Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Correspondences/ On Mail Art and the Work of Ray Johnson
Dr. Johanna Gosse, Speaker
María Paula Varela, Moderator

Ulises Carrión: Post/Master, curated by María Paula Varela, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, will be Ulises Carrión’s first public exhibition in the United States. Carrión was a crucial figure in Mail Art, a prominent international movement of the 1970s and 1980s related to Conceptual Art, and in which artists exhibited material they had mailed to one another. On loan from the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) collection, the exhibition showcases seven of the ten projects that comprise Carrión’s The Big Monster archive, including “Anonymous Quotations”, “A Poem”, “Cancellation Stamps”, “Definitions of Art”, “E.A.M.I.S.”, “Feedback”, and “Rob & Marta”. These projects include hundreds of postcards, photographs, letters, and mixed media replies to Carrión’s collective postal works.

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