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Wednesday 15 February, 19 hrs
Piertopolis: The Flex Transit Assault Series
Collective Exhibition ‘Life Bloody Live’ until 25th of February
moretti & moretti gallery, 6 Cour Bérard, 75004 Paris
Gallery open Tuesday till Saturday from 2 till 7 pm and on appointment

Sunday 19 February, 17 hrs
Piertopolis: Video Intervention Drop City Mask Propelled to the loop. at Dimanche Rouge #13
Petit Bain, 7 Ports de la Gare, 75013 Paris

Piertopolis at Gemak

21 January 2012

Despite the weather, Gemak’s white cube space at The Hague’s was filled to the gills Saturday night for the opening of Piertopolis.

DAI Invited Guest

January

Invited guest lecturer, face to face meetings with Students of Artez Master of Fine arts Dutch Art Institute (DAI).

Based in Arnhem, the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) is one of the master courses at the ArtEZ Faculty of Art and Design. The DAI provides emerging artists with a two year English taught program that enables them to deepen their exploration of theoretical, conceptual and productional aspects of contemporary art practice.

The DAI – week phenomenon

Instead of asking its master students to be present at the institute on a daily base the DAI offers an alternative educational environment: once per month (11 times per year) students, faculty and invited guests come to the DAI in Arnhem for a full week and take part in an energetic residential program that lasts from early morning until late at night. The week is structured by a dense weaving of workshops, seminars, lectures, performances, presentations and face to face conversations between individual students, faculty and guests.

MMKA Museum of Modern Art Arnhem

Lecture & Workshop

A.J. Guzman

From the State of L3 to Piertopolis

Migratory Aesthetics in Contemporary Art

MMKA museum voor moderne kunst Arnhem

Artez Master Studies

11th January 2012, 10.00 – 16.30

Piertopolis at Gemak, The Hague

Artist in residence at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

Residence at the prestigious Cité Internationale des Arts

Artists residency programme

The International Arts City -  Paris, France

Inspire by Guy Debord, I will be working on a series of Psychogeographical maps from Paris to be use as part of Piertopolis Project.

Psychogeography was defined in 1955 by Guy Debord as “the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals.” Another definition is “a whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities. Just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape.

The International Arts City (Cité Internationale des Arts) is a programme run by the FAAA that hosts foreign artists who wish to live and work in Paris. The programme’s objective is to provide young artists and new talents with a place to develop their artistic endeavours. The International Arts City is a foundation that benefits from a vast network of partners and associates. Its founders include a large number of schools, institutes, universities, and ministries from close to 50 countries all across the world. Two of its historic founders and key partners are the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Mairie de Paris.

Loft Mondriaan Foundation New York

Grant Loft Mondriaan Foundation March 2012

Loft at The Print Building on Hudson Street New York City from the Mondriaan Foundation, I will be using the space to work on the exhibition Piertopolis, part a collective exhibition at Corridor Gallery in Brooklyn, New York.

The Legend of Billy MacLean at Raw Material Company

Screening December 15th, my new short film The Legend of Billy MacLean (La leyenda del Tamal)
at Raw Material Company, Dakar, Senegal.

RAW MATERIAL COMPANY is a center for art, knowledge and society established in Dakar since 2008.  It is an art initiative unfolding within the realms of exhibition making, commissioning, knowledge sharing, and archiving of theory and criticism. It works to foster appreciation and growth of African artistic and intellectual creativity. The underlying rationale of its program is the firm belief in visual arts as a potent tool capable of shifting views, and ignite engagement for art practice as a viable path for social and political transformation. The artistic director of Raw is Koyo Kouoh, a Cameroonian born independent curator and cultural producer. Her recent projects are DOCUMENTA 12, in Kassel and GEO-graphics, Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels

http://rawmaterialcompany.org/about/

Lecture at ArtEZ Studium Generale

I’ll be Giving a master-class on The State of L3,
Crossings of the Black Atlantic.
Migratory Aesthetics in Contemporary Art.

