Salon Souterrain : ECHOES OF NUMBERS I – 08 Nov 2025 @21h00 – Palais Schönborn-Batthyány

ECHOES OF NUMBERS

Les statistiques offrent une vision claire et ordonnée du monde, traduisant la complexité sociale en chiffres et en graphiques. Cependant, derrière cette apparente objectivité se cachent des choix cruciaux concernant ce que nous mesurons et comment, qui peuvent influencer la réalité qu’elles prétendent représenter.

Depuis le XIXe siècle, les statistiques accompagnent la construction de l’État moderne. Compter, classer, mesurer : ces opérations sont indissociables du pouvoir. Le philosophe français Michel Foucault avait anticipé ces enjeux : la biopolitique passe par le comptage des corps, leur organisation et leur surveillance. Aujourd’hui, à l’ère du big data, la frontière entre mesure et contrôle s’estompe. Les chiffres ne se contentent plus de décrire : ils prédisent et prescrivent. Caméras, algorithmes prédictifs, intelligence artificielle, notation sociale… La promesse d’efficacité et de sécurité érode-t-elle aussi silencieusement les libertés ? Derrière la précision rassurante des chiffres, émerge un monde où tout est traçable, calculable, optimisable. À quel moment un chiffre cesse-t-il d’informer pour devenir une fiction utile ou dangereuse ?

Il est donc essentiel d’instaurer une gouvernance éthique des données, garantissant leur utilisation respectueuse de la dignité, de la vie privée et évitant toute discrimination.

Malgré leur pouvoir, les statistiques peuvent être détournées ou réimaginées. L’art et la performance ont le potentiel de donner vie à ces données froides, suscitant émotions, récits et s’opposant à la rigidité des chiffres avec une humanité sensible et créative.

Pourtant, les statistiques ne sont pas condamnées à rester dans l’ombre du contrôle. Elles peuvent être récupérées et détournées. Derrière chaque graphique, il y a une histoire ; derrière chaque pourcentage, une multitude de vies. Les arts visuels, la musique et la performance possèdent ce pouvoir : briser la froideur des données, susciter des émotions là où seule une logique implacable semble régner. Transformer les pourcentages et les colonnes de chiffres en gestes et en récits. Créer des contre-statistiques : non pas pour nier la réalité, mais pour l’ouvrir à d’autres imaginaires.

Cette exposition underground explore les multiples facettes des statistiques : à la fois miroir et masque, outil de compréhension et arme de pouvoir, promesse de transparence et créateur de fiction. Entre philosophie et performance, dans un dialogue mêlant débats et expériences sensibles, nous questionnerons comment les figures façonnent nos vies, guident nos désirs, et s’immiscent parfois jusque dans nos rêves.

Credits

Salon Souterrain: ECHOES OF NUMBERS
by Elisabeth B Tambwe

avec Amani Abuzahra/ Bishop Black/ Cedrik Fermont/ Marianna Mondelos/ Zoé-Afan Strasser/ Elisabeth B Tambwe/ Vassilis Tsianos/ Untited Instruments of Lucilin

Team : Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe (conception/direction artistique), Benoit Juan (recherche), Indra Jäger (production), David Pujadas Bosch (documentation), François Tambwe (web)

Production : Salon Souterrain / Dig Up Productions et Wien Modern
Coproduction : Tanzquartier Wien, United Instruments of Lucilin
En coopération avec ChateauRouge.at, Applied Interdisciplinary Lab (AIL), DAS WEISSE HAUS
Avec le généreux soutien de la Ville de Vienne (MA7)

titelpic © Susanne Senekowitsch

BIOS

Dr. Amani Abuzahra is a philosopher, author, and anti-racism trainer. In her work, she deals with social power relations, intersectional forms of discrimination, and questions of plural coexistence. She teaches, among other places, at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences in Feldkirchen and is active in educational work in German-speaking countries. Her publications include “Mehr Kopf als Tuch. Muslimische Frauen am Wort” (Tyrolia, 2017) as well as “Ein Ort namens Wut” (Kremayr & Scheriau, 2022). https://www.instagram.com/amaniabuzahra/

