Wafaa Bilal / Visiting Artist Talk

Internationally acclaimed Iraqi-American artist Wafaa Bilal will discuss select projects from his extensive body of work including Domestic Tension (aka Shoot an Iraqi), Virtual Jihadi and the 3rdi. Bilal’s work blends technology and performance to pose questions about geopolitical and personal realities, with an emphasis on dynamic encounters and relational antagonism as strategies to engage viewers in dialogue. He will narrate the evolution of his work alongside the personal experience of living between two worlds: the zones of conflict in Iraq and of comfort in the U.S.