Mimeographed sheet outlining Carrión’s Erratic Art Mail International System.
Single A4 sheet, printed & stamped on one side. [Amsterdam: 1978].
Scarce flyer announcement of the artist’s utopian vision of a free artist-run postal system, called E.A.M.I.S., and operated from his Other Books and So bookstore in Amsterdam. Referring to himself as the “Post Master,” Carrión writes eight point describing the network, the final item on the flyer reads: “By usin [sic.] the E.A.M.I.S. you support the only alternative to the national bureaucracies and you strengthen the international artists community.”
“Carrión conceived a support other than the official postal system to deliver letters and packages. It was based on the erratic distribution of the mail by people traveling around. As Postmaster of E.A.M.I.S., he set up the rules and services of this alternative system in 8 points as the concept of the project. It was mimeographed on a DIN A4 sheet, and distributed and included in the program of the International Artists’ Meeting at the Galeria Remont, Warsaw, in April 1978 for the first time…A couple of months later, as the project came to an end, 24 letters and parcels were distributed and reached their addresses while 9 others remained undelivered.”–Juan J. Agius, ed., Ulises Carrión & The Big Monster (2014), pp. 64-65 (pictured on p. 64).
In fine condition.
Price: $350.00
Item ID: 11037
