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| Title: | Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Walled Unwalled and Other Monologues | | Date: | 4/8/2023 - 6/11/2023 | | Address: | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 11 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019 | | Location: | New York, NY | | Hours: | Sunday – Friday: 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. / Saturday: 10:30 a.m.–7:00 p.m. | | Cost/Cover: | free - $25 | | Web Page: | https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5559 | | Contact Info: | 212-708-9400 |
| Details: | “We’re all wall, and no wall at all,” Lawrence Abu Hamdan has written. With this phrase, he described a world paradoxically inundated with both physical barriers and surveillance technology that can permeate any surface. The artist’s video Walled Unwalled (2018), at the heart of this exhibition and program of performances, invites visitors to consider the “ear-witness” as a form of legal testimony, and how the physical act of listening can both exonerate and incriminate. Abu Hamdan practices what he calls “forensic listening” by documenting and analyzing sound records using video, installation, and live performance. In Walled Unwalled, he delivers a monologue citing legal cases that hinged on auditory evidence perceived and collected through walls or doors—including Kyllo v. United States (2001) and the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius (2014)—as well as the story of survivors of the Syrian regime’s Saydnaya military prison. The work was shot through the windows of a Cold War–era recording studio in former East Berlin that was used by state radio to broadcast propaganda throughout the Eastern Bloc and beyond the Berlin wall.
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| Event is: | Daily | | Audience: | All Welcome | | Category: | Exhibit | | Submitted by: | contributed |
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