Adriana y Sr. Alien is an audiovisual poetry project that brings together spoken word, live music, and moving image in an immersive performative form. The project is built around a nearly 50-minute performance video, recorded in 4K in December 2025 at the studio of Casa de la Imagen in Logroño (La Rioja, Spain), after several months of artistic development and coordination.
The poems featured in the performance are written and performed by Adriana Bañares and are drawn from four of her poetry collections: Urbe capensis (Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2022), Vacaciones (Maclein y Parker, 2024), Riesgo eléctrico (Páramo, 2025), and the forthcoming Carta celestial a Melusina (Cartonera del escorpión azul, 2026). These texts traverse themes of desire, memory, urban alienation, emotional risk, and contemporary existence, unfolding through a voice that is both intimate and charged with symbolic intensity.
Music for the project is composed and performed live by Julen Gossíp, whose soundscapes combine electric guitar with electronic and atmospheric elements. His compositions do not function as accompaniment, but as an equal narrative force, creating a continuous dialogue with the poetic voice and shaping the emotional rhythm of the performance.
The visual dimension of the project was created by Traspa & Legross (Imanol Legross and Carlos Traspaderne), whose video work enhances the performative and immersive quality of the piece, carefully balancing documentation and artistic interpretation. The result is a hybrid work situated between poetry reading, concert, and audiovisual performance.
Adriana y Sr. Alien represents a significant artistic and production investment, conceived with a strong belief in the project’s potential for international circulation. It is a work designed to resonate across linguistic and cultural contexts, offering an intense, carefully crafted experience at the intersection of literature, music, and contemporary performance.
The project is part of the subthemes The Poetics of Care – Intimacy, Tenderness, Repair and Unruly Forms – Experiments in the Poetic Wild.
Author
Adriana Bañares
Adriana Bañares (Logroño, 1988). She is the author of Vacaciones (Maclein y Parker, 2024), Urbe Capensis (Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2022; finalist for the "Book of the Year" Award in the poetry category by the Madrid Booksellers Association), Recaya (Páramo, 2019; VI Ateneo Riojano Book Award), and Ave que no vuela muere (2015), among others. She has also contributed to short story and poetry anthologies such as Viscerales (Ediciones del Viento, 2011), El descrédito (2013), and Obituario (Fundación Málaga, 2015). She coordinated the poetry anthology Erosionados (2013) and runs the publishing house Aloha. Since 2009, she has been editing the independent publication La Fanzine. She also collaborates on the poetry podcast Prosa escueta, produced by Ediciones Deliciosas, and serves as the coordinator of the Poetry Slam Spain venue in Logroño. Together with poet and composer Julen Gossíp, she has a spoken word and music project with which they have performed at various festivals. As a solo performer, she has participated in festivals such as Urogallo (León, 2022), Vociferio (Valencia, 2021), and Poetika Literatura (San Sebastián, 2020).
Author
Julen Gossíp
Julen Manuel Vicente (Bilbao, 1973), also known as Julen Gossíp, El Partisano, Señor Alien, or Giuliano de Re, holds a degree in Psychology and has lived and travelled extensively in London and Granada. He began his career as a solo singer-songwriter and later became a member of the multidisciplinary collective Núcleo de Nuevos Autores (NNA), within which he helped organise the Granada International Singer-Songwriter Festival Abril para Vivir during its first three editions.
To date, he has published Es posible que sea un Alien (Agol Publishing, 2016) and A tracción animal – Poems of Non-Love by an Alien (4 de Agosto Publishing, 2018). He has received several awards, including the Abril para Vivir Singer-Songwriter Prize in 2006 and 2014, an honourable mention in the Short Short Story Competition of the Book Fair in 2005, the First Prize in Relatos con Zapatos (Arnedo), and the Second Prize in the Love and Heartbreak Letters Competition awarded by the Municipality of Almuñécar in 2012.
