The song of the sirens
The Station presents Le Chant des Sirènes, a highlight from May to September 2025 where exhibitions, performances and listening festival mix.
An ambivalent mythological figure, malefic chimera, synonymous with seduction and destruction, the siren, which has bird body and woman head, announces (and leads to) a sinking.
Transported into northern beliefs, then in pop culture, the mermaid plunges under the sea, wins a tail of fish and the adjective reducer of “small”. Reinvested in the fields (eco)feminists or queer, the mermaid finally becomes an emancipatory figure, synonymous with the reappropriation of the body and the wrath of nature.
But the siren also gives its name to the powerful sound apparatus intended to produce a signal, on land or at sea, to maneuver or alarm.
The vessel's siren alerts danger, sounds in distress, saves or fails.
The exhibition proposes to explore freely from these figures, the relations between several worlds at risk: the human world and the marine world.
The third edition of the listening festivalWitch You Were Here will also take place during the year of the Sea during the week-end of Public Lighting on June 28, 2025 in La Station. He will mix experimental live music and performance.
Photo: Ulysses and the Sirens - Herbert James Draper (1864–1920)
Performance
Du wednesday 7 may 2025 au sunday 24 august 2025
The 109, Urbanism and Architecture Forum
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Free entrance
Everyone