From the communist ardor of the Bronx circa 1940 to the ’90s haze of the San Fernando Valley to a Brooklyn apartment building’s tenants’ association in the midst of a global pandemic
Urthworks draws on a trilogy of films by Ben Rivers imagining the future of a planet at three stages after environmental collapse
a black Atlantic culture whose themes and techniques transcend ethnicity and nationality to produce something new and
two mediums for which he is renowned
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Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Live Audio Essays Larne Abse Gogarty From the communist ardor ofPrimary Information, 2023, Softcover, 144 pages, 19 12. 5 cm Live Audio Essays presents transcripts from performances and films by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, an artist known for his political and cultural reflections on sound and listening. Abu Hamdans intricately crafted and heavily researched monologues are at times intimate, humorous, and entertaining, yet politically disquieting in their revelations. Using personal narratives, anecdotes, popular media,