Novissimo Edgar is a Brazilian artist described as a creative force in both the immaterial and the material. This work combines digital collage and prose to talk directly about the socio-political realities of labor, extraction, and capitalism in Brazil. The use of emojis emphasizes the absurdity of violence and our desensitization to it on a consumerist scale. *Bíblia, boi e bala I* feels like a vital confrontation or call to action about a reality that we are all connected to, whether in Brazil or not. The question is then, where do we go from here?

Bíblia, boi e bala I

Agrupe o seu gado 
Usando um livro sagrado
A ovelha sempre cala
Quando o pastor fala
Porque nesse BRAZYL é só Bíblia, boi e bala

Minha ideologia vira mira
Sua política vira alvo
Nossa culpa religiosa não nos deixará ser salvos

Eu troco meu revólver por mais salas de aula
Porque nesse BRAZYL é só Bíblia, boi e bala

//

Bible, ox and bullet

Herd your cattle
Using a holy book
The sheep always shut up
When the pastor speaks
Because in this BRAZYL
It's just Bible, ox and bullet

My ideology turns to aim
Your policy becomes a target
Our religious guilt will not let us be saved

I exchange my gun for more classrooms
Because in this BRAZYL
It's just Bible, ox and bullet

Bíblia, boi e bala I // Bible, ox and bullet I

Augmented Archive 23, Colorized, 2021

Notes on Travecacceleration

an intergalactic experience on the Mende express

🟡 𝕹𝖊𝖑𝖙𝖔𝖐𝖔𝖓𝖎 : 𝕴𝖙𝖍𝖚𝖆 🟡

Tupinambá

SHINE 2

The End (For Now)

The artworks in this curated collection explore preservation and adaptation. Using the digital space to consider ways in which ancestral knowledge, lived experience, and collaboration can create different pathways into understanding our present moment, making sense of what came before and how we might want to move into the future.


Here we see layering of time, textures, materials, and modes of being. There is an inherent transparency to working in this way, in which it feels like all of the artists are exploring the ethics of collaboration, collage, and reinterpretation. Visual imagery, metaphors, and sound as languaging tools. Ones which feel the personal hand of the artist while also exploring wider notions of archival preservation and augmentation.


I’m interested in how certain aspects of the artworks are preserved in digital form— whether it’s a literal image, visual style, sound, cultural or historical context—while simultaneously becoming a hybrid with new context and connotations. To me this feels a lot like memory. How we remember, how we tell stories, and how we make meaning out of our lived experience.


What are the things we want to remember, to meditate on, to take forward with us? How does layering in digital space allow us to pull things apart and reorder them in new fragments, visual languages, sounds, code…

Ancestral Futures

Exploring the hybridity of the original and the possible.

Bíblia, boi e bala I // Bible, ox and bullet I

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