Siren
Siren is a six channel video piece consisting of three monitors on each wall facing each other. On each monitor a film consisting of shots of an indigenous singer from a country on the edge of one of the great oceans continuously loops. Their faces fill the frame of their respective monitors. Each subject is singing a traditional song to the sea, a song of longing, of love, of loss, in a native language. On the opposite wall a singer from the opposite side of that ocean is singing.
Arctic, Norway
Indian Ocean, South Africa
Indian Ocean, South Africa
Pacific Ocean, Okinawa
Pacific Ocean, Okinawa
North Atlantic Ocean, Nova Scotia
North Atlantic Ocean, Nova Scotia
South Atlantic, Africa
South Atlantic, Africa