An Interview With the Graffiti Artist Who Snuck Anti-Homeland Graffiti Onto the Homeland Set
In the most recent episode of #Homeland, Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) traveled to a Syrian refugee camp to provide security for her boss, a German industrialist and philanthropist. The camp, a set, had been painstakingly created in an old factory outside of Berlin, with rubble, brick work, and Arabic graffiti—graffiti that, it turned out, read “Homeland is racist,” “There is not Homeland,” and “Homeland is not a series,” among other phrases. Someone had infiltrated the spy show. That someone is Heba Amin, an Egyptian artist and critic of the show, who was presented with the opportunity to do some “artivisim” and didn’t turn it down. She spoke with Slate about how she pulled off this stunt and why she did it.
▻http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/10/15/heba_amin_interview_meet_the_graffiti_artist_who_snuck_anti_homeland_graffiti
