| Jakob S. Boeskov | |
| Birth Date: | 23 March 1973 |
| Birth Place: | Elsinore, Denmark |
| Known For: | Conceptual art, film and music. |
Jakob S. Boeskov is an artist based in New York. His work has been shown in museums such as New Museum and Stedelijk Museum. He is best known for infiltrating a Chinese weapons fair with his ID Sniper project but has also worked with music and film.
In 2002, Boeskov and industrial designer Kristian von Bengtson created a fake hi-tech weapon called the ID Sniper rifle.[1] This fictive weapon could shoot off GPS chips into demonstrators so that the police later could locate them and "apply the punishment." Boeskov brought drawings of this weapon to a weapons fair in Beijing, China, where the weapon received positive reactions from real weapons dealers, politicians and policemen.Boeskov described the project "like being a sci-fi writer caught in his own novel" [2] The project received much press[3] and caused Boeskov to receive purchase orders from various security agencies from around the world.
In 2009 Boeskov wrote and directed the film Empire North which won the 2010 Danish:DOX Award at the film festival. In 2010 Boeskov collaborated with Creative Time in New York with a video created in Nigeria together with director Teco Benson.