Location: Italy, Sardinia, Cagliari
Recording the sounds of dogs in Cagliari, Italy for the sound sculpture
Darfur
‘Darfur’ is a twelve-channel sound work composed of
200 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:
‘The dog barks, but it makes no difference to the camel. We are the dogs.
‘The dog barks, but it makes no difference to the camel. We are the dogs.
The world is the camel.’
It alludes to the deaf ears taken to block out the sound of the suffering of others who loudly articulate their own plight.