Art Metropole

#00220

Michel Foucault Letter

Item Details

Artist

Kevin Immanuel

Media Type

Ephemera

Media Notes

Mail Art, Cardboard

Code

2013.231

Consists of a Canada post box addressed to then Director of Art Metropole Ann Dean from Michel Foucalt. This piece is a part of Kevin Immanuel’s ongoing project of creating supposed correspondence between the famous philosopher and a number of galleries and art institutions throughout Europe, North America, and China. The letters were, in fact, written by Immanuel himself, both as a literalization of Foucault’s emphasis on the importance of cultivating an ironic stance toward one’s present situation—in Immanuel’s case, the crisis of being a young artist trying to strike up a meaningful discourse with art institutions—and as a poignant critique of the relationship between art institutions and their patrons.

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