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- 27.08.2021, 7 p.m.solidarity pricing system (you choose): from 5 €, 8.15 p.m. Artist Talk with Marwa Arsanios and Lawrence Abi Hamdan, moderated by Reem Shadid
The COVID pandemic brought air traffic in Lebanon to a standstill. Despite this, the noise caused by planes over Beirut increased dramatically. At the peak of the lockdown Israeli fighter jets and drones overflew the city up to 50 times a day. Their altitude would suggest that they were not there for surveillance or reconnaissance purposes, but with the aim of producing noise. However, the city’s countless diesel generators, reconstruction work following the explosion and the numerous civil protests relegated these noises to a hum in the background whose threatening origins could almost be forgotten. The artist and Turner Prize-winner Lawrence Abu Hamdan calls himself a “private ear”, an independent audio investigator. In the course of the last year, he has collected over 800 recordings of Israeli aircraft which he places at the centre of his new audio-visual essay that explores the link between territoriality and atmospheric violence.
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Duration: ca. 75 Min.
Language: English
27.8., 8.15 p.m. Artist Talk with Marwa Arsanios and Lawrence Abu Hamdan, moderated by Reem Shadid
Mousonturm-co-production
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Cast & Credits
Konzept, Performance: Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Audiovisuelle Live-Übertragung: Mohammad Choucair
Research und Produktion: Ahmad Beydoun, Nabla Yahya
A coproduction by Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and Frankfurt LAB in the frame of “This is Not Lebanon. Festival for Visual Arts, Performance, Music and Talks”, part of the project “Architecture of the Mal-tempered Environment (tbd)” in development for the “2022 Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media”, which is a collaboration between the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. The research is in part supported by Art Research Sound a Research project under the direction of Professor Peter Kiefer Mainz School of Music Gutenberg Research College, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
“This Is Not Lebanon. Festival for Visual Arts, Performance, Music and Talks” is a cooperation project of the Frankfurt LAB with Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and Ensemble Modern in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Lebanon, supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and Ensemble Modern Patronatsgesellschaft e.V. The discourse programme is supported by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb). The residencies within the framework of “This Is Not Lebanon. Festival for Visual Arts, Performance, Music and Talks” are part of “Frankfurt Moves!”, a cooperation of the KfW Stiftung and the Frankfurt LAB to promote international emerging artists in the field of dance and performing arts.
Biography
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Lawrence Abu Hamdan is a Private Ear. His interest with sound and its intersection with politics originate from his background as a touring musician and facilitator of DIY music. His audio investigations have been used as evidence at the UK Asylum and Immigration Tribunal and as advocacy for organisations such as Amnesty International and Defence for Children International together with fellow researchers from Forensic Architecture. Abu Hamdan completed his PhD in 2017 from Goldsmiths College University of London and has completed fellowships at the Gray Centre for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago and the Vera List Centre for Art and Politics at the New School. Abu Hamdan has exhibited his works at the 58th Venice Biennale, the 11th Gwanju Biennale and the 13th and 14th Sharjah Biennial, Witte De With, Rotterdam, Tate Modern Tanks, Chisenhale Gallery, Hammer Museum L.A, Portikus Frankfurt, The Showroom, London and Casco, Utrecht. His works are part of collections at MoMA, Guggenheim, Van AbbeMuseum, Centre Pompidou and Tate Modern. Abu Hamdan’s work has been awarded the 2019 Edvard Munch Art Award, the 2016 Nam June Paik Award for new media and in 2017 his film Rubber Coated Steel won the Tiger short film award at the Rotterdam International Film festival. For the 2019 Turner Prize Abu Hamdan formed a temporary collective with nominated artists Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani, in order to be jointly granted the award.
