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KUPALUA

Manipulating sounds that come from the deepest places, such as the cervix or the abysses of the ocean, Kupalua creates immersions that transcend sound, the dramaturgy of her shows invites us to get closer, Kupalua is a physical experience, sound waves trespass your body and voices whisper to your bones other notions of darkness, womanhood, alien and terrain possibilities.

Her solo concert was performed in stages such as the Novas Frequências festival (Brazil), Copenhagen Contemporary (Denmark), Muziekgebouw (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Fusion Festival (Germany), Mayhem invited by Alice (Copenhagen, Denmark), Sounds of Stockholm festival (Sweden), Kantine am Berghain (Germany), Athens Queer Performance festival (Greece), Inkonst (Malmo, Sweden), Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain (Switzerland) . At Kampnagel International Summer Festival in Hamburg, Germany, her work intersected with discussions about the future of technology and radical care at the conference "The Future of Code Politics."

Kupalua studied electronic composition at the Royal Danish Conservatory, DIEM, in Denmark.

Explosão clitoriana - music video 2017

audience at Night Embassy - Berlin, september 2019

Composer, producer and performer born in Brazil, investigating power dynamics between and within bodies, Kupalua problematizes gender expectations and the institutionalization of human relations.  

email: alcoba.renata@gmail.com

video frame by Limitrofe Television

Kupalua live at Mayhem Copenhagen, Denmark 2022 - Alice Cph - snippet

The Bloop music video 2021

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“Kupalua is always in transit. There’s no trace of morals or frontier. It’s simultaneously extra-terrestrial and earthly-physical-corporeal. Travels from the interior of the uterus to outer space at the speed of light. There’s no separation between nature-culture or body-cosmos. What is root and what is synthetic? Dissonant and melodic voices, synthesizers, microphones and processors. The body’s construction as prosthetics and light depict the sonorous landscape. Laser prosthesis are making contact with us and with outer-space while every matter flows through timbers that leaves us given over to estrangement. I don’t know where I am when I listen/see Kupalua, if I’m under water or if I’m suspended, weightless, timeless, without story, without clothes. It’s a journey completely inside of sound waves.”
by Julia Rocha

KUPALUA LIVE AT MAYHEM COPENHAGEN, INVITED BY ALICE