A seminar focusing on the legal status of the voice, bringing together contributions by legal scholars, writers and artists including Patrick Hanafin, Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Law and the Humanities at Birkbeck University; Susan Schuppli, artist and Senior Research Fellow at Goldsmiths College, and Anne Karpf, sociologist, writer, broadcaster and author of The Human Voice (2006).
The Right to Silence is a series of events which aim to expand on the research and polemics at the core of the project, Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Aural Contract, focusing on the politics of listening and the legal status of the voice. These events accompany his exhibition Aural Contract: The Freedom of Speech Itself and is realised as a collaboration between Lawrence Abu Hamdan, The Showroom and Electra.
A new stage of Abu Hamdan's Aural Contract research, centring on a new audio documentary titled The Freedom of Speech Itself.
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