Body/Corpo
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection consists of artwork, exhibition planning documents, and exhibition installation documentation. The artwork in the collection includes 146 original book pages, on 5x8/12 pieces of watercolor paper and inclusive of a variety of mediums, produced for the 150 Artists Book.
Exhibition documents demonstrate the physical and intellectual labor required to imagine and implement the Connections Project/ Conexus show and include sproject proposals and budgets; grant and foundational support applications; correspondence and budgets from fiscal sponsors; correspondence between the curators and artists in the form of letters and postcards; and insurance applications.
Within the exhibition planning documents is a significant amount of correspondence between the curators and various galleries, museums, and cultural institutions that reveal the challenges and successes of curating the show. This correspondence includes communication with Central Hall, Artists Space, Centro Brasileiro de Projetos de Arte, Franklin Furnace, The New Museum, Clocktower, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art (MoCHA), Museum de Arte Contemporãnea da Universidade de São Paulo, Southeastern Massachusetts Art Gallery. Additionally, the correspondence includes form letters to various contemporary art museums and galleries across the United States. The installation of the exhibit is documented in photographs and slides, newspaper clippings, plans for the exhibit’s display, and a transcript of a conversation between Josely Carvalho and Sabra Moore about the exhibit.
Dates
- Creation: 1985 - 1986
Creator
- From the Collection: Carvalho, Josely (Person)
Access
This collection has no restrictions.
Extent
23 Files
Language
From the Collection: English
Series Scope and Content
Includes artwork by: Nancy Spero and Valerie Savilli, Carolee Schneemann, Betye Saar, Pamela Wye, Louise Bourgeois, Christina Parisi, Anna Barros, Ligia de Franceschi, Ines de Araujo, Iole de Freitas, Elizabeth Jobim, Adriana Guimarães, Patricia Furlong, Vera Chaves Barcellos, Sonia Labouriau, Paula Pape, Mirian Obino, Kathleen Fay, Mara Alvares, Emilie Chamie, Jessie Shefrin, Janice Novet, and Kazuko. Note: the artwork by Louise Bourgeois in this collection is a reproduction. The original was returned to Bourgeois' dealer, John Cheim, in 2003 by Sabra Moore.
Repository Details
Part of the Barnard Archives and Special Collections Repository