Lawrence Abu Hamdan

Lawrence Abu Hamdan is an artist and the founder of Earshot, the first non-profit organisation to produce sound investigations in defence of human rights and the environment. His work has been presented in the form of forensic reports, lectures and live performances, films, publications and exhibitions around the world. He received his PhD in 2017 and has held fellowships and professorships at the University of Chicago, the New School in New York, and most recently at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, where he developed his AirPressure.info research. Abu Hamdan's sound investigations have played a key role in the advocacy campaigns of organisations such as Amnesty International and Defence for Children International. His projects, which reflect on the political and cultural context of sound and listening, were presented at the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, the 58th Venice Biennale and the 11th Gwangju Biennale. His works can be found in the collections of the Reina Sofia, MoMA, the Guggenheim, the Hamburger Bahnhof, the Van AbbeMuseum, the Centre Pompidou and the Tate Modern. He will receive the Turner Prize in 2019.

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CENTQUATRE-PARIS
octoberoct 5 – 10

Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Zifzafa

Performance

Zifzafa, is an arabic word to describe a wind that shakes and rattles all in its path. Here, it becomes the title of a performance of artist and researcher Lawrence Abu Hamdan, that enmeshes sonic composition, video game engines and spoken word, to immerse us in the heart of a movement to resist green colonialism in the occupied Syrian Golan heights. 
Espace Niemeyer
octoberoct 12 – 13

Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Air Pressure

Performance

Lawrence Abu Hamdan, artist, researcher and performer, revolutionizes the visual arts through the power of sound. As founder of Earshot, a non-profit organization that makes audio-based investigations for the defence of human rights and the environment, he kept a diary of Lebanon's anxiety-provoking airspace for a whole year. In a sound creation by Moe Choucair, he brings us a performance combining background noise and a climate of violence.