The SIRENIC

An original perspective on the mythologies and ecologies of water, the poetics and politics of voice, and the invocation of a communal spirit through film and other arts.

“Follow the Water Follow the Sound” is a call and response. Far removed from the associations of seduction and fear that the siren—both as mythological figure and alarm device—has inspired, it is an invitation to another perceptual attunement to our environment. Offering an original perspective, this bookengages with notions of singing, voicing, and listening that reach into a sonic pluriverse and imagine the "sirenic" as a practice oriented towards emergent futures, fabulations of becoming, and pedagogies of transformation. Through these notions, it provides the grounds for an expanded conception of cinema emerging through sound, music, and performance. Bringing together scholars, curators, and artists from across disciplines, Sirenic unfolds as a polyphonic publication. 

With contributions by Ruth Baettig, Dalida María Benfield, Elena Biserna, Mattia Capelletti, Caroline Courrioux, Alice Jasmine Crippa, Giuseppe Di Salvatore, Magali Dougoud, Burcu Dogramaci, Lidia Gasperoni, Alexandra Gelis, Tobias Gerber, Ute Holl, Roberta Ioli, Pauline Julier, Fabienne Liptay, Niccolò Moronato, Gabriel Paiuk, Dorota Sajewska, Alice Sartori, Alexandra Tsiamparta, and Matthias Wittmann.