textielLab
9 April 2022 till 2 October 2022 - The - Artist Antonio José Guzman and textile designer Iva Jankovic explore the colonial history of indigo in a monumental installation of indigo canvases commissioned by the TextielMuseum.
The fabrics were embroidered in the TextielLab with symbols from traditional African texts and alphabets, giving new visibility to the African culture that was suppressed by European colonists.
Opening performance:
The Origin of Blue, part of the group exhibition ‘To Dye For' in the Textile Museum, Tilburg. Sunday 10th of April 2022 from 3:00 - 5:30 PM. See you there!!
Guest Resident: Rijksakademie
coming spring 2022 - At the Rijksakademie we will continue our decolonial research on the history of indigo dyed.
EDS Series: Electric Dub Station is an ongoing project by visual artists Antonio Jose Guzman and Iva Jankovic. Together, they reinterpret the transatlantic connections of indigo textiles, which are deeply embedded with the history of western colonialism. In their work the indigo color represents the diasporic, cultural, and economic history of textile trade and memories of ancient spirits. The textiles are developed in the artist's studio in Amsterdam Oost and block printed at Sufiyan Khatri’s Indigo Workshop in Ajrakhpur, India.
The Disconnection of Time
18th Street Arts. - Curated by Frida Cano @arttextum - 18th Street Arts Center is pleased to present the exhibition Weaving Unity featuring the work of Bárbara Santos, Claudia Concha, Ni’Ja Whitson, Enid Baxter Ryce, and Antonio José Guzmán + Iva Jankovic, on view in the Slipstream Galleries at 18th Street Arts Center’s Airport Campus (3026 Airport Ave. in Santa Monica) from November 8, 2021 – February 5, 2022.
We are pleased to invite you to Indigo Republic!
Indigo Republic!
Cobra Museum, Amstelveen. 5 November 2021 - 6 March 2022 - Constant Nieuwenhuys, Antonio Jose Guzman & Antonis Pittas
Constant 101: The Future can be Humane. In 2021 it was 101 years that the artist Constant was born. On the occasion of this anniversary, Fondation Constant launched the large-scale collaborative project Constant 101. As part of this collaboration, the Cobra Museum of Modern Art organised an exhibition in which, in addition to works by Constant, new work by contemporary artists Antonio Jose Guzman (1971) and Antonis Pittas (1973) were also presented.
A big shout out to Museum Night Amsterdam!
Yesterday was a blast! Thank you to everyone who came and supported. From MOS!! AKA Messengers of the Sun. Electric Dub Station Series - Experimental Afrofuturistic Turbo Bass Dub Punk - Museum Night Amsterdam: A Decolonial Neo-Fluxus Rave Happening
This week Antonio Jose Guzman is a guest on our podcast Kunst is Lang. His work arises from post-colonial research, in which he often makes a connection with the places from his own family history. He is currently investigating the transatlantic, colonial history of the color indigo. Listen back to the conversation now via Motley's website or go to Spotify. https://www.mistermotley.nl/antonio-jose-guzman/
orbital ignition
FORCE TIMES DISTANCE ON LABOUR AND ITS SONIC ECOLOGIES - sonsbeek 20>24 international contemporary art exhibition - Arnhem, the Netherlands is centered around labour and its sonicities, connects a millenary history crossing times and geographies to the present moment.
Based on labour and its sonicity, the 12th edition of sonsbeek quadrennial for art in the public space—is co-curated by Antonia Alampi, Amal Alhaag, Zippora Elders and Aude Christel Mgba under the artistic direction of Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung.
Electric Dub Station (Orbital Ignition): This site-specific installation and procession investigates the transatlantic, colonial history of indigo related to its production on Surinamese and Javanese plantations and in Europe including Arnhem’s province of Gelderland.
Some of the artists and collectives in the exhibitions include Leo Asemota, Sam Auinger, Black Archives, Willem de Rooij, Cheick Diallo, Ndidi Dike, Justine Gaga, Ellen Gallagher, Antonio Jose Guzman and Iva Jankovic, Ibrahim Mahama, Oscar Murillo, Hira Nabi, Olu Oguibe, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Jennifer Tee, Werker Collective, Stanley Brouwn, Sedje Hémon, Imran Mir, and Abdias do Nascimento.
22nd Bienal De Arte Paiz Guatemala
Lost. In Between. Together. Curated by Alexia Tala, chief curator, and Gabriel Rodríguez.
I'm thrilled to announce that I'm part of the jury commission team of The Prix de Rome 2021 - Prix de Rome - Mondriaan Fonds, the oldest and most generous award in the Netherlands for visual artists and architects. The award dates back to 1808 when Louis Napoleon introduced the Prix de Rome in the Netherlands to promote the arts.
The jury members for 2021 are: Ann Demeester (director, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem), Amira Gad (head of programs, LAS Light Art Space, Berlin), Antonio Jose Guzman (visual artist, researcher, lecturer), Samuel Leuenberger (director, SALTS, Basel) and Viviane Sassen (photographer, winner of the 2007 Prix de Rome in Visual Arts). Chair is Eelco van der Lingen (director Mondriaan Fund).
