hi John,
Josephine Bosma called my attention for this message, thanks Jo! :-))
You are right indeed, i am from Uruguay (my name is Brian Mackern, and
my field of work and art practice comes more from the netart scene,
did a research about netartists from latinoamerica at the change of
this century http://netart.org.uy/latino , a book about this site was
published in 2010 by MEIAC museum).
As uruguayan i may suggest that Clemente Padin is for sure the
referent you need for the reconstruction of the latinamerican mail art
scene.
Following here some quick links i've found (mostly spanish), but i
think the best is to directly contact Clemente.
spanish:
http://www.escaner.cl/escaner56/acorreo.html
<http://www.escaner.cl/escaner56/acorreo.html>
http://www.merzmail.net/latino.htm <http://www.merzmail.net/latino.htm>
http://issuu.com/boek861/docs/el_mail_art_visto_por_clemente_padin
<http://issuu.com/boek861/docs/el_mail_art_visto_por_clemente_padin>
english:
http://www.vispo.com/guests/ClementePadin/clemente.html
<http://www.vispo.com/guests/ClementePadin/clemente.html>
http://post.at.moma.org/content_items/314-mail-art-from-mexico-via-the-world-an-erratic-investigation
<http://post.at.moma.org/content_items/314-mail-art-from-mexico-via-the-world-an-erratic-investigation>
cheers!
_bri
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Brian Mackern
http://bri.uy
On 21/02/2014 13:38, John Hopkins wrote:
HI Andreas --
I know you are just forwarding this, but it brought up the observation
that the authors of the call have somehow (not surprisingly)
overlooked the wide and deep history in Latin America regarding the
mail art movement...! For many this anarchic network was a solid
precursor (starting 40+ years ago) to internet-based activities of the
present. Based on personal experience there were many people active in
the global mail art network...
During the last fifteen years, Latin American art has been added to
canons of
twentieth-century modernism and postmodernism, in an apparent
triumph for
the field. The myriad exhibitions and scholarly texts that have
contributed
to this
...snip...
field. These networked approaches are in part a result of curators and
scholars simply following the historical movements of individual
artists,
movements, publications, and exhibitions.
I wonder, by chance, if there is any one out there on spectre who
might know of any publications/texts about that history??
Cheers,
John
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