New York performance artist plans to give birth in gallery before audience

Brooklyn artist Marni Kotak calls her project “The Birth of Baby X”, a month-long piece on her pregnancy that she hopes will end with her delivering the baby.

Kotak has set up a birthing room at the Microscope Gallery, equipped with a bed, an inflatable birthing pool, a shower and a rocking chair.

“I hope 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,” Kotak said.

Kotak is due sometime in the next five weeks but visitors are warned that the baby may be born at any moment.