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From Brazil with love →

@ Ground Zero

 

Have you, dear friend, ever noticed how different places scattered across the face of the globe seem almost to exist in different universes? As if they were permeated throughout with something akin to 19th century luminiferous aether, unique, determined by that place's history? It's like a trick of the mind's light (I suppose), but standing on beach or escarpment in Salvador and looking out across the Baía de Todos os Santos to the great Recôncavo, and mindful of what happened there, one must be led to the inevitable conclusion that one is in a place unique to history, and to the present*.

 

 

"Chegou a hora dessa gente bronzeada mostrar seu valor / The time has come for these bronzed people to show their value..."Música: Assis Valente of Santo Amaro, Bahia. Vídeo: Betão Aguiar.

 

*More enslaved human beings entered the Bay of All Saints and the Recôncavo than any other final port-of-call throughout all of mankind's history.

 

These people and their descendants created some of the most uplifting music ever made, the foundation of Brazil's national art. We wanted their music to be accessible to the world (it's not even accessible here in Brazil) so we created a platform by which everybody's creativity is mutually accessible, including theirs.

 

El Aleph

 

The network was built in an obscure record shop (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar found it) in a shimmering Brazilian port city...

 

...inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' (short story) 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.

 

It "works" by virtue of the "small-world" phenomenon...the same responsible for the fact that most of us 7 billion or so beings are within 6 or fewer degrees of each other.

 

It was described (to some degree) and can be accessed via this article in British journal The Guardian (which named our radio of matrixed artists as one of ten best in the world):

 

www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/apr/17/10-best-music-radio-station-around-world

 

With David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio: www.npr.org/2013/07/16/202634814/roots-of-samba-exploring-historic-pelourinho-in-salvador-brazil

 

All is more connected than we know.

 

Per the "spirit" above, our logo is a cortador de cana, a 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 specialized in. The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum... it dances and sings.

 

If You Can't Stand the Heat

 

Image above is from the base of the cross in front of the church of São Francisco do Paraguaçu in the Bahian Recôncavo

 

Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes, stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word, limned in cadenced song, Brazil is a conundrum wrapped in a smile inside an irony...

 

This is not a European nation. It is not a North American nation. It is not an East Asian nation. It straddles — jungle and desert and dense urban centers — both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. Brazil absorbed over ten times the number of enslaved Africans taken to the United States of America, and is a repository of African deities (and their music) now largely forgotten in their lands of origin. It was a refuge (of sorts) for Sephardim fleeing an Inquisition which followed them across the Atlantic (that unofficial symbol of Brazil's national music — the pandeiro — was almost certainly brought to Brazil by these people). Across the parched savannas of the interior of Brazil's culturally fecund nordeste/northeast, where wizard Hermeto Pascoal was born in Lagoa da Canoa (Lagoon of the Canoe) and raised in Olho d'Águia (Eye of the Eagle), much of Brazil's aboriginal population was absorbed into a caboclo/quilombola culture punctuated by the Star of David. Three cultures — from three continents — running for their lives, their confluence forming an unprecedented fourth. Pandeirista on the roof. Nowhere else but here.

 

Oligarchy, plutocracy, dictatorships and massive corruption — elements of these are still strongly entrenched — have defined, delineated, and limited Brazil.

 

But strictured & bound as it has been and is, Brazil has buzz...not the shallow buzz of a fashionable moment...but the deep buzz of a population which in spite of — or perhaps because of — the tough slog through life they've been allotted by humanity's dregs-in-fine-linen, have chosen not to simply pull themselves along but to lift their voices in song and their bodies in dance...to eat well and converse well and much and to wring the joy out of the day-to-day happenings and small pleasures of life which are so often set aside or ignored in the European, North American, and East Asian nations.

 

For this Brazil has a genius perhaps unparalleled in all other countries and societies, a genius which thrives alongside peeling paint and holes in the streets and roads, under bad organization by the powers-that-be, both civil and governmental, under a constant rain of societal indignities...

 

Which is all to say that if you don't know Brazil and you're expecting any semblance of order, progress and light, you will certainly find the light! And the buzz of a people who for generations have responded to privation at many different levels by somehow rising above it all.

 

"Onde tem miséria, tem música!"* - Raymundo Sodré

 

And it's not just music. And it's not just Brazil.

 

Welcome to the kitchen!

