A Sad Statement On The World Today.
Call it performance art, multi-media art or tech art, but whatever you
call what Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal did recently, it sure drew a lot of
attention and much of it completely missed the point. Bilal, a professor
at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in his live exhibit
called “Domestic Tension” sequestered himself in his office/gallery for
42 days and let people come on-line and through the use of a web cam and
a remote controlled paint gun, he let complete strangers take shots at
him in a mock bedroom environment.
The point?
Well there were two. One was to show the constant stress and fear that
Iraqi’s (including Bilal’s family) go through as part of there everyday
existence. Bilal lived everyday not knowing when the paint gun would go
off or whether it would hit him. The other point was to demonstrate the
detached virtual way we live in America, and much of the rest of the
modern industrial world, have come to view war. Unfortunately it was the
second point that proved to be the most revealing.
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