In 2023 Lawrence Abu Hamdan founded Earshot, the world’s first organisation using sound for the defence of human and environmental rights. Reflecting on its first year of operation, Abu Hamdan will be elaborating on the interrelations of art and activism and listening with politics. The presentation will focus on his latest project Zifzafa and use it to explore the concept and the struggle for a sonic self-determination. The event will open with a skill share led by Surveillance Resistance Lab, who will introduce practical steps for pushing back against big tech surveillance.

Zifzafa is a video game simulation that seeks to safeguard the auditory life of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights against further acts of occupation and dispossession. For more about this project visit earshot.ngo/investigations/zifzafa.