February / March 2012
The Showroom, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8

The Right to Silence is an event series exploring the legal status of the voice and builds on the research and polemics at the core of Lawrence Abu Hamdan's ongoing project Aural Contract. Taking the form of presentations responding to tracks from the Aural Contract Audio Archive, a compilation of sounds related to the politics of listening, a symposium and screening the series brings together contributions by amongst others Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Agency, Paul Elliman, Patrick Hanafin, Anne Karpf, Susan Schuppli and Salomé Voegelin. The events are a collaboration between Electra and the Showroom, during his Aural Contract: The Freedom
of Speech Itself exhibition.

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Thursday 16 February, 7pm Calvert 22, 22 Calvert Avenue, London E2 7JP
Free event

Join Electra's Irene Revell in conversation with Lina Dzuverovic on (im)migration, memory / loss and displaced identities. This exchange takes as its starting point a personal reflection on Irene's own Polish and Belarusian descent, and will be followed by a screening of selected films from Naomi Uman's The Ukrainian Time Machine cycle. This cycle charts the film maker's experiences of 'returning' to live in the rural Ukrainian region that her great-grandparents emigrated from in 1906.

Thursday 8 March, 7pm
Calvert 22,
22 Calvert Avenue,
London E2 7JP
Free event, to book a place: rsvp@calvert22.org

In celebration of the International Women's Day, Electra chooses films from Filmoteka Muzeum, the Archive of Polish Experimental Film. The event brings together work by amongst others KwieKulik, Natalia LL, and Teresa Tyszkiewicz and will be presented with a conversation between Electra's Fatima Hellberg and curator, writer and lecturer Maxa Zoller. In focus here is the role of performativity and staging in the selected works, and associated questions around the collective body.

3-5 May 2012
Tate Modern

A three day event investigating feminist discourses in sound, launching with a performance and talk by Pauline Oliveros. The symposium, which brings together contributions by leadings artists, performers, theoreticians and writers aims to provide a platform to further develop these emergent feminist discourses in sound and music, with an emphasis on tactics that challenge and / or infiltrate canonical readings. The event marks the donation of the Her Noise Archive to University of the Arts London Archives and Special Collections housed at London College of Communication, and is realised as a collaboration between Electra, CRiSAP (Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice) and Tate.