Laudo artístico, IX Congresso Brasileiro de Eletronecefalografia e Neurofisiologia Clínica, Centro de Convenções [Artistic Award, Ninth Brazilian Congress of Clinical Encephalography and Neurophisiology, Convention Center]

Paulo Bruscky is best known as a pioneer of Mail art, participating from his home town of Recife, Brazil, in the correspondence pf international artistic groups like FLUXUS. Some of his works revolve around the technique of photocopying (or Xerox). Influenced by his lifelong career in hospital administration, Bruscky also explored biological themes and their relationship to humor and visual art. For example, Bruscky created a series of works using an encephalogram to “draw” his thoughts, referenced here in the photocopied flier “Laudo artístico.” Bruscky