This is a matrix in the original sense of "source". It is a "small-world" network, meaning that the nodes (people) inside it are — mirroring human society — within a few steps of everybody else inside it. The matrix was built to allow regional Brazilian musicians to be discoverable steps away from everybody else in the arts world, and by logical necessity this m.o. requires not only that the great Brazilians be matrixed, but so far as possible, all working artists in our time. Ergo:
THIS MATRIX, THOUGH BRAZIL-BORN, IS UNIVERSAL
This Intisar Abioto matrix node is steps away from the entire planet by the well-known small-world ("6 degrees") phenomenon dictating that in human society you yourself are within several degrees of Intisar Abioto.
1 DEGREE FORWARD: Intisar Abioto (node) ROUTES TO THESE ARTIST NODES
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CURATION STATUS
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Who & Where
- Name: Intisar Abioto
- City/Place: Portland, Oregon
- Country: United States
- Hometown: Memphis, Tennessee
Current News
- What's Up? Storytelling, dreams, history, memory, geography, and choreography are at the root of my practice. My mediums are cross-disciplinary. The tools are what can be found at hand. I was a dancer, first; a writer, second; a photographer, third; and a human body wending her way through space and time always. This sense of the body in space .. both sensing and affecting the landscape is my way. This is choreography. This, too, is the body aware of all her sensors and in every direction. This, too, is precognition .. to hear the story that could be from all around you.. all that is known and unknown, immediately sensed and not. If a photograph is a stamp, one packet in time's knowledge, then this is a weaving of information across geographic and temporal existence. I hope the path taken is one of connection, an ever an emboldening of life, care, and love through our image.
Life & Work
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Bio:
Intisar Abioto (b. Memphis, TN. 1986) is an explorer-artist working across photography, dance, and writing. Moving from the visionary and embodied root of Blackgirl Southern cross-temporal cross-modal storytelling ways, her works refer to the living breath/breadth of people of African descent against the expanse of their storied, geographic, and imaginative landscapes. Working in long-form projects that encompass the visual, folkloric, documentary, and performing arts, she has produced The People Could Fly Project, The Black Portlanders, and The Black. Co-created with her four artist sisters, The People Could Fly Project, was a 200,000-mile flying arts expedition exploring realities of flight and freedom within the African diasporic myth of the flying African and Virginia Hamilton’s award-winning book, The People Could Fly.
Abioto is the recipient of a 2018 Oregon Humanities Emerging Journalists, Community Stories Fellowship for which she began a continuing body of research on the history of artists of African descent in Oregon. She has performed and/or exhibited at Ori Gallery, Portland Art Museum, Duplex Gallery, Photographic Center Northwest, African American Museum in Philadelphia, Poetry Press Week, Design Week Portland, Spelman College, Powell’s City of Books, University of Oregon White Box Gallery, Portland State University, Reed College, and Zilkha Gallery among others. Selected for an Art in the Governor’s Office solo exhibition in 2019 she exhibited and performed with nine Oregon-based Black artists against the inner expanse of the Oregon State Capitol building in Salem OR. Her publication Black Portlands documents interviews with Black Portlanders alongside her photographs. She was a contributing photographer to MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora (2017) and her photographs illustrated the Urban League of Portland’s State of Black Oregon 2015. With the five women artists in her family, she is the co-founder of Studio Abioto, a multivalent creative arts studio. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Contact Information
- Contact by Webpage: http://www.intisarabioto.com/contact
Media & Markets
- ▶ Twitter: intisarabioto
- ▶ Instagram: intisarabioto
- ▶ Website: http://www.intisarabioto.com
- ▶ Website 2: http://theblackportlanders.com
- ▶ Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/23/arts/design/black-artists-portland.html
- ▶ Articles: http://www.intisarabioto.com/cv
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Quotes, Notes & Etc.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020
BabeSis, Aunts Ten, Ms. W, Miss Choomby .. & In Our Company. Forest for the Trees, Portland OR
2019
Black Legend, Black, Oregon, Office of The Governor, Oregon State Capitol, Salem OR
2017
Black Portlanders, Black Portlands, Littman Gallery, Portland State University, Portland OR
The Black, University of Oregon White Box Gallery, Portland OR
2016
The Black Portlanders, Reed College, Portland OR.
2015
Contents, Duplex Gallery, Portland OR
The Black Portlanders, Powell’s City of Books, Backlight Corner Gallery, Portland OR
2013
The People Could Fly, Multnomah County Public Library, Portland OR
2009
The People Could Fly, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
Spirit Women: Adriene Cruz & Intisar Abioto, Oregon State University, Corvallis OR
Passages in the Black Diaspora, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle WA
2019
In Between: Hank Willis Thomas & Intisar Abioto, RACC Public Art Installation, Portland OR
An Altar to Alter, Portland In Color, Portland Art Museum, Portland OR
In Conversation: Visual Meditations on Black Masculinity, African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia PA
Brown Sugar: Where We At, Tips on Failing, Portland OR
2018
Resistance, Multnomah County Public Library, Portland OR
Elements of Reclamation, Ori Gallery, Portland OR
Selected Performance
2019
Sugar Lee / Brown Sugar: Where We At, Tips on Failing, Portland OR
Black Legend, Black, Oregon: Black Artists at the Capitol, Office of The Governor, Oregon State Capitol, Salem OR
2017
Moving Through Darkness,This Is A Black Spatial Imaginary, Paragon Gallery, Portland OR
2016
In Response to Fujikasa Satoko’s Flow #1, Portland Art Museum
A Reading, Poetry Press Week. Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland OR
2014 Story Design, A Danced Treatise on Story as Act of Place, Design Week Portland
Clips (more may be added)
THE MATRIX WAS BUILT HERE, inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone... The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum...it sings!
Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes
Stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word
Limned in prosody and cadenced song
brəˈzɪl / from "brasa" / Latin for "ember"
w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio
Given the immense untapped power of the small-world phenomenon, from Brazilians the matrix was expanded to include nodes per jazz artists, given jazz's common roots with Brazilian music (nodes based in publicly available information; some artists we informed — Bob Mintzer, Kamasi Washington, David "Fuse" Fiuczynski, Vijay Iyer, Greg Osby — and got thumbs up, others we'll get to), and moved on from there. Artists/academics/"creative people" are welcome to create their own nodes and curate (connect to other artist nodes, so that others may follow). BTW, our logo is a cortador de cana, cane cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specializes in.
MUCH MORE on all of this in the window below (which, if you are logged in, will instead contain instructions on recommending), and in the window within that window (which includes a "radio" called by The Guardian one of "10 of the best music radio stations around the world"):
