there are four walls floor and ceiling four walls floor and ceiling we enter an environment that has four walls floor and ceiling the wall to the right is equal to the floor the wall to the left is equal to the floor the wall in front is equal to the floor the wall behind […]
Category Archives: The Body Under Dictatorship
Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis
These photographs document one of the first public actions performed by the artistic collective Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis (The Mares of the Apocalypse). Here, a nude Pedro Lemebel and Francisco Casas ride a mare into the University of Chile alongside three poet friends. Lemebel recalls that certain fields of study in the university were denied […]
Libro internacional
Libro internacional is a collection of works by various international artists, including Guillermo Deisler and Graciela Gutierrez Marx, sent to Edgardo Antonio Vigo via the postal system. Vigo began the three-volume mail art project in 1976, a year of political and personal significance in which the Argentine military coup d’etat occured and the artist’s son, […]
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, […]
XXII History of the Human Face (Trueque): Airmail Painting No.123
Eugenio Dittborn began producing airmail paintings — collaged works that he folded and mailed through the postal system — in 1983 amid the “cultural blackout” brought about by Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship in Chile. The works simultaneously resisted censorship by circumventing regular forms of art production and circulation, and practiced a form of self-exile at […]
Para um tempo de guerra (For a Time of War)
Regina Vater created Para um tempo de guerra while living in the United Stated during Ronald Reagan’s presidency. The installation is comporised of the mosaic-like stones that pave pedestrian streets in Portugal and its former colonies such as Brazil, and Brazilian-style French rolls, an inexpensive and popular food staple. The mandala shape, a widely recognized […]