Electric Dub Station Popup
sonsbeek20→24 - Satellite
FRIDAY, 11 SEPTEMBER 2020 FROM 19:00-21:00
OSCAM x Electric Dub Station
(Limited Spaces - RSVP)
“A wicked Afropolitan eclectic playlist for the digital editorial room of Sonsbeek. Is not for the faint of heart. It circles around the concept of Sonic diaspora, vibrations, rhythm and activism.”
Researching textiles for customs to be develop in Minerva Art Academy Groningen, Dakar and Amsterdam for our performances at The Havana Biennial. The Supreme Exodus Textile Research at Asakusa, Tokyo:
Aizome at Wanariya Indigo Workshops: Japan’s Ancient Art of Indigo Dyeing.
Japanese Indigo, Sashiko style printed, Boro and linen blend fabrics
Soul fire energy at Framer Framed Amsterdam!!
Mucho ache!!
Soul fire energy at Framer Framed’s Elsewheres Within Here. The Orishas, Sun Ra Arkestra and the great Hélio Oiticica’s Parangoles accompanied us! Big shout outs to all the people who was part of this intergalactic journey.
The Supreme Exodus - From Masquerades to Cultural Resistance /// Habana Biennial - Framer Framed - Groninger Museum - Minerva Art Academy. In collaboration with Iva Jankovic, Detras del Muro, The Wifredo Lam Center of Contemporary Art, Curators Juanito Delgado, Loliet Marrero Delachaux, NG Art Gallery Panama, Minerva Art Academy.
Elsewheres Within Here, curated by Jo-Lene Ong, is the first exhibition Framer Framed presents in its new location. After being in Amsterdam-Noord for five years, Framer Framed has recently moved to the former Oostergasfabriek in Amsterdam-Oost.
Guzman’s largest project to date commissioned by Detras del Muro, 13th Havana Biennial.
An internationally renowned artist who investigate the work of genetic research and study the history of textiles traces. Guzman has created a unique performance piece for the opening of the 13th Havana Biennial, highlighting the positive role of migration in the Americas.
`using his mixed DNA on textile fabrics and a genetic music composition based on his own Panamanian ancestry. His work is collected internationally and held in numerous public and private collections.
In Dakar, Senegal with Atelier GF Workstation: Producing costumes, investigating West African textiles and research on the legendary Dakar Laboratoire AGIT’art, for our performance at the Havana Biennial 2019.
LABORATOIRE AGIT’ART - founded in Dakar in 1974, was a revolutionary and subversive art collective that sought to combine traditional African performance and creativity with a modern aesthetic. Established by the artist Issa Samb, the filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty, painter El Hadji Sy and the playwright Youssoupha Dione, Laboratoire Agit’Art started an interdisciplinary collective, devising street performances, improvisational happenings, installations and workshops. Although diverse in their practice, they were united in critiquing and challenging the prevailing négritude philosophy in Senegal.
The Supreme Exodus: Masquerades - Négritude Movement - Laboratoire Agit-Art - Afro Latin American Art. - Dakar Team: Iva Jankovic, Samba Thiam, Ibou Sane. - With the generous support of Mondriaan Fonds - Photos by Ibou Havas
The Supreme Exodus LAB
Last months students worked together with artist Antonio Jose Guzman to create an exuberant collection of costumes, masques and head pieces. Inspired by the ongoing project of Guzman on migration, DNA and origin, the students make costumes of the most diverse materials. The exterior of matrasses – symbolic for the items migrants take with them across the border-, folded paper, dolls and flags. In addition, fifty m2 textile is screenprinted to use in the costumes. In addition to the presentation in the Koepelzaal, the costumes will be worn in a procession during the Biennial of Havana in April 2019.
Project Coordinators: Sanne Boekel, Margriet Brouwer & Iva Jankovc
Photos by Harma Kaput
Atelier GF Workstation is in Tokyo doing our pop-up Transcultural Transit Talks. Our talks are a ephemeral experience that allows people to communicate with us in a collective experience centred around creativity, sound and technology. Our pop-up experiences are ephemeral by their very nature. They last for only a brief period of time. They are transitory and as a result, exciting and compelling. The Supreme Exodus “Tokyo Transit Talks and Impromptus” create a sense of urgency and interrupt daily routines to explore our transcultural motivations.
We meet different art initiatives in Tokyo and talk with artists on the streets of Asakusa. Our goal is to assemble ideas and talks with groups in Tokyo and Dakar that understand the unique and diverse history of art & textiles into our creative processes, from a wide variety of disciplines, cultures and backgrounds.
In Tokyo researching textiles based on Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada: Arimatsu to Africa: Shibori Textiles Developed for African Trade in 1948–49. Published in the Textile Society of America - 2016.
