Show Creators Embrace “Homeland Is Racist” Graffiti Prank For Being Subversive Three Arabic-speaking street artists hired by the Showtime series “Homeland” to create realistic graffiti for the Season Four set instead wrote “Homeland is racist,” “Homeland is a joke” and “#blacklivesmatter” along with other subversive messages — then released a statement owning up to their prank and calling out the show for it’s inaccurate and biased depictions of the Muslim world. According to NY Daily News reports : “It was our moment to make our point by subverting the message using the show itself,” wrote Egyptian artist Heba Amin and her fellow artists Caram Kapp and Stone. “We wish we’d caught these images before they made it to air,” Alex Gansa, the creator of “Homeland,” told the Daily News in a statement about the stunt, which had former CIA officer Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) walking past graffiti declaring that the show was racist. “However, as ‘Homeland’ always strives to be subversive in its own right and a stimulus for conversation, we can’t help but admire this act of artistic sabotage. In June, the show’s production company hired the trio for a two-day job in Berlin writing apolitical graffiti on a set depicting a Syrian refugee camp, the artists wrote. They were given images of graffiti supporting Syrian president Bashar al-Assad as a reference and told it was “OK, of course,” to write “Mohamed is the greatest” — but busy crew members failed to notice when the three artists went rogue. “In their eyes, Arabic script is merely a supplementary visual that completes the horror-fantasy of the Middle East, a poster image dehumanizing an entire region to human-less figures in black burkas and moreover, this season, to refugees,” the artists wrote. “The show has thus created a chain of causality with Arabs at its beginning and as its outcome — their own victims and executioners at the same time.” Wow, that is pretty impressive, but do you think someone may lose their job over this? Seems like some fact checker or production assistant should have been on hand to translate. Do y’all watch “Homeland”? We gotta say that it is pretty good TV — but at the same time we understand the artists point. Instagram
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