Ulises Carrión: Art, Mail, Books, and So . . .

The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) is pleased to announce the panel discussion Ulises Carrión: art, mail, books, and so…, organized together with Americas Society on the occasion of the exhibition Ulises Carrión: The Big Monster, currently on view at ISLAA.

This program invites Zanna Gilbert, senior research specialist, Getty Research Institute; Mónica de la Torre, Madelon Leventhal Rand Endowed Chair in Literature, English, Brooklyn College; and Felipe Becerra, Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University, to discuss Carrión’s work and legacy. Moderated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin, curator of the exhibition and director and chief curator of visual arts at Americas Society.

Ulises Carrión (1941, Mexico–1989, Netherlands) was a pioneering figure in mail art, a movement and a medium that produced a unique international network of creative exchange in the 1970s and 1980s. Throughout his life he developed an important oeuvre that spanned performance, video art, and books.

Ulises Carrión: The Big Monster is the first show of ISLAA´s new exhibitions program on modern and contemporary Latin American art. These exhibitions respond to ISLAA’s mission to advance visual art from Latin America and to support future generations of experts on Latin American art. The exhibitions draw from ISLAA’s library, archive, and graphic arts collection, which are currently being catalogued.

To view the recording of this event, please click on this link.