7pm, Thurs. July 29, 2010
Wafaa Bilal will appear on a panels at the powerHouse Arena for a panel discussion.
Please join us on July 29 at powerHouse Arena for a new Full Spectrum panel discussion, especially relevant in these days of migration and upheaval: THE EXILES. This free forum with four top creators will explore what they do, why they do it, and the unique experience of making one’s way when far from home. Be there! The conversation will be provocative, timely and hip...
PowerHouse Arena
37 Main St
[corner of Main & Water, in DUMBO]
Brooklyn, NY 11201
F to York; A/C to High; 2/3 to Clark
http://www.powerhousearena.com/
8pm March 8th to 8pm March 9th, 2010
…and Counting:
Tattoo is latest medium for acclaimed Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal in New York live performance
Where: Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
Blackburn 20/20
323 W39th Street 5th Floor NY, NY 10018
Contact: Phillip Sanders, phil@efa1.org, 212-563-5855
Artist contact: w.wafaa@gmail.com
Project Director: Christine OHeron: christineoheron@gmail.com, (860) 782-1030
Wafaa Bilal's brother Haji was killed by a missile at a checkpoint in their hometown of Kufa, Iraq in 2004. Bilal feels the pain of both American and Iraqi families who’ve lost loved ones in the war, but the deaths of Iraqis like his brother are largely invisible to the American public.
…and Counting addresses this double standard as Bilal turns his own body – in a 24-hour live performance -- into a canvas, his back tattooed with a borderless map of Iraq covered with one dot for each Iraqi and American casualty near the cities where they fell. The 5,000 dead American soldiers are represented by red dots (permanent visible ink), and the 100,000 Iraqi casualties are represented by dots of green UV ink, seemingly invisible unless under black light. During the performance people from all walks of life read off the names of the dead.
Also, Bilal is asking each visitor to donate $1 which will go to the group Rally for Iraq, to fund scholarships for Americans and Iraqis who lost parents in the war. Based on official numbers of casualties, one dollar for each would mean $105,000 in scholarship money.
January 21 - April 4, 2010
Wafaa Bilal: Agent Intellect
The Helen Day Art Center in Stowe, Vermont will feature a major solo show by Wafaa Bilal – “Agent Intellect” -- opening January 21, 2010 through April 4. The exhibition features Domestic Tension Redux, a recreation of Bilal’s award winning 2007 performance piece, and Virtual Jihadi, which stirred controversy last year after it was censored by the city of Troy, NY and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The Helen Day Art Center will also feature Ashes, a series of five large format photographs based on models Bilal constructed of scenes from the Iraq war. One of the models, Samarra, will also be exhibited. Additionally the show includes a site-specific installation titled Mighaisil (Morgue), a contemplative space created to consider death, violence and place. This is the first time these works have ever been displayed together providing a comprehensive understanding of Bilal’s career since 2007.
When:
Thurs. Jan. 21, 6-8pm: Art Opening
Fri. Jan. 22, 6pm: Screening of The Night of Bush Capturing: A Virtual Jihadi followed by discussion on free speech with artist Wafaa Bilal
Exhibit runs through April 4
Where:
Helen Day Art Center, 5 School Street, Stowe, Vermont
Full press release here.
November
Booklist Award
"Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun" has made Booklist's top 10 Arts Books list and will be featured in the November 1 issue.
October 21, 2009 - January 16, 2010
The Virtual Jihad will open in Beirut Lebanon
The Night of Bush Capturing: A Virtual Jihad will open at Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon as part of show called AMERICA.
September 16, 2009
Wafaa Bilal presents his new Video installation AMERICAN at East Carolina University, Mendenhall Gallery.
Closing Reception
September 16, 2009
Participating Artists: Bilal, Brines, Fincannon, Forbes, Jacono, Hogan
Co-creator by Bilal, Adam Jacono and Annie Hogan.
6 June 2009, 7pm
Wafaa Bilal will appear on C-Span2 to talk about his book. link here
30 April and 2 May 2009
Wafaa Bilal will appear on two panels in PEN World Voices Festival.
14 February 2009 – 2 May 2009
Wafaa Bilal new Ashes Series will open in Israeli as part of Forbidden Junctions show.
The Ashes Series, will depict miniature model reconstructions of media photographs documenting destroyed domestic interiors resulting from the war in Iraq. Twenty-one grams of human ashes mixed with other organic ashes will be spread over the model landscapes, rendering every object equal in importance. The origins of my photographs may appear to be ambiguous at first, but upon closer observation, the media referents will become clear to anyone familiar with such images. The models will function as transitional spaces, echoing the original media images while also becoming ephemeral.
Forbidden Junctions
A group exhibition at the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
Opening: Saturday, 14 February 2009, 8 p.m.
The exhibition "Forbidden Junctions" introduces a multi-directional thought process pointing at fluid, stratified cultural realities which challenge deep-seated identity labels anchored in collective cultural memory. The show features artists from several "Middle Easteran" countries (Israel, Palestine, Iraq, Turkey, and Iran) whose works address issues pertinent to the political, cultural, and dynamic reality in which they live. All the featured works, some created especially for the exhibition, present intercultural junctions where various groups adopt certain symbols, while relinquishing others. The term "forbidden junctions" (or prohibited hybrids,… for more detail please visit http://www.digitalartlab.org.il/Index.asp
GamePolitics named Wafaa Bilal one of the most politically fascinating people of the year 2008, Also one of the top 15 story of the same year.
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/12/19/gamepolitics-top-15-2008
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/12/31/gaming039s-most-politically-fascinating-people-2008