5,000 Feet Is the Best

by Omer Fast, T.J. Demos, Liz Kotz

Drone surveillance in modern warfare,that is, the use of unmanned planes operated by pilots on the ground is of paramount significance to Omer Fast. Focusing a single cinematic video work of Fasts, 5,000  Feet  is  the  Best 2011, the publication bridges the gap between a critical reader and an artist s book. Produced to accompany two solo exhibitions in Oslo and Toronto, it includes texts from art historians Liz Kotz and T. J. Demos, an article on drones from the journal Foreign  Policy, and the artist s research set alongside film stills. An email thread between practitioners active in different fields opens the conversation into a forum on politics, ethics, aesthetics, and human experience.

128 pages, Hardcover

Published September 1, 2012