https://sguzmanolmos.net Sebastian Guzman Olmos Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:05:03 +0000 https://sguzmanolmos.net en https://sguzmanolmos.net/FOOD-BOOK Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:05:03 +0000 Sebastian Guzman Olmos https://sguzmanolmos.net/FOOD-BOOK 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 "Che" Guevara The project will take shape primarily as a research and editorial endeavor. 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 as an imperative for people's liberation—access to food is a critical signifier of socio-political stability. <img width="2400" height="1600" width_o="2400" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a4f0803f634a4a9651b1210dcdedf6784645ba4ca2a3fc7dc14e98c37c884687/gaza_aid_denied_by_idf.jpg" data-mid="246922803" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a4f0803f634a4a9651b1210dcdedf6784645ba4ca2a3fc7dc14e98c37c884687/gaza_aid_denied_by_idf.jpg" /> 2026, Amsterdam (Work-in-progress)Food aid being denied by the IDF during the ongoing genocide in Gaza. https://sguzmanolmos.net/CHANTS-FROM-THE-SOUTH Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:02:41 +0000 Sebastian Guzman Olmos https://sguzmanolmos.net/CHANTS-FROM-THE-SOUTH UNITY CHANTS FROM THE SOUTH This research for OCEAN/UNI examines the large-scale mobilizations in Argentina in 2025 following Javier Milei's electoral victory. It analyzes how protest chanting serves as a crucial mechanism for working-class political expression and spontaneous organization. By revisiting historical traditions such as the ‘cacerolazos’, the article situates contemporary events within a broader history of resistance, including labor unions, anti-extractivist movements, and the ongoing struggle to advance democratic rights. The text argues that political chants not only articulate real political goals but also collectively reinforce Argentina’s national identity during periods of crisis.Selected as the 2025 Editor’s Pick by TBA21-Academy/Ocean Archive. <img width="3727" height="2796" width_o="3727" height_o="2796" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8ee344820127d1a456d9b5ba1764c44745be368de6a12a295ab458cee60a145/IMG_5803-1.jpg" data-mid="246819477" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b8ee344820127d1a456d9b5ba1764c44745be368de6a12a295ab458cee60a145/IMG_5803-1.jpg" /> 2025, Buenos Aires/MadridOCEAN/UNI and ocean-archive.org https://sguzmanolmos.net/CULTURAL-SECTOR Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:33:56 +0000 Sebastian Guzman Olmos https://sguzmanolmos.net/CULTURAL-SECTOR ORGA’CULTURAL SECTOR SOLIDARITY AND RESISTANCE A two-day public program at the Rietveld Pavilion began by recognizing that cultural work constitutes labor, work is work. Bringing together cultural workers,&nbsp;organizers, movement and union representatives, the program created a platform to address precarious employment, the pursuit of fair wages, unionization, its links to broader&nbsp;class international struggles, and solidarity. Through assemblies, lectures, and collective discussions, the initiative explored strategies for cultural workers to organize, facilitating exchange and supporting ongoing efforts toward collective action and labor rights. Contributors: Alina Lupu, Arts of the Working Class, Cultural Worker Unite, Het ActieFonds, Kuntenbond, Oyuon Berlin (Louna Sbou), and Unidxs X La Cultura (Luca Bonfante). <img width="3840" height="2560" width_o="3840" height_o="2560" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26713633e390d3d769a44316ad8f97bb928f45b761961ba2df71928cc589e944/_M7C7496.JPG" data-mid="246819657" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26713633e390d3d769a44316ad8f97bb928f45b761961ba2df71928cc589e944/_M7C7496.JPG" /> 2024, Amsterdam Organized with Nina Blume. Supported by Sandberg Instituut’s Student Council. Photography by Nina Blume. https://sguzmanolmos.net/TAPPING-WATER Tue, 16 May 2023 15:33:14 +0000 Sebastian Guzman Olmos https://sguzmanolmos.net/TAPPING-WATER 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, transformation, and exchange, we enact watery relations, 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.Contributors: Celeste Fierro, Emmie Massias, Jessica Gentile, Jonathan Castro, Oscar van Leest, and Sara Frikech. <img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/22d7bd673cba87222a1aa67a17920a88d3e347b5fee0d83c7a81ed5ce50a4876/IMG_2952b.jpg" data-mid="178943312" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/22d7bd673cba87222a1aa67a17920a88d3e347b5fee0d83c7a81ed5ce50a4876/IMG_2952b.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d1930704d1898df084111c5ad994cf2f3b6925e96bf649d9444dacdadfc99eff/_MG_2760b.jpg" data-mid="178943334" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d1930704d1898df084111c5ad994cf2f3b6925e96bf649d9444dacdadfc99eff/_MG_2760b.