NYC artist plans birth as performance art
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The bedroom is brightly decorated with ocean blue walls, family pictures and photo-imprinted pillows and blankets of the mother-to-be. An inflatable birthing pool and air mattress for the midwife and doula lie near the bed. A soundtrack of the ocean plays nonstop.
Marni Kotak has created a cozy environment for the birth of her first child. But the bedroom is not in her home. It is in a Brooklyn art gallery.
The 36-year-old Kotak is a performance artist who has created a home-birth center at the Microscope Gallery where she plans to deliver her baby as a work of art sometime in the next few weeks.
The gallery has extended the days it is open to all seven days a week so Kotak - as part of the project - can develop a rapport with members of the public who come to see "The Birth of Baby X."
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Marni Kotak has created a cozy environment for the birth of her first child. But the bedroom is not in her home. It is in a Brooklyn art gallery.
The 36-year-old Kotak is a performance artist who has created a home-birth center at the Microscope Gallery where she plans to deliver her baby as a work of art sometime in the next few weeks.
The gallery has extended the days it is open to all seven days a week so Kotak - as part of the project - can develop a rapport with members of the public who come to see "The Birth of Baby X."
