Marta Bogdańska / Shifters

Building on concepts such as Éric Baratay’s history from the animal point of view, Michel Foucault’s biopolitics, and Hito Steyerl’s poor image, as well as new materialist and feminist theories, Bogdańska leads the reader on an artistic and ethical exploration of the presence of animals within the machinery of Western defence institutions from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s.

Suspicious squirrels, spying dolphins, nuclear lizards, photographer pigeons. 850 pages of investigating the use of animals as soldiers, spies, police and kamikaze.