The Whole Truth
《事實之全部》

(2012)
Lawrence Abu Hamdan (Lebanon)
勞倫斯.阿布.哈姆丹(黎巴嫩)
The Whole Truth is an audio documentary about the current application of voice analysis as a lie detection method, recently piloted by European, Russian and Israeli governments and used by border agencies and insurance companies all over the world. The documentary, which experiments with the conventions of radio, consists of a collection of interviews with software developers, anthropologists and entrepreneurs of the biometric industry, from the Netherlands, USA and elsewhere. Abu Hamdan utilises this voice-based lie detector to process the voices you hear in the work, thereby demonstrating the arbitrary nature of the verdicts it generates.

《事實之全部》是一部聲音紀實,介紹了以語音分析作為測謊方法的當今應用,現時由歐洲、俄羅斯及以色列政府進行試驗,並且已被全世界的邊境特務和保險公司所使用。這部紀錄片以廣播的傳統作實驗,包括與多個來自荷蘭、美國與其他地方的軟件開發者、人類學家和生物識別行業的企業家所進行的訪問。哈姆丹運用了這種基於聲音的測謊機去處理作品中的聲音,以證由之產生的定案具有獨斷肆意性。

Artist biography 藝術家簡介

Lawrence Abu Hamdan is a “Private Ear”. His interest with sound and its intersection with politics originate from his background as a touring musician and facilitator of DIY music. The artist’s audio investigations has been used as evidence at the UK Asylum and Immigration Tribunal and as advocacy for organisations such as Amnesty International and Defence for Children International together with fellow researchers from Forensic Architecture.

Abu Hamdan completed his PhD in 2017 from Goldsmiths College University of London and is currently a fellow at the Gray Centre for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago.

Abu Hamdan has exhibited his work at the 58th Venice Biennale, the 11th Gwanju Biennale and the 13th and 14th Sharjah Biennial, Witte De With, Rotterdam, Tate Modern Tanks, Chisenhale Gallery, Hammer Museum L.A, Portikus Frankfurt, The Showroom, London and Casco, Utrecht. His works are part of collections at MoMA, Guggenheim, Van AbbeMuseum, Centre Pompidou and Tate Modern. Abu Hamdan’s work has been awarded the 2019 Edvard Munch Art Award, the 2016 Nam June Paik Award for new media and in 2017 his film Rubber Coated Steel won the Tiger short film award at the Rotterdam International Film festival. For the 2019 Turner Prize Abu Hamdan, together with nominated artists Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani, formed a temporary collective in order to be jointly granted the award.

勞倫斯.阿布.哈姆丹是一只「秘密耳朵」;他對聲音充滿興趣,以至其與政治的交互性,一切源於他作為巡迴音樂人及DIY音樂促進者的背景。藝術家的音頻硏究曾經和英國的法證建築團隊合作在英國庇護及移民法庭中被應用為証據,並在受國際特赦組織及國際保護兒童組織等機構所倡導。

哈姆丹於2017年在倫敦大學金匠學院榮獲其博士學位並成為芝加哥大學格雷藝術與研究中心的硏究學者。

哈姆丹曾於多個著名國際藝術節及場所展出作品,包括第五十八屆威尼斯雙年展、第十一屆光州雙年展、第十三及十四屆沙迦雙年展、鹿特丹的Witte de With當代藝術中心、泰特現代藝術館的The Tanks、倫敦的奇森哈勒畫廊、洛杉磯漢默美術館、法蘭克福門廊博物館、倫敦的The Showroom、荷蘭烏得勒支Casco等。他的作品多間著名美術館所收藏,包括美國現代藝術博物館、古根漢美術館、荷蘭埃因霍溫凡䒝伯當代美術館、龐比度藝術中心及泰特現代藝術館等。他的作品曾獲得多個國際奬項,包括2019年的愛德華・蒙克藝術奬及2016年的白南準藝術奬(媒體藝術),而他的電影作品《Rubber Coated Steel》則在2017年鹿特丹國際影展中榮獲Tiger短片大奬。2019年的透納奬中他與同期提名及入圍的藝術家們海倫・卡姆莫克、奧斯卡・莫黑略以及泰・莎妮組成了一個臨時團隊並共同呼籲評審,以達至一個共同領受此大奬的結果。

Lawrence Abu Hamdan
勞倫斯.阿布.哈姆丹