Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
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 war and why he puts his body on the line for art. Wafaa is currently a professor at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
Learn more about This Being Human: agakhanmuseum.org/thisbeinghuman
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 war and why he puts his body on the line for art. Wafaa is currently a professor at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
Learn more about This Being Human: agakhanmuseum.org/thisbeinghuman