2 December at ArtEz Studium generale in the city of Arnhem, The Netherlands.
With 30 lecturers and professors,
Feat: Viktor & Rolf, Midas Dekkers, Sine Jansen, Wunderbaum, Lama Zopa, The State of L3

Reading material:

A Fanonian Perspective on Double Consciousness

Date: December 2, 2011
Time: 9.30 – 4.00 hours
Location: various locations in Arnhem (eg Musis Sacrum Filmhouse Focus, Luxor Live)
admission: Access lectures, workshops and master classes (Musis Sacrum): free
Access film program (cinema Focus): free
Party access (Luxor Live): E 5.00.
Tickets and reservations: Registration starts from November 2, 2011

ArtEZ Institute of the Arts is one of the major arts educational institutes in the Netherlands.

Corridor Gallery New York

Piertopolis

March – May 2012

Corridor Gallery

334 Grand Avenue

Brooklyn, New York

Founded in 1995 by brothers Russell, Danny and Joseph “Rev. Run” Simmons.  Rush Arts Gallery is dedicated to providing exhibition opportunities to an emerging artistic community.  Rush Arts Gallery provides an inclusive space for new audiences and promotes experimental ventures in visual production, curatorial work, performance art and community involvement.

New School University New York

“The Day We Surrender to the Air Episode Two” at Graduate Program in International Affairs  
The New School University New York City

The New School is a university in New York City, located mostly in Greenwich Village. From its founding in 1919 by progressive New York academics, and for most of its history, the university was known as the New School for Social Research. Between 1997 and 2005 it was known as New School University. The university and each of its colleges were re-branded to their current names in 2005.

The school is renowned for its avant-garde teaching, housing the international think tank, World Policy Institute, and hosting the prestigious National Book Awards. Parsons The New School for Design is the university’s highly competitive art school.

Kenya International Film Festival

“The Day We Surrender to the Air Episode Two” at the Kenya International Film Festival

October 21 to October 31 2011

The year’s theme is ‘Leadership – Next Generation’.

This year the Film Festivals screenings will be held simultaneously in various towns including Nairobi, Nakuru, Kisumu, Mombasa, and Eldoret.

GEMAK

Gemak’s sensational exhibitions explore a variety of topical issues from surprising perspectives.

Gemak’s exhibitions are never isolated events; they are generally accompanied by lectures, interviews and debates, where art provides the inspiration rather than the subject. The activities often concern social issues and politic.

A Field Guide to the GeoArchitecture of New York

Geologic City: A Field Guide to the GeoArchitecture of New York: Book Launch

September 8th, 6 p.m. at Studio-X NYC, an initiative of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University (180 Varick Street, Suite 1610).

Hosted by one of Piertopolis biggest sources of research and inspiration:

BLDGBLOG

Architectural Conjecture
Urban Speculation
Landscape Futures

BLDGBLOG (“building blog”) written by Geoff Manaugh.

an evening with photographer Anton Corbijn and artist Berend Strik

Yesterday I have the honor to give a copy of our book The State of L3 Collective, to legendary photographer Anton Corbijn, one my heroes during my adolescent in Panama.

The Dutch magazine ZAM Africa Magazine organized on September 7, 2011 in the MC Amsterdam Theatre an evening with photographer Anton Corbijn and artist Berend Strik about their collaboration art work “Mandela Landscape” with ZAM magazine and their solidarity with ZAM and the African talent.

Mandela Landscape is a portrait of Anton Corbijn (1955, photographer, filmmaker, visual artist) in 2003 of Nelson Mandela in Cape Town. Subsequently, Berend Strik (1960, artist) embroidered the portrait, using a procedure in which he gained international fame. This image forms the basis of 80 prints, signed and numbered by the artists.

Piertopolis Web Site

Adventured piers of our imagination

As children, we lazed and adventured on piers. Boats came and went, and we began to notice our favorite piers weren’t just thruways for the maritime activities we liked to watch; they were part of our imagination, launch pads for our wanderlust. Piers were the rustic, rusting vantage points from which we thought the thoughts that made us the vanguard travelers we become.

When experiencing Piertopolis you can see a long high angled platform with enough square feet to provide a meeting place. Piertopolis stands for a new society based on architectonic ideas of Fuller and Constant. We intend Piertopolis as a meeting place, a transit point, a public performance center, a refuge. Piertopolis is a welcome space to memories, real or imagined and a loop into new worlds and images.

