Jamal and Damilola: A Nigerian Banking Scam Romance / artist publication by Julian H. Scaff (DAI, 2006) / Forward by Felix Kubin
"A great mix of hilarity and repulsiveness...one of the most interesting conceptual art works I've seen in a long time."
-Eleanor Antin, artist and author
Jamal and Damilola is a cross-genre art book existing as art object, performance, and cultural inquiry. It lays out, in detailed exchange, the online romance between Jamal Skaff, a Lebanese party-loving resident of Ibiza, and Damilola Sodipo, a lost, yearning-for-true-love young woman claiming to be Scottish but who is in fact (probably) a young man running banking scams out of Lagos, Nigeria. The book documents their humorous and at times non-sensical 'relationship', exploring the constructed narratives of banking scams, via an amorphous online body politic which is connected and yet simultaneously disconnected.
The book is available on Amazon in the USA, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK.
Links are available at this website: http://www.jscaff.com