Siren Songs / Sinister Sirens is an exhibition that explores language and how language impacts us in resounding, counterintuitive and unruly ways. The potential of language to incite a sense of agency, be it explicit or implicit, is a force to be reckoned with. The exhibition brings together seven positions who through the use of language, be it textually, sculpturally, bodily or symbolically engage with topics inherently and strongly connected to agency such as action, power, ethics, social constructs and morality.
In the title Siren Songs / Sinister Sirens the dual meaning of "siren" is evocative and conjures a sense of the unexpected: a siren as a mythological being with a seductive voice and an alarm siren that connotes warning. The title with its play on words beats the drum for language and tunes in to its potential of ambiguity and subversion.
The exhibition is curated by Arianna Gellini and Linda Jensen and shows works by Bruce Nauman, Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, Mitchell Anderson, Nicole Bachmann, Sam Porritt, Vittorio Santoro and Marlene McCarty.
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Siren Songs / Sinister Sirens is an exhibition that explores language and how language impacts us in resounding, counterintuitive and unruly ways. The potential of language to incite a sense of agency, be it explicit or implicit, is a force to be reckoned with. The exhibition brings together seven positions who through the use of language, be it textually, sculpturally, bodily or symbolically engage with topics inherently and strongly connected to agency such as action, power, ethics, social constructs and morality.
In the title Siren Songs / Sinister Sirens the dual meaning of "siren" is evocative and conjures a sense of the unexpected: a siren as a mythological being with a seductive voice and an alarm siren that connotes warning. The title with its play on words beats the drum for language and tunes in to its potential of ambiguity and subversion.
The exhibition is curated by Arianna Gellini and Linda Jensen and shows works by Bruce Nauman, Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, Mitchell Anderson, Nicole Bachmann, Sam Porritt, Vittorio Santoro and Marlene McCarty.
4002 Basel, Switzerland