Circuits of Correspondence
January–July, 2025
Virtual Conversations: March 15, 2025 and April 19, 2025
Circuits of Correspondence is a multi-part mail art exchange bringing together a network of international artists and cultural producers to reflect on solidarity and connection as acts of resistance. The artists are invited to exchange correspondence in two simultaneous ways—via snail mail and email—in the span of five months, with prompts workshopped together in advance, addressing topics such as radical kinship, acts of kindness, and what it means to be a cultural producer today. Each participant is welcome to write in their native language, adding a layer of complexity to the translation of intimacy and poetics.
Participating artists: Mitsuko Brooks (Brooklyn, NY), Abril Castro (Mexico City), Regina José Galindo (Guatemala City), Raquel Gutiérrez (Los Angeles, CA/Tucson, AZ), Laila Hida (Marrakesh), hú-tu (Laura Dudu, Los Angeles, CA and huiyin zhou, China/New York), and Geraldine Lanteri (Buenos Aires).
The artists will participate in two virtual conversations via Zoom on March 15, 2025, and April 19, 2025. The virtual conversations feature simultaneous interpretation for local and international audiences.
The project culminates in a digital publication launching in July 2025, that gathers images and texts from the mail art exchange, and reflections from the virtual conversations.
VIRTUAL CONVERSATION 1
With Mitsuko Brooks, Laila Hida, Raquel Gutiérrez, and hú-tu (Laura Dudu and huiyin zhou) as facilitators. Simultaneous interpretation by Alexia Veytia.
March 15, 2025
11:00 am–12:30 pm PST
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VIRTUAL CONVERSATION 2
With Abril Castro, Regina José Galindo, Raquel Gutiérrez, and Geraldine Lanteri. Moderated by Selene Preciado. Simultaneous interpretation by Alexia Veytia.
April 19, 2025
11:00 am–12:30 pm PST
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Mitsuko 三津子 Brooks (b. Misawa Air Force, Japan) is a mail artist & archivist of mixed settler Japanese and European descent currently living and working in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn). She received her BFA from Cooper Union, MFA in Painting and Drawing from UCLA, and MLIS & Certificate in Archives and Preservation of Cultural Materials from CUNY Queens College. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Sikkema & Jenkins, MoMA PS1, The Hammer Museum, Printed Matter and The Japanese American National Museum of San Jose, among others. She has participated in residencies at LMCC Arts Center, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Wassaic Project, and was awarded grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Edward & Sally Van Lier Fellowship. Her work has been featured in ArtForum, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Art Review, Art Newspaper and many other publications. Brooks’ work is included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian’s Archive of American Art and Artexte Information Centre.
abril castro prieto is a poet, arts administrator, and curator. She is particularly interested in art with community impact, periphery and dissent, rupture and diversion. She works as coordinator of the visual arts department at Museo Universitario del Chopo, UNAM. She is a collector and anonymous sender of antique postcards.
Selected curatorial projects include Las noches del 9 (Museo Universitario del Chopo, UNAM, 2024), Aguacero de mayo e Sofìa Acosta (Galería N.A.S.A.L, 2024) Lo que ya tenía nombre (Centro Cultural de España en México, hasta junio 2024) Lumbre, Ilustradoras en México (Museo Universitario del Chopo, UNAM, 2023), co curaduría con Itzel Vargas Platas y Karol Wolley, Belleza y Felicidad, arte y cultura Salvaje en el Baires de los 90, (Museo Universitario del Chopo, UNAM, 2023), Foro de Visibilidad lésbica y bisexual en la cultura contemporánea (Museo Universitario del Chopo, 2020), Laboratorio de escrituras disidentes (Museo Universitario del Chopo, 2021), V Encuentro Nacional de Investigación sobre Fotografía (Centro de la Imagen, CDMX) co-curated with Sayak Valencia Triana, and Espacios Comunes, (Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez and Centro Cultural de España en México 2013–2014) co- curated with Felipe Zúñiga González. Her texts have been published in the anthologies Mucha Madre (Almadía, 2021), Meditations in an emergency (PAC, 2022), Nuestra cama es de flores. Antología de poesía erótica femenina. (CECUT, 2008), and has published in several magazines such as Píkara Magazine and Replicante.
Regina José Galindo is a visual artist and poet whose primary medium is performance. Galindo lives and works in Guatemala, using the country’s own context as a starting point to explore and accuse the ethical implications of social violence and injustices related to gender and racial discrimination, as well as human rights abuses arising from the endemic inequalities in power relations of contemporary societies.
