Tag: Aarati Akkapeddi

2010 – and Counting... Tattoo of War Casualties

Wafaa Bilal’s brother, Haji, was killed by a missile at a checkpoint in their hometown of Kufa, Iraq in 2004. Bilal feels the pain of both American and Iraqi families who have lost loved ones in the war, but the deaths of Iraqis like his brother are largely invisible to the American public. and Counting… addresses this double standard as Bilal turns his own body — in a 24-hour live performance — into a canvas, his back tattooed with a borderless map of Iraq covered with one dot for each Iraqi […]

Added by: Aarati Akkapeddi. Category: Passive physical visualization  Tags: body, cartographic, deaths, interactive, performance, tattoo, war