Lawrence Abu Hamdan: After SFX – Performance at MUNCH

Name: Lawrence Abu Hamdan: After SFX – Performance at MUNCH
Start: 2025-09-19T17:30:00+02:00
Location: MUNCH

Schedule

Fri, 19 Sep, 2025 at 05:30 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

MUNCH | Oslo, OS

After SFX is a performance by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, shaped by his investigations into crimes and legal cases where sound has played a decisive role 🔊
This performance is presented in conjunction with Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s exhibition Zifzafa at MUNCH. Read more: https://www.munchmuseet.no/en/exhibitions/lawrence-abu-hamdan/
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19.09.2025
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Doors open: 17:30
Start: 18:00
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Festsal, MUNCH

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Tickets: https://www.munchmuseet.no/en/whats-on/lawrence-abu-hamdan-after-sfx/ (Seated event. Recommended age limit: 16 years)
After SFX explores the complexities and potential of sonic memory, and how our recollections of sound can help reconstruct events where vision falls short.
Abu Hamdan describes his practice as that of a ‘private ear’ or independent audio investigator, a role that comes into focus during this performance together with sound designer Adam Laschinger and percussionist Iain Stewart. He manipulates objects from his Earwitness Inventory, a collection of everyday items designed to recreate sounds described by crime witnesses.
While performing, Abu Hamdan narrates his encounters with earwitnesses, weaving together legal cases, personal recollections, and reflections on language, listening, and the politics of sound. The result is a hybrid form of lecture, sound work and performance — what the artist calls a live audio essay — and a forensic listening session that draws the audience into the uncertain terrain where memory and justice meet.
After SFX is a collaboration with Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival.
Photo: © 2025 Digital image, The Museum of Modern Art, New York/Scala, Florence