CURATION
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by Matrix
The Integrated Global Creative Economy
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Name:
Amanda Tropicana
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City/Place:
Salvador, Bahia
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Country:
Brazil
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Hometown:
Rio de Janeiro
Life & Work
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Bio:
Fotojornalista, recebeu o prêmio de 1º lugar no VIII Salão de Fotografia da Marinha do Brasil, possui obras permanentes no Memorial Pierre Verger da Fotografia Baiana e participou de 25 exposições, dentre elas: as internacionais "The Fifth Annual Exposure Photography Award", no Museu do Louvre, Paris e "Scope International Conteporary Art Show" em Miami; "Olhares Afro Contemporâneos", em São Paulo (BRA) e "IBEJI ERÓ", em Salvador (BRA).
Além das exposições, é contribuinte do Coletivo Everyday Brasil e da organização Brasis, teve publicações no site da National Geographic Brasil e em outros veículos, como na revista alemã SportBild e na revista brasileira Amarello; participou de eventos de fotografia, como em oficinas no Festival Os Brasis em SP (Red Bull Station, São Paulo), no Simpósio de Comunicação Reconexo (Cachoeira, Bahia) e na Semana de Fotografia da Bahia na Caixa Cultural de Salvador.
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Oficinas e palestras realizadas:
• Oficina Gratuita de Fotografia (Casa NINJA Bahia, Salvador, Bahia (BR) - Março 2019);
• Sofá Na Rua: Fotografia e Otros Carnavales (Casa NINJA Bahia, Salvador, Bahia (BR) - Feveiro 2019);
• Oficina de Fotojornalismo (Simpósio de Comunicação Reconexo, Cachoeira, Bahia (BR) - Março 2017);
• Oficina de Fotografia Documental/ Fotojornalismo (Semana de Fotografia da Bahia da Caixa Cultural, Salvador, Bahia (BR) – Agosto 2016);
• Oficina de Fotografia Documental (Os Brasis em SP no Red Bull Station, São Paulo, São Paulo (BR) – Junho a Outubro 2016);
• Palestra sobre Fotografia e Cultura Afro-Brasileira (Curso de Fotografia Básica do Instituto JCPM, Salvador, Bahia (BR) – Junho 2015);
• Palestra e exibição da série Afro-brasileiros (II Semana de Psicologia da UNEB – Salvador, Bahia (BR) – Novembro 2014).
Exposições:
• Art On A Postcard (Leilão e Exposição de Fotografias de Rua, Old Spitafields Market, Londres (UK) - Junho e Julho 2019);
• Everyday Brasil na Rua (Projeção em prédios na Avenida Augusta, São Paulo (BR) - Junho 2018);
• Projeção Coletiva YVY Mulheres da Imagem (Foto em Pauta: Festival de Fotografia de Tiradentes, Minas Gerais (BR) - Março 2018);
• Mãe Beata – Uma luta de história (Casa de Cultura de Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro (BR) – Julho 2017);
• X Salão de Fotografia do Mar (Museu Náutico de Salvador, Salvador (BR) - Dezembro 2016);
• Sobre-Com-Viver (Red Bull Station, São Paulo (BR) - Novembro 2016);
• Everyday Brasil (São Paulo (BR) - Novembro 2016);
• Um Olhar Além da Pauta (Governadoria, Salvador (BR) - Agosto 2016);
• Tropical Macumba (Restaurante Poró, Salvador (BR) - Julho 2016);
• Olhares Afro Contemporâneos - 2ª Edição (Galeria Olido, São Paulo (BR) - Junho 2016);
• Creators Deserve To Be Seen (Times Square, Nova York (EUA) - Junho 2016);
• Olhares Afro Contemporâneos - 2ª Edição (Festival Afreaka, São Paulo (BR) - Junho 2016);
• Galeria a Céu Aberto - Tema: Mulheres Negras (Galeria a Céu Aberto, Curitiba (BR) - Março 2016);
• Scope International Conteporary Art Show (Ocean Drive, Miami (EUA) - Dezembro 2015);
• IBEJI ERÓ (Espaço Xisto Bahia,Salvador (BR) - Novembro 2015);
• EXPOTUDO (UNEB, Salvador (BR) - Outubro 2015);
• Salvador No Filtro (Shopping da Bahia, Salvador (BR) - Setembro 2015);
• Mês da Fotografia (Museu de Arte de Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso (BR) - Agosto 2015);
• The Fifth Annual Exposure Photography Award (Museu do Louvre, Paris (FR) - Julho 2015);
• Olhares Afro Contemporâneos (Biblioteca Mário de Andrade, São Paulo (BR) - Junho 2015);
• VIII Salão de Fotografia do Mar (Museu Náutico de Salvador, Salvador (BR) - Dezembro 2014);
• Corpo-Imagem dos Terreiros (Caixa Cultural, Brasília (BR) - Junho 2014);
• As Charuteiras (UNEB, Salvador (BR) - Agosto 2012);
• Mostra de Fotografia e Vídeo UNIJORGE (UNIJORGE, Salvador (BR) - Junho 2012);
• Gbàgbó – Festa da Boa Morte (UNIJORGE, Salvador (BR) - Setembro 2011).
