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Paul Feigelfeld
The Siren Continent, 2018 Duration 5 min 15 sec. “We landed on Anafi and told old tales of Sirens, who tried to lure Odysseus into shipwreck and love - Homer's insular narrative at the core of Europe's culture. A few days later, over seventy children, women and men, who had to flee warzones and their homes, stranded on Anafi. Their first glimpse of Europe, this continental Siren Island calling out and sinking ships before its shores, a remote and barren rock, promising paradisiac safety, yet alien, like Europa, Jupiter's moon. In this recording, we hear fragments of languages and music from all these islands in history and space.” (P.F.) Enregistrement en anglais / Recording in English |
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Kostas Ioannidis
Constantine P. Cavafy, Του Πλοίου (read twice), 2018 1 min 18 sec. “The poem “Του Πλοίου” (Of the boat) by Constantine Cavafy is about sketches and memories that change, fade, complement and compete with each other as time goes by. I am reading the poem omitting words that Cavafy made his own. I am trying to hear their sound ignoring his intentions in order to see what is left that resists or remains.” (K.I.) Recording in Greek |
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Wendy Tronud
Making the Green One Red, 2018 Duration “Both the material of the oppressed and oppressors, words move, collect and subvert, but also hollow out, limit and calcify into what Toni Morrison calls “shocking glitter” in her 1993 Nobel Prize speech. Using Virginia Woolf’s allusion to William Shakespeare’s Macbeth in her only surviving recording, my text considers the surfaces, depths and forms of agency given to language’s potential to navigate between and amongst us.” (W.T.) Recording in English |
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Théodora Domenech
Dictionnaires, 2018 5 min 14 sec. "While I find Woolf's distinction between the words of the mind and the words of the dictionary interesting, I see no other tool to displace the rigidity of dogmatic definitions (and all dichotomies) than the writing of new dictionaries, and the proposal of new definitions. The initial goal of phenomenology is precisely to question the status and legitimacy of logical categories in lived experiences of consciousness. I therefore insist on the necessity of the existence of categories, of dichotomy, which goes hand in hand with that of their constant questioning." T.D. Enregistrement en français / Recording in French |
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