Antonio Guzman's Zero Gravity Videos & Installations

Antonio Guzman Gravity Theory.
Gravity (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface; "the more remote the body the less the gravity"; "the gravitation between two bodies is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them"; "gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love"--Albert Einstein

Introduction: The Theory "Post-modern art takes advantage of it [the soft contour of a work versus Cartesian industrial hardware] by freeing itself of 'mechanical' forms and pursuing iconographies that evoke 'energy,' which is a mark of dematerialization. 'Soft' art breaks out of fixed frames and spreads itself in space. It is produced and received by way of intermediate electronic equipment such as videos." —François Burkhardt, Design After Modernism


My work is based in Migration, Gravity and The decisive moment.

For many years as an artist, I been trying to deal with my migration as part of a most controversial migration like the Diaspora from people from African descent in the entire globe.

This Diaspora that affected my life and still runs in me becomes part of a new Diaspora.

My migration to America and then to Europe have drastic repercussions on my way of seen the world and my art.

I try to explore these relations and focus in the relations of all this factors as an Afro Latin-American artist in Europe.

Portraying me and using myself as a performer on my work give me the opportunity of explore with my body and all the elements that surround my life in new places and new environments.

Gravity is another factor that fascinate me considering gravity as an elemental factor for all relations humans have with this planet. I believe that Diaspora and gravity have a relation with each other.

On my installation Circle of life in the oude kerk in Amsterdam I explore this relation that goes back to thousand of years in human history. Circle of life is a series of installations in which you see me jumping from my origins to a different world, different dimension in space and time. These installations study my situation, On how I got here?, Which elements were fundamental to bring me here?.


Some of my falling series explore this daily life situation and the closeness to gravity.

The most brilliant moment is to see all this basic points of my work as migration gravity and the decisive moment put together in one palette.


Searching for my roots will give me the ground to achieve new projects and make new multimedia installations using video painting text and film. Find a way to express who I am now as an artist and were is the identity of an African American artist in this century in this land, in Europe.

This is a search that is part of my creative development but goes beyond my skin.

This search will help me focus in my work and would provide me with new insides in my way of working and developing.

What is important to me is that I would be searching for an identity within my work.

Also I would like to explore more the relation with gravity and how to brings gravity in my art.

I would like to see how gravity becomes part of my creative process, With experiments, these experiments can become essential for my videos and installations.


A.J. Guzman

Antonio Jose Guzman Jaramillo is an established Dutch-Panamanian photographer, videographer, documentary director, publisher, Poet, VJ and Audiovisual Artist.

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[josepalabok]

its odd...but nice one.

[NewRisingSong]

great!

[RobertPennekamp]

leuk je werk te zien, antonio, mazzel