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Ute Holl: Sirens: Voices of Liberation
Sirens: Voices of Liberation
(p. 441 – 466)

Ute Holl

Sirens: Voices of Liberation
On Hans Werner Henze’s The Raft of the Medusa

  • film experience
  • music
  • aesthetics of film
  • literary studies
  • art history
  • sound
  • cultural history
  • cultural studies
  • media studies
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Ute Holl

Ute Holl

Ute Holl teaches media studies at the University of Basel, focusing on aesthetics, epistemology, and the theory of audiovisual, acoustic, and electroacoustic media, as well as on visual and sound archives of the Global South. Recent publications include: “‘Intelligence with an Agency’: Psychotechnik, Maschinenlernen und die Frage nach Entscheidungsmacht,” in Die Macht des Psychotechnischen, ed. Bernd Bösel and Jutta Weber (Campus, 2025); “R. W. Fassbinders filmische Historiografie: Zum Melodramatischen in Angst essen Seele auf,” in Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Kino der Subversion (Schüren, 2026); “Nicht angemessen: Verhalten unter Bedingungen von KI,” in Zeitschrift für Medienphilosophie, ed. Beate Ochsner and Markus Rautzenberg (forthcoming). Together with Peter Ott, she has made documentary and fiction films: Traum Wolken Off Exil / Dreams, Clouds, Off, Exile (2017); and Amitié (2024).
Ute Holl: Der Moses-Komplex
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Ute Holl (ed.), Matthias Wittmann (ed.): Memoryscapes
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Ute Holl: The Moses Complex
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Ute Holl (ed.), Claus Pias (ed.), ...: Gespenster des Wissens
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Giuseppe Di Salvatore (ed.), Fabienne Liptay (ed.): The Sirenic: Follow the Water, Follow the Sound
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Giuseppe Di Salvatore (ed.), Fabienne Liptay (ed.)

The Sirenic: Follow the Water, Follow the Sound
Essays and Studies Across Film and the Arts

PDF, 512 pages

Softcover, 528 pages

“Follow the Water Follow the Sound” is a call and response. Far removed from the associations of seduction and fear that the siren — both as mythological figure and alarm device — has inspired, it is an invitation to another perceptual attunement to our environment. Offering an original perspective, the book imagines the “Sirenic” as a practice oriented towards emergent futures, fabulations of becoming and pedagogies of transformation.

The book engages with notions of singing, voicing and listening that reach into a sonic pluriverse. Through these notions, it provides the grounds for an expanded conception of cinema emerging through sound, music and performance.

Bringing together scholars, curators and artists from across disciplines, the book unfolds as a polyphonic publication. Echoing one another in multiple ways, the authors explore the mythologies and ecologies of water, the poetics and politics of voice, and the invocation of a communal spirit through film and other arts.

 

With contributions by Ruth Baettig, Dalida María Benfield, Elena Biserna, Mattia Capelletti, Giuseppe Di Salvatore, Burcu Dogramaci, Magali Dougoud, Lidia Gasperoni, Alexandra Gelis, Tobias Gerber, Ute Holl, Roberta Ioli, Pauline Julier and Caroline Courrioux, Fabienne Liptay, Gabriel Paiuk, Alice Sartori, Davide Tolfo, Alexandra Tsiamparta, Matthias Maria Wittmann.

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