“Poetry must be made by all” – Count de Lautréamont Maurico Marcin provides a brief introduction to the Poema Colectivo: Revolución, considering its challenge to the laws of private property, the words of liberation it continues to whisper and its place in a new kind of network, here on post. A collection of 350 sheets of letter-size…
“La poesía debe ser hecha por todos” – Conde de Lautréamont Mauricio Marcin ofrece una breve introducción, aquí en post, al Poema Colectivo: Revolución, donde se le considera como oposición a las leyes de la propiedad privada a partir de las palabras libertarias que susurra y de las nuevas formas de trabajo en red que postuló. Un…
El curador Mauricio Marcin esboza una breve historia del arte correo, a partir de diversos archivos ubicados en la Ciudad de México, argumentando que los remanentes del arte correo nos obligan a “seguir pensando”. Este ensayo es una versión adaptada y traducida del texto “Arte Correo en un Libro”, publicado originalmente en Mauricio Marcin (ed.), Artecorreo (Ciudad…
How did the infrastructure of the former Soviet Bloc’s socialist states support experiments in the art of sound? What possibilities were created and what were the drawbacks that resulted, for artists and their art, from the desire to create an entirely new, experimental society? This talk was delivered at “About Sound,” a C-MAP seminar on…
Mexican artist Felipe Ehrenberg ruminates on the life journeys of his archive, weaving a tale that takes in personal, cultural, socioeconomic, and institutional dimensions of building—and letting go of—an artist’s file, and considering whether an archive can itself be a work of art. To most people, a file is merely a collection of objects, mostly…
Initiated in the late 1950s in Zagreb, in the former Yugoslavia, and dissolved less than a decade later, the Gorgona Group continues to fascinate. Since the group’s first exhibition in 1977, generations of artists and art historians from Eastern Europe have viewed its ephemeral, collective artistic practices as the foundation for the later development of…
Iako raspuštena vec desetljeće nakon svog osnivanja u kasnim 50-im godinama 20. stolječa u bivšoj Jugoslaviji, grupa Gorgona još uvijek fascinira. Od njihove prve izložbe 1977. godine, generacije umjetnika i povjesničara umjetnosti iz Istočne Europe smatrali su da je kratkotrajno umjetničko djelovanje ove grupe temelj kasnijeg razvoja konceptualizma koji je u šezdesetim godinama cvjetao u…
Geta Brătescu, whose career began in the 1960s and continues until today, is a pivotal figure in the history of post-war Romanian art. Working under the repressive political regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu for a large part of her career, Brătescu, developed a body of work that reflects the conditions of its production. Largely (though not…
Speaking with Christophe Cherix, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Chief Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books, Geta Brătescu shares her understanding of drawing and speaks of the importance of personal space for her creative practice, offering an insight into her technique. She discusses her fascination with Charlie Chaplin, which led to the creation of her best-known…
