Event
Book Launch: Heba Y. Amin The General’s Stork
7 Oct 2020
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Address
- Tower House
- 226 Cromwell Road
- London
England - SW5 0SW
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Earls Court Tube
Join Heba Y. Amin and Anthony Downey for the online launch of their new book The General’s Stork (Sternberg Press, 2020).
About
In 2013, Egyptian authorities detained a migratory stork for espionage. This incident, which appears initially amusing, became the impetus for Heba Y. Amin’s The General’s Stork, an ongoing project that investigates the all-too-deadly politics of aerial surveillance in the Middle East.
Following a short presentation by the artist, Amin and Downey discuss how land surveying, bombing, drone technologies and other forms of technology have transformed Western power in the Middle East into a spectacle of high-tech weaponry.
About the book
With contributions from Adam Harvey, Adel Iskandar, Haitham Mossad, and Laura Poitras, Heba Y. Amin: The General’s Stork is volume 02 in the Research/Practice series (ed. Downey, Sternberg Press, 2019-ongoing). The series asks: In their speculative and yet purposeful approach to research, what forms of innovative knowledge do artists produce?
