America at War
Reflections on a Violent Art Project
JUNE 30, 2007 Listen to this Story
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Chicago Artist Wafaa Bilal spent 31 days last month locked in a room being shot at by strangers. The strangers were virtual, operating a paintball gun, and Bilal had no idea who they were or why they were shooting. He called his exhibit "Domestic Tension." Bilal is an Iraqi who fled Saddam's regime in 1991. His father and younger brother were killed in the current Iraq war. We talked to him during his stay in the exhibit, and we catch up with him now that he's free. We ask Bilal what he's learned since being a marked target, and what life is like now.
The Paintball Project, Day 14
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- Music Bridge:
- A Muted Street Song
- Artist: The World On High Downs
- CD: Land Patterns (PLOP)
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