L’archipel (The Archipelago) plays with the musicality of the breaths of diodes and transistors through a sound installation performable by two people; an attempt to create a language to speak to oneself and to others while shedding words. Drawing on the archipelago as a figure of relation, the installation connects sculptures-as-instruments through cables and shared experience. Activated during performances, concerts, and lectures, it becomes a medium for collective musical and theoretical expression. It is part of Derniers Souffles, initiated in 2021, exploring the acoustic characteristics of obsolete electronic components, their mineral origins, and the industrial processes behind their fabrication.
Sonia Saroya develops a fragile, discreet universe through installations combining sculpture, digital art, and sound. Her sound sculptures and autonomous “tool-artworks” explore landscapes and listening journeys, drawing on philosophy, humanities, and low-tech practices. Edouard Sufrin considers art and technology as pharmakon – both poison and remedy – and uses immersive, site-specific practices to resist spectacle and dominant techno-industrial narratives. He combines artistic research with knowledge sharing through autonomous tools, lectures, workshops and teaching at the Université Paris VIII, École des Beaux-Arts de Paris and beyond.
