Artist Will Deliver Baby as Performance Art

This month Brooklyn artist Marni Kotak will deliver her first child in a gallery as a work of art.

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The Birth of Baby X is a solo exhibition at Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn. The artist also plans an ongoing performance art project, Raising Baby X: The First Year that “re-contextualizes the everyday act of raising a child as a work of art.” The artist hopes “that people will see that human life itself is the most profound work of art, and that therefore giving birth, the greatest expression of life, is the highest form of art.”
When WIP volunteer Sabrina Brett overheard this story on the BBC’s newshour, her intial reaction was shock but then while listening to Kotak’s husband Jason Bell’s description of the performance and its vision, her interest was piqued.
Is “The Birth of Baby X” performance art at its very best or its very worst?