The talk will focus on categories of witnessing, evidence, and the production of truth, that inturn necessitate new practices of listening. Through elaboration on recent projects, the talk will demonstrate the aesthetic strategies required to produce conditions for listening to testimony that are inaudible to the legal and political forms conventionally employed to produce truth and history.
Image: The Witness-Machine Complex, installation view, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg, 2022.
© Courtesy of the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery.
Speakers: Lawrence Abu Hamdan