Galindo received the Golden Lion for Best Young Artist at the 51st Venice Biennale of Art (2005); in 2011, she was awarded the Prince Claus Award from the Netherlands; in 2019, she received the Soros Art Fellowship, and in 2021, she won the Robert Rauschenberg Prize. She has also participated in the 49th, 53rd, and 54th Venice Biennials; Documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel; the 9th International Biennial of Cuenca, the 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts of Ljubljana, the 11th Shanghai Biennial (2016), the Biennial of Pontevedra in 2010, the 17th Biennial of Sydney, the 2nd Biennial of Moscow, the First Triennial of Auckland, the Venice-Istanbul Exhibition, the 1st Biennial of Art and Architecture of the Canary Islands, the 4th Biennial of Valencia, the 3rd Biennial of Albania, the 2nd Biennial of Prague, and the 3rd Biennial of Lima. Photo credit: Lucía Escobar
Raquel Gutiérrez is a writer, performer and the author of Brown Neon (Coffee House Press), a 2023 Finalist for the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses’ Firework Award in Creative Nonfiction and Recipient of The Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction. A 2021 recipient of the Rabkin Prize in Arts Journalism, as well as a 2017 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, Gutiérrez was recently named a United States Artist fellow (2025) and completed a Fall 2024 Artist in Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts where they worked on their new poetry collection, Southwest Reconstruction (a triptych), which comes out late Fall 2025 on Noemi Press. Gutiérrez lives on unceded lands of the Tohono O’odham and Pascua Yaqui people. Photo credit: Reynaldo Rivera, 2024.
Laila Hida is a Franco-Moroccan artist and cultural worker based in Marrakech. For over ten years, she has been committed to creating potential spaces for encounter, conversation, and experimentation, whether for her own research or for the community. Photography has been her medium of choice, enabling her to explore spaces and examine the influence of image and representation in shaping physical and symbolic territories, along with the myths that surround them. She delves into the ambivalence of photography as both a historical record and a trigger for fiction. Her recent work, Le Voyage du Phoenix, examines the use of photography, literature, and cinema as tools for shaping the regime of desire in the 20th century.
In 2013, she founded LE 18 Marrakech, a multidisciplinary cultural space and artist residency located in the medina of Marrakech. This project extends her commitment to questioning and exploring the impact of the environment on artistic production, mediation, and research approaches. Hida has curated numerous programs in Morocco and internationally, including LE 18’s collective contribution to documenta 15. She is also the initiator of Dabaphoto, an annual program dedicated to photography and image-making in Morocco, now in its eighth edition. In 2024, she curated the Art Explora Festival in Tangier and Rabat. Photo credit: Carlos Perez
hú-tu (Laura 嘟嘟 & huiyin zhou) is an artist duo with backgrounds in social practice and anthropology, working across moving image, photography, performance, and collaborative writing. Since 2020, huiyin and Laura have collaborated over 30 performances and three installations exploring diasporic queer identity, family memory, generational trauma, and collective grief through ritualistic and community-centered format.
Dedicated to multidisciplinary art and transnational organizing, Laura and huiyin co-direct the Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective 离离草 and the Survivors Anchoring Art Narrative Garden (SAANG Project 春风吹), a co-creative, imaginative land for sexual and racial abuse survivors. hú-tu creates spaces of co-living and collective rest to (re)imagine and (re)learn intimacy and collective survival. Working with material, affective, residual, and conceptual presences, their works speak on/into the potential of intimate knowledge production. Responding to each others’ dream journals and familial photo/video archives, they currently focus on the practice of home and home-making through a diasporic queer lens.
Geraldine Lanteri studied Philosophy and Arts at the University of Buenos Aires, and obtained a certificate in photographic techniques from the Escuela de Fotografía Creativa Andy Goldstein. She is currently pursuing a degree in research and conservation of documentary photography (Diplomatura en Investigación y Conservación de Fotografía Documental) at Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
She has participated in numerous exhibitions in Argentina and internationally. Her work is part of renowned collections such as the “re-collection” of MALBA (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires), and private collections Collection Adriano Pedrosa (São Paulo, Brazil), Luiz Augusto Teixeira de Freitas (Lisbon, Portugal), and Fernando Vizcaíno (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Since 2008, Lanteri has taught at diverse public and private institutions. She is the director of Escuela Sentimental (@escuela.sentimental) since 2023. She is a member (with musician and sound artist Aldo Benítez) of Misterio Tarot, a duo of DJs and Tarot enthusiasts (@misterio___tarot). Lanteri lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://www.behance.net/geraldine_lanteri Photo credit: Kristina Koriakova
ABOUT THE INTERPRETER
Alexia Veytia-Rubio is a multilingual person based in Los Ángeles and working along the US/Mex Borderlands. For some years she was part of the language justice collective Antena Los Ángeles and since its dissolution she now works independently in translation, interpretation (community, legal, conference) and language justice organizing. Alexia finds peace in words, poetry and long drives by the coast.
SUPPORT
Circuits of Correspondence is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
