Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s works, ‘Conflicted Phonemes’ and ‘The Whole Truth’, constitute a sharp critical interface on which the relationship between the voice and ‘authenticity’ can be looked at in many fascinating ways. Working with the form of the audio documentary, maps and info graphics, Hamdan is able to visiblize the technologies through which ‘truth’ is manufactured and appropriated within larger agendas of surveillance, governmentality, and the creation of the citizen-subject. The presence of a ‘witness’ figure and by extension a ‘testimony’ works as a powerful interjection to the notion of a singular, all encompassing history. The question of the contemporary, through the use of technological moments, appears not only a politically exciting one but also seems to ask deeply troubling philosophical questions about identity, mobilities, speech and the body.