Ulises Carrión

Born	January 29, 1941(1941-01-29) San Andres Tuxtla, Mexico
Died	October 6, 1989(1989-10-06) (aged 48) Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Web	Wikipedia

Second Thoughts, 1980, Log, PDF, JPGs.

A key figure in Mexican conceptual art, Ulises Carrión (1941, San Andrés Tuxtla, Mexico – 1989, Amsterdam) was an artist, editor, curator, and theorist of the post-1960s international artistic avant-garde.

He studied philosophy and literature in Mexico City, Paris and Leeds, and lived in Amsterdam from 1970 until the end of his life. His art has been exhibited in various locations in The Netherlands, Mexico and elsewhere. Carrión was the author of several books and in 1975 founded Other Books and So, a distribution centre for artists' publications and multiples. Carrión arrived at visual art practice through his interest in print culture and media, which led him to engage with mail art and eventually performance, film and video. He was closely involved with the In-Out Center, an alternative Amsterdam gallery which drew artists of diverse cultural backgrounds, whose work in some way commented on Dutch art and society from their own cultural perspective. The continuation of his engagement with literary formats can be seen in the videos' examinations of the strategies and devices used to create narrative structure in a film, story or artwork. (Source)

Works

• Carrión's sound poetry on UbuWeb
• Excerpts from Carrión's video works at LIMA archive
• "El arte nuevo de hacer libros", Plural (literary supplement in newspaper Excélsior) 4:41, México, Feb 1975. [1] (Spanish)
  • "The New Art of Making Books", Kontexts 6-7, Amsterdam, 1975. (English)
  • Nové umění jak dělat knihy, trans. G. Pospíšilová, Prague, 1977, [25] pp. (Czech)
  • The New Art of Making Books, Nicosia: Aegean Editions, 2001, [36] pp. (English)
• co-editor, Ephemera: a monthly journal of mail and ephemeral works, 12 numbers, Amsterdam: Other Books and So, 1977-78.
• For Fans and Scholars Alike, Rochester, N.Y.: Visual Studies Workshop, 1980. Artist's book.
• The Poet's Tongue, Alga Marghen, vinyl LP, 2012; CD, 2016. Sound recordings. [2] [3]

Collected essays

• Second Thoughts, Amsterdam: VOID, 1980, 72 pp. Collection of 8 essays. (English)
• Quant aux livres / On Books, ed. Juan J. Agius, trans. Thierry Dubois, Genève: Héros-Limite, 2008, 207 pp; 2nd ed., 2008, 212 pp. (French)/(English)
• Archivo Carrión, 1: El arte nuevo de hacer libros, ed. Juan J. Agius, trans. Heriberto Yépez, México, D.F.: Tumbona, 2012, 179 pp; 2nd ed., 2016, 179 pp. [4] (Spanish)
• Archivo Carrión, 2: El arte correo y el gran monstruo, ed. Juan J. Agius, trans. Heriberto Yépez, México, D.F.: Tumbona, 2013, 282 pp. [5] (Spanish)
• Archivo Carrión, 3: Lilia Prado superestrella, y otros chismes, ed. Juan J. Agius, trans. Heriberto Yépez, México, D.F.: Tumbona, 2014, 266 pp. [6] (Spanish)

Catalogues

• Ulises Carrion: We have won! Haven’t we?, ed. Guy Schraenen, Amsterdam: Fodor Museum, 1992.
• Dear Reader. Don't Read, ed. Guy Schraenen, Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2016, 272 pp. (English)
  • Querido lector. No lea, ed. Guy Schraenen, Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2016, 272 pp. (Spanish)

Literature

• Donna Conwell, "Personal Worlds or Cultural Strategies?", 2002. (English)
• Desde Uruguay, Clemente Padín, "Recordando a Ulises Carrión", Escáner 87 (Sep 2006). (Spanish)
• Gerrit Jan de Rook, "Ulises Carrión and Other Books and So", trans. Mari Shields, Metropolis M 5 (Oct-Nov 2010). (English)
• Mónica de la Torre, "Ulises Carrión's The Poet's Tongue", BOMB 122 (Winter 2013). (English)

Exhibitions

• Museum Fodor, Amsterdam, 18 Jan-23 Feb 1992.
• Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, 2002.
• Show Room, London, 2010.
• Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2016. Seminar.

Links

• Ulises Carrión Fonds at Archivo Lafuente
• Carrión at Mail Artists Index
• Ulises Carrión site edited by Heriberto Yépez and Juan J. Aguis (Spanish)
• https://www.facebook.com/UlisesCarrion/