A performance artist is planning a month-long piece on her pregnancy that she hopes will end with her delivering the baby before an audience at a Brooklyn art gallery.
"The Birth of Baby X" is an exhibit from Brooklyn artist Marni Kotak, and she is setting up a birthing room at the Microscope Gallery in Bushwick, equipped with a bed, an inflatable birthing pool, a shower and a rocking chair.
With the baby's due-date uncertain, the gallery is putting together a list of visitors to notify when she goes into labor.
Kotak will be surrounded by an audience, but will also be supported by a midwife, a doula, and her husband, according to the New York Postt.
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She told the paper that she sees human life as "the most profound work of art," and she is "no more worried than I would be if I were having the baby at home or in a hospital."
The performance begins Saturday, with an exhibit featuring a variety of art related to her pregnancy.
Kotak says she plans to follow up after the birth of her baby -- whose sex is unknown -- with an exhibit called "Raising Baby X", which the gallery says she will "re-contextualize the everyday act of raising a child into a work of performance art."
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