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 Isaac Julien 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 Isaac Julien.
1 DEGREE FORWARD: Isaac Julien (node) ROUTES TO THESE ARTIST NODES
Are these Isaac Julien's personal recommendations?
CURATION STATUS
- → Routes by The Matrix
Who & Where
- Name: Isaac Julien
- City/Place: London
- Country: United Kingdom
Life & Work
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Bio:
Isaac Julien is one of Britain's most important and influential installation artists and filmmakers. Julien was born in London in 1960 and studied at St Martins' School of Art from 1980 to 1984. His work draws from and comments on a range of disciplines and practices (film, dance, photography, music, theater, painting, and sculpture) and unites them in dramatic audiovisual film installations, photographic works, and documentary films.
His 1991 film Young Soul Rebels won the Semaine de la Critique Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. His 1996 film Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask, made with curator Mark Nash, won the Pratt and Whitney Canada Grand Prize. Julien has also been the recipient of the McDermott Award from MIT and The Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award (2014) from the San Francisco Film Festival. In 2015 Isaac Julien was the recipient for the Kaino Award for Artistic Excellence. Julien was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2001 for his works The Long Road to Mazatlán (1999), and Vagabondia (2000) and has received wide acclaim for works including Western Union (Small Boats) (2007), Fantôme Afrique (2005), True North (2004) and many others. In 2008 Julien collaborated with Tilda Swinton on a biopic, Derek, about Derek Jarman, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival the same year.
Julien's work has been included in Documenta 11 (2002), the 7th Gwangju Biennial (2008), and the Paris Triennial (2012). In addition, Julien has had various solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Art Institute of Chicago (2013), the MCA San Diego (2012), the Bass Museum, Miami (2010), and the Centre Pompidou (2005) among others. In the winter of 2013-2014 his 2010 installation Ten Thousand Waves was on view at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, projected onto nine double-sided screens in a dynamic arrangement specially conceived for The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium.
Isaac Julien's most recent exhibition at the De Pont Museum was a survey show entitled Riot, which spanned thirty years of his career. For the 56th Venice Biennale, Isaac Julien has collaborated with curator Okwui Enwezor and is directing a series of performances, readings and screenings of Marx's Das Kapital, along with an installation of his homonymous work, KAPITAL (2013). Isaac Julien's latest installation piece, Stones Against Diamonds, will also be premiered during the Biennale in the Rolls Royce Art Programme.
Julien's work is included in the collections of institutions around the globe. In 2013, a monographic survey of his career to date, Riot, was published by MoMA, NY.
Contact Information
- Email: info@isaacjulien.com
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Management/Booking:
Isaac Julien is represented by:
Victoria Miro, London
www.victoria-miro.com/artists/22-isaac-julien/
Nara Roesler, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro
www.nararoesler.art/artists/41-isaac-julien/
Metro Pictures, New York
www.metropictures.com/artists/isaac-julien
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
www.roslynoxley9.com.au/artists/216/Isaac_Julien/
Jessica Silverman, San Francisco
www.jessicasilvermangallery.com/isaac-julien/
Ron Mandos Galerie, Amsterdam
www.ronmandos.nl/artists/isaac-julien
Media & Markets
- ▶ Twitter: isaacjulien
- ▶ Instagram: isaacjulien
- ▶ Website: http://www.isaacjulien.com
- ▶ Article: http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/mar/15/isaac-julien-frederick-douglass-lessons-of-the-hour
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"):
