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Read [Wafaa Bilal, Kari Lydersen Book] ! Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun Online * PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun "At the Hands of the Ignorant" according to Jim Muccio. In November, 2010 I read about the artistic exploits of Wafaa Bilal and was intrigued. So intrigued I blogged about his latest project and posted it in several online forums. I also ordered his book, "Shoot an Iraqi; Art, Life, and Resistance Under the Gun" co-written with Kari Lydersen. I read it in one sitting. Astonishing in content and brilliantly written, Bilal. If you KNEW you knew you could get away with it, would you shoot a caged A
| Title | : | Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.91 (959 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 087286491X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 177 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-01 |
| Language | : | English |
Bilal eventually made it to the United States to become a professor and a successful artist, but when his brother was killed at a checkpoint in Iraq in 2005, he decided to use his art to confront those in the comfort zone with the realities of life in a conflict zone.Thus the creation and staging of Domestic Tension,” an unsettling interactive performance piece: for one month, Bilal lived alone in a prison cell-sized room in the line of fire of a remote-controlled paintball gun and a camera that connected him to Internet viewers around the world. Wafaa Bilal’s childhood in Iraq was defined by the horrific rule of Saddam Hussein, two wars, a bloody uprising, and time spent interned in chaotic refugee camps in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Shoot an Iraqi is equally pertinent reading
"At the Hands of the Ignorant" according to Jim Muccio. In November, 2010 I read about the artistic exploits of Wafaa Bilal and was intrigued. So intrigued I blogged about his latest project and posted it in several online forums. I also ordered his book, "Shoot an Iraqi; Art, Life, and Resistance Under the Gun" co-written with Kari Lydersen. I read it in one sitting. Astonishing in content and brilliantly written, Bilal. If you KNEW you knew you could get away with it, would you shoot a caged Arab? In May 2007, a man from Iraq lived continuously in a small room in Chicago. He had connected a paintball gun to the Internet so that anyone, anywhere in the world, could take potshots at him. (The gun made an ominous ratcheting sound as it swiveled to follow Wafaa Bilal's movements -- and paintballs, when fired at close range, can penetrate cardboard.) People from 1. "Highly Recommended" according to Susan. From a vantage point different from that of the previous reviewer, I'd like to add that I found the book to be a beautiful, moving story. It weaved between the author's tumultuous childhood in Iraq, and the recent past, documenting an interactive art piece in Chicago which gathered nation-wide attention. As a non-artist, I appreciated having a better understanding o
. All rights reserved. Iraqi-born artist Bilal records the month he spent confined in his 2007 interactive performance piece entitled Domestic Tension, living under constant fire from a chat room–controlled paintball gun 24 hours a day, his every move dogged and determined by the hostility—or benevolence—of his thousands of online viewers. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. (Dec.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. The nerve-rattling conditions were intended to reflect both decades of suffering endured by millions of Iraqis and Bilal's own life and the costs of surviving Saddam's regime, Gulf War bombardment, Sunni-Shia violence, a brutal Saudi refugee camp and, finally, the diff
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