Arte Correio (Mail Art)

Paulo Bruscky was part of an international network of artists working performance, painting, sculpture, poetry, experimental music, and correspondance art, or mail art. Mail art uses stamps, seals, telegrams, and envelops as mediums to make artworks, which one then sends through the mail to friends and colleagues, potentially all over the world. Under oppressive regimes, mail art can be a strategy to subvert state censorship and articulate resistance. The postal system, ironically an apparatus run by the very government he opposed, allowed Bruscky, a pioneer of mail art in Brazil, to create networks for the free circulation of messages that extended far beyond his home in Recife. The artist states: “With the mail art, art regains its principal functions: informing, protesting, and denouncing.”.