Piertopolis Project Web Site

www.piertopolis.com

A great first weekend for the not so quiet Piertopolis exhibition

Thanks to everyone for making the opening of the Piertopolis Project exhibition such a a huge success. Thanks to the overwhelming interest on the project.

Opening Piertopolis

Photography and Dissolution

Upcoming exhibition of vintage, anonymous, vernacular and spirit photography,also including works by Fratelli Alinari,Cecil Beaton, René Barthélemy, Emil Cadoo,Arthur Conan Doyle, JH Engstrom, Walker Evans, Michael Grieve, Bill Jacobson, Fritz Lang, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Floris Neusüss, Arnold Newman, Diane Pernet, Leni Riefenstahl, Jeffrey Silverthorne, Edmund Teske, U.S. Army Picture Corps et al.

“They are moving because of their phantom condition; every act they execute may be their last; there is not a face that is not on the verge of dissolving like a face in a dream.” Jorge Luis Borges

Daniel Blau Gallery, London will be presenting a unique set of images that embody a theme particularly relevant to current artistic and cultural practice: that of the haunted, the blurred and the dissolved. To exemplify these themes this exhibition will feature vintage prints as well as more recent explorations in photography and its often-dissolute processes. In homage to the alchemy and chemistry of photography, this show will illustrate fire, smoke, the spirit, the x-ray, blur and motion, decay and the photogram. Like a series of dark objects and entities trapped behind the framing of glass, the gallery space becomes a chapel to the haunted history of the photographic medium.

Haunting the Chapel: Photography and Dissolution
2 September – 8 October 2011
Opening: 1 Sept, 6-10pm
Daniel Blau Gallery, London

The State of L3 in Contrast magazine

Feat. works of Fleur Ouwerkerk , Raul Balai, Quinsy Gario and Antonio Jose Guzman

Knipsu Gallery, Bergen, Norway

Yatra
A Twenty Year Journey
An exhibition by Antonio Jose Guzman

KNIPSU
10.06 – 26.06
Komediebakken 9

‘I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.’ Joseph Beuys

‘Let’s talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included… something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It’s a Gigantic project.’ Joseph Beuys

YATRA comprises the photographic work of two of Guzman’s latest projects: the Bas Jan Ader and Paul Gilroy inspired research project Piertopolis, and Guzman’s documentary trilogy The Day We Surrender to the Air. Both projects comprehend a search for a new (visual) definition of notions like migration, gravity, locality, ancestry and identity. Taking his own mixed background and his twenty-year experience as photographer and visual artist as an example, Guzman tries to conceive the causes and results of human displacement.

The exhibition at KNIPSU presents Guzman’s ongoing research into DNA, movement and replacement. Focusing on the pier as both a means for connection and separation, Guzman tries to capture the ambivalences that surround the act of traveling. A pier suggests nostalgia and contemplation, as well as hope and relief. The DNA-like shape of a pier expresses change, improvement, and site-specificity.

The tables, photographs and maps of the exhibition contain the material that Guzman gathered and created during his personal journeys to the places of his origin, including his two months residency here in Bergen.

YATRA, Sanskrit for ‘journey’ or ‘destination’ involves the pilgrimage to the sacred places that are associated with Hindu epics. A YATRA is a non-obligatory but yet desirable undertaking, in which the journey is as important as the destination.

Siri Driessen

San Francisco International Arts Festival

From The Netherlands Antonio Jose Guzman offers ‘The Day We Surrender
to the Air (Episode Two)’ where the artist uses himself as an example
of the migration between the so-called Old and New Worlds tracking the
evolutions of his identity through the spaces of his ancestors’
traveling experiences throughout Polynesia, Eurasia, Mesopotamia,
Africa and eventually to America and Europe. His work implies that his
genetic identity is based on the various Diasporas of his ancestors,
and thus on the decisions they made in migrating to some place or to
another.  Surrendering to the air means floating.  His trip around the
world and quest to find himself opens up a wider perspective on the
countless surprising connections between the people of all continents.

