Lawrence Abu Hamdan Air Pressure (A diary of the sky)

Air Pressure (A diary of the sky) is a new multi-channel video and audio installation by Lawrence Abu Hamdanwinner of the third Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media jointly awarded by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Lawrence Abu Hamdan is an independent audio researcher whose work analyses the political dimension of sound through a plurality of media such as sound recordings, surveillance technologies and archival materials.

The new work Air Pressure (A diary of the sky) explores the ecology of noise inherent to Lebanese airspace, and focuses in particular on the episodes in which the Israeli Air Force has crossed the skies over Lebanon, in violation of the agreements between the two nations mediated by the UN Security Council. Through a sound and film installation, the work renders these recurrent violations in a tangible manner, proposing a reflection on the atmospheric violence that has become part of everyday Lebanese life.