It is a place of hospitality, a melting pot of people, styles, ideas and engages in the systematic practice of dialogue. It looks at works of all forms of artistic expression, but also with the voice and presence of contemporary thinkers; writers, philosophers, activists, scientists etc.
In collaboration with Red Edition — Migrant Sex Workers Group Vienna, Salon Souterrain will deal with issues linking art and prostitution in various categories: prostitution as art, prostitution as a topic in the arts, the art of prostitutes, forms of structural violence and methods to overcome these structures in both fields as well as questioning our relationship to work in general.
Liad Hussein Kantorowicz is a performance artist, musician, activist, and perpetual migrant. Her performances de-exotify and de-mystify the positions of so-called sexual or political deviants. Her first EP with her musical partner Kalpour will be released later this year. Trajche Janushev is engaged in the sex work movement since in the begins of the first sex work community-based organization in the Balkans.
Through Artivism he put the important questions for sex workers lives in the front of society eyes. In the regional level, he was also active and really familiar with almost all sex work-led Organization in Macedonia, Turkey, Serbia, France, Spain, Greece, UK, Bulgaria, Hungary… And last but not less, since he moved to live in Vienna he started with Red Edition — Sex Work Group Vienna and start with a different perspective of art-activism with main focus on migrants sex workers!
Ofelia Jarl Ortega is a choreographer and performer based in Stockholm. Topoke , : Afro-European artist -activist strong believer and fighter for human rights, based in Wien. As living off ones Art is very challenging, he also teaches in a middle school. Together with its director, Peter Keuschnig, the versatile and flexible formation with a broad repertoire has long been regarded as the first address of the Viennese music scene.
