‘‘Darfur’

DATE: 2006
MEDIA: sound sculpture

“The dog barks, but it makes no difference to the camel We are the dogs
The world is the camel”
- proverb from Darfur

‘Darfur’ is a 12 channel sound work composed of two hundred different dogs barking and yelping. The recordings were made in a compound of abandoned dogs in the Italian city of Cagliari, the location where the piece was first shown. The title refers to a commonplace proverb used in Darfur alluding to the deaf ears taken to block out the sound of the suffering of others who articulate loudly their own plight.

Presented at:
‘Urp!’, Cagliari, Italy, 2006
Madrid Abierto’, Madrid, Spain, 2007
‘Second Moscow Biennale’, Moscow, 2007
‘Fri-Art’, Fribourg, Switzerland, 2007
‘Performa 09’, White Box, New York, 2009