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Join us for Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s performance 'Natq', a live audio-visual essay on the politics and possibilities of reincarnation.Spike Island presents Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Natq , a new performance exploring the politics and possibilities of reincarnation. Taking the form of a live audio-visual essay, Natq delves into xenoglossy: the ability of a reincarnated person to speak or write a language from a past life.
In this performance, Hamdan explores reincarnation as a medium for justice amongst individuals whose experiences of injustice and violence have escaped the historical record due to colonial subjugation, corruption, rural lawlessness and legal amnesty.
Natq is presented on the occasion of Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s solo exhibition 45th Parallel.
LAWRENCE ABU HAMDAN
Lawrence Abu Hamdan (b.1985, Amman, Jordan) is a Private Ear. His audio investigations have been used as evidence at the UK Asylum and Immigration Tribunal and as advocacy for organisations such as Amnesty International. He has exhibited at the 58th Venice Biennale; the 11th Gwanju Biennale; the 13th and 14th Sharjah Biennial; Witte De With, Rotterdam; Tate Modern Tanks, London; Chisenhale Gallery, London; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Portikus Frankfurt; The Showroom, London; and Casco, Utrecht. His works are part of collections at MoMA; Guggenheim, (both New York); Van AbbeMuseum, Eindhoven; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Tate Modern, London. As part of a temporary collective with nominated artists Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani, he was awarded the 2019 Turner Prize.
Image credit: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, A speculative portrait (for a boy who returned without his face) (2020). Video still. Courtesy of the artist.
Image description: Image shows the face of a boy with a black & white photo of a nose in the centre of his face.
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