Diagonal Cero, artists' periodical

Author(s)/Editor(s): Vigo, Edgardo Antonio

Publisher: La Plata, Argentina

Date: 1962–1969

Number of participants:

Document(s): Issues

Source(s) of the listed documents: Centro de Arte Experimental Vigo, MOMA

Available for research at Artpool: Issues

Comment: We’d like to kindly thank the German Mail Artist Peter Küstermann for his generous donations which included all the issues of the magazine we have.
See the documentation of our research-based display: PRINT NETWORKS. Edgardo Antonio Vigo and Artists’ Periodicals, Budapest, Artpool, 2025 (Curated by Marie Boivent)

"The increasing space devoted to experimental poetry (concrete, visual, elemental, etc.) in the pages of Diagonal Cero and Vigo’s growing exchanges with an international community of artists announced the turning point that would definitively take place, starting with issue 20. Vigo then went on to demonstrate the complementarity and interchangeability of discursive registers through textual and graphic explorations." Boivent, Marie: Edgardo Antonio Vigo: The Periodical and the Network as Poetic and Political Instruments, in: Commonpress No. 61: E. A. Vigo. Prospect From the Past, Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest, Hungary, 2025

New York Correspondance School (NYCS), project

Organizer(s): Johnson, Ray

Location: New York, USA

Date: 1962–

Number of participants:

Document(s): Articles, Letters, Collages etc.

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Ray Jonhson Estate

Available for research at Artpool: Letters

Bibliography: Wilson, William S.: Ray Johnson: NY Correspondance School, Art and Artists 1 (April 1966), pp. 54–57., rayjohnsonestate.com
Bourdon, David – Philip Leider: The New York Correspondence School, Artforum, 6, October, 1967, pp. 50–55., rayjohnsonestate.com
Klaniczay, Júlia – György Galántai: Correspondence Art of Ray Johnson, in: artpool. hu, 1997

“In 1962, Johnson initiated a series of mailings instructing the recipient to add something to the work received and send it on to someone else, who would follow the same instructions. That same year, he founded the New York Correspondence School, a fictional entity that served as a conceptual base for his mailings over the next three decades.” Marcin, Mauricio: Mail Art from Mexico (via the world): An Erratic Investigation, in: post.at.moma.org

“Ed Plunkett baptizes the New York Correspondence School, by now an international network of individuals who exchange missives and mail art through the postal system. Johnson renames it the New York Correspondance (sic) School (NYCS) and alternates the spelling (Correspondence and Correspondance).” Chronology, in rayjohnsonestate.com