Sounds Like Home — Longing and Comfort Through Lullabies

A Multidisciplinary Exhibition

Songs and tales have long been used to preserve cultural memory, reproduce cultural norms and social ethics across borders and time. This exhibition explores how lullabies can be a source of comfort when longing for home, while challenging the subliminal messaging that reproduces oppressive power structures.

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Exploring Universal Themes

Cultural Memory

Lullabies archive the perspectives and experiences of caregivers as storytellers, preserving cultural heritage across generations.

Displacement & Longing

How does the longing for home manifest in the songs we sing? This exhibition traces lullabies across borders and time.

Identity & Comfort

As a form, lullabies become vehicles for cultural exchange and identity formation — a source of comfort in uncertainty.

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A Father's Lullaby

A research and creation project on the absence of fathers in communities of color due to mass incarceration.

Rashin Fahandej

Lullabies of New York

A lullaby project focused on endangered languages spoken in New York City.

Husniya Khujamyorova

Carnival Mirror

A digital audiovisual experience depicting the future of lullabies.

Daniel Konhauser

Choir Octet

A sensor-driven experience that generates a lullaby over the image of the audience.

Daniel Konhauser

100 Lullabies

100 lullabies collected and converted into music box scripts for children in war-torn areas.

Nooshin Hakim

A Different Story

A multimedia artwork on violence against women using Italian folk song and WHO data.

Elena Mencarelli

"Is there a connection between lullabies across languages and cultures? How does the way we exchange these messages change over time?"

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