A Conversation with Aliza Shvarts∗.

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  • Author(s): Apter, Emily
  • Source:
    October. Spring2021, Issue 176, p85-110. 27p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      Shvarts, Aliza; Art exhibitions; 21st century art; Apter, Emily; Feminism; Queer theory
    • Abstract:
      Aliza Shvarts first came to widespread attention when her Untitled [Senior Thesis] (2008), consisting of a yearlong performance of self-induced miscarriages, was declared a "fiction" by Yale University and censored from public exhibition. That controversial work was on view for the first time in New York as part of her 2020 exhibition Purported at Art in General. It frames the areas of inquiry she has continued to explore: how the body means and matters and how the subject consents and dissents. In this in-depth conversation, Emily Apter and Aliza Shvarts discuss the exhibition and a wide range of topics relevant to contemporary feminist practice and thought: the genealogy of citation; the uses of theory; speech action; rape kits; nonconsensual collaboration; queer kinship; and memes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]