In 2020, the international conference Artists, Archives and Networks, held in Budapest (Hungary) commemorated the 40th anniversary of the foundation of Artpool, which had come into being as an independent archive, but had become, by then, an organization named Arpool Art Research Center and connected to the university.
The conference aimed to map the cultural-political-historical contexts in which Artpool’s activity had taken place, by bringing together scholars and practitioners interested in transnational research on artist archives, progressive curatorial and museological practices, and the historiography of Cold War art scenes and networks.
My presentation, in English, delved on the correspondence that various Hungarian artists, such as András Lengyel, András Bán, Árpád fenyvesi Tóth and Gábor Tóth, had maintained with Ulises Carrión while he was in charge of his bookstore Other Books and So.