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Mail Art Chro-No-Logy
… a complex digital historical chronology of mail art, based on Artpool’s continuously expanding collection. The current results of this process can be viewed on the Artpool website, organised by year, starting in 1962 (when Ray Johnson founded the New York Correspondence School). As part of the research, a collection of texts on mail art has also been published. Additionally, the project has had a rather notable impact in terms of collection expansion as well: since its launch, several …
The digital "Attic Archive"
… as DATA (Daily Action Time Archive), was launched in 1980, and now comprises part of the Artpool Collection. Founded in Dundee, Scotland, by artist Pete Horobin in 1975, the Attic Archive grew out of four separate, ten-year-long self-historicisation projects, reflecting on the changing social and cultural conditions of the 1970s-2020s within which the artist operated. As the archive is now dispersed across Scotland, Hungary and Ireland, the project seeks to bring together …
Artist Archives of the Future
… 1970s and 1980s. Similarly to – and in part overlapping with – Artpool, it has a significant collection of mail art, including works by several Hungarian artists (e.g. Sándor Pinczehelyi, László Beke, Gábor Attalai, György Galántai, Gábor Tóth and Dóra Maurer). The outcome of this collaboration will be on view for the general public in November 2024, at the Platán Gallery in Budapest. A preparatory step of the cooperation: an exciting selection of Hungarian …
TÓTalJOY Prize
… exhibition, which took place in spring 2023, explored a particular cross-section of Artpool’s collection that utilised the art documents held there as a repository of knowledge and ideas that may be marginal from a traditional art-historical perspective, but are nevertheless exciting from an artistic standpoint. Tamás Kaszás’s exhibition entitled Savage Intern was on view at the Hungarian National Gallery from 3 March to 11 June 2023. In response to the second announcement of …
Resonances
… Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, 10.-11. 11. 2022.) Language Games, selection from the Artpool collection - exhibition (KEMKI, Budapest) Resonances II. conference: Beyond Friendships - Regional Cultural Transfer in the Art of the '70s (KEMKI, Budapest, 11.-12. 05. 2022. ) Resonances I. conference: Parallel Structures, Communicating Channels and Nodes (Comenius University, Bratislava, 02. 03. 2022. )