LUB - Performance
in collaboration with Perf.
Presented during Clarissa’s exhibition, October 2025.
SOF – Lub (Live Performance)
Presented within the context of Clarissa’s exhibition during Frieze Week, SOF’s live performance of Lub extended the sonic and conceptual framework of his debut album through a site-specific performance. Using a minimal and powerful setup with four Martin Audio WSX subwoofers, two W8 loudspeakers, a microphone and two LED super strobes, the performance positioned sound as both sculptural material and destabilising force.
SOF works explore the themes of existential autonomy, psychic rupture, the refusal of coherence and the non acceptance of the social and historical normatives. In it´s live form, the artist presented a physical impression of his interests by creating an atmosphere of absolute sensorial uncomfort and theatrically representing a dramatic decay of the individual. This subject, oscillating between frustration and strength, accesses his core, destroys it and rebuilds it.
Within the wider context of the group exhibition, the performance acted as a deliberate and direct disruption by invading physically and emotionally the gallery for a defined period of time.
SOF appeals to a revolution of consciousness, values, self-awareness, and self-worth through themes of radical political, social, and cultural destruction, alongside a deep skepticism toward heritage and religion. At the bottom of this emotional and creative core lies a profound fascination with chaos, not as abstraction, but as a social response. Psychotic and impenetrable, the practice holds close to the languages of aggression and disorder, using them as tools to question the logics of human morality, mortality, and ethics.
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Perf, Sonic Rituals and Speculative Futures
Perf is not just a label, it is a curator of metaphysical thresholds, and a conduit for the esoteric edges of contemporary experimental music. Emerging from Portugal’s fertile underground, exists at the nexus of ritual and futurism serving as both an amplifier and an incubator for artists who explore the boundaries of sound.
Launched with the debut of Amuleto Apotropaico, Perf revealed its grounding in sonic mysticism and the deeply regional. That release–drawn from years of live ritual and sculpted into a brutalist liturgy of rhythm and density–set a tone: one of noise-as-ceremony, of improvisation as invocation. Amuleto Apotropaico, with their roots in the folklore of Northern Iberia and their ears turned toward the abyss, offer a kind of time-looped spirituality, where each beat is both ancient and entirely new. Perf gave that project its home, not as a document of nostalgia but as a construction of myth in real time. But Perf's vision is no less futuristic than it is ancestral.
The label’s release of Jonathan Uliel Saldanha’s Surface Disorder further cements its position at the frontier of synthetic and speculative sound. Saldanha's work, spanning installation and composition, is paranoid, post-human, and devastatingly meticulous. With AI oracles (The Mouth), morphing sonic detritus, and digital fever dreams, Perf gives voice to a broader fascination with the uncanny and the apocalyptic sublime. Here, sound isn’t just expressive, it’s viral, generative, and recursive.
What unites these releases is a commitment to sound as praxis: noise as a system of belief, signal as transformation, distortion as architecture. Whether through the rhythmic invocations of Amuleto Apotropaico or the cybernetic hauntings of Uliel Saldanha, Perf fosters a catalogue that treats audio not merely as content, but as event–an unfolding, an encounter, a revelation.
Perf isn’t building a scene, it’s creating a realm.
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