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Wafaa Bilal
( A man with a camera surgically
implanted on the back of his head )
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Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal, an Assistant Arts
Professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, is known
internationally for his on-line performative and interactive works provoking
dialogue about international politics and internal dynamics. For his current
project, the 3rdi, Bilal had a camera surgically implanted on the back of his
head to spontaneously transmit images to the web 24 hours a day – a statement on
surveillance, the mundane and the things we leave behind. Bilal’s 2010 work
"...And Counting" similarly used his own body as a medium. His back was tattooed
with a map of Iraq and dots representing Iraqi and US casualties – the Iraqis in
invisible ink seen only under a black light. Bilal's 2007 installation, Domestic
Tension, also addressed the Iraq war. Bilal spent a month in a Chicago gallery
with a paintball gun that people could shoot at him over the internet. The
Chicago Tribune called it "one of the sharpest works of political art to be seen
in a long time" and named him 2008 Artist of the Year. Bilal's work is
constantly informed by the experience of fleeing his homeland and existing
simultaneously in two worlds – his home in the "comfort zone" of the U.S. and
his consciousness of the "conflict zone" in Iraq. Bilal suffered repression
under Saddam Hussein’s regime and fled Iraq in 1991 during the first Gulf War.
After two years in refugee camps in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, he came to the U.S.
where he graduated from the University of New Mexico and then obtained an MFA at
the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2008 City Lights published "Shoot
an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun," about Bilal's life and the
Domestic Tension project.
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