A Wing Beat! A Wing Beat!

Book presentation by Leonie Kellein, in conversation with Caspar Reuss and Agnieszka Roguski

A Wing Beat! A Wing Beat! investigates how a homing pigeon—or actually, the equipment it carries with each flap of its wings—sees things. What happens when technology lets us see the world from an animal’s vantage point? Where are the points of transition between object and subject? For A Wing Beat! A Wing Beat!, Kellein studied possible ways of using media technology to represent an animal’s perspective. A pigeon here adopts the human gaze with the visual technologies that inform it. The resulting work sets the poetics, politics, and history of camera images—and especially of drone and pigeon-camera photographs—in relation to the animals. The artist’s book transposes Kellein’s video installation of the same title into the printed medium. With essays by Agnieszka Roguski and Jayne Wilkinson, published by DISTANZ.

The event will start with a talk between Leonie Kellein, graphic designer Caspar Reuss, and curator and editor of the book Agnieszka Roguski.