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2666" width_o="4000" height_o="2666" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b1cf544908ece9d9cac748bb6091f7f0256925dbef23ac37c9445012802dbfeb/_MG_2874b.jpg" data-mid="178943302" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b1cf544908ece9d9cac748bb6091f7f0256925dbef23ac37c9445012802dbfeb/_MG_2874b.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80ef843a6e840a791125dca197b2bfa2f658a9ac5b2c4de0c989823d90e299ee/CM7C19066.jpg" data-mid="201362359" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/80ef843a6e840a791125dca197b2bfa2f658a9ac5b2c4de0c989823d90e299ee/CM7C19066.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2666" width_o="4000" height_o="2666" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/54774279548deea782fed24641ce1504e69320778088e59156c0e0e5d821832c/CM7C19977.jpg" data-mid="201363280" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/54774279548deea782fed24641ce1504e69320778088e59156c0e0e5d821832c/CM7C19977.jpg" /> 2023, Amsterdam Organized with Nina Blume. Supported by Sandberg Instituut’s Student Council. Photography by Ilya Lindhout. https://sguzmanolmos.net/POSITIONED-REALITIES Tue, 08 Mar 2022 03:55:41 +0000 Sebastian Guzman Olmos https://sguzmanolmos.net/POSITIONED-REALITIES 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. <img width="2500" height="1668" width_o="2500" height_o="1668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/652d81de9730418dd0e8f7bc7291026a24e4002a7e4673c87ce1560278844a90/postioned_realities_2.jpg" data-mid="135702950" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/652d81de9730418dd0e8f7bc7291026a24e4002a7e4673c87ce1560278844a90/postioned_realities_2.jpg" /> <img width="2200" height="1469" width_o="2200" height_o="1469" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/489907608618aa9ce739d0635653cdc5737166922f6fe681b1ad5fa6707f1524/01_72dpi_Positioned-Realities_Non-depleted.jpg" data-mid="174409090" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/489907608618aa9ce739d0635653cdc5737166922f6fe681b1ad5fa6707f1524/01_72dpi_Positioned-Realities_Non-depleted.jpg" /> <img width="1900" height="1268" width_o="1900" height_o="1268" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e6fe50c2a18e8975cbc402144aafb90d1bfe236cf65cd11c00609c7ee4f5eaa/30-corrected_72dpi_Positioned-Realities_Non-depleted.jpg" data-mid="174407640" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6e6fe50c2a18e8975cbc402144aafb90d1bfe236cf65cd11c00609c7ee4f5eaa/30-corrected_72dpi_Positioned-Realities_Non-depleted.jpg" /> 2022, Berlin Haus der Statistik. Visual identity by Can Yang. https://sguzmanolmos.net/ALL-GOOD-S Mon, 19 Jul 2021 17:47:05 +0000 Sebastian Guzman Olmos https://sguzmanolmos.net/ALL-GOOD-S ALL GOOD(S) What do we make of the role of contemporary design in the climate breakdown era? As extractive systems, created by some humans who possess the vast majority of wealth, are responsible for exponentially increasing the amount of materials exploited on a planetary scale—carelessly consuming more than 100 billion tons a year, as resource reuse is declining. We need to quickly bring into discussion how to apply modes and methodologies to shift into sustainable and circular practices effectively. To radically reduce the impact of the prevailing material and manufacturing culture, while simultaneously recognizing the importance of multi-species entanglement. <img width="2500" height="1668" width_o="2500" height_o="1668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/22816252c59febf911d8858116ff6d0d62562f2d2565917aa238c7857b92a13b/_DSC2521-3.jpg" data-mid="114198094" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/22816252c59febf911d8858116ff6d0d62562f2d2565917aa238c7857b92a13b/_DSC2521-3.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1668" width_o="2500" height_o="1668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ae041e4d38f968486c67d1dc43c0350f5e8978a02240314c831a6bc4f2b58e7/_DSC20984.jpg" data-mid="135848214" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ae041e4d38f968486c67d1dc43c0350f5e8978a02240314c831a6bc4f2b58e7/_DSC20984.jpg" /> <img width="1918" height="1296" width_o="1918" height_o="1296" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c9287d3bc31948750f95d395a8f14748bacd7909803d4c9c018519fc6e81ff1/all-goods-ag-project.jpg" data-mid="181380412" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9c9287d3bc31948750f95d395a8f14748bacd7909803d4c9c018519fc6e81ff1/all-goods-ag-project.jpg" /> 2021, BerlinCo-curated with the Embassy of the Netherlands in Berlin. Photography by Thyago Sainte. https://sguzmanolmos.net/NON-DEPLETED-BERLIN Mon, 19 Jul 2021 17:35:02 +0000 Sebastian Guzman Olmos https://sguzmanolmos.net/NON-DEPLETED-BERLIN (NON)DEPLETED II Through a choir of critical but upbeat voices, the exhibition explores unconventional roads to material and systems. That enables different tactics, methodologies, and