 pieces of crack cocaine alight in a massive incense burner. The clip is below and it is disgusting and difficult to watch. Over a million people have signed a petition to stop him. Click here to do the same.