Youtube Video- The Paint Ball Project Day 29

Day 29 is a silent 4minutes and seven second photo montage from the previous 28 days of the performance. Ii shows Bilal cleaning and maintaining the gun. and the objects within the space. In some respects, this video is more revealing as it reveals the material experience more than Bilal's words which belie the talking head image of most of the documentary video's.


The immediate sense is how virtually everything is covered with wet paint. This doesn't come through in most of the videos, but it is obvious the yellow room must be virtually impossible to clean. The effect of living in that environment was very wearing. Also striking is the care Bilal had to lavish on the gun which is emphasised in the photographs which show him stripping and cleaning it, leaving it gleaming, while the environment around it is filthy.

The final image is a smiling caricature of Bilal waving.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0NR_pITj0c