He installed a camera on the back of the head
As part of an artistic performance, «The Third I», which will last one year as of December 15, an artist and teacher in New York has been grafted a pedestal at the rear of the skull, to install a camera meant to take pictures of what is happening behind him.
This is called, literally, to have eyes behind your head. As part of a performance art-type body art, and in collaboration with the future Museum of Modern Art in Qatar, the Mathaf, Wafaa Bilal, an artist and assistant professor at the University of New York has chosen to make put a camera on the back of the head. For a year, it will take a photo per minute and the pictures will be posted on a website - which is already open but displays a countdown for the moment - and Mathaf, which will be inaugurated on 30 December.
Operation «The 3rd I» (pun on "third eye" and "me") should start on December 15. The implantation of the device did not come to the hospital, but in a studio specializing in body piercing.
As recounted in the Wall Street Journal, the project Wafaa Bilal, 44 year old Iraqi who was granted asylum in the United States, was not without creating a controversy at the University of New York, on respect for privacy of students and teachers. The performer has agreed to block the camera lens when it is on the faculty. The newspaper also refers to friction with acquaintances, including his girlfriend.
Wafaa Bilal is not at its first performance. Last June, he got a tattoo «live» back in a tribute to U.S. and Iraqi victims (see his blog). In 2005, as we told Liberation, he was imprisoned for thirty days in a gallery in Chicago, inviting the public to screen the body balls with paintball guns.
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