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THE RIGHT TO SILENCEAn event series in three parts These events expand on the research and polemics at the core of Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s ’Aural Contract’, an ongoing project focusing on the politics of listening and the role of the voice in law. Bringing together contributions from Abu Hamdan, legal scholar Patrick Hanafin, artists Paul Elliman, Kobe Matthys and Salomé Voegelin, writer and media theorist Susan Schuppli, amongst others, the series asks the question, through a number of propositions and formats, ‘what is the legal status of the voice?’ The Right to Silence is realised as a collaboration between Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Electra and The Showroom.  http://www.electra-productions.com/

THE RIGHT TO SILENCE
An event series in three parts




These events expand on the research and polemics at the core of Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s ’Aural Contract’, an ongoing project focusing on the politics of listening and the role of the voice in law. Bringing together contributions from Abu Hamdan, legal scholar Patrick Hanafin, artists Paul Elliman, Kobe Matthys and Salomé Voegelin, writer and media theorist Susan Schuppli, amongst others, the series asks the question, through a number of propositions and formats, ‘what is the legal status of the voice?’ 

The Right to Silence is realised as a collaboration between Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Electra and The Showroom. 

http://www.electra-productions.com/

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