Lawrence Abu Hamdan is a researcher, filmmaker, artist, and activist, who has described himself as a Private Ear. His work has been presented in the form of forensic reports, lectures, live performances, films, publications, and exhibitions around the world. He runs Earshot, which leads sonic investigations for communities affected by corporate-, state-, and environmental injustice.

Anticipating the world premiere of his audiovisual performance – focusing on Earshot's work in Palestine and their research into the targeting of journalists and livestreams by Israeli forces – made in collaboration with avant-garde improvisers Supersilent, Hamdan will enter into a conversation with Giada Dalla Bontà.

Examining how noise, silence, and sonic fragments can serve as informational leakages, they will explore how artistic practice evolves into NGO work, reshaping itself and feeding into multimedia expressive forms that articulate the role of sonic testimonies and the noise of erasure. When soundtracks become sites of evidentiary power, functioning as both traces of violence and tools of control, how can forensic audio research provide acoustic evidence and develop techniques suited to each investigation and medium?

Giada Dalla Bontà is an Italian researcher, curator, and writer based in Berlin and Copenhagen, exploring the intersections of sound, art, and politics through educational projects, participatory practices, and poetic interventions. A co-founding member of the Listening Biennial, she is also a PhD fellow at the KU Sound Studies Lab, focusing on experimental and unofficial practices in the EECCA region.