Iraqi performance
I believe, when doing Art as an action and when arranging the shapes of simple things in our life that I can stand against the violence, death and the destruction. I see that, the art is the only window for reality for expressing about myself. There is nothing can make you feel the peacefulness only within practicing the art and especially in ‘performance art’. The war in Iraq in 2003, has produced new qualifications that added different levels about Iraqi culture of the previous generations.I search in all forms of life by transforming them (things that represent the identity of the culture) (daily activity), or it’s already exist but by condition that be cut off its first root, and these things are not necessary have to be damaged materials or leftover. I can make the use of technology in all aspects of the exhibition, including the Facebook and other social media. The artwork is the way of thinking not the speculation of the shapes that exist within the text. The art, in my opinion, is as anthropologist search, it includes everything we think of and not only beatifying the walls. I’m living with the daily death in Iraq. I referred to this massacre, Sectarian killings, migration, forced displacement, death by suicide bombs, and the killing by identity. I think that, the art is not only about producing beauty, but it’s wider. I always refer in my artwork that there is horror living with my in Iraq, hunger which I was suffering from during my childhood period which sometime I go to sleep with an empty stomach. My first performance art project was done on my house proof. Named as (lunch table), within it, expressed about my feeling of hunger within my childhood period and also about the daily killing that I live with. The art as I said, is a search process for the cultural identity and presenting texts I can feel of which is dissimilar to any text in other cultural areas. I wanted to produce an art that is similar to me through my behavior, and my psychological status. I offered a food dishes of gun bullets with bread was tied by wired and nails. My
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hungry experience was real and it still exist in me and affects me psychologically. The same to the War also affect me through its Remnants and trace. I’m expressing through the performance as it is a form include most aspects of daily activities of the life, using the body in the performance profound a chance in which a can see the world again, and me as a material will touch the memory in different way. The performance is very important to me, which has no constraints and no technologies will obstacle the idea. Also using the same senses but in different way, I see the Art as a cognitive speech contains personal characteristics, holding my dairy, the art is the only pointer that have the impartiality in the presenting which is similar to my thinks too.
Performance : Mohammed abdalwasi...2017
