Image: Barbican Centre, London
Turner Prize-winning artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan will lead ‘Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Repercussions’, a four-day programme exploring sonic justice at London’s Barbican Centre from 23 to 26 September 2026. The programme will take place across the Barbican Centre and will combine installation, live music, screenings and performances.
According to the Barbican’s announcement, the programme will examine the “urgent and evolving concept of sonic justice”—a framework focused on the impact of sound and its role in human-rights stories. The centre describes the programme as an opportunity to consider how sound can operate within accounts of violence, testimony and accountability, although it has not released a full schedule or list of participating performers.
The event is presented as an artist-led takeover of the Barbican, extending beyond a single gallery or auditorium. Its four-day structure will bring together several forms of artistic presentation, with installation, music, film and performance planned as connected elements of the programme. The announcement does not specify whether the installation will be newly commissioned or identify the individual works to be shown.
Abu Hamdan’s participation is foregrounded through his status as a Turner Prize winner. The Barbican’s description places his programme within an ongoing engagement with sound as a means of investigating pressing human-rights questions, without providing further biographical information or detailing the specific cases that will form the programme’s focus.
‘Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Repercussions’ will run from Wednesday 23 September through Saturday 26 September 2026, across the Barbican Centre in London. Further programme information, including details of the screenings, performances, live music and installation, was not included in the announcement.
