This is a teacher who really keeps an eye on things — three eyes, actually.
Wafaa Bilal, an assistant arts professor at New York University, said last week that a small camera had been put into his head. The zany idea is part of an art project commissioned by the Mathaf, the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar, an oil-rich Gulf state.
“I have now undergone the procedure to insert the camera into the back of my head as part of my art installation The 3rd I,” he said in a statement.
Iraqi-born Bilal, a well-known artist, called this a “unique conceptual piece expressed in my own unique artistic language. This new installation raises important social, aesthetic, political, technological, and artistic questions.”
Pictures show the camera to be about the size and shape of a round men’s watch.
How it will work, how it was inserted and exactly what will be photographed remain rather fuzzy. Bilal says he will reveal all at a press conference on Dec. 15 in Qatar, when the exhibition opens.
“I am going about my daily life as I did before the procedure, but I ask for a period of rest before I am going to give any interviews,” Bilal said.
Bilal grew up in Iraq and moved to the US in 1992. His brother was killed in 2004 in Iraq by a US missile strike.
In reaction, Bilal set up a month-long exhibit in Chicago that encouraged people to fire paintballs at him 24 hours a day.
(AFP)
這位老師處處留神，事實上他有三個眼睛。
瓦法‧畢拉爾是紐約大學的藝術老師。他上週表示頭部內裝了一個小攝影機。這個古怪的想法是由卡達的阿拉伯現代藝術博物館所發起的藝術計畫。卡達是個以石油致富的波斯灣國家。
他透過聲明表示，「我目前所進行的是將攝影機安裝在我頭部的後方，這是我命名為『第三個我』（英文的『眼』與『我』讀音相同）裝置藝術的部分作品。」
伊拉克出生的畢拉爾是個眾所周知的藝術家。他稱這個創作為「以我獨特的藝術語言所表達的概念性作品。這個新藝術裝置引發許多重要的社會、美學、政治、科技，與藝術議題」。
依據圖片顯示，攝影機大小類似一只男錶的大小與形狀。
但是這個攝影機怎麼運作，如何安裝以及要拍攝什麼依然不清楚。畢拉爾說，他將於十二月十五日展覽開幕時，在卡達舉行的記者會說明一切。
畢拉爾說，「我將過著就像計畫開始之前的日常生活。但在接受訪問之前，我要求一段平靜的時間。」
畢拉爾在伊拉克長大，並於一九九二年搬到美國。他有位兄弟在伊拉克於二零零四年遭美軍飛彈攻擊殺害
為了對這件事情做出反應，他在芝加哥舉辦長達一個月的展覽，展覽中讓人們二十四小時以漆彈向他射擊。
（法新社／翻譯：吳岱璟）
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