THE SIRENIC: FOLLOW THE WATER FOLLOW THE SOUND

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. Engaging with notions of singing, voicing and listening, the book imagines 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, the book unfolds as a polyphonic publication. Echoing one another in multiple ways, the authors explore the mythologies and ecologies of water, the poetics and politics of voice, and the invocation of a communal spirit across film and the arts.

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