If you go to Wafaabilal.com, you can get the chance to have a conversation with an Iraqi performance artist…or you can shoot at him.

It’s an interesting choice. I was discussing the art installation Domestic Tension over morning coffee and one good point that came up was the fact that many anonymous shooters do what they do because it is fun and they don’t have any illusions or lack of empathy. I guess that could be one of the points of the installation.

Provocative performance artists do have an unfair advantage over most visual artists. Very few painters would have the audacity to claim what happens outside the frame as being a contrived part of their art object.

My provocative question is this:

Maybe this issue is discussed in the daily Video Blogs on YouTube. I am curious.