I Will Survive

Hito Steyerl's I Will Survive follows a single 3D-scanned bullet as it moves through military supply chains, data servers and international arms fairs, using one object to trace how weapons, images and information now travel the same infrastructure.

Published by Spector Books to accompany the exhibition of the same name, the book gathers Steyerl's essayistic writing with stills and documentation from the video and installation work, extending her inquiry into surveillance, circulation and the political economy of digital images. Rather than treating the bullet as a symbol, Steyerl follows its literal supply chain, showing how the same networks that move munitions also move data, capital and images across borders. The result reads as both exhibition catalogue and standalone critical text.

Steyerl is a German artist, filmmaker and writer whose work on digital images, war and infrastructure, including How Not to Be Seen and Duty Free Art, has made her one of the most influential essayistic voices in contemporary art. I Will Survive continues that body of work, tying one physical object to the wider networks of violence and information it moves through.