THE GENERAL'S STORK by Heba Y. Amin
| Title | The General’s Stork (Research/Practice 02) |
| Author(s)/Editor(s) |
Heba Y. Amin |
| Publisher | Sternberg Press |
| Pages | 100 |
| Dimensions |
120 x 180 mm |
| Format | Softcover |
| Year | 2020 |
Edited by ANTHONY DOWNEY
With contributions by ADAM HARVEY, ADEL ISKANDAR, HAITHAM MOSSAD, LAURA POITRAS
In 2013, Egyptian authorities detained a migratory stork for espionage. This incident is the focus of Heba Y. Amin’s The General’s Stork, an ongoing project that investigates the politics of aerial surveillance—against the backdrop of biblical prophecies, drone warfare, and colonial narratives—from a bird’s-eye view. The research that informs The General’s Stork looks at how conquest from the sky—through land surveying, mapping, bombing, and drone technologies—has effectively transformed Western power into a spectacle of high-tech weaponry. Through the lens of paranoia that can lead to a bird being accused of spying, this volume reveals, with the indispensable work of contributors Adam Harvey, Adel Iskandar, Haitham Mossad, and Laura Poitras, the extent to which military techniques of visualization define and ultimately delimit the topography of the Middle East.
Heba Y. Amin is an Egyptian visual artist, researcher and lecturer based in Berlin. She is the co-founder of the Black Athena Collective, the curator of visual art for the MIZNA journal, and one of the artists behind the subversive graffiti action on the set of the television series Homeland which received worldwide media attention. Amin has had recent exhibitions at the 10th Berlin Biennale, 15th Istanbul Biennale, MAXXI Rome, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, Kalmar Art Museum Sweden, La Villette Paris, FACT Liverpool, Kunsthalle Wien, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the Kunstverein in Hamburg, Berlin Berlinale 9th Forum Expanded Exhibition, and the IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art.
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Title
The General's Stork
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Author / Editor
Heba Y. Amin
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Publisher
Sternberg Press
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Pages
100
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Dimensions
120 x 180mm
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Format
Softcover
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Year
2020
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