… case studies as a point of departure, the presentation will explore the question of how the social networks of people were exploited and used by the Ministry of Interior to obtain information, and the specific role and responsibility of those who, through their corrective and curative work, knew much more about the hidden networks of communities and the workings of the human psyche. In the spring of 2022, KEMKI will organise a three-part series of open lectures on the history of the Bródy …
… 12.00 – 13.00 – Lunch break 13.00 – 15.00 Panel 2: Revisiting socialist art: artists’ networks and exhibition histories Pavlína Morganová – Introduction – The Society of Exhibition under Socialism: what we learnt and what is there to discover in exhibition histories Mădălina Brașoveanu – State-supported subversion or acts of deterritorialization? How to describe “the alternative” in the art exhibitions from the 1980s in Romania? Joanna Matuszak – The Nostalgic …
Edgardo Antonio Vigo’s work, long recognized in Argentina and Latin America thanks to numerous academic studies and several landmark solo exhibitions, remains relatively unknown in Europe, with too few events dedicated to it. The new collection display at Artpool, an essential historical archive of Mail Art, aims to make visible and promote in Europe this marginal yet essential poet, artist, …
Artpool's new collection display Opening speech by Professor Marie Boivent, Université Rennes 2, curator of the collection display Date: 9 October 2025, 5:00 PM Round table discussion : 10 October 2025, 3:00 PM Born in La Plata, a city located sixty kilometers from Buenos Aires, Edgardo Antonio Vigo (1928-1997) Argentine artist and well known figure of Latin American artistic …
… as Eloise Sherrid, who are visiting the key figures and archives of the international Mail Art network for the purposes of filming their documentary M.A.I.L. A twenty-minute excerpt from the film will be shown at the finissage, featuring a conversation with Uruguayan poet, performer, and mail artist Clemente Padín, who passed away in October this year. The Print Networks: Edgardo Antonio Vigo and the Artists’ Magazines collection show’s curator is Marie Boivent, Professor of …