UM Conversations - Hanan Benammar, Ways Of Seeing

Published: Sept. 24, 2020, 1:38 p.m.

b'The play Ways of Seeing attracted huge amounts of controversy in Norway in 2018, leading to media outrage as a series of attempts at terror action and threatening cutout letters where sent to the house of the justice minister. Now in 2020, there is a court case going on against Laila Bertheussen, the ministers partner, for staging fake threats in an apparent attempt at framing the people behind the play. \\n\\nThis is a conversation with Hanan, actor and co-writer of the play, about her experience making the play and the controversies that followed.\\n\\nHer recommendation for unpleasant art is Dream House by composer La Monte Young and multimedia artist Marian Zazeela.\\nhttps://www.melafoundation.org/dream02.htm'