This screening is produced by ZGAC in collaboration with affiliate partners
including: Golden Star Productions, the San Francisco International
Arts Festival 2011, the Space Arts Development Fund of the National
Space Society and The STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at the College of
Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University.   A portion of the proceeds from
the screening support the Space Arts Development Fund fiscally
sponsored by the National Space Society.  ZGAC is an international
space arts organization dedicated to fostering greater access for
artists to space flight technology and zero gravity space through the
creation of international partnerships with space agencies, space
industry entrepreneurs, arts and science organizations and leading
universities.

Book Launch with “The State of L3”

Book Launch with “The State of L3”. 18th May 2011 from 15-17hrs … Place: Galleri Image, Vestergade 29, 8000 Aarhus C., Denmark

Published by Galleri Image
Softcover 12 x 15 cm, 152 pages.
English

After sixteen months of exhibitions research and production, we’re happy to announce that The State of L3 Collective publication it’s now available at Galleri Image. We invite you to a launch party for the publication on Wednesday 18th of May from 15 to 17hrs. at Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark, an initiative of the the State of L3 with Galleri Image curator Beate Cegielska. With writings from Rob Perrée, Siri Driessen, Stine Kleis Hansen and Quinsy Gario. Design by Raul Balai.

At the launch you will be able to experience an interact with the final days of the exhibit, pick up your own full copy and experience the work of The State of L3 Collective.

If you can’t make the launch,  you can order a copy to have it shipped immediately.

lecture at Rush Arts Gallery – New York City

‘Towards Piertopolis and new aesthetics of contemporary art’

UPCOMING – Antonio Jose Guzman lecture at Rush Arts Gallery – New York City                     Thursday, April 21, 2011, 6 – 8pm

Piertopolis Mappings: Mumbai – Panama City – NYC – Amsterdam – Dakar. Rush Arts Gallery and Sasha Dees present the artist talk “Piertopolis” by Antonio Jose Guzman. Antonio will be talking about what he has been doing during this visit in New York and will be showing visual results of the project so far in Panama and India.

Rush Galleries, which includes Rush Arts Gallery (Chelsea) and Corridor Gallery (Brooklyn) are part of the core programs of the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, a organization founded in 1995 by brothers Russell, Danny and Joseph “Rev. Run” Simmons. Rush Galleries are dedicated to providing exhibition opportunities to an emerging artistic community and exposes urban youth to contemporary arts and culture through educational programming initiatives. Corridor Gallery is also the home of the Rush KIDS Education Programs.

Orange Alert

Orange Alert – Dutch Art Events is a blog and website provided by the Cultural Office of the Dutch Embassy and Consulates General of the Netherlands in the United States. Its purpose is to announce upcoming events and projects in the United States that showcase Dutch art, architecture and design.

The Rush Arts Gallery
526 W26th Street #311
New York, NY 10001
Tel.: 212-691-9552

www.rushartsgallery.org

Below Photos of Lectures at: International Documentary Festival Amsterdam,

Rush Arts Gallery & Tent Rotterdam

Rush Arts Piertopolis

lecture at Rush Arts Gallery – New York City

Thursday, April 21, 2011, 6-8pm

Lecture ‘Towards Piertopolis and new aesthetics of contemporary art’

UPCOMING – Antonio Jose Guzman lecture at Rush Arts Gallery – New York City

Piertopolis interventions in public spaces features photos and wooden piers on which one can walk and connect to other piers in different parts of the world. A pier accommodates the act of leaving, of traveling and embarking – it is a place where the gone and lost are contemplated. At the same time, a pier is a place easily associated with arrival and return, with reconnection, and with the fulfillment of hopes and wishes. Besides, a pier is also a continuously changing structure.

sharjah biennial

Maroon Talking in the Park (from the series “Modernity and Aesthetics of the New Black Africa”) by Antonio José Guzman aka De Akuaigar. Panama/The Netherlands, 2010, Video, Colour, 5 minutes

Maroon Talking in the Park depicts the struggle for a shared visual language between Dutch, Suriname and Maroon traditions and their expression in the Netherlands, in order to reveal unexpected connections between post-colonial history and global capitalism. Black identity, as Paul Gilroy has suggested, is created through a triangular exchange of symbols and ideas between Africa, Europe and the Americas. Maroon Talking in Park also deals with the metaphysical aspect of travel, longing, continuous movement and Diaspora. The subtitle of the video is an excerpt from Coded Language, a poem by the African-American artist Saul Williams, in which Williams describes the tensions between Diaspora aesthetics, subliminal sounds and ancestral rhythms.

