Archivo Carta de Porto
Naranja Publicaciones
Expanded Archive | 2017




Archivo Carta de Porto y Dendritas Editoriales [Letter from Porto Archive and Editorial Dendrites] is a mail art installation by Publicaciones, which was born under the premise that a letter does not achieve its goal without a response. Under this assumption, the edition Carta de Porto by Sebastián Arancibia and Sebastián Barrante (Naranja Publicaciones, 2016) is taken as the basis for the project.

Carta de Porto is a writing exercise in the form of a letter to a universal addressee that, for the development of this project, was given to different people to invite them to answer it as they saw fit. Once finished, they had to be mailed back to the addressee, with only one constrain: the answer had to fit in an envelope.

After receiving a certain number of responses, the project became an editorial installation in which the archive of responses received was presented; a video recording the opening of the responses called Act of Reading; and the editorial dendrites, which are Naranja's publications that function as editorial actions to the responses received.

This project is proposed as an exercise in constant development.