Cedrik Fermont is a Berlin-based Belgian-Congolese composer, musician, mastering engineer, author, radio host, curator, independent researcher and label manager (at Syrphe) who operates in the field of noise, electronic, electroacoustic music, sound art since 1989. From industrial to electronica to harsh noise via electroacoustic and free improvised music, he works as a solo artists and in numerous collaborative projects such as Axiome, Tasjiil Moujahed, and has collaborated with dozens of artists such as Marie Takahashi, Ira Hadžić, Sarmen Almond, Jawad Nawfal, Dora Bleu, Periklis Tsoukalas, Luong Hue Trinh, Yan Jun, AGF, Gülce Özen Gürkan, Dickson Dee, Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu, Khabat Abas & Hardi Kurda, Klaus Janek, etc. In 2024, he was awarded the Kunstpreis Berlin – Jubiläumsstiftung 1848/1948 in Berlin. In 2017 he released together with Dimitri della Faille the book Not Your World Music about noise music in South-East Asia, winner of the 2017 « Golden Nica » Prix Ars Electronica in the « Digital Musics & Sound Art » category. In 2005, his soundtrack for the experimental film Atalodz directed by Gisèle Pape won the best prize at Côté Court festival, Paris/Montreuil, France. He composes music for sound installations, theatre and choreographies, including collaborations with Robyn Orlin, Guangdong Modern Dance Company (GMDC), Dao Anh Khanh, Jia-Jen Lin, etc. His tours and ongoing research lead him to perform and give talks in 70 countries in Eurasia, Africa and the Americas.

http://syrphe.com/events_cdrk.html
https://syrphe.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/cedriksyrphe/
https://mastodon.social/@Kirdec
https://bsky.app/profile/syrphe.bsky.social
https://www.facebook.com/kirdec

Label (Syrphe) – Site | Bandcamp | Facebook | Instagram | Bluesky | Mastodon

Prof. Dr. phil. Vassilis S. Tsianos teaches sociology at the University of Applied Sciences Kiel. His research focuses on the sociology of post-migrant society, social science research on racism, as well as the biometricization of the European border. Vassilis Tsianos is Chair of the Board of the Council for Migration, a founding member of the Hamburg Institute for Migration and Racism Research (ImiR), co-founder of the Network for Critical Migration and Border Regime Research, member of the Section on Sociology of Migration and Ethnic Minorities of the German Sociological Association (DGS), as well as a member of the Commission “Refugee and Immigration Policy” of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. He has published numerous books, most recently the co-authored monographs Mobile Commons, Digital Materialities and the Right to the City (Palgrave Macmillan Pivot Series Mobility and Politics, 2015), Escape Routes. Control and Subversion in the 21st Century (Pluto Press, 2008), as well as the co-edited volumes Racism in Post-migrant Society. Movements (Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Research, 2016), The Art of Being Many. Towards a New Theory and Practice of Gathering (transcript, 2016), Empire and the Biopolitical Turn (Campus, 2007) and Turbulent Margins: New Perspectives of Migration in Europe (transcript, 2007). His publications on mobility studies, critical urbanism, and anti-racist movements have appeared, among others, in Citizenship Studies, European Journal of Social Theory, Peripherie, Darkmatter, Multitudes, Boundary 2, Soziale Systeme, Zeitschrift für Sozialgeschichte, and Texte zur Kunst. He is currently working on a textbook entitled Racism in Social Structures and Lifeworlds for Kohlhammer Verlag, in which institutionalized forms of racism in post-migrant society are analyzed from the perspective of Critical Race Studies.

Bishop Black (they/their) is a British artist who initially appeared in the field of performance art and later turned to drag and burlesque. Bishop Black uses the body as language and as a politicized tool to shape sexuality and gender. After several years of work in the field of film, Bishop Black can now increasingly be seen on stage, developing unique but interconnected performances in which mythology, occultism, queerness, and dance come together. A recurring element is the creation of moods through music and acting – making the supposedly ridiculous perceptible as powerful and dissolving inhibitions that one feels within one’s own body and towards the body.

Since 2017, Bishop Black has appeared several times at Ballhaus Naunynstraße – first in Permanente Beunruhigung Vol. II, which was shown again in 2018 under the title Your Devices at the festival of the same name. In 2019 followed the first solo Becoming My Body. In 2022, they took over the direction of the project Re-Searching Joy (akademie der autodidakten) and debuted in 2023 as a director with Flight of the Canaries. In 2025, Bishop Black appeared in the world premiere of SelFist by Viennese artist and choreographer Elisabeth Tambwe as part of the ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival.

https://www.instagram.com/thebishopblack3000/

Marianna Mondelos creates artistic interventions through eating experiences. These temporal installations and performances are based on reshaping the perception and relationship with and around food, where social norms of sharing a meal and eating together are questioned.

Among other projects, Marianna Mondelos opened the StilWerk design & art festival in Berlin with a food performance, was a performer in a dinner performance by Julischka Stengele at the Tanzquartier Wien, did the eating design for the Research Dinner by APL at Künstlerhaus Wien, made a performative lunch intervention for the « Radical University Symposium » at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, a food installation for the symposium « Becoming Human in Times of Post-Humanism » at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts in Taipei, collaborated with Ma Belle Maison in Seoul, showed her parts of her project “mono chrome multi sensory” at the SOUPERNATURAL group exhibition in Madrid and more.

She was published in « FOOD. 200 images and 2 videos exploring our relationship with consumption » by DITO Publishing (Rome) and will be featured in Food Design Voices VOL. 3 by Francesca Zampollo.

