Heba Y. Amin: The General’s Stork

Join Heba Y. Amin and Anthony Downey for the online launch of their new book The General’s Stork (Sternberg Press, 2020). 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.  

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?