2022: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, “The People’s Tribunal of Inadmissible Speech”

Lawrence Abu Hamdan, “The People‘s Tribunal of Inadmissible Speech“
Thursday, 8 December 2022, 19:15 CET
Auditorium of Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 1/3
10117 Berlin
GERMANY

With Britta Lange

Sponsored by:

The Mosse Foundation
Institut für deutsche Literatur
Humboldt University
Mosse Lectures

poster for winter term 2022-23 schedule at Humboldt University, Berlin

Description: The talk will propose different categories of witnessing, evidence, and the production of truth, which inturn necessitate new practices of listening. By presenting the recent projects by the artist, this talk will focus on the aesthetic strategies required to produce conditions for listening to testimony that sits awkwardly in the forums we conventionally designate for the production of truth and history.

Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Born in Jordan, Hamdan is an award-winning artist, filmmaker, and researcher. He creates art installations and investigates the politics of sound and listening. He has worked on international human rights cases and founded the nonprofit Earshot in 2023.

Ethel Matala de Mazza introduces the topic

Britta Lange speaks at the podium, with a projected behind her — Britta Lange speaks at the podium

Hamdan delivering his lecture, with a slide in the background with a picture of an open mouth — Hamdan delivering his lecture

Hamdan delivering his lecture, with a slide in the background depicting a clock — Hamdan delivering his lecture

Photo credit: Niels Leiser for the Mosse Lectures