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Supersilent & Lawrence Abu Hamdan

In a world premiere audiovisual performance, avant-garde improvisers Supersilent and visual artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan will present a brand new work, commissioned by Rewire and INDEX Biennial. Abu Hamdan is a sonic researcher, visual artist, director, Turner Prize winner, and founder of Earshot – a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the study of audio for human rights and environmental advocacy. His projects reflect on the political and cultural context of sound and listening, and his work has played a central role in campaigns for organisations such as Forensic Architecture and Amnesty International. For Rewire 2026, Supersilent and Abu Hamdan reflect on Earshot's work in Palestine, focusing particularly on their research into the targeting of journalists and livestreams by Israeli forces. The last captured images these cameras took before or as they were being destroyed form the basis of the collaboration between Abu Hamdan and Supersilent who will together produce a performance that reflects on the resilience of images and the noise of erasure. For nearly 30 years, Supersilent – the Norwegian group of post-jazz experimentalists Arve Henriksen, Helge Sten (aka Deathprod), and Ståle Storløkken ~ have carved out a labyrinthian volume of works, spanning 14 releases of microtonal alien-song, improvised ambience, and strange electro-acoustic reveries.