Through body rituals, electronics and prosthesis lasers, Kupalua connects to cosmos, overthrowing outdated power dynamics and general expectations of femininity. So buckle up for an awe-inspiring laser performance as Kupalua takes the stage at Mayhem as part of ALICE Works. Bysund opens the night with industrial ambient and Dragongirl plays a DJ set between the shows.

Kupalua is a multi-artist born in Brazil, whose interdisciplinary work draws on performance art, voice, composition, musical production and video. Investigating power dynamics between and within bodies, Kupalua problematizes feminine behavior expectations and the institutionalization of human relations. With sounds coming from the most interior places such as the cervix or from the deepest spot in the Ocean, 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. The body’s construction as prosthetics and light depict the sonorous landscape. Laser prosthesis are making contact with the audience and with outer-space while every matter flows through timbers that leaves us given over to estrangement. Kupalua is always in transit, there’s no traces of moral or frontier.

We can’t wait to present this incredible artist as part of ALICE Works til April. The night takes place at Mayhem, and Bysund aka Karl Zinn Hansen will open the night with slow-burning yet hard-hitting urgent ambient with nods to industrial and drone. Dragongirl plays a DJ set between the concerts.

About ALICE works

ALICE Works was born from an Open Call initiative launched by ALICE during the COVID-19 lockdown in early 2021. An attempt at developing new music, collaborations and experimental formats in a time of crisis. The concert series will present both Danish and international artists chosen via the Open Call process and will take place during 2021 and 2022.