Lawrence Abu Hamdan

Lawrence Abu Hamdan (born 1985, Amman) is a contemporary artist based in Beirut. His work looks into the political effects of listening, using various kinds of audio to explore its effects on human rights and law. Because of his work with sound, Abu Hamdan has testified as an expert witness in asylum hearings in the United Kingdom.[1]

His work has been featured in major group exhibitions including the British Art Show 8 (2015–17),[2] the Liverpool Biennial (2016),[3] and third New Museum Triennial (2015).[4] Solo exhibitions of the artists work have been presented at The Showroom, London (2012);[5] Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen (2015);[6] and Portikus, Frankfurt (2016).[7] His work is included in the collections of the Arts Council England[8] and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.[9]

Career & artwork

Abu Hamdan received his Ph.D from Goldsmiths through the Center for Research Architecture in 2016.[10]

The artist has a background in music production and describes his work as concerned with the "politics of listening."[11] His work confronts specific instances and examples of listening and the voice as they related to legal and political contexts. In his 2012 radio documentary The Whole Truth, he explored new technologies that were attempting to act as lie-detectors for voices.[12] In a 2015 commission for The Armory Show in New York, the artist distributed bags of potato chips in foil wrappers. The work builds on research undertaken by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in which they were able to turn common objects into listening devices by capturing vibrations recorded on physical objects and transferring them back into speech.[13][14]

In 2016, Sternberg press published a monograph on the artist ISBN 9783956792410.[15]

Awards and fellowships

  • DAAD Visual Artists Residency (2017)[16]
  • Nam June Paik Award (2016)[17]
  • Vera List Center Fellow, New School, New York (2015–17)[18]

References

  1. ↑ Karen Rosenberg, "Legal Hearing: the Politicized Sound Art of Lawrence Abu Hamdan," Artspace, March 2, 2015, http://www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_features/close_look/close-look-lawrence-abu-hamdan-52638
  2. ↑ http://britishartshow8.com/artists/lawrence-abu-hamdan-1490
  3. ↑ http://www.biennial.com/2016/exhibition/artists/lawrence-abu-hamdan
  4. ↑ http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/the-generational-triennial
  5. ↑ http://www.portikus.de/en/exhibitions/199_earshot
  6. ↑ http://www.kunsthallesanktgallen.ch/en/3/events/lawrence-abu-hamdan-573.html
  7. ↑ http://www.portikus.de/en/exhibitions/199_earshot
  8. ↑ http://www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk/search-results?keys=lawrence+abu+hamdan&type%5B%5D=artist&submit.x=21&submit.y=10&submit=Search
  9. ↑ https://www.moma.org/artists/45238?locale=en
  10. ↑ http://www.maureenpaley.com/artists/lawrence-abu-hamdan/biography
  11. ↑ Lawrence Abu Hamdan, in Jessica Holland, "Artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan Demands the Right to Stay Silent," Vice, March 4, 2015, https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/artist-lawrence-abu-hamdan-demands-the-right-to-stay-silent-981
  12. ↑ Basia Lewandowska Cummings, "Lawrence Abu Hamdan," Frieze, January 11, 2013, https://frieze.com/article/lawrence-abu-hamdan
  13. ↑ Nate Freeman, "Lawrence Abu Hamdan Turns Snacks into Surveillance at Armory Special Projects," New York Observer, March 4, 2015, http://observer.com/2015/03/lawrence-abu-hamdan-turns-snacks-into-surveillance-at-armory-special-projects/
  14. ↑ Robert Leckie, "Equivocally Yours: A Conversation with Lawrence Abu Hamdan," Afterall 39 (Summer 2015) https://www.afterall.org/journal/issue.39/equivocally-yours_a-conversation-with-lawrence-abu-hamdan
  15. ↑ http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1702&l=en&bookId=595&sort=
  16. ↑ http://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/news.php?news=3
  17. ↑ Alyssa Buffenstein, "Lawrence Abu Hamdan Scores €25,000 Nam June Paik Award" Artnet News, October 28, 2016, https://news.artnet.com/art-world/lawrence-abu-hamdan-2016-nam-june-paik-award-724793
  18. ↑ http://www.veralistcenter.org/engage/people/1990/lawrence-abu-hamdan/
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