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SOCIAL GLITCH
Radical aesthetics and the consequences of extreme events
Curated by: Sylvia Eckermann, Gerald Nestler, Maximilian Thoman
An exhibition project at KUNSTRAUM NIEDEROESTERREICH 25 09 - 05 12 2015
and in the public space of Vienna with projects in collaboration with TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien and WUK.performing.arts
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Lawrence Abu Hamdam, The Whole Truth, 2012, installation view |
Lawrence Abu Hamdan (LB/GB)
The Whole Truth, 2012 Audio, lie detector, mirror, bench.
The trigger for the audio documentary The Whole Truth is the current application of voice analysis as a lie detection method recently piloted by European, Russian and Israeli governments as well as being employed in border agencies and insurance companies all over the world. This technology uses the voice as a kind of stethoscope, an instrument to measure internal bodily responses to stress and tension; a material channel that allows the law's listening to bypass speech and delve deeper into the body of its subjects. The documentary, which experiments with the conventions of radio, consists of a collection of interviews with software developers, anthropologists and entrepreneurs of the biometric industry, from the Netherlands, USA and elsewhere. To the listeners, it offers a fresh look into how truth is constituted, to whom truth matters and who can use it; it complicates the current conventions of testimony and its relationship to trauma, free speech, technology and the body. |