perspectives—translated into research-based practice. As the contributions traverse different material narratives, they explore modes of visually posing questions and opening up space for a multitude of perspectives—reaching a moment of reflection rather than a conclusion. An in-between state of transition and not yet knowing—where a statement does not have to be an answer. Letting go of the innovation-driven society’s expectations to claim solutions. <img width="2500" height="1668" width_o="2500" height_o="1668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7dd9f80feacb918017b484b10a4be2b4e56b4e7f3f38e2b4966e262df6f04da6/nondepleted_poster_web001.jpg" data-mid="114199085" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7dd9f80feacb918017b484b10a4be2b4e56b4e7f3f38e2b4966e262df6f04da6/nondepleted_poster_web001.jpg" /> 2021, Berlin curated with Nina Blume, Oliverio Segura. Guest Curator: Johanna Honkomp. Visual identity by Delphine Lejeune. https://sguzmanolmos.net/THE-EXPLODED-VIEW Sun, 10 Jan 2021 01:29:32 +0000 Sebastian Guzman Olmos https://sguzmanolmos.net/THE-EXPLODED-VIEW THE EXPLODED VIEW This project uses biobased and circular materials to rethink how we build homes. It led to the idea of The Exploded View, a house and expo-installation that explores suitable alternative building methods and materials. It is a plea for upscaling and system change. By clarifying the connections among materials, industrial processes, and broader value chains. It encourages consideration of how built environments can be transformed through systemic and sustainable approaches by linking construction practices to resource consumption and environmental impacts. <img width="3543" height="2362" width_o="3543" height_o="2362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb9605950020b37b341c2baf81f8db86458b28e115b61590b8a694387fe9260a/Overview_The-Exploded-View_1--Nanno-Simonis-Eric-Melander..jpg" data-mid="94529550" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eb9605950020b37b341c2baf81f8db86458b28e115b61590b8a694387fe9260a/Overview_The-Exploded-View_1--Nanno-Simonis-Eric-Melander..jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/40a3438411caeea2e63e4a9826b15f324269f32a50ac95ce1142fcd4fdc8baa5/Center-house_1_The-Exploded-View--Nanno-Simonis-Eric-Melander.jpg" data-mid="135706105" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/40a3438411caeea2e63e4a9826b15f324269f32a50ac95ce1142fcd4fdc8baa5/Center-house_1_The-Exploded-View--Nanno-Simonis-Eric-Melander.jpg" /> 2020, Amsterdam/EindhovenIn collaboration with The Embassy of Circular &amp; Biobased Building. Photography by Nanno Simonis and Eric Melander. https://sguzmanolmos.net/NON-DEPLETED Sun, 10 Jan 2021 01:29:32 +0000 Sebastian Guzman Olmos https://sguzmanolmos.net/NON-DEPLETED (NON)DEPLETED I (Non)Depleted is a group exhibition gathering several local and international designers/artists. Through the presented projects, we are exploring the meanings of depletion—from resource extraction to critical thinking about social, political, and ecological exhaustion. Presenting a broad spectrum of directions of how we might creatively envision an alternative to the ongoing system from an ideological, material, aesthetical and renewable perspective. The body of work involves different media and approaches, with unclear boundaries across different fields. <img width="2500" height="1563" width_o="2500" height_o="1563" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b181a721797c70b2847516e6b78aaa1b2f6be6d07c6f9899bc80f1ce8c8ed18/Screenshot-2020-10-19.jpg" data-mid="135837685" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b181a721797c70b2847516e6b78aaa1b2f6be6d07c6f9899bc80f1ce8c8ed18/Screenshot-2020-10-19.jpg" /> 2020, EindhovenCurated with Nina Blume and Oliverio Segura for Dutch Design Week 2020. https://sguzmanolmos.net/NEW-LIGNUM Sun, 10 Jan 2021 02:21:15 +0000 Sebastian Guzman Olmos https://sguzmanolmos.net/NEW-LIGNUM NEW LIGNUM A materials research effort is developing a regenerative substitute for panels made from synthetic wood in a space where highly polluting binders are the norm. The project explores new avenues for developing sustainable materials by combining reclaimed wood waste and protein-based biopolymers, such as casein. Researching how to develop circular methods by reintroducing pre-industrial knowledge and cosmologies that can help rethink the current production mode, which is leading us towards a total planetary collapse. <img width="4896" height="3263" width_o="4896" height_o="3263" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ef8452948544f7489907951ca7ba62cdf68009f70b4c65c35d5062f814986f5/newlignum_imm19_5.jpg" data-mid="94530127" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8ef8452948544f7489907951ca7ba62cdf68009f70b4c65c35d5062f814986f5/newlignum_imm19_5.jpg" /> 2019, Einhoven. Collaboration with Nils Ahrenberg. Photography by Anna Frida.