A Funeral March For The First Cosmonaut

(Or Listen to the whispers of the Universe)

“I’m a friend, comrades, a friend!” – Yuri Gagarin (supposedly his first words on returning to Earth, spoken to a woman and a girl near the spot where his capsule landed)

A sound installation with an ephemeral radio broadcast, in Morse code, of Etel Adnan’s text of the same name.

Exhibitions

ANTI Liburudenda (bookshop), 7–23 March 2024 · broadcast on 108 FM

Acknowledgements

This work is dedicated to the artist and travelling companion Donia Jourabchi, who, while the installation was on show and on air, was in Iran, where communications are not free and Morse code is commonly used by fishermen and the working class.