A Wing Beat! A Wing Beat! follows the perspective of a carrier pigeon — or rather the apparatus that it transports with every flap of its wings. The publication transforms the video installation of the same title by the artist Leonie Kellein to the medium of a book. The human view perspective determined by image technologies is taken over by a pigeon. The poetics, politics and history of camera images — especially drone footage and pigeon camera photographs — are placed in relation to the animal. A Wing Beat! A Wing Beat! engages with the body of the pigeon and the attempts to control and capture it.

This publication combines historical photographs, images of sculptural objects and drone imagery of the Hohenlockstedt area — a region in Schleswig- Holstein, Germany, that was used for military training during the German Empire and the Nazi era — with texts by Agnieszka Roguski and Jayne Wilkinson.