A Father’s Lullaby, 2019 ongoing / Rashin Fahandej (US)
Photo showing the Project "A Father’s Lullaby" by Rashin Fahandej (US) at the CyberArts Exhibition.
A Father’s Lullaby is a “poetic movement” in which art and technology mobilize a plethora of voices while utilizing public places and virtual spaces. The project addresses the unequal treatment of prisoners in the USA based on ethnic origin (as well as the disparity in the rate of imprisonment) and the impact of this situation on children, women, and low-income communities. The installation consists of different layers of sound: a series of compositions based on lullabies contributed by fathers and a touch-activated sound station with audio/light panels that unfolds many different stories. Songs and lullabies collected via a website, as well as interviews with men on probation, tell of the structural violence of male-dominated mass imprisonment, but also of love and trauma, presence and absence, and the power of personal memories. A Father’s Lullaby is also beeing presented In Kepler’s Gardens / Campus of the Johannes Kepler University.
"A Fathers Lullaby" won the Award of Distinction at the Prix Ars Electronica 2021.
Credit: vog.photo
A Father’s Lullaby, 2019 ongoing / Rashin Fahandej (US)
Photo showing the Project "A Father’s Lullaby" by Rashin Fahandej (US) at the CyberArts Exhibition.
A Father’s Lullaby is a “poetic movement” in which art and technology mobilize a plethora of voices while utilizing public places and virtual spaces. The project addresses the unequal treatment of prisoners in the USA based on ethnic origin (as well as the disparity in the rate of imprisonment) and the impact of this situation on children, women, and low-income communities. The installation consists of different layers of sound: a series of compositions based on lullabies contributed by fathers and a touch-activated sound station with audio/light panels that unfolds many different stories. Songs and lullabies collected via a website, as well as interviews with men on probation, tell of the structural violence of male-dominated mass imprisonment, but also of love and trauma, presence and absence, and the power of personal memories. A Father’s Lullaby is also beeing presented In Kepler’s Gardens / Campus of the Johannes Kepler University.
"A Fathers Lullaby" won the Award of Distinction at the Prix Ars Electronica 2021.
Credit: vog.photo