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If This Isn’t Politicized Art, I Don’t Know What Is.

A man has set himself up in a room with a paintball gun and a webcam perpetually pointed at him for a month, and has told anyone who wishes that they can shoot him simply by pressing a button on the website.  Wafaa Bilal’s “Domestic Tension” is his latest art project, and it features the exact scenario described above.  What’s more terrifying is that already some 40,000 shots have been fired at him.

Newsweek coverage of the story here

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