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Wafaa Bilal has pushed his body to extreme lengths in the name of art. He has subjected himself to waterboarding, mounted a camera to the back of his head, and spent a month living in a gallery, where strangers shot him with tens of thousands of paintballs. He talks about escaping Iraq during the war and why he puts his body on the line for art.
Wafaa is currently a professor at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
If you enjoyed this episode and want to learn more, go to agakhanmuseum.org/thisbeinghuman
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Wafaa Bilal has pushed his body to extreme lengths in the name of art. He has subjected himself to waterboarding, mounted a camera to the back of his head, and spent a month living in a gallery, where strangers shot him with tens of thousands of paintballs. He talks about escaping Iraq during the war and why he puts his body on the line for art.
Wafaa is currently a professor at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
If you enjoyed this episode and want to learn more, go to agakhanmuseum.org/thisbeinghuman
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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