Antonio Jose Guzman (aka De Akuaigar) Antonio Jose Guzman was born in Panama in 1971. He is a Dutch-Panamanian artist whose work includes film, photography, installations and publications. He lives and works in Amsterdam, Recife, Panama City and Dakar.

Plot for a Biennial

The 10th Sharjah Biennial will unfold in a range of spaces within the Arts and Heritage Areas of Sharjah.

Plot for a Biennial is the title for the 10^th Sharjah Biennial, which opens on March 16, 2011. Curated by Suzanne Cotter and Rasha Salti with Associate Curator Haig Aivazian, the Biennial will present new and specially commissioned works by contemporary artists, filmmakers, writers and performers from across the region and internationally.

Developing on the geographic reach and the focus on new production of previous Biennials, Plot for a Biennial merges what have traditionally been parallel formats of exhibition, film and performance into a multivalent sequence of encounters that extend from the Sharjah Art Museum to Sharjah’s historic Heritage Area and sites around the city.

The Biennial includes the work of more than 90 artists, filmmakers, choreographers, writers, publishers and musicians, working individually and collaboratively, from Afghanistan, Algeria, Belgium, Canada, Egypt, England France, Germany, Iran, Ireland, India, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Palestine, Lebanon, Pakistan, Poland, Syria, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates and the US.

Galerie Image

Artist Talk & Exhibition at Gallery Image, Aarhus, Denmark

State of L3 show in Aarhus Denmark in collaboration with Mads Peter Laursen (bureau de tours) in the legendary Gallery Image, Århus.

08 april – 22 may 2011

MHKA L3 Parallel Doors of Perception

MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp

LONELY AT THE TOP: Parallel Doors of Perception

By Popular demand one more week L3 at MHKA

26 nov 2010 – 06 feb 2011

M HKA

Leuvenstraat 32 2000 Antwerp
Contact en reservaties ++ 32 3 260 99 99
info@muhka.be

HOURS

TUE-WED en FRI-SUN 11:00-18:00
THU 11:00-21:00

Antonio Jose Guzman is a Dutch-Panamanian audiovisual artist who works in several media on such subjects as DNA, migration and gravity. On the 5th and 6th floors of the M HKA he will be showing The State of L3, a project he has been working on since 2008 and which is a follow-up to The Day We Surrender to the Air, the documentary he made about his quest for his DNA. The State of L3 is a project that links the continents of Africa, South America and Europe in a search for the African identity of and affinity between artists and youngsters on those continents. It is a project on pan-Africanism, on multimedia networks and on the need for a pan-African collective for contemporary art and film. The State of L3 Contemporary Arts & Film Collective.

Los del Patio Panama

After visiting Senegal, the Mont Blanc mountain range between France and Switzerland, or share with the Indians in the Grand Canyon, Panamanian writer and filmmaker Antonio Jose Guzman reaches your country to subjugate the air, January 22 in Los del patio, a new art campus in San Felipe.

Between 2008 and 2010, Guzman went in search of it’s origins, determined by the different branches of his family across the world, however, was more vivid experience in Panama. Guzman narrates how his arrival in Kuna Yala, the Kuna people pointed out that for them it was obvious he was there. “It gave me a great lesson in tolerance.”

In addition, a talk at 7:00 pm about this documentary film, will open an exhibition, which includes four large-format photographs related to the trips made ​​to his documentary.

In addition, two floors of the site will have a facility of between 30 and 40 hammocks hung in the air, a concept that is also Guzman. “No one can knock on them,” he stresses.

The assembly, with influences of Latin magical realism, says Guzman, the feeling of floating.

Another project that occupies Guzman is a documentary about the fishermen of the world “Piertopolis”, starting Cocle, exploring the human factor in the region and letting them tell their stories. Next on the list are the mariners of Mumbai, the Netherlands and New York.

“The common people,” says Guzman, who lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 15 years and supports the initiative of the Patio, for the opportunity given to cultural development.

Although several countries flock to his agenda, he hopes to return in August or later this year to show new works.

Andre Mauricio | La Prensa