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The General's StorkResearch/Practice 02

Heba Y. Amin - The General\'s Stork
The General's Stork explores historical accounts of biblical prophecies, colonial narratives, and the politics of technological warfare in the Middle East from a bird's eye view.
As war increasingly becomes dictated by the needs of technology, conquest from the sky has transformed Western warfare into an imbalanced spectacle of high-tech weaponry, land surveying, aerial mapping, bombing and drone warfare. Focusing on how military technologies were developed in the specific context of Middle Eastern geographies, this volume will explore the extensive research that comprised the development of this multi-dimensional and developing work. It will also give further background as to how, in 2013, the Egyptian authorities sought to detain a migratory stork that it accused of being an international spy.
Edited by Anthony Downey, “Research/Practice” focuses on artistic research and how it contributes to the formation of experimental knowledge systems. Drawing on preliminary material such as diaries, notebooks, audiovisual content, digital and social media, informal communications, and abandoned drafts, the series examines the interdisciplinary research methods that artists employ in their practices. Each volume endeavors to ask: In their often speculative and yet purposeful approach to generating research, what forms of knowledge do artists produce?
Heba Y. Amin (born 1980 in Cairo, lives and works in Berlin) is an Egyptian visual artist, researcher and lecturer. 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.
Edited by Anthony Downey.

Graphic design: Daly & Lyon.
 
published in January 2021
English edition
12 × 18 cm (softcover)
100 pages (color & b/w ill.)
 
15.00
 
ISBN : 978-3-95679-478-0
EAN : 9783956794780
 
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