Clips (more may be added)
Few people know that the Bay of All Saints was final port-of-call for more enslaved human beings than any other such throughout all of human history. And few people know the transcendence these people, and their descendents, wrought. That's where this Matrix begins...
Wolfram MathWorld
The idea is simple, powerful, and egalitarian: To propagate for them, the Matrix must propagate for all. Most in the world are within six degrees of us. The concept of a "small world" network (see Wolfram above) applies here, placing artists from the Recôncavo and the sertão, from Salvador... from Brooklyn, Berlin and Mombassa... musicians, writers, filmmakers... clicks (recommendations) away from their peers all over the planet.
This Integrated Global Creative Economy (we invented the concept) uncoils from Brazil's sprawling Indigenous, African, Sephardic and then Ashkenazic, Arabic, European, Asian cultural matrix... expanding like the canopy of a rainforest tree rooted in Bahia, branches spreading to embrace the entire world...
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Great culture is great power.
And in a small world great things are possible.
Alicia Svigals
"Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!!"
—Alicia Svigals (NEW YORK CITY): Apotheosis of klezmer violinists
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers (BOSTON): Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory ... Former personal recording engineer for Prince; "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"
"Dear Sparrow, Many thanks for this – I am touched!"
—Julian Lloyd Webber (LONDON): Premier cellist in UK; brother of Andrew (Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Phantom of the Opera...)
"This is super impressive work ! Congratulations ! Thanks for including me :)))"
—Clarice Assad (RIO DE JANEIRO/CHICAGO): Pianist and composer with works performed by Yo Yo Ma and orchestras around the world
"We appreciate you including Kamasi in the matrix, Sparrow."
—Banch Abegaze (LOS ANGELES): manager, Kamasi Washington
"Thanks! It looks great!....I didn't write 'Cantaloupe Island' though...Herbie Hancock did! Great Page though, well done! best, Randy"
"Very nice! Thank you for this. Warmest regards and wishing much success for the project! Matt"
—Son of Jimmy Garrison (bass for John Coltrane, Bill Evans...); plays with Herbie Hancock and other greats...
I opened the shop in Salvador, Bahia in 2005 in order to create an outlet to the wider world for magnificent Brazilian musicians.
David Dye & Kim Junod for NPR found us (above), and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (he's a huge jazz fan), David Byrne, Oscar Castro-Neves... Spike Lee walked past the place while I was sitting on the stoop across the street drinking beer and listening to samba from the speaker in the window...
But we weren't exactly easy for the world-at-large to get to. So in order to extend the place's ethos I transformed the site associated with it into a network wherein Brazilian musicians I knew would recommend other Brazilian musicians, who would recommend others...
And as I anticipated, the chalky hand of God-as-mathematician intervened: In human society — per the small-world phenomenon — most of the billions of us on earth are within some 6 or fewer degrees of each other. Likewise, within a network of interlinked artists as I've described above, most of these artists will in the same manner be at most a handful of steps away from each other.
So then, all that's necessary to put the Brazilians within possible purview of the wide wide world is to include them among a wide wide range of artists around that world.
If, for example, Quincy Jones is inside the matrix, then anybody on his page — whether they be accessing from a campus in L.A., a pub in Dublin, a shebeen in Cape Town, a tent in Mongolia — will be close, transitable steps away from Raymundo Sodré, even if they know nothing of Brazil and are unaware that Sodré sings/dances upon this planet. Sodré, having been knocked from the perch of fame and ground into anonymity by Brazil's dictatorship, has now the alternative of access to the world-at-large via recourse to the vast potential of network theory.
...to the degree that other artists et al — writers, researchers, filmmakers, painters, choreographers...everywhere — do also. Artificial intelligence not required. Real intelligence, yes.
Years ago in NYC (I've lived here in Brazil for 32 years now) I "rescued" unpaid royalties (performance & mechanical) for artists/composers including Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Mongo Santamaria, Jim Hall, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd (for his rights in Bob Marley compositions; Clement was Bob's first producer), Led Zeppelin, Ray Barretto, Philip Glass and many others. Aretha called me out of the blue vis-à-vis money owed by Atlantic Records. Allen Klein (managed The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles) called about money due the estate of Sam Cooke. Jerry Ragovoy (Time Is On My Side, Piece of My Heart) called just to see if he had any unpaid money floating around out there (the royalty world was a shark-filled jungle, to mangle metaphors, and I doubt it's changed).
But the pertinent client (and friend) in the present context is Earl "Speedo" Carroll, of The Cadillacs. Earl went from doo-wopping on Harlem streetcorners to chart-topping success to working as a custodian at PS 87 elementary school on the west side of Manhattan. Through all of this he never lost what made him great.
Greatness and fame are too often conflated. The former should be accessible independently of the latter.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay (they paid).
Matrix founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian.
Salvador is our base. If you plan to visit Bahia, there are some things you should probably know and you should first visit:
www.salvadorbahiabrazil.com
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