The art exhibition “Gaming in Waziristan,” in progress at London’s Beaconsfield Gallery, includes previously unseen photographs of post-drone strike moments in North Waziristan, along with 3D animation and moving images.
The project seeks to interrogate structures of power, the war apparatus and, as this article articulates, the idea that the drone is “a tool of sterile, precise and perfect extermination.” The piece offers an intriguing analysis of the ways that drones have altered Pakistan, displaced populations and, rather than furthering the “war on terror,” have simply contributed to its urbanization.
(Via Guernica)
