Wafaa Bilal: Indulge Me

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ISBN-10: 1636811574
ISBN-13: 9781636811574
Publisher: Delmonico Books
Publish Date: 02/11/2025
Dimensions: 10.70" L, 7.30" W, 0.50" H

Wafaa Bilal: Indulge Me

Artist:Wafaa Bilal, Lynn Hershman Leeson
Editor: Bana Kattan
Foreword by: Madeleine Grynsztejn
Text by (Art/Photo Books): Wafaa Bilal

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Overview

Bilal puts his body on the line to condemn the Iraq War, expose US-Iraq tensions and highlight immigrants’ struggles in America

Wafaa Bilal’s (born 1966) complex artistic practice spans a range of mediums and interests, including performance, time-based media, sculpture and interactive and digital technologies. He frequently incorporates–and risks–his own body in his pieces: allowing an audience to shoot him with paintballs or having a video camera drilled into his head. Accompanying his first major survey, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, this critical volume covers the breadth of Bilal’s versatile career, centering on his performance practice. It highlights significant early works such as Domestic Tension (2007) and 3rdi (2010) alongside newer projects that investigate the relationship between Saddam Hussein, Iraqi history, the Iraq War and US-Middle East relations. Much like Bilal’s broader practice, this publication shows us what it means to consciously engage across cultures while highlighting the negative global implications of imperialism and exploitation.

This book was published in conjunction with Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

  • Iraqi born artist Wafaa Bilal has exhibited his art world wide, and traveled and lectured extensively to inform audiences of the situation of the Iraqi people, and the importance of peaceful conflict resolution. Bilal's 2007 dynamic installation Domestic Tension placed him on the receiving end of a paintball gun that was accessible online to a worldwide audience, 24 hours a day. Newsweek called the project "breathtaking" and the Chicago Tribune called the month-long piece "one of the sharpest works of political art to be seen in a long time," and named Bilal its 2007 Artist of the Year. Bilal has exhibited worldwide including in Baghdad, the Netherlands, Thailand and Croatia; as well as at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Milwaukee Art Museum and various other US galleries. His residencies have included Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California; Catwalk in New York; and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

    In fall 2008 City Lights published Shoot an Iraqi: Life, Art and Resistance Under the Gun, about Bilal's life and the Domestic Tension project. Bilal is currently a professor of Photography and Imaging at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
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Details

ISBN-10: 1636811574
ISBN-13: 9781636811574
Publisher: Delmonico Books
Publish Date: 02/11/2025
Dimensions: 10.70" L, 7.30" W, 0.50" H
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