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Harun the SkyWalker. A rather high-sounding title for a foreigner. Yet therein hangs a tale. He was 14 in Sarajevo in 1992 when his father, a free-lance sniper, taught him the art of precision shooting and the secret of the stray bullet. Having emigrated from Bosnia to Bologna, he brought with him the bullet’s secret and began desultory studies in communication sciences. In the meantime he cultivated his real passion: a non-conventional weapon for the stray bullet. He meets Benfenati, an artisan mechanic who assembled free of charge what he was after. Harun then bought a ticket for a place that’s all the rage with NGOs. It’s called the ‘strip’. Gaza has truly horrid food but it’s the perfect firing range. He makes up a story that the Al-Quassam brigades kidnapped him and he revealed the secret of the stray bullet to them. He then returns to Bologna. Something that looked like a Lego spaceship tried to do him in. It was a drone bearing the Star of David. A lot of holes but he came through alive. Harun used the stray bullet to down the drone and donated the debris to the Museum of Modern Art. He holds the stray bullet’s exploded tail like a suppository. The story of this not-so-practicing Bosnian Muslim intrigued Daniel Caspar, who devised a performance called “It’s just an adventure flick”. Today Harun the SkyWalker is part of a small circle of artists protected by the security services of the City of Bologna. May the force be with him.