The Songs of Caves , 2012
Audio installation, 2’
Voices: Žana – Dragana Mladenović; Jan – Nenad Živković; Choir – Marija Stanojlović, Bojana Glogovac, Šejma Prodanović, Jelena Johansen
“Žana:
I am limestone
I am karst
holokarst karsit
I am 33 percent
of our proud
country
Choir:
and we are karst valleys
we are coves we are fields underground rivers
we are secret valleys
estabels
we are drapes (…)”
Dragana Mladenović (Frankenberg, 1977) graduated at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade where she studied Serbian language and comparative literature. A number of Mladenović’s books have been translated into German, Swedish and Macedonian. Her poems have been published in several anthologies and magazines and she is the recipient of numerous awards.