SEBASTIAN
GUZMAN OLMOS

NOT AN APPLE THAT FALLS WHEN IT'S RIPE

“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.” – Ernesto “el Che” Guevara

The project will take shape primarily as a research and editorial endeavour. Building on my experience as a kitchen worker and my engagement in political education and organizing. Aiming to investigate how food mediates relationships among labor, territory, resources, and governance. Further focusing on food operating both as a tool of systematic control and imperative for people’s liberation—access to food is a critical signifier of socio-political stability.

Work-in-progress (WIP)

CHANTS FROM THE SOUTH

This commissioned publication by Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum for OCEAN/UNI examines large mobilisations in Argentina after Javier Milei's victory, with a focus on the use of collective chants for political expression and organising. The work connects cacerolazo activities to a history of resistance, including labour fights, anti-extractivist groups, and defending democratic rights against neoliberal policies. The article explores the history of collective voice and coordinated action in the Global South, linking current protests to these traditions.

Selected as the 2025 Editor’s Pick by TBA21-Academy / Oceans Archive.

CULTURAL SECTOR SOLIDARITY AND RESISTANCE

A two-day public event at Rietveld Pavilion explores labour conditions and political structure in the creative sector. The project, based on the idea that cultural work is work, brought together artists, designers, and organisers to address resistance during the current political context, unionisation, precarious labour conditions, and fair wage strategies. The collaborative exchange aims to enhance discussions about labour rights and the systemic factors that perpetuate exploitative practices.


Contributors: Alina Lupu, Arts of the Working Class, Cultural Worker Unite, Het ActieFonds, Kuntenbond, Oyuon (Louna Sbou), and Unidxs X La Cultura (Luca Bonfante).

TAPPING WATER

Uncovering some of the complexities of the freshwater crisis through positioned (hi)stories enables more sensitive and relational ways of connecting local and larger struggles. Tapping Water holds space and invites dissident voices committed to critiquing resource commodification and mercantilism.

Water flows through all our aspects of life—our bodies, the food we depend on, the environment we live in, and the bodies we share it with. Through a constant circulation of intake, trans- formation, and exchange, we enact watery relations constantly, whereby often unconsciously. Water combines rest with resistance. The proposal seeks to create events that explore the various dimensions of water, from its environmental impact to its political and social dimensions.

POSITIONED REALITIES

Plural conditions for change are knocking on our doors. How we position ourselves is instrumental to fostering other ways of being and sensing—away from a western gaze that proclaims universality. While we actively embrace difference and the communal. Strategies for thinking about exits and alternatives beyond the modern/colonial order and its endless shortcomings.

Positioned Realities is a transnational assemblage of visual and spatial projects. Who operate within or between capital, class, race, gender and land—navigating across places, bodies and environmental dimensions. Reflecting, intervening, and delinking from dominant ideologies, frameworks, and continuities of Western historical reality.

This program is grounded in collective knowledge, political engagement, and articulating self-representation, decoloniality, and resistance narratives. Collaboratively, we are attempting to bridge gaps with other realities into one space: Haus der Statistik, to actively engage with our interdependence for the struggles ahead.