Monday, 27 April 2015

SHOCKING ! ! ! ! Lecturer shows first-year students her vagina duting class

 This is just too weird...I mean...very WEIRD !!!! A university lecturer has come under fire for screening a graphic video of her vagina to a class of shocked first-year students, UK student news website The Tab reports.

Lauren Barri-Holstein, actress and creator of theatre company The Famous, displayed clips from her “feminist performance art” stage production Splat! to her drama class at Queen Mary University last month.


The video depicted Ms Barri-Holstein inserting a knife handle into her vagina and throwing tomatoes at the blade, giving birth to a plastic Bambi figurine, urinating on stage, and even simulating masturbation with a tampon while spraying fake blood onto the face of another actress.

She reportedly told students the work of art was relevant to her teaching module, ‘Theatre and its Others’, but some were left scarred and questioned her judgment.
“It was surreal. I honestly didn’t know how to react,” one student told The Tab. “I don’t think I’ll ever be able to look her in the eye in person, it’s just weird.
“It’s not even the fact we saw her lady parts, it’s the fact I literally have no idea how the clip was in any way related to this module. It was just so extreme and I don’t understand why it was in any way necessary.”

However, the university defended Ms Barri-Holstein. A Queen Mary spokesperson told The Tab no complaints had been made regarding the lecture.
“Drama students at Queen Mary University of London interact with and study a huge range of performance practice, from contemporary performance to adaptations of Jane Austen,” the university said in a statement.

“The work in question was originally shown as part of a significant London performance festival. Some of this work is challenging, and it is critical we don’t shy away from that.”

And other students defended their teacher. First-year drama student Anna Dean said: “Maybe people who have had issues with Lauren’s work haven’t actually thought much about why.

“I think with work like Lauren’s, the more shocking you find it, the more you need to see it. Perhaps that’s why people don’t want to look or critically engage, because it’s threatening something they didn’t think could be threatened.”
In a tongue-in-cheek review of the performance, The Tab art critic Matt McDonald said: “The trope of the female nude is as old as art itself.

“Barri-Holstein’s performance is the latest of many pieces which show us something about the genesis of humanity. In some ways, it’s a profound Madonna and Child work. In others, it’s a leftie with her rat out.”

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