Daght Jawi
by Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Saturday 6 April 2024 at 7pm
Le Planétarium de Bruxelles
Artist : Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Video Operator : Nabla Yahya
Sound designer : Moe Choucair
Initially commissioned by the Mousounturn, Frankfurt and Ashkal Alwan Beirut. Further support for this research came generously from the ARS Art-Research-Sound, a research project led by Prof. Peter Kiefer at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
Listening to a soundtrack of violence on a daily basis.
For one year, Lawrence Abu Hamdan kept a diary of the sweltering skies above Lebanon. During the same period, he made more than 40 videos of Israeli fighter jets and other unmanned aerial vehicles. Using this material as well as live audio, he recreates the atmosphere of this roaring sky in the Brussels planetarium. A performance evoking life under the sounds of violence, under a sky that is continually changing. From imminent danger to relative calm, from free to occupied, from something that can be ignored to fatal.
Duration
40 min.