After her curatorial studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, she did a diploma in nutrition pedagogy and just recently graduated from the alternative MA food-based art reseach at the Gramounce. She is a co-founder of Studio Wasser – Association for Innovative Culinary, Table Culture and Design in Vienna.

http://marianna.mondelos.com
http://instagram.com/mondelos

Zoé-Afan Strasser is a Viennese-Ghanaian dancer and choreographer based in Vienna, working in the fields of classical ballet, contemporary dance, and interdisciplinary performance. She received her training at the Ballet School of the Vienna State Opera and at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna, where she completed her BA in Dance with honours in 2018. She continued her studies at the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program in San Francisco. Since 2019, she has been active as a freelance artist and dance educator in Vienna. Her choreographic work Mell brwn was presented at the International Solo-Tanz-Theater Festival in Stuttgart. Her artistic practice often involves cross-disciplinary collaborations with artists such as Erwin Wurm, Shake Stew, Afropoiltan Berlin, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Afropoiltan Berlin. She has performed in works by choreographers including Akemi Takeya, Maurya Kerr, Kiani del Valle, Alonzo King, Simon Mayer, Antony Rizzi, Virginie Roy-Nigl, Esther Balfe. In 2025, she collaborated with visual artist Carola Dertnig on a performance Move on the Move at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg and premiered Transient Shifts, a science-fiction- piece choreographed by Akemi Takeya, at ImPulsTanz.

Cedrik Fermont is a Berlin-based Belgian-Congolese composer, musician, mastering engineer, author, radio host, curator, independent researcher and label manager (at Syrphe) who operates in the field of noise, electronic, electroacoustic music, sound art since 1989. From industrial to electronica to harsh noise via electroacoustic and free improvised music, he works as a solo artists and in numerous collaborative projects such as Axiome, Tasjiil Moujahed, and has collaborated with dozens of artists such as Marie Takahashi, Ira Hadžić, Sarmen Almond, Jawad Nawfal, Dora Bleu, Periklis Tsoukalas, Luong Hue Trinh, Yan Jun, AGF, Gülce Özen Gürkan, Dickson Dee, Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu, Khabat Abas & Hardi Kurda, Klaus Janek, etc. In 2024, he was awarded the Kunstpreis Berlin – Jubiläumsstiftung 1848/1948 in Berlin. In 2017 he released together with Dimitri della Faille the book Not Your World Music about noise music in South-East Asia, winner of the 2017 “Golden Nica” Prix Ars Electronica in the “Digital Musics & Sound Art” category. In 2005, his soundtrack for the experimental film Atalodz directed by Gisèle Pape won the best prize at Côté Court festival, Paris/Montreuil, France. He composes music for sound installations, theatre and choreographies, including collaborations with Robyn Orlin, Guangdong Modern Dance Company (GMDC), Dao Anh Khanh, Jia-Jen Lin, etc. His tours and ongoing research lead him to perform and give talks in 70 countries in Eurasia, Africa and the Americas.

Label (Syrphe) – Site | Bandcamp | Facebook | Instagram | Bluesky | Mastodon

The ensemble for contemporary music United Instruments of Lucilin was founded in 1999 by a group of passionate and committed musicians and is the only Luxembourgish chamber music ensemble specialised in contemporary music. Dedicated exclusively to promoting and commissioning works of the 20th and 21st century, United Instruments of Lucilin is now known for its outstanding programs around the world.

In about 40 concerts a year, Lucilin presents a broad scope of musical events, ranging from “traditional” concerts to music theatre productions, children projects, improvisation sessions as well as discussions with composers.

United Instruments of Lucilin works in close collaboration with the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg in the field of contemporary opera and music theatre projects and premiered, among others, Toshio Hosokawa’s monodrama The Raven with Charlotte Hellekant, Philippe Manoury’s «thinkspiel» Kein Licht staged by Nicolas Stemann, and recently Adam Maor’s opera The Sleeping Thousand, premiered at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (France).

United Instruments of Lucilin organises every year, together with the rainy days festival (Philharmonie Luxembourg), the Luxembourg Composition Academy, the only composition masterclass held in Luxembourg, and invites eight young composers to work on a brand new piece.

Over the years, United Instruments of Lucilin is continuously reaching a growing enthusiastic audience and has been encouraging innovative musical expressions, as with Black Mirror, an immersive experience taking place in an abandoned hotel, commissioned to Alexander Schubert and premiered in 2016 during the Philharmonie Luxembourg’s rainy days festival. In May 2022, the ensemble premiered Sleep Laboratory, Alexander Schubert’s last immersive project with VR at the Acht Brücken festival in Cologne, at the Venice Biennale and at the rainy days festival.

