Proud to announce that Messengers of the Sun will be part of the collection of the Stedelijk Museum.
Thanks for joining the Gathering at the Stedelijk Museum /
Messengers of the Sun - Magical layers - Black Atlantic interactions.
PERFORMANCE: ANTONIO JOSE GUZMAN & IVA JANKOVIC - 27 Nov 2022, 2 Apr 2023
Messengers of the Sun is a project consisting of performances and textile installation that explores multiple magical layers of Black Atlantic interactions. Taking the form of an Afrofuturist ceremonial procession led by music and dancers, the performance moves through the museum. The title refers to a mythical story in which the lost children of the prophet Sun Ra are “messengers of the sun.” They live in the Sirius-B galaxy, to which ancestors from the African diaspora migrated in times of destruction in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Messengers at the Stedelijk /
Messengers of the Sun
Electric Dub Station Series
Stedelijk Museum - GKA Proposals for Municipal Art Acquisitions. Curators: Curators: Amanda Pinatih and Britte Sloothaak
WHEN THINGS ARE BEINGS - PROPOSALS FOR THE MUSEUM COLLECTION
Exhibition — 26 Nov 2022 until 10 Apr 2023
The group exhibition When Things Are Beings reveals the power of objects and sculptures in a range of visual languages. Bridging the material and immaterial realms, the projects forge connections between ideas and objects, spirituality and materiality, and link social issues to tangible phenomenon.
Thanks Art Basel /
Evocations - Messengers of the Sun - Decolonial narratives - Indigo reconfigurations - Curated by Samuel Leuenberger, founder of the Swiss non-profit exhibition spaces SALTS in Birsfelden and Country SALTS in Bennwil, the Parcours sector returns to Basel's Old Town with twenty projects including sculptures, films, performances, and site-specific installations.
Art Basel /
Parcours
On Saturday, June 18, Art Basel hosted Parcours Night, an evening of live performances throughout Basel’s city center, featuring: Puppies Puppies, Oscar Murillo, Jan Vorisek, Antonio Jose Guzman and Iva Jankovic, Atelier GF Workstation, and Ellie Ga. Museums and venues presenting Parcours projects held extended opening hours to provide visitors a unique experience.
Rijksakademie Open Studios /
Evocations
Decolonial Indigo Works
Antonio Jose Guzman
In collaboration with Iva Jankovic
#electricdubstation series
Rijksakademie
Open Studios 2022
14 - 15 & 19 - 22 May
Ticket Sales Open
With great pleasure introducing new works created during a guest residency period at the Rijksakademie: Ajrakh Boro Indigo pieces, an installation, sonic scapes, performances, afrimonos, and a brand new video.
The Origin of Blue /
Collection Textiel Museum
Textiel Museum, Tilburg acquires The Origin of Blue.
To Dye For - TextielMuseum - Tilburg /
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.
‘To Dye For' in the Textile Museum /
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 at the Rijksakademie /
Guest Resident: Rijksakademie
coming spring 2022 - At the Rijksakademie we will continue our decolonial research on the history of indigo dyed.
Electric Dub Station - Antonio Jose Guzman & Iva Jankovic. /
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.
18th Street Arts Center - california /
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.
Cobra Museum /
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.
Arti et Amicitae - Museum Night /
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
Mistermotley Magazine /
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/
electric dub station at SONSBEEK20→24 /
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.
EDS Bienal De Arte Paiz- guatemala /
22nd Bienal De Arte Paiz Guatemala
Lost. In Between. Together. Curated by Alexia Tala, chief curator, and Gabriel Rodríguez.
Jury Prix de Rome /
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).
OSCAM - Electric Dub Station /
Electric Dub Station Popup
sonsbeek20→24 - Satellite
FRIDAY, 11 SEPTEMBER 2020 FROM 19:00-21:00
OSCAM x Electric Dub Station
(Limited Spaces - RSVP)
Radio Electric DUb Station /
“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.”