CURATION
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by Matrix
Network Node
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Name:
Edivan Guajajara
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City/Place:
Zutiwa, Maranhão
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Country:
Brazil
Life & Work
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Bio:
Reescrevendo:
Meu nome é Edivan Guajajara e pertenço ao povo indígena Guajajara, da aldeia Zutiwa, localizada no território da Terra Indígena Araribóia, no estado do Maranhão. Sou cineasta, profissional de mídias sociais, designer, fotógrafo e diretor do projeto "WE ARE GUARDIANS". Dedico-me à produção de etnomídia, trabalhando em colaboração com diversos povos indígenas. Meu objetivo é promover uma comunicação colaborativa em prol das organizações indígenas do Brasil.
Além disso, sou um dos membros e co-fundadores da MÍDIA ÍNDIGENA, uma rede de comunicadores indígenas que tem dado visibilidade às lutas dos povos originários. Juntamente com outros integrantes, como Erisvan Bone de Sousa Guajajara e Ronilson Lima Guajajara, tenho trabalhado para amplificar as vozes dos povos indígenas. Como ativista, utilizo a fotografia como uma ferramenta essencial para destacar a resistência de nosso povo ao longo de 523 anos de história. Minhas fotografias capturam detalhes marcantes da vida indígena, retratando de forma vívida a árdua batalha pela proteção territorial e pela defesa da Mãe Terra.
Por meio dos meus trabalhos como artista, busco trazer visibilidade e reconhecimento às lutas e culturas dos povos indígenas do Brasil.
English:
My name is Edivan Guajajara, and I belong to the Guajajara indigenous people from the Zutiwa village, located within the territory of the Araribóia Indigenous Land, in the state of Maranhão, Brazil. I am a filmmaker, social media professional, designer, photographer, and director of the "WE ARE GUARDIANS" project. I dedicate myself to producing ethnomedia, collaborating with various indigenous peoples. My goal is to promote collaborative communication in support of indigenous organizations in Brazil.
Additionally, I am one of the members and co-founders of MÍDIA ÍNDIGENA, a network of indigenous communicators that has brought visibility to the struggles of indigenous peoples. Alongside other members, such as Erisvan Bone de Sousa Guajajara and Ronilson Lima Guajajara, I have worked to amplify the voices of indigenous peoples. As an activist, I use photography as an essential tool to highlight the resistance of our people over 523 years of history. My photographs capture striking details of indigenous life, vividly portraying the arduous battle for territorial protection and the defense of Mother Earth.
Through my work as an artist, I aim to bring visibility and recognition to the struggles and cultures of indigenous peoples in Brazil.
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Quotes, Notes & Etc.
A sua ajuda me ajuda a dar visibilidade a luta dos povos Indígenas os defensores da floresta e da vida no planeta terra. Carrego comigo a minha câmera que também é a minha ferramenta de luta. Com a sua doação pode fazer a diferença. O planeta está em uma encruzilhada e nossas ações conjuntas são importantes para proteger o mundo natural do qual dependemos hoje e para definir um caminho rumo a um futuro melhor.
PAYPAL: [email protected]
English:
Your help assists me in bringing visibility to the struggle of Indigenous peoples, the defenders of the forest and life on planet Earth. I carry with me my camera, which is also my tool of struggle. With your donation, you can make a difference. The planet is at a crossroads, and our joint actions are important to protect the natural world upon which we depend today and to chart a path towards a better future.
PAYPAL: [email protected]
Clips (more may be added)
The Integrated Global Creative Economy, uncoiling from this sprawling Indigenous, African, Sephardic and then Ashkenazic, Arabic, European, Asian cultural matrix.
The mathematics of the small world phenomenon transforming the creative universe into a creative village wherein all are connected by short pathways to all.
In a small world great things are possible.
"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
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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
Conceived under a Spiritus Mundi ranging from the quilombos and senzalas of Cachoeira and Santo Amaro to Havana and the provinces of Cuba to the wards of New Orleans to the South Side of Chicago to the sidewalks of Harlem to the townships of South Africa to the villages of Ireland to the Roma camps of France and Belgium to the Vienna of Beethoven to the shtetls of Eastern Europe...*
Sodré
*...in conversation with Raymundo Sodré, who summed up the irony in this sequence by opining for the ages: "Where there's misery, there's music!" Hence A Massa, anthem for the trod-upon folk of Brazil, which blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south until Sodré was silenced, threatened with death and forced into exile...
And hence a platform whereupon all creators tend to accessible proximity to all other creators, irrespective of degree of fame, location, or the censor.
Matrix Ground Zero is the Recôncavo, bewitching and bewitched, contouring the resplendent Bay of All Saints (end of clip below, before credits), absolute center of terrestrial gravity for the disembarkation of enslaved human beings (and for the sublimity these people created), the bay presided over by Brazil's ineffable Black Rome (seat of the Integrated Global Creative Economy* and where Bule Bule is seated below, around the corner from where we built this matrix as an extension of our record shop).
Assis Valente's (of Santo Amaro, Bahia) "Brasil Pandeiro" filmed by Betão Aguiar
Betão Aguiar
("Black Rome" is an appellation per Caetano, via Mãe Aninha of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá.)
*Darius Mans holds a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT, and lives between Washington D.C. and Salvador da Bahia.
Between 2000 and 2004 he served as the World Bank’s Country Director for Mozambique and Angola. In that capacity, Darius led a team which generated $150 million in annual lending to Mozambique, including support for public private partnerships in infrastructure which catalyzed over $1 billion in private investment.
Darius was an economist with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where he worked closely with the U.S. Treasury and the IMF to establish a framework to avoid debt repudiation and to restructure private commercial debt in Brazil and Chile.
He taught Economics at the University of Maryland and was a consultant to KPMG on infrastructure projects in Latin America.
Replete with Brazilian greatness, but we listened to Miles Davis and Jimmy Cliff in there too; visitors are David Dye & Kim Junod for NPR/WXPN
I'm Pardal here in Brazil (that's "Sparrow" in English). The deep roots of this project are in Manhattan, where Allen Klein (managed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones) called me about royalties for the estate of Sam Cooke... where Jerry Ragovoy (co-wrote Time is On My Side, sung by the Stones; Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin of course; and Pata Pata, sung by the great Miriam Makeba) called me looking for unpaid royalties... where I did contract and licensing for Carlinhos Brown's participation on Bahia Black with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
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.
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