At the beginning of 2023, the ensemble launched its own independent series “Lucilin in the City”, and it is featured at the Philharmonie Luxembourg in the series “Lucilin: Now!”.

Lately, United Instruments of Lucilin has commissioned works to François Sarhan, Igor C Silva, Diana Soh, Elsa Biston, Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska, Mirela Ivičević, Camille Kerger, Patrick Muller, Sina Fallahzadeh and Yang Song.

www.lucilin.lu

Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe (host/artistic direction/she/her)
Artiste, chorégraphe et metteur en scène, Elisabeth B. Tambwe travaille avec différentes formes d’écriture : performance, chorégraphie, film, interactif et génératif, ainsi qu’avec différentes dramaturgies et espaces tels que les installations et les scènes. Elle s’intéresse à l’émergence de nouvelles formes d’altérité, aux relations et langages singuliers qu’elles suscitent. Que révèlent-elles de notre humanité et comment remettent-elles en question la notion d’anthropocentrisme ? Ses projets sont transdisciplinaires et collectifs et cherchent à inventer des espaces de recherche partagés entre l’art performance et les sciences sociales.

DIG-UP Productions

Accueil

Indra Jäger (production)
Indra Jäger, née à Francfort-sur-le-Main, vit à Vienne depuis 2000. Après avoir étudié le journalisme et les sciences de la communication, elle a co-initié et dirigé l’association artistique et culturelle IM ERSTEN (2012-16). Elle continue à travailler dans ce domaine en tant que productrice pour Dig Up Productions. Elle est responsable du format de performance discursive « Salon Souterrain » ainsi que de « Speech of Love : Absence » et “Beyond The Overflow”. En 2023, Indra a rejoint la plateforme autrichienne de journalisme de solution relevant.news en tant que rédactrice et chef de service et a commencé à travailler en tant qu’assistante de recherche indépendante à l’Institut d’études comparatives des médias et de la communication (CMC).

Benoît Jouan (recherche)
Benoît Jouan est auteur et illustrateur. Il a étudié les arts plastiques et est titulaire d’un diplôme universitaire (maîtrise d’arts visuels et plastiques/Université Lille III, France) et d’un diplôme d’école d’art (Diplôme national supérieur d’expression plastique-DNSEP & Diplôme national d’arts plastiques-DNAP de l’École de Tourcoing, France). Il a travaillé pendant vingt ans (1999-2019) au Musée d’art moderne, contemporain et brut de Lille Métropole (LaM), à Villeneuve-d’Ascq (France) en tant que conférencier et animateur d’ateliers d’art (spécialisé dans la gravure) dans des environnements fermés tels que des hôpitaux psychiatriques et des prisons. Il travaille avec Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe depuis 1998. Depuis 2022, il vit et travaille à Vienne.

Lena Fankhauser (curator chamber and contemporary music)
Lena Fankhauser est une altiste d’origine trinidadienne et suisse née à Montréal, au Québec, au Canada. Elle a commencé à jouer du violon à l’âge de 4 ans et a obtenu sa licence et sa maîtrise à la Julliard School of Music de New York grâce à une bourse complète. Elle a effectué des tournées dans le monde entier, dans de nombreux genres, et a joué dans de nombreuses salles, notamment le Carnegie Hall de New York, le Suntory Hall de Tokyo et le Royal Albert Hall de Londres. En tant que chambriste passionnée, Lena Fankhauser a fondé un festival de musique de chambre à Bad Ischl et (CH)AMBER, une association pour la nouvelle musique de chambre. Elle est membre fondateur, contractante et manager de l’orchestre de cinéma Big Island Orchestra Vienna et membre fondateur et commissaire musicale du Salon Souterrain.
https://www.lena-fankhauser.com

David Pujadas Bosch (documentation)
David Pujadas Bosch est né à Barcelone et vit à Vienne depuis 2000. 2000-2013 a travaillé chez IBM Autriche dans différents domaines (conseiller en soutien aux annonces, coordinateur de la qualité, point focal national, entre autres). 2003-2013 a étudié à l’Académie des beaux-arts de Vienne avec Monica Bonvicini (sculpture et art performatif) et Harun Farocki (film et art). Depuis 2013, il suit les cours de cinéma de Thomas Heise. Travaille principalement avec la vidéo et le film, mais s’adonne également à la photographie, au dessin, à l’écriture et à la réalisation de performances et d’installations sonores. De 2009 à 2016, a régulièrement illustré, écrit et tenu des comptes pour Paradigmata – Journal for People and Discourse – parmi d’autres activités éditoriales telles que la mise en page, l’édition et la distribution.
https://davidpujadasbosch.wordpress.com

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Salon Souterrain – ECHOS OF NUMBERS I

Début 8 Novembre 2025 @21h

Place:
WIEN MODERN
Palais Schönborn
Renngasse 4
1010 Wien