Lecture
Thursday 22 February 2024
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
400 Billion Dollars of Air
Lawrence Abu Hamdan will present the multiple outcomes of his large scale research project Airpressure.info the only searchable and interactive documentation of Israeli military aircraft operating in Lebanese airspace that inflict indiscriminate mass surveillance and noise pollution on millions of people. Here, Abu Hamdan employs the ‘atmospheric’ to think through the ways in which violence is made manifest, reading Lebanon’s air as a high pressure nexus in a global weather system. This lecture will act both as a presentation of his research as well as an exploration into the strategies by which we can sensitise publics to the data and research uncovered by aesthetic practitioners.
About Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Lawrence Abu Hamdan is a Private Ear, listening to, with and on behalf of people affected by corporate, state, and environmental violence. Abu Hamdan’s work has been presented in the form of forensic reports, expert testimony, lectures and live performances, films, publications, and exhibitions all over the world. He received his PhD in 2017 and has held fellowships and professorships at the University of Chicago, the New School, New York and most recently at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz where he developed his research AirPressure.info.
