@article{esj 189, author = {Zanna Gilbert}, title = {The Eclectic World of Felipe Ehrenberg}, volume = {2}, year = {2010}, url = {http://publications.essex.ac.uk/esj/article/id/189/}, issue = {2}, doi = {10.5526/esj135}, abstract = {<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt -2.3pt 6pt 0cm; line-height: 22px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; color: black;">This interview with Felipe Ehrenberg was carried out by email in November 2009, prior to the artist’s visit to Essex, where he performed his newly commissioned work <i>Xocoyotzin, The Penultimate.</i> By way of introduction to the interview, I introduce some of Ehrenberg’s early work examining the importance of process and his beliefs about the role of art in society. By looking at his artistic production, I hope to show how Felipe Ehrenberg seeks to create new meanings, question received ideas and open up new ways of thinking about the world. Indeed, Ehrenberg calls himself a neologist - a maker of new words. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; color: black;">Born in 1943 in Mexico City, his output spans graphic design, artists’ books, mail art, film, murals, sculptural projects and performance. </span><span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; color: black;">He was one of the first conceptual artists to emerge in Mexico in the late 1960s. By the late 1960s, as a result of mounting political oppression of the student movement in Mexico, the artist moved to England in 1968, remaining there until 1973. In London and Devon, Ehrenberg established many of the interests that continue to preoccupy his activities. These include alternative printing, publishing networks, Fluxus activities, mail art, anti-institutionalism and political activism. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt -2.3pt 6pt 0cm; line-height: 22px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; color: black;">Felipe Ehrenberg’s residency at the University of Essex was organised by Arts on 5, UECLAA and the International Office, working in partnership with Tate and with the support of the University of Essex Knowledge Transfer Fund.</span><span style="font-family: Sylfaen, serif; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>}, month = {5}, keywords = {Felipe Ehrenberg,interview.}, issn = {2633-7045}, publisher={University of Essex Library Services}, journal = {Essex Student Journal} }