emelie carlén
SIRENS' SONG
Video 11.40 min, photogram, clay flute
2023/ 2025
Documentation from solo exhibition at Teatergalleriet, Kalmar, 2025
Sirens’ Song explores the female representation as a trope from
the myth of the sirens and The Odyssey to Jean-Luc Godard’s film
Le Meprís. The film was shot on the island of Capri in Italy where it is said that the sirens lived and which is also the island where Le Meprís was partly filmed. The sound scape consists of a series of clay flutes made in the shape of a siren. For the photogram the sound scape have been transferred into a score becoming a language of the sirens' song.
Tolfte sången (Twelfth Song)
Performace by Ida Adée Olsson on flute for Kalmar gallery weekend,
October 2025
As part of the gallery weekend in Kalmar musician Ida Adée Olsson performed Twelfth Song on flute. Standing on the alcove above the audience she played the score as the video work Sirens’ Song played simultaneously in the back, merging the sound scape of the video to the live performed flute.