Keynote Lecture: Eavesdropping: On the Politics of Listening and Being Listened To
Thu, 05. Sep 2019
City Gallery Wellington
Te Ngākau Civic Square
Wellington, New Zealand
Te Ngākau Civic Square
Wellington, New Zealand
6PM
FREE
FREE
Curators Joel Stern (Liquid Architecture) and James Parker (Melbourne Law School) unpack their show Eavesdropping. Following will be a presentation of two short films by artists: Turner-Prize Nominee Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Walled Unwalled (20 mins) and Muted We Are the World by Samson Young (5 mins).This keynote lecture is part of the September Tuatara Open Late programme.
Artists
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
WORKS: Rubber Coated Steel; Saydnaya (The Missing 19DB); Conflicted Phenomes
"I despise anyone who says that art is about asking questions, and not providing answers. You hear that pretty much every day in our profession. Artists who repeat this statement think of this as a radical act. But what if art's radicality is actually about art being an engine for truth production? I'm not talking about the same forms of truth production in science or law, since science is totally different to law and each represents two different models for telling the truth. In forensics, science and law meet in some weird space. In art, you can borrow from the ways that science and law tell the truth in order to come up with the means by which art can also speak it."
"I despise anyone who says that art is about asking questions, and not providing answers. You hear that pretty much every day in our profession. Artists who repeat this statement think of this as a radical act. But what if art's radicality is actually about art being an engine for truth production? I'm not talking about the same forms of truth production in science or law, since science is totally different to law and each represents two different models for telling the truth. In forensics, science and law meet in some weird space. In art, you can borrow from the ways that science and law tell the truth in order to come up with the means by which art can also speak it."