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Markers II

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The Eben Ice Cave in Michigan, USA.

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Peter De Potter, Ring Light New Testament, monograph book, published July 2023, 256 pages, hardcover, 24, 5 x 28,5 cm, self-published.

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Guido Palau #photo_Sharna Osborne

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Domestic Tension Wafaa Bilal 2007

For Domestic Tension, a networked durational performance, Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal confined himself to a gallery space. He broadcasted over the internet 24/7, inviting viewers to watch and chat with him at all hours. The audience was also given the option of shooting Bilal with a robotically controlled paintball gun.

Domestic Tension was one of a number of efforts by Bilal to highlight the violence and racism of US culture after 9/11, and to raise awareness about the suffering that Iraqis have faced for years. Through the performance, he grappled with the trauma of his own experiences under Saddam Hussein’s regime, during the Gulf War attacks, and surviving years of Sunni-Shia brutalities.

In addition to foregrounding the lived experience of war, Domestic Tension also engaged with the mediation of violence through digital technology, and the gamification that this allows. With the click of a mouse, online participants could become soldiers, firing a paintball gun that could cause real (if non-lethal) harm to Bilal. Under the constant line of fire of internet users drawn by the promise of “shooting an Iraqi,” the artist’s living quarters became a war zone for a remote cyber milita, while the chatroom filled with arguments between Bilal’s unseen assailants, and his allies and defenders.

This sensational approach to the war was meant to engage people who may not be willing to engage in political dialogue through conventional means. Domestic Tension depicted the suffering of war not through human displays of dramatic emotion, but rather through engaging people in the sort of playful interactive video game with which they are familiar.

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Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Casa Junqueira en São Paulo, Brasil, 1976-80

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By Jonathan Frantini for Exhibition Magazine

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This TV is being so beautiful rn

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Cart Mathieu. Blood. Photography