Sirenen

Six women with megaphones swarm out. The SIRENEN choir brings up questions about how care-work functions in social distancing, deprived of the possibility of having a physical contact. What has been magnified through the „corona-crisis“? What has become louder that was barely noticeable before? For which longings, which needs, which utopias are the experiences of the pandemic functioning as an amplifier? The performers asked these questions to mothers and fathers, educators, nursing staff, domestic helpers and other people who do paid/unpaid care-work in Vienna. A female choir “armed” with megaphones gives voice to these people, singing and speaking a collage of excerpts from the interviews. A female choir “armed” with megaphones gives voice to these people, singing and speaking a collage of excepts of the interviews The megaphones are used as mobile voice amplifiers and musical instruments to explore their tonal, rhythmic and sculptural potential.