Thessia Machado’s work investigates the physicality of sound and its
effect on our perception of space. In sculptures and interactive installations that
have a real-time, live component, the expressive potential is still active and
changeable. As an extension of this practice, and under the moniker link, she
performs electronic and electro-acoustic experimental music with hand-made and
modified instruments. Machado’s installations and video pieces have been exhibited
in New York, London, Philadelphia, Paris, Amsterdam, Dublin, Berlin and Athens. She
has been awarded residencies at Harvestworks, Homesession, Barcelona, the NARS
Foundation, I-Park, The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the Atlantic Center for the Arts,
the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Vermont Studio Center and is a recipient of
fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Experimental Television
Center, The Bronx Museum. Machado was awarded the Berlin Prize and will be at the
American Academy in Berlin for the Spring of 2017.
