Gabriel Saloman
co-curator of Vanessa Renwick and Daniel Menche: The Possibility of Nature, Hope in Pure Sound, and Faith in Magnetism
Gabriel Saloman is a San Francisco/Portland/Vancouver based artist and a half of Diadem.
Saloman has been performing experimental, conceptual, and freely improvised music for over 15 years. He is best known for his work as half of Yellow Swans, a Portland based noise group that toured Europe, Australia, and North America multiple times, and which released over 50 recordings over the course of their 9 year existence. He has also performed in Cexfucx (a Free-Funk collective from Portland); Boxleitner (a performance art group / punk band); and he currently performs solo as Sade Sade.
Besides his involvement in music, Saloman works as an artist, writer, curator, graphic designer, lecturer and magickal activist. Since 2003 he has collaborated with Red 76 on such projects as ‘Building Batteries’, ‘Second Home’ for the San Jose 2008 Zero1 Biennial, and most recently ‘The Battery Republic’ which was part of Creative Time’s ‘Democracy in America’. Together with Sam Gould of Red 76 he is also the creator of the No War U.S.O. initiative, and leads the annual Liberation Seder. He has contributed writing to “….” (Dots and Quotes); The Journal of Radical Shimming, issue six of which he co-edited; The San Francisco Bay Guardian; and other independent publications. In addition to essays and journalistic work, he has written and performed a series of lectures exploring Epistimology as it relates to Conspiracy and is mediated by technology. Saloman was a co-founder of Collective Jyrk, an arts collective from Portland that produced zines, music recordings, experimental films, animations, an online gallery, and curated several exhibitions and events.
Saloman is also affiliated with a variety of organizations such as The Psych (A) Party, The New Kanata Lodge, WOEVEN, Spartacus Books Collective and Reclaiming’s F.A.W.C.
