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Emilia Álvarez

(b. 1985), Argentina

 

samuraitrocar@gmail.com

soundcloud /emilia_alvarez

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ABOUT

Multi-disciplinary artist, musician, DJ and visual artist based in Buenos Aires.

Working across multiple mediums including sound, music, performance, drawing, video, sculpture/devices, costumes, and installation. Addressing notions of territories, borders, frontiers realities, movement, boundaries, and hybridity, while blurring binaries such as inside/outside, nature/culture, nature/technology, and animal/cyborg.

I investigate rhythmic and symbolic structures drawn from genres such as Techno, Noise, Opera, Silence, and Hardcore, incorporating them into my work as systems where matter, time, and perception intertwine. Through projects that combine graphite claws, some dark humor and eroticism, sound, video, performance, and landscape (ranging from forests to urban spaces and clubs), I explore dissident forms of mark-making and listening, understood as performative and political gestures that inhabit the edges of the norm.

I work with wearable structures as instruments to decenter perception in relation to habitat and the limits of perception. At times, I collaborate with works by deceased artists and with forces from natural organisms, such as wind, water, or vegetation, exploring how these can activate relationships between bodies, matter, and environment.

I am interested in revealing interstitial zones where human and non-human rhythms intersect, making perceptible latent layers of experience within contemporary ecologies.

My work has been presented in museums, galleries, clubs, institutions, and public spaces in Argentina, Mexico, Switzerland, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom.

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CV

ARTISTIC COMMISSIONS

2025 | Earth Rising Album Volume I - Neon Hyperglossia, Artangel, London, UK.

RESIDENCIES

2024 | GASWORKS, London, UK (Supported by Erica Roberts & URRA).

2023 | Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan.

2023 | Mobility Fund, Argentine Culture to the World Program, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Argentina.

2019 | Contemporary Opera Residency, Escuela de Invierno, Fundación Williams, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2018 | Atelier Mondial URRA, Basel, Switzerland.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES

2023 | Bath of Darkness. Forest Inside the Body, Kyoto Art Center, Japan.

2023 | TIK TOK BUTOH Dance (Activation of Bath of Darkness), Kyoto Art Center, Japan.

2023 | At the Border (Activation of The Skin Is the Venue / Instrument for listening), The Listening Biennial II, CASo Sound Art Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2022 | OSX An Opera of silences (Teaser), ArteBA International Art Fair, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2022 | Mutation I, Galileo Galilei Planetarium (Curator: Melina Berkenwald), Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2018 | The Apparent Silence of Tinguely’s Aquatic Machines, The Automatons Jean Tinguely Fountain, Basel, Switzerland.

2018 | Distance beyond meters, MUNAR Art Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2017 | Dance of memory, Parque de la Memoria (Museum and Monument), Buenos Aires, Argentina.

SELECTED LIVE AUDIO PERFORMANCES & DIGITAL RADIOS

2026 | Isla Vision Records, Argentina.

2025 | Internet Public Radio, México.

2025 | Live Set, HÖR Berlin, Germany.

2025 | Experimontag, Madame Claude, Berlin, Germany.

2025 | Beyond of_line (with Berenice Llorens), Refuge Worldwide Radio, Berlin, Germany.

2025 | Sound Broadcast, Internetpublic Radio, Mexico.

2024 | Live Performance with Chinabot Record Label, Café OTO, London, UK.

2024 | Live Set, MUTEK Argentina / ARTLAB (Uteroclub), Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2023 | Live Radio CaSO, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2023 | Technolecturas + Live, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2022 | Technolecturas + Live, Centro Cultural San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

SELECTED CLUB & LIVE SETS

2026 | FA GOT Party Anniversary, Club Dorado, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2026 | Love & Rave (with May McLaren & Douce Angnoisse), Puticlú, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2025 | Diffuse Reality, About Blank Club, Berlin, Germany

2025 | Wickedparty (with May McLaren & Naiborg), Dorado Club, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2024 | Visual Sister (with DJ Pareja & Koal), Niceto Club, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2024 | 30th Anniversary Showcase, GASWORKS, London, UK.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 | Earth Rising Volume I Launch, Proposition Studios (by Artangel), London, UK.

2025 | Berlin Fashion Week Performance, Pandora Gallery, Berlin, Germany.

2024 | Complot Evocativo, Premio Estímulo MB, Miranda Bosch Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2024 | Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales, MACRO (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario), Argentina.

2023 | The Listening Biennial II, CASo (Centro de Arte Sonoro), Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2023 | Annual Exhibition, MACVILO (Contemporary Art Museum of Vicente López), Argentina.

2023 | Marzo_Mujer_Memoria_Malvinas, Casa de la Cultura del Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2022 | El Silencio Aparente de las Máquinas Acuáticas de Tinguely (Video Installation), DOMO Planetario Galileo Galilei, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2021 | Slowly Arriving, Kunsthaus Baselland  Basel (Curators: Alexandra Stäheli & Inés Goldach), Basel, Switzerland.

2021 | Prize Finnegans, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2019 | Open Studio, Atelier Mondial, Basel, Switzerland.

2018 | SALMOS+NOISE+TECHNO, Arco SRL (Curator: Ana Montecucco), Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2017 | Digital Art Biennale The Wrong: Posthumanism and New Materialities, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2017 | Sonido Rojo, New York, USA.

COLLABORATIONS WITH ARTISTS

2026 | Original Sound Design for the exhibition Slip Touch by Marco Giordano, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2023 | Original Score for the film The Last Movie I Saw by Juho Song, Seoul, South Korea.

2016–2017 | Design & Production of Ocarina Sculptures and Installation for Carlos Amorales, Life in the Folds, Mexican Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale, Italy.

2015–2016 | Design & Structural Production of Octopus Sculpture for Eduardo Navarro's Octopía Project, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico (Curators: Manuela Moscoso & Daniela Pérez).

AWARDS, GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

2024 | Selected Artist, Prize Estímulo MB, Miranda Bosch Gallery, Argentina.

2024 | Collaborative Creation Grant in Digital Arts (AMPLIFY DAI / MUTEK / ARTLAB / British Council / Fundación Williams).

2024 | Selected Artist, Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales, MACRO, Argentina.

2021 | Creation Grant, Fondo Nacional de las Artes (FNA), Argentina.

2020 | 1st Prize, Finnegans Visual Arts Acquisition Prize, Argentina.

2020 | Artist Fellow, Meredith Monk Foundation Vocal Workshop, New York, USA.

2018 | URRA International Residency Grant (Supported by ARTEdu Stiftung & Christoph Merian Stiftung), Switzerland.

2018 | Creation Grant, Fondo Nacional de las Artes (FNA), Argentina.

2013 | Honorable Mention, Industrial Design Career, University of Buenos Aires (Awarded by UBA, New School University NY, and Chulalongkorn University Bangkok).

EDUCATION

Industrial Design – Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urbanism, University of Buenos Aires (UBA). 

Opera Singing & Vocal Research – ISMJH Conservatory of Music.

Art History and Aesthetics – MNBA (National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires).

Selected Specialized Training:

- Visual Art Program with Marina De Caro School and ALCO SRL of Patricio Larrembebere.

- Fellow Field Recordings and Experimental Music Masterclass by Alan Courtis (Fundación Telefónica, 2017).

- Fellow Critical Approximations to Sound Art Seminar (Centro de Arte Alameda, Mexico City, 2016).

- Fellow What Is It to Be Contemporary? Intensive Seminar by Roberto Jacoby (CCK, 2015).

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