For São Paulo-born audiovisual artist Kleiton Bassi, amplitude is about connection. Like a sound system in perfect sync, when frequencies align they strengthen each other. When they fall out of phase, they fade.
AMPLIFICA is born from this idea. When people, stories and intentions move together, they create resonance. Energy expands. Messages travel further. A space becomes a community. An encounter becomes memory.
In this performance, Kleiton brings together artists from different disciplines and continents who are connected through diasporic experience. These are stories of migration, adaptation and cultural reinvention. Lives that carry rhythm, image, language, roots, struggle and celebration across borders. On stage, these narratives unfold through sound, visuals and movement, forming new harmonies between what was left behind and what is still becoming.
The setting holds its own echo. The historic Silvertown building, where Kleiton once lived during a collaborative residency with ReSpace, has lived many lives. Once part of a Tate Institute project, later an artistic occupation, then years of silence. Now it awakens again through collective energy.
It was here that the OBRIGADO SOUND SYSTEM was born. What started as an experimental build became a communal instrument. Part sculpture, part sonic engine, the system now powers underground gatherings, independent events and intimate rituals. It returns to the space that shaped it, ready to amplify once more.
With mapped projections, live performance and a sound system breathing in sync with the crowd, AMPLIFICA is a shared vibration. A ritual of listening together. A reminder that when we tune in as a collective, it is not only the sound that grows stronger. It is the meaning.
