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Gabriel Saloman Mindel* is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and scholar based in Minneapolis, MN.
Mindel’s research focuses on the relationship between noise, protest, and power. Mindel received an MFA from Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts and is completing a PhD in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California Santa Cruz. His dissertation project, “Profanity: Performance, Protest and the Sovereign Politics of Noise,” argues for noise’s potential to radically transform, evade, and abolish structures of political power that constrain people’s everyday cultural, political, and social lives. His writing has appeared in both scholarly and para-academic publications, including Sound Stage Screen, Resonance: Journal of Sound and Culture, RadioDoc Review, Sounding Out!, Folklife Magazine and The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest.
Mindel has been performing experimental, conceptual and freely improvised music for nearly 30 years. Along with Pete Swanson he formed Yellow Swans in 2001, relentlessly touring and releasing music, carving an influential path through America’s experimental music underground, at the axis of noise, psychedelia, industrial, drone, and hardcore. Mindel has also performed and released music solo as Gabriel Saloman, composing for film and dance in collaboration with choreographers such as The Contingency Plan, Daisy Karen Thompson, Lisa Gelly Martin, Rob Kitsos, 605 Collective and Vanessa Goodman. He has also performed in a variety of collaborative duos, including with artist Aja Bond (Diadem), producer Michael Red (Chambers), composer KM Walker, stand-up comedian George Chen (Boxleitner), poet Donato Mancini, filmmaker Paul Clipson, and transmission artist Anna Friz. He currently records and performs with Luke Martin and Andy Graydon as Bottling House.
Mindel has a longstanding practice of exhibition making and curatorial projects, working solo and in a variety of collaborative artist groups. Beginning in 2003 he collaborated with Red 76 on such projects as “Fellow Travellers” for Manifesta 8 in Murcia, Spain; “Surplus Seminar” at the Walker Art Center; and “Counter-culture as Pedagogy” for CCA’s Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art; ‘Power 2012′ at Unitt/Pitt in connection with Institutions by Artists and the Bronx Museum; ‘Second Home’ as part of the San Jose 2008 Zero1 Biennial; ‘The Battery Republic,’ part of Creative Time’s ‘Democracy in America’; and CCAD and the Bureau for Open Culture’s “Descent to Revolution.” From 2011-2015 with artist Aja Bond he co-organized The Strathcona Art Gallery / STAG Library, a semi-public, semi-private gallery, library and event space in Vancouver, BC. During this time he also co-founded the Lower Mainland Painting Co., an investigation into art, labour and art labourers. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at Unit/Pitt Projects, 221a, and the Audain Gallery (all Vancouver, BC). His curatorial projects have included\ “Future Concrete” and “Art and Parenthood” at Unit/Pitt Projects (Vancouver); “Landscape & Life” at Indexical (Santa Cruz); and “Love & Revelation” at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.
* Gabriel Mindel has published, performed, and been credited under a small array of pseudonyms including Gabriel Mindel-Saloman, Gabriel Saloman, and GMS.
Mindel can be contacted directly at…
GABRIELMINDEL “a”-in-a-spiral GMAIL black-dot COM
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