Keira Fox of Maria & the Mirrors: Women Make Music

Vociferous depicts a fragmented narrative progressively shattered by shifts from video to scripted performance and live music. Over the course of the piece, video constructed from found footage increasingly overlaps with the melodramatic psychedelic drone of Aird and raucous drum driven industrial dancehall of Fox and Feinstein performing live. The viewer’s perspective shifts from witness to the text based performance and video, to the audience of a live concert and member of the performance itself.

Keren Cytter (b. 1977, Tel Aviv, Israel) creates films, video installations, and drawings, representing social realities through experimental modes of storytelling. Characterised by a non-linear, cyclical logic Cytter’s films consist of multiple layers of images, conversation, monologue and narration systematically composed to undermine linguistic conventions and traditional interpretation schemata. Recalling amateur home movies and video diaries, the artist’s films depict intensified scenes drawn from everyday life in which the overwhelmingly artificial nature of the situations portrayed is echoed by the very means of their production.

Kiera Fox is the extraordinary front-woman of Maria & the Mirrors. Ben Hewitt described her as “built upon an industrial foundation of Throbbing Gristle and EN, spruced up with the otherworldly electronica of Gang Gang Dance… an elongated rumbling war march, splintered by discordant detritus ricocheting…sirens luring you to a cranium-squeezing demise.” (NME) As a live act they are a force to be reckoned with, thanks largely to Fox’s impressive stage presence.