Heba Y. Amin at International Biennials and talks (15/07/2017)


On July 15, Amin appeared on UpFront, Al Jazeera's newest weekly current affairs programme, discussing Hollywood's relationship with the military. Criticizing one of the most popular series “Homeland”, she highlighted the issue as “Shows like Homeland poorly researched and made major mistakes about Middle Eastern narratives. You can't convince an entire country to go into an illegal war in the Middle East without having previously convinced them of a certain kind of image of a bad guy.”

With her talk entitled "Subverting the Media as Artistic Practice," Amin was also a guest of "Fill in the Blanks III," which is an open platform where discussions on space, history and knowledge take place. Held at foundationClass Berlin on June 12, the talk was based on the questions "Is artivism worth pursuing as a mechanism, or is it just a tool that uses media to heighten the public’s consciousness?" "Should we be seeking a ‘revolutionary’ aesthetic?"