Right To Silence I
Saturday 11 February, 4.30 pm, Free
The Showroom, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8 8PQ
Multidisciplinary presentations and performances responding to tracks from the Aural Contract Audio Archive,
including contributions from artists Kobe Matthys (Agency), Salomé Voegelin, Paul Elliman and hardcore garage punk band Triple School (Giles Bailey and Tom Varley).
Right To Silence II
Saturday 25 February, 4.30 pm, Free
The Showroom, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8 8PQ
A seminar focusing on the legal status of the voice, bringing together contributions by legal scholars, writers and artists
including Patrick Hanafin, Professor of law and Director of the Centre for Law and the Humanities at Birkbeck; and artist and Senior Research Fellow at Goldsmiths
Susan Schuppli; and Anne Karpf, sociologist, writer, broadcaster and author of The Human Voice (2006).
Right To Silence III
Wednesday 7 March, 7 pm, Free
Electra, 3rd Floor Shacklewell Studios, 18 Shacklewell Lane, London E8 2EZ UK
Documentary double bill, including Jean-Pierre Gorin's 1979 film Poto and Cabengo, and The Right to Remain Silent, a
This American Life documentary about the recordings of New York police officer Adrian Schoolcraft.
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The Right to Silence accompanies Abu Hamdan's exhibition at The Showroom, Aural Contract: The Freedom of Speech Itself (1 February - 17 March).
The exhibition includes The Freedom of Speech Itself, an audio documentary directed by the artist, looking at the the history and
contemporary application of forensic speech analysis and voice-prints, focusing on the UK's controversial use of voice analysis to determine
the origins and authenticity of asylum seekers' accents
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Image: The MGM Lion Roar, 1929, the first non-musical sound to be copyrighted
