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Jun 2018
46m 19s

Interview with Lawrence Abu Hamdan

Tea With Culture
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In this episode Wael Hattar interviews artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan. We discuss Hamdan's practice in general, and cover his young but powerfully growing career from his first interest in Sound Art and how his work has developed into multiple media. Along with the winning of many prizes regionally and globally, we talk about the way people perceive his work (We ... Show More
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