# Wafaa Bilal

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Lucy Weir, "Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury" (Routledge, 2024)

Can self-harm be art? In Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury (Routledge, 2024), Lucy Weir, a Reader in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh rethinks the recent history of performance to understand the ‘injurious turn’ in contemporary live art. The book challenges the usual associatio…

Lucy Weir, "Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury" (Routledge, 2024)

Can self-harm be art? In Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury (Routledge, 2024), Lucy Weir, a Reader in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh rethinks the recent history of performance to understand the ‘injurious turn’ in contemporary live art. The book challenges the usual associatio…

Bad at Sports Episode 898: Wafaa Bilal and Bana Kattan

This week. Dana's back? She and Duncan sit down with artist Wafaa Bilal and curator Bana Kattan to discuss Bilal's powerful and deeply personal mid-career retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Known for his provocative, often participatory works that grapple with war, trauma, …

Wafaa Bilal

Episode No. 704 features artist Wafaa Bilal. The MCA Chicago is presenting "Wafaa Bilal: Indulge Me," the first major survey of Bilal's work. Across his genres-busting career, the Iraqi-American Bilal has made performances, sculptures and related digital presentations that have interrogated the Un…

Holiday clips: Wafaa Bilal

Episode No. 738 is a holiday clips episode featuring artist Wafaa Bilal. Earlier this year the MCA Chicago presented "Wafaa Bilal: Indulge Me," the first major survey of Bilal's work. Across his genres-busting career, the Iraqi-American Bilal has made performances, sculptures and related digital p…

Is contemporary art relevant today?

Is contemporary art relevant today? In this episode of @DohaDebates podcast, host Nadir Nahdi is joined by Wafaa Bilal, Samar Younes, Fen de Villiers and Molly Crabapple to discuss whether contemporary art remains relevant in today’s world, as well as the role of artists in addressing social issue…

Contemporary art: Progressive or pointless?

Some critics argue that contemporary art has lost touch with the principles and traditions that define artistic greatness. Others see its break with tradition as liberating; a move toward more inclusion, experimentation and personal and political expression.  This episode explores what makes great…

Episode 12 - Wafaa Bilal

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 w…