ULISES CARRIÓN
Maike Aden worked as research assistant for the first comprehensive retrospective on the writer and artist Ulises Carrión (1941-1989) which was organized in 2016 by the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid and shown in 2017 in the Museo Jumex in Mexico-City. Presented on this site is a selection of presentations and contributions on the work of Ulises Carrión in various cultural and national contexts.
ULISES CARRIÓN'S BIG MONSTER THEN AND NOW
TALK on a panel with Timm Ullrichs and Katharina Neuburger on occation of the symposium Judge a Book by its Cover. Artists’ Books in the Digital Age.
27-29 January 2022
ULISES CARRIÓN CARRIES ON
Contribution in: Journal of Artists' Books (JAB), No. 40, Fall 2016
Online: Ulises Carrion Carries On
Extending art to the plagiarism of everything traceable in the digital archives of the internet seems perfectly to accomplish Ulises Carrión's enjoyable plea for blatant stealing. But the art world is not catching up with his concept because the generation remix is fixed on two kinds of repetitions: the repetition of the worn out past and the repetition of a meanwhile fatiguing trend...
Republished in: Markus Dreßen, Albrecht Gäbel et al. (Ed.): It's a Book, HGB, Leipzig 2017
WORDS AND WRITINGS BY ULISES CARRIÓN
Research project in the frame of ECCO AMLAT, a research project on the written and oral discursive productions of contemporary Latin American artists, Université Rennes 2, 2016-2018
THE POSTHUMOUS RECEPTION OF ULISES CARRIÓN / LA RECEPCIÓN PÓSTUMA DE ULISES CARRIÓN
Contribution in: Guy Schraenen (Ed.): Dear reader. Don't read., exhibition catalogue, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2016
Download Catalogue: Dear reader. Don't read.
“Forget hipness, coolness and glamour! Forget Damien Hirst’s golden calf and Marc Quinn’s gilded Kate Moss.... The time for blue-chip art is here. This also includes overlooked and underestimated artists from the 1960s and 1970s.” With these vigorous words, Marc Spiegler, director of Art Basel, promotes the exhibitors behind the hip revivals. Such “hidden treasures”—a label invented by Art Cologne for this trend—have been discovered, venerated, and marketed for a few years now. In the spotlight of this cult of the (post-)1960s avant-gardes are primarily those artists whose aura was rooted in their supposed immunity to the established art system during their lifetimes. Among the most prominent protagonists are artists that include Bas Jan Ader, André Cadere, Poul Gernes, Lee Lozano, Charlotte Posenenske, and Paul Thek; and now, it seems, Ulises Carrión is also a beneficiary..."
WORKS AND WORDS BY ULISES CARRIÓN
Lectures at various international venues With a sensitive and critical sense, and from the perspective of a former writer and linguist, Ulises Carrión (1941-1989) analysed the internal layers of our language, images and sound, to test, reveal and thwart the rules behind their functioning. By using phenomenas of daily life, he developed a contemporary as well as an anticipatory aesthetic program in which ideas, information and collective / participatory strategies were the basis for art works, performances, exhibitions as well as his networking, distribution and archiving projects. All this he reflected in highly elaborated theories which seem to be - partly word by word - an early model of very recent art theories in the digital realm of the 21st century.
ULISES CARRIÓN. DEAR READER. DON'T READ / QUERIDO LECTOR. NO LEA
Research assistant of the retrospective on Ulises Carrión at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid, 15.3.-10.10 2016 and the Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo Mexico City, 9.2.- 30.4.2017.
