The echoes of the sirens: press pack photographs.

The Echoes of the Sirens ponders the place of femininity in the world, bringing forth feminine voice, body and space. It is a landscape and a terrain of strange bodies echoing femininity. The work is inspired by Siren creatures, which, according to philosopher Adriana Cavarero are “the most dangerous vocal creatures that the West has ever imagined. 

Thus my task as a photographer has been to shape a timeless image of the sirens, trying to make the relationship of the dancer’s bodies to the performance topics visible. To the stones, to the space, to marks on the soil. To the friction between flashes. It is a challenging position for photography: to be silent enough to make other voices audible.

“Throughout their muted history, they have lived in dreams, silenced bodies, silences, silent rebellions.” Hélène Cixous

The performance, written and directed by choreographer Heli Keskikallio opens up an ambivalent space with feminine echoes through whispering, singing, laughing, screaming, panting, humming and wavy bodies that form sounding, vibrating, tactile, spatial and transforming sound fields. The work questions the social, cultural and corporeal place that the patriarchal and phallocentric structure has created for the feminine. Listening to the echoes of often silenced feminine histories, Keskikallio wants to imagine possible feminine futures, as a kind of utopia of unregulated femininity.