The PaintBall project day 16

wafaabilal.com
Iraqi born artist Wafaa Bilal has become known for provocative interactive video installations. Many of Bilal's projects over the past few years have addressed the dichotomy of the virtual vs. the real. In Domestic Tension, viewers can log onto the internet to contact, or shoot, Bilal with paintball gun

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• tension

[brandonha]

Unless you're buying really old paint or tree marking supplies there aren't fumes. It's water based paint.

[mewafaa]

Thank it is good to konw that.

[mebrkeys]

Hi Wafaa, I hope you're OK, as well as your family back home.

I was sickened a few days ago watching "Nova"; The U.S.military is working on new "UAV's" that can enable an American soldier to (This is almost a quote) "Kiss the wife in the morning, go to work and execute a mission (of remote bombing of eg, Iraq), and be home in time to play with the kids before dinner."

I did'nt shoot.

[MarienkindExecutable]

Well Wafaa, after admitting to taking shots at you in the begining, and then watching later how you have been affected in your video updates. I have to say I can't take a shot at you anymore, I guess it becomes much harder to do something like that after you see how it really effects someone. I will take this lesson learned with me out into the real world. Godspeed Wafaa.

[InfringeCopyrights]

Wafaa your project is amazing and it makes me cringe watching your videos. I can see and hear the fear, and I can tell you're really into this.

[InfringeCopyrights]

Actually, brandonha is right and wrong. There aren't any fumes, but it may smell/taste bad. Paintballs are actually made with vegetable oil, not water. The outer shell is a gelatin substance.

[Electrawn]

Even shooting the gun creates a huge boom and paint and shrapnel. the effect is nothing short of chinese water torture. He probably is experiencing post traumatic stress disorder. Ugh.

[UrbanNinja45]

dude, this is disgusting the way people treat other people. i shot the gun, but at the wall.