Wednesday lectures: Hassan Khan

24.09.14

Hassan khan - sound/ film artist

• Connected to patronism-artist/context

Decoy - intervening in opening dinner [restaurant, replaced table with a pile of pine (wood)/ worked with four actors, during the opening of his exhibition.

• Dead dog speaks - animation (about speech and language)

• Blind ambition - film shot on a phone/ silent with the voices dubbed over afterwards.

Memories

• 17 and in AUC (2003) - four hours for fourteen nights - drinking, smoking and remembering university. Only spoke about memories - could not hear or see the audience (complete isolation)

Jewel (2010) - idea in 2006/ two men dancing around a speaker in the street - relating to history [dance - personal and cultural]

Work:

• Reading the surface: 100 portraits, 6 locations and 25 questions
• 17 and in AUC
• Decoy
• Tabla dub
• Transmission