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Confiscated letters written to Heriberto Marín in prison. He served time for participating in the Jayuya Revolt when he was just a teenager.
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CHRISTOPHER GREGORY-RIVERA, Las Carpetas, Untitled, archival inkjet photograph 16 ✗ 20 in., 2014.
Ann Messner is a NY-based multidisciplinary artist. Her work has examined fault lines between the individual and the larger social body as encountered within public realm discourse, investigating the incongruities between notions of private life/space and public/ civic engagement and experience. Her 1970's performative work, interventionist in strategy, took place 'unofficially' within the context of the urban street, and survives as super 8 film and 35mm photos. Messner's first solo exhibition, an ongoing public performance (Franklin Furnace 1978), utilized a crudely over-amplified typewriter with outside speakers projecting the pounding of keys well beyond the parameters of the interior building space. Later, in 1995, these early performances were critically considered together in the exhibition 'subway stories and other shorts, Ann Messner: photographs and film 1976–1980' (Nina Felshin, Dorsky Curatorial Projects).
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Messner’s recent work continues a commitment to civic engagement: 'The Real Estate Show and Other Histories', presented at Creative Time's Summit 2013: Art, Place, and Dislocation in the 21st-Century City; 'the underground potato' (in collaboration with activist/ artist Laurie Arbeiter), a food vending media cart, installed in the Essex Street Market Cuchifritos Gallery in conjunction with 'The Real Estate Show: Was Then: 1980; What Next 2014?'; and 'DuBois_the FBI files', commissioned for Du Bois in Our Time, University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMASS, Amherst. Ann is recipient of numerous fellowships: a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, the NEA, 3 NYFA Awards, and a Gottlieb Foundation Fellowship. She was a fellow at Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University (2000) and Princeton University Council on the Humanities (2001). She is currently full professor MFA Integrated Practices Fine Arts at Pratt Institute.
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