FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:


Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporanea welcomes next Thursday, March 29th
@19:00, Upgrade! Lisbon's monthly gathering featuring artist Adriana
Sa. Entrance is free and drinks will be served.


Having studied Music and Fine Arts, Adriana Sa is a transdisciplinary
artist, a composing/improvising performer. She has been presenting
her work throughout Europe, USA and Japan since the 90s. Her creative
processes include the design and construction of the instruments.
sound can be articulated with light, architecture, movement, weather
or words. Part of the instruments have an architectural scale and
they're designed to develop new properties everytime they are
installed- you have to enter it to experience it. Space becomes
reactive. Adriana Sa's work, whether created with architectural or
portable instruments, connects musical performances to specific
contexts involving place, memory and person.


Sensations are a contextual product. before arriving to
consciousness, sensations are subjectively "selected" by the
individual's body, through an orientating reaction - a biological
function existing to protect us from sensory over-stimulation.
Adriana Sa is interested by these physical criteria, by this bodily
intelligence. working with sound in a provocative way, she plays with
the transitions between several physical states. Her graphical scores
coreograph mainly texture, density, dominance and sequencing.

For her presentation at Upgrade! Lisbon Adriana Sa will present her
project THRESHOLDS and from it her sonic light instrument, its
versatility (also recurring to previous projects such as data
projection + audio playback) as well as some technical/artistic
limitations in its present state of development. She will also
present some ideas through which those limitations can be overcome.

For more info please visit http://www.lisboa20.pt/upgrade

Luis Silva