From the Globe & Mail, November 20, 2002, page A24. The body as art Birgit Hansen, studying Design and Fine Art at the University of Ulster in Belfast, performed Mother Land Father Tongue as part of her final year exams. "I was using the body in a way that I have never done before," she said, "and I have generally received a positive response about it. I was reading from the text of a French philosopher and then vomiting at different points. It is about life ... I think you have to go to these extremes." Asked by Sunday Life, a Northern Ireland tabloid, how she was able to vomit on demand, she replied: "It happened more easily than I expected. People thought it was amazing."