最震撼的表演：英國表演藝術家欲在舞臺分娩

A pregnant performance artist is planning to have her baby in an art gallery in front of an audience, as part of a work about childbirth。

Marni Kotak will spend the next five weeks at the Microscope gallery in Bushwick, New York until the baby, her first, comes。

Visitors to the performance called "The Birth of Baby X" are warned the baby could be born at any moment。

Miss Kotak says that giving birth is the highest form of art。

She told the New York Post: "I hope that people will see that human life is the most profound work of art, and that therefore giving birth, the greatest expression of life is the highest form of art."

Miss Kotak, 36, who has already staged re-enactments of other real life incidents including her own birth and losing her virginity as part of her art says that she is no more worried about giving birth in public than any mother。

"I wouldn't say that I am scared to do this, because I have a good support team: my midwife, doula and wonderful husband", she said。

"Of course, I am a bit nervous about the whole process of giving birth and having a child, and like every mother, I am hoping that everything goes smoothly."

Miss Kotak is not sure of the sex of her baby。

The gallery says Kotak is continuing to present "her life experiences as works of art, works in which she strives to avoid the spectacle often involved in performance art to reach what is real."

Her next work called "Raising Baby X" will attempt to turn the act of bringing up a child into art。據英國《每日郵報》10月8日報道，一名懷孕的表演藝術家打算在藝術館內觀衆面前誕下自己的孩子，她把這作爲她有關分娩的作品的一部分。

瑪尼·科塔克接下來的五個星期都會呆在紐約市布希威克區(Bushwick)的顯微藝術館，直到她的第一個孩子降生。

來觀看這場名爲“X寶貝誕生記”("The Birth of Baby X")的觀衆被告知，嬰兒隨時可能出生。

科塔克小姐聲稱，分娩是藝術的最高形式。

她告訴《紐約郵報》的記者：“我希望人們能明白人類生命是最深刻的藝術作品，因此，分娩這種生命最偉大的體現方式，可以說是藝術的最高形式。”

科塔克小姐現年36歲，已經在舞臺上重演過其他多種真實的生命體驗，包括她自己的出生以及失去童貞的過程，她將這作爲藝術的組成部分，她說，她和其她任何一個母親一樣，並不擔心在公衆面前分娩。

她說：“我不會對此感到恐懼的，因爲我有堅強的後盾：我的助產士，臨產特護以及我親愛的丈夫。”

“當然了，對於整個分娩產子的過程我還是有一點兒緊張，和每一個母親一樣，我希望能夠一切順利。”

科塔克小姐還不能確定孩子的性別。

藝術館工作人員說，科塔克是在不斷將“她的生命體驗作爲藝術作品呈現出來，在作品中，她努力避免表演時的那種刻意展示，而力圖呈現出什麼是真實。”

她的下一部作品名爲“撫養X寶貝”，試圖將撫養孩子的過程轉化成藝術形式。