Danica Dakić – Lullaby of the Earth

“Lullaby of the Earth”, sound installation by Danica Dakić, Latinska Ćuprija (Sarajevo)
June 15 – 30, 2000

The public sound installation (intended for passers-by) is concerned with rethinking of our relationship to the architecture and its history. During the past three years I have been recording people’s voices singing lullabies from all over the world. The loud speakers are set up along the bridge Latinska cuprija. The bridge sings lullabies and becomes an architectural body of 64 voices. The multitude of the voices, languages, and singling out of individual voices creates an “immaterial bridge”, the site of which transforms into metaphor. The work deals with human versus urban space by contrasting the basic intimate space of lullabies and architecture and history of Latinska cuprija.