2:30 – 3:15 artist lecture – Wilson Auditorium
\n3:30 – 4:15 video screening\/extended Q &A – Rechnitz Hall room 208.<\/p>\n
Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal, an Associate Arts Professor at New York University\u2019s 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 2007 installation, Domestic Tension<\/em>, 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 \u201cone of the sharpest works of political art to be seen in a long time \u201dand named him 2008 Artist of the Year. Bilal\u2019s work is constantly informed by the experience of fleeing his homeland and existing simultaneously in two worlds \u2013 his home in the \u201ccomfort zone\u201d of the U.S. and his consciousness of the \u201cconflict zone\u201d in Iraq. Using his own body as a medium, Bilal continues to challenge our comfort zone with projects like 3rdi <\/em>and …And Counting<\/em>. In 2008 City Lights published \u201cShoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun,\u201d about Bilal\u2019s life and the Domestic Tension<\/em> project. He holds a BFA from the University of New Mexico and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; MATHAF: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar; amongst others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal, an Associate Arts Professor at New York University\u2019s 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 2007 installation, Domestic Tension, he 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 \u201cone of the sharpest works of political art to be seen in a long time\u201d and named him 2008 Artist of the Year. 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