 

* "Where there is misery, there is music!" Remarked during a conversation arcing from Bahia to Haiti and Cuba to New Orleans and the south side of Chicago and Harlem to the villages of Ireland and the gypsy camps and shtetls of Eastern Europe...

 

Harlem to Bahia to the Planet



Why a "Matrix"?

 

I was explaining the ideas behind this nascent network to (João) Teoria (trumpet player above) over cervejas at Xique Xique (a bar named for a town in Bahia) in the Salvador neighborhood of Barris...

 

Like this (but in Portuguese): "It's kind of like Facebook if it didn't spy on you, but reversed... more about who you don't know than who you do know. And who doesn't know you but would be glad if they did. It's kind of like old Myspace Music but instead of having "friends" it has a list on your page of people you recommend. Not just musicians but writers, painters, filmmakers, dancers, chefs... anybody in the creative economy. It has a list of people who recommend you, or through whom you are recommended. It deals with arts which aren't recommendable by algorithm but need human intelligence behind recommendations. And the people who are recommended can recommend, creating a network of recommendations wherein by the small world phenomenon most people in the creative economy are within several steps of everybody else in the creative economy, no matter where they are in the world. Like a chessboard which could have millions of squares, but you can get from any given square to any other in no more than six steps..."

 

And João said (in Portuguese): "A matrix where you can move from one artist to another..."

 

A matrix! That was it! The ORIGINAL meaning of matrix is "source", from "mater", Latin for "mother". So the term would help congeal the concept in the minds of people the network was being introduced to, while giving us a motto: "We're a real mother for ya!" (you know, Johnny "Guitar" Watson?)

 

The original idea was that musicians would recommend musicians, the network thus formed being "small world" (commonly called "six degrees of separation"). In the real world, the number of degrees of separation in such a network can vary, but while a given network might have billions of nodes (people, for example), the average number of steps between any two nodes will usually be minuscule.

 

Thus somebody unaware of the magnificent music of Bahia, Brazil will be able to conceivably move from almost any musician in this matrix to Bahia in just a few steps...

 

By the same logic that might move one from Bahia or anywhere else to any musician anywhere.

 

And there's no reason to limit this system to musicians. To the contrary, while there are algorithms written to recommend music (which, although they are limited, can be useful), there are no algorithms capable of recommending journalism, novels & short stories, painting, dance, film, chefery...

 

...a vast chasm that this network — or as Teoria put it, "matrix" — is capable of filling.

 

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  • Name: Raelis Vasquez
  • City/Place: Chicago/New York City
  • Country: United States
  • Hometown: Santa Cruz de Mao, Dominican Republic

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  • Bio: Drawing on historical, political and personal narratives, my paintings are figurative compositions that conjure the complexity of the Afro-Latinx experience. The figures in my work inhabit a state of vulnerability that often encourages the viewer to question their positions on class, race, and geography. I immigrated to the United States in 2002 from the Dominican Republic. Today, I feel an overpowering responsibility (or calling) to the arts and towards my Black, Latinx, and immigrant communities.

    I paint using oils in a naturalistic manner as a means to give clarity to the subjects I present. My devotion is to the accurate representation of the convoluted histories of the Dominican Republic. I am aiming to highlight an allegorical narrative that presents the psychological states of the figures in my works while presenting a window to the viewer of their daily lives.

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  • Quotes, Notes & Etc. Raelis Rayson Vasquez Estrella
    Born: 1995 in Mao Valverde, Dominican Republic
    Lives and works in NJ/NYC

    EDUCATION
    2019 - 2021: MFA, Painting and Drawing, Columbia University, NY
    2016 - 2018: BFA, Painting and Drawing, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
    2017: Monte Castello Painting and Studio Practice, Umbria Italy
    2013- 2015 Associates in Liberal Arts, High Honors, Studio Arts, Art History, Middlesex County College, NJ

    UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
    2021
    Estamos Bien: La Trienal 20/21, El Museo del Barrio, New York NY
    Shattered Glass, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
    Contemporary Domesticity, Taymour Grahne, London, UK
    Frieze NYC, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
    Solo Exhibition, Sakhile&Me Gallery, Frankfurt Germany

    SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
    2020
    “Como Nosotros Somos” New Image Gallery, West Hollywood, CA (two Person -with Tiffany Alfonseca)
    “Celebrate Longevity” Superposition Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (two Person- with John Rivas)
    2019
    “Both at Once” Latchkey Gallery, NY, NY (two-person- with Kevin M. Demery)
    “Stateless” Baby Blue Gallery, Chicago, IL (two-person- with John Rivas)
    2017
    "It Takes All Kind" Studio Oh!, Chicago IL (solo)

