Emiddio Vasquez

Description

Emiddio Vasquez (he/him) is a Cypriot-Dominican artist, composer and theorist, whose research is shaped by the politics of matter and how they inform sound and computation. In his work he focuses on the ways their intangibility transforms and resonates across media and materialities, which doubles as a strategy for engaging with the ideological infrastructures at stake. With a commitment to collaborative work and an unwavering interest in the human condition and its social reality, he reweaves personal memories with dense historical research to instigate questions of power and how new subjectivities speak truth to it. Along with Peter Eramian he also works as Lower Levant Company co-representing Cyprus in the 60th Venice Biennale. For over a decade he helped shape the Cypriot underground music scene, as an organizer, a dj and a performer, and in 2018 he founded the Cypriot-based record label Moneda. Through sound events and record releases, the label looks at the conditions under which value reproduces itself in social, material and semiotic forms.