Wafaa Bilal
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Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal, assistant arts professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, specializes in on-line performative and interactive works. His current project, the 3rdi, features a camera surgically implanted on the back of his head transmitting images to the web. Bilal’s 2010 work “…And Counting” had his back tattooed with a map of Iraq and dots representing casualties. For 2007’s Domestic Tension, Bilal spent a month in a gallery with a paintball gun that people could shoot at him over the internet – a statement on the Iraq war. Bilal fled Iraq in 1991 and came to the U.S. after two years in refugee camps. Bilal refers to experiencing his work as “encounters” to privilege the perspective and subjectivity of the audience in the overall affect and approach of his pieces.
Bilal describes an “encounter” as a choice that we make that shifts us from a position of authority to the people we’re talking to.
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- 20111115WafaaBilalVisit_12.JPG
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- Copyright Arizona Board of Regents All Rights Reserved Arizona State University
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- 3504x2336 / 7.9MB
- Contained in galleries
- 20111115 Wafaa Bilal

