Dimange Rouge Paris

A.J. Guzman

Drop city mask unit loop. VJ Performance set, 

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Dimanche Rouge #13 | exposition | soiree performance art

dimanche 19 février 2012

 

16:00 - 00:00

Tarif : entrée libre

Petit Bain

7 Port de la Gare
75013 Paris FR

On Sunday, 18 September, the eighth installment of Dimanche Rouge will be held at Petit Bain, a floating concert hall and art space on the Seine. A mini-festival of experimental performances founded in Paris, Dimanche Rouge offers a consistent opportunity for artists to present their work. Founded by Opie Boero Imwinkelried less than a year ago, Dimanche Rouge has a variety of ambitious projects underway, including (launching just this month) a Saturday laboratories component that, through a network of local sponsors, will connect artists globally via Livestream the day before monthly performance. Imwinkelried asked me to curate a Her Royal Majesty reading series for September’s edition – come to see Paris Literary Prize winner Rosa Rankin Gee, Literary Death Match founder Todd Zuniga, and poet and author of The Golden Bristled-Boar Jeffrey Greene read from their work.

Life Bloody Live

 

Antonio Jose Guzman Piertopolis at Life Bloody Live in Paris.

One of the largest exhibits in Paris dedicated to performance art and video performance, including live streaming from different parts of the world.
Twenty-four artists from thirteen countries will participate in this unique exhibit at the gallery.

Curator: Opie Boero Imwinkelried. 

Opening : Feb. 15th at 7pm. 

www.moretti-moretti.com

Piertopolis at Gemak, The Hague 2012

IDFA Starts 16th - 27th Nov 2011

A video with my presentation last year at The Prologue / Paradocs
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam

Presentations by filmmakers featured in the section of IDFA's program dedicated to experimental and artistic documentaries. Video artist Duro Toomato makes live recordings of two new editions of his Yes or No project. Finnish directors Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen display carcasses of the insects they used in The Death of an Insect. Flemish theater collective Berlin talk about their cinematic theatrical work Tagfish. Dutch Panamanian video artist Antonio Jose Guzman (b. 1971) reports on the progress of his multimedia The Day We Surrender to the Air, which also features graffiti art, dance and music. And the Belgian Vincent Meessen - at Paradocs last year with Vita Nova, a documentary based on a 1955 edition of Paris Match - presents his own, contemporary version of this weekly news magazine.

Dérive on the Shadownet | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters

Dérive on the Shadownet | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters

New data

RYOJI IKEDA's The Transfinite

One of the best art pieces last summer and that has inspired me profoundly is by Ryoji Ikeda, a Japanese sound and visual artist who lives and works in Paris, Ikeda has collaborated with such artists as choreographer William Forsythe, architect Toyo Ito, musician and visual artist Carsten Nicolai, and photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. Shown widely in Europe and Japan, this is his first major installation in the United States.

Following critically acclaimed installations by Ernesto Neto and Christian Boltanski, Ryoji Ikeda has been selected by the Armory http://www.armoryonpark.org  for its third annual visual art commission in the Wade Thompson Drill Hall. Ikeda creates a visual and sonic environment where visitors are submerged in an extreme illustration of projected and synchronized data. His work uses scale, light, shade, volume, shadow, electronic sounds, and rhythm to flood the senses. In choreographing vast amounts of digital information, Ikeda conjures up a transformative environment in which visitors confront data on a scale that defies comprehension, experiencing the infinite. 

Piertopolis Today

Four pictures that I made in NYC of the world trace center twin towers in 1999 have been added to the blog to commemorate 9/11.  http://www.piertopolis.com/new-york/

Piertopolis Project

From this coming Saturday 9/11, after 10 years of the fatal incidents that changed the world and made me take the decision to focus 100 percent on the audiovisual arts fields; I will be uploading two photos per day periodically to my ongoing project website Piertopolis.

Check out:
http://www.piertopolis.com

new shiny face of website aguzman.com

With pleasure I would like to invite you to check out the new shiny face of my website, www.aguzman.com! Easier to navigate, with brighter and high definition images of all the installations, videos and photographic series of the last decade, as well information on ongoing new projects like www.piertopolis.com, just browse, bookmark and share!

 

an evening with photographer Anton Corbijn and artist Berend Strik

September 8, 2011

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 Project is in full Effect.

To update you briefly.

Now days I'm busy with the presentation of my new project called Piertopolis, check the new web site online: http://www.piertopolis.com

The last months during and after my show/presentation in Norway we have a book launch for the State of L3 book in Aarhus Denmark, my film The Day We Surrender screened in San Francisco, California, Maroon in Park was screened in the Sharjah Biennial and we create it a logo and an brand image for Piertopolis.

Finally the presentation dates are the 12th of August and 27th of August at the Kromhout in Amsterdam and the Tolhuistuin Summer Festival.


 

 

The Hindu : Sci-Tech / Science : Atlantis leaves space station for last time

The Hindu : Sci-Tech / Science : Atlantis leaves space station for last time

Knipsu Poster

Sønik adventures this year. Panama - NYC- Bergen - Antwerp

My journey this year so far.
INAC National Institute of Culture of Panama
Lecture and show at the MHKA, Museum of Contemporary art of Antwerp
Exhibition in Bergen, Norway at KNIPSU
Installation in Panama city Art Space Los del Patio
Lecture at Rush Art Gallery in Chelsea NYC 
State of L3 show in Aarhus Denmark in collaboration with Mads Peter Laursen (bureau de tours)  in the legendary Gallery Image, Århus Denmark.

We live in a world dominated by simulated experience and feelings and have lost the capacity to comprehend reality as it really exists. We only experience prepared realities– edited war footage, meaningless acts of terrorism, the destruction of cultural values and the substitution of “referendum.” 

Jean Baudrillard

“The very definition of the real has become: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. . . The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced: that is the hyperreal… which is entirely in simulation.” Jean Baudrillard