Guillem S. Arquer

artistic research - conceptual - ecology - installation - environment

Guillem S. Arquer is a human art practitioner and researcher based in Rotterdam. His practice could be defined as trans-media and it develops from a deep interest in site-specificity, improvisation and the poetic materiality of found objects. He is interested in the conceptual and technological infrastructures that support the bipolar world-views that obfuscate the connection of the human species with the Earth's ecosystems. Alongside his research interest in 'naturecultures', he tries to reimagine and develop what an art practice tuned to more-than-human worlds can be.


Tracing Soil Movements

Workshop

  • 29-07-2023 t/m 29-07-2023
  • In collaboration with: Kate Price
  • Location: TENT, Municipality of Soil Bank, Food Garden, Rotterdam
  • Rotterdam soils are constantly shifting: some being excavated to make room for new underground household “waste” containers, others being carted in as foundations for new parks. Some, if too polluted, into depths distant from human bodies. Join artists Kate Price and Guillem S. Arquer as they jump on their bikes to guide us through and follow the trails of soil movements in the city of Rotterdam.
  • https://www.tentrotterdam.nl/en/event/tour-tracing-soil-movements/?ref=events

Springboard Art Fair

Exhibition / presentation

  • 08-06-2023 t/m 11-06-2023
  • In collaboration with: Kate Price
  • Location: Werkspoor Cathedral, Utrecht
  • Presentation of 'Composting Structures' in collaboration with Guillem S. Arquer in booth "P", curated by Leana Boven for Springboard Art Fair.
  • https://springboardartfair.nl/

Investigating: Humus communities in Rotterdam

Residencies / exchange

  • 01-02-2023 t/m 30-04-2023
  • In collaboration with: Kate Price
  • Location: Goethe-Institut Niederlande, Rotterdam
  • Together with Guillem S. Arquer, this three month collaborative research residency aimed to work with the collective knowledge of the peoples of Rotterdam involved in compost making in order to learn from their positive relationships with soil. This project constituted an attempt to raise awareness of the potential of city generated organic waste as an important and beneficial medium through which to re-evaluate the relationship between human and more-than-human agencies in urban ecologies.
  • https://www.goethe.de/ins/nl/nl/kul/gin/investigating-humus.html

End presentation 'Investigating: Humus communities in Rotterdam'

Exhibition / presentation

  • 26-04-2023 t/m 26-04-2023
  • In collaboration with: Kate Price
  • Location: Goethe Institute, Rotterdam
  • Our time surrounded by soil, worms and people as part of our residency period at the Goethe Institut in Rotterdam is slowly creeping to an end. As such we warmly invite you to a relaxed end presentation of our 3 month research project on Wednesday 26 April, from 16:30 PM-19:30 PM, at Goethe Institut, Westersingel 9, 3014GM Rotterdam.
  • https://www.goethe.de/ins/nl/nl/ver.cfm?event_id=24686561

'sharing humusities group reading session' w Kate Price

Other

  • 19-03-2023 t/m 19-03-2023
  • In collaboration with: Kate Price
  • Location: Goethe Institut, Rotterdam
  • 'sharing humusities: a group reading session' was organized in collaboration with Kate Price at Goethe-Institut Rotterdam for Art Central Rotterdam XL 2023. The reading group session was organized as part of their research project, 'Investigating: Humus communities in Rotterdam'. The gathering revolved around the notion of humusities, being understood as a term that brings together the many entanglements between humans and humus.
  • https://www.goethe.de/ins/nl/nl/ver.cfm?event_id=24529282

Wild Summer of Art Part I - Group expo with Rotterdam artists

Exhibition / presentation

'The Interludes', Good Times Bad Times Radio (OPERATOR radio)

Other

Research Residency at Piet Zwart Institute

Residencies / exchange

  • 01-01-2022 t/m 31-03-2022
  • In collaboration with: Danny Giles (Director)
  • Location: Piet Zwart Institute, WDKA, Rotterdam
  • Three month research residency at the Piet Zwart Institute in which I followed my ongoing interest in the conceptual and technological infrastructures that condition and hold the bodily experience of interior/indoor spaces. The outcomes of the residency was a sonic performance/experimental listening session at the boiler room on the PZI building and a conversation with the current PZI students about what I have surrounded myself with during this period of research.
  • https://www.pzwart.nl/master-fine-art/

Composting workshop w Kate Price

Workshop

  • 20-08-2021 t/m 20-08-2021
  • In collaboration with: Kate Price
  • Location: Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
  • Composting workshop and compost facility inauguration (in collaboration with Kate Price) at the garden of the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL. The composting facility was made with reused production material form the Piet Zwart MFA Graduation Show 2021. Communal lunch was prepared with food grown in the garden. pictures by Silvia Arenas

MFA PZI Graduation Show: Material Context

Exhibition / presentation

  • 01-07-2021 t/m 04-07-2021
  • Location: The Archive, Rotterdam
  • This exhibition is inclusive of Piet Zwart Master Fine Art graduates of both 2020 and 2021. Their works, as singular as they may be, also stand as markers for an ongoing shared experience: not only of pandemic and social transformation, but also of the smaller movements of everyday life. There is a general sociality between these works as they came into being around each other.
  • https://www.pzwart.nl/blog/2021/06/21/material-context/

Acknowledgments

    Publication
  • terra incognita

  • 2019
  • artist book
  • Center d'Art La Panera (Lleida), Sala d'Art Jove (Barcelona) - Guillem S. Arquer
    Publication
  • Short Pieces That Move

  • 2020
  • Poetry Compilation
  • - Kate Briggs (Coordinator)
    Publication
  • Happy worms in luxury optimal environments

  • 2021
  • MFA Thesis
  • -Guillem S. Arquer