    GROUP EXHIBITIONS
    2020
    Art Basel Miami Beach, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
    Art Basel OVR, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
    “Building Narratives” Monti 8, Latina, Italy
    “Figurative Summer” Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
    “Everyday is Sunday” UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, CA
    “The Cookout: Kinfolk and Other Intimacies” MoCADA, Brooklyn, NY
    “One Way Ticket” Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
    “Thy Neighbor” 1-54 Contemporary African Art Far, Latchkey Gallery, New York, NY
    “TB2P” Cantica Tabacuru Gallery, New York, NY
    “Parallel Realities & Unpopular Truths” Superposition Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
    “The Living Room Kitchen” The Andrew Freedman Home, Bronx, NY
    2019
    “Syn-co-pa-tion” Ace Hotel\The Tenth Magazine, Chicago, IL
    “Breaching the Margins” Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
    “Both at Once” Latchkey Gallery, New York, NY
    “Stateless” Baby Blue Gallery, Chicago, IL
    “Remnants of Things Left Behind” Band of Vices, Los Angeles, CA
    “Salon!” Rozsa Center for the Performing Art, Houghton, MI
    “Don’t Be Scurred: Pathways to Liberation” Hairpin Arts Center, Chicago, IL
    “Salon!” Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts, Houghton, MI
    2018- “XL Catlin Art Prize,” San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
    “XL Catlin Art Prize,” Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL
    “XL Catlin Art Prize,” New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
    “The Latin American Contemporary Fine Art Competition” Agora Gallery, New York, NY
    “Interiors”, Happy Gallery, Chicago, IL
    "The Art of Awareness," Fulton Street Market, Chicago, IL
    "A Remembrance of Beauty," Moody Fellowship Hall, Chicago, IL
    "SAIC BFA Show," SAIC Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
    "Journey to America," Highland Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
    "Black Love Matters," William Hill Gallery, Chicago, IL
    "Buy Art Not Vices" NYCH Gallery, Chicago, IL
    "Rompiendo Barrera" Carlos and Dominguez Fine Arts Gallery, Chicago, IL
    2017
    "Black Love Matters", SouthSide Arts Center, Chicago, IL
    "Mostradarte" The International Centre for the Arts, Monte Castello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy
    "Altering Realities" Fulton Street Collective, Chicago, IL
    "Taking Shape" Studio Oh! Chicago, IL
    2016
    "Understanding Time" Ballroom Projects, Chicago, IL
    "ArtBash" Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL
    2015
    The Community Open House & Expo, 50-Year Anniversary Exhibition
    2014
    Perth Amboy Bi-Annual Exhibition. Perth Amboy, NJ
    Annual International Summer Exhibition. Highland Park, NJ
    2013
    ACT-SO NAACP New Jersey Painting Competition. Newark, NJ
    ACT-SO NAACP New Jersey Drawing Competition. Newark, NJ

    GRANTS/AWARDS (Grants/Fellowships, Awards/Honors, Residencies, etc.)
    2019
    Mare Residency, SunSpot Studios with MICA, Baltimore, MD
    2018
    Odyssey Travel Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
    2017
    John W. Kurtich Foundation Scholarship , School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
    2016
    SAIC Distinguished Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
    SAIC Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
    2015
    Art Department Awards for Academic Excellence, Middlesex County College
    2013
    ACT-SO NAACP New Jersey Silver Medal in Painting
    ACT-SO NAACP New Jersey Silver Medal in Drawing
    Art Student of the Year, School of North Brunswick

    Talks and Panel Discussions
    2020
    Panel Discussion with Schrezade Garcia and Toy Peralta, “Afro Latinos En Arte” at SVA, New York, NY
    2018
    Today at Apple, "Modern Meets Classic" Key Note/ Live Art, Chicago, IL

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Imagine the world's creative economy at your fingertips. Imagine 10 doors side-by-side. Beyond each, 10 more, each opening to a "creative" somewhere around the planet. After passing through 8 such doorways you will have followed 1 pathway out of 100 million possible (2 sets of doorways yield 10 x 10 = 100 pathways). This is a simplified version of the metamathematics that makes it possible to reach everybody in the global creative economy in just a few steps It doesn't mean that everybody will be reached by everybody. It does mean that everybody can  be reached by everybody.


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