Art on Air #8 Nicola Tyson, ‘Dead Letter Men Part 1’ 11.07.2024
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“Confession and lie are the same thing. We cannot communicate what we are, exactly because
we are it. We can communicate only what we are not: that is, only the lie”
Franz Kafka
Dead Letter Men is a book by Nicola Tyson composed of a series of letters to dead artists. It
began as a performance piece initiated by Tyson’s participation in an exhibition at INVISIBLE
EXPORTS on the Lower East Side in February 2011, staged by Ridykulous, the curatorial duo of
A.L Steiner and Nicole Eisenman. For the exhibition, titled Readykeulous: The Hurtful Healer:
The Correspondance Issue, artists were invited to contribute an open letter of complaint
concerning and something that irked them about ‘the world today’, in particular, The Patriarchy.
That first draft of Tyson’s letter to “...
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