Last updated on Jun 3, 2014. First published on December 19, 2013. Deconstructing the past was the main concern of Chinese artists in the 1980s. Firmly believing that they could distance themselves from traditional and official art by studying Western art movements, artists participated in discussions, of Dada, Pop art, and other major currents, in art…
A few months ago, Mara Polgovsky responded to Mauricio Marcin’s essay “Mail Art from Mexico (via the world): An Erratic Investigation.” The post editorial team liked her response so much that we decided to translate it to make it available in English. Please enjoy, and contribute your own discussion piece. Mail art in Mexico in the 1970s was the…
Graphic scores tend to have multiple identities. Simultaneously, they can be design objects, artworks, and documents silently encoded with music whose future performance can depend, at least to some degree, on their existence. What can graphic scores tell us about music, art, design, and performance, and about their intersections? During the late 1950s and the…
Estos textos, seleccionados por Vanessa Davidson, Shawn and Joe Lampe Curator of Latin American Art del Phoenix Art Museum, delinean el entendimiento del artista Argentino Edgardo Antonio Vigo de la prática del arte correo. Vigo examina “la comunicación a distancia” como una nueva forma de arte, comunicación y política. La ‘COMUNICACIÓN A DISTANCIA’ [MAIL ART STATEMENT]…
These three key texts, selected by Vanessa Davidson, Shawn and Joe Lampe Curator of Latin American Art at the Phoenix Art Museum, outline Argentine experimental artist Edgardo Antonio Vigo’s understanding of mail art. Vigo explores what he calls “distance communication” as a new form for the development of art, communication, and political action. Arte-Correo: Una…
Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities holds within its conceptual grasp two vastly different scales: the incomprehensible colossus of the megacity and the small tactics of everyday life by which urban dwellers claim authorship of their homes. Exploring both scales, this bibliography offers divergent ideas related to the city—among them, spatial justice, the right to…
In this short essay on the writings of the Argentine experimental artist Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Vanessa Davidson, Shawn and Joe Lampe Curator of Latin American Art at the Phoenix Art Museum, explores how the artist positioned his mail art practice in three key texts. post has commissioned translations of these texts, now newly available in English. Edgardo…
El arte correo, sabemos, es una excusa, a nosotros nos interesan cosas más importantes y que tienen que ver con nosotros mismos, nuestras familias, nuestros pueblos. Si aceptamos esto, las diferencias se diluyen; después de tanto drama y tanta sangre tenemos que discernir quiénes son nuestros verdaderos enemigos. Clemente Padín, Carta a Mauricio GuerreroMontevideo > México…
Mail art, we know, is an excuse, we are interested in more important things that have to do with ourselves, our families, our people. If we accept this, differences are dissolved; after so much drama and so much blood we must discern who our true enemies are. —Clemente Padín, letter to Mauricio Guerrero, January 8,…
What are the goals of an archive based in a region where the local art scene is still finding its place in the world map of contemporary art? How to approach contemporary art in the region if no linear social, political, and art history can be told? How can archives be instrumental in helping regional…
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The three short essays that follow were written in response to works composed and performed by Tone Yasunao as part of the program “Tokyo: Experiments in Music and Performance” presented at The Museum of Modern Art’s Celeste Bartos Theater on January 10, 2013. I. Smooth Event (1962) Tone Yasunao walks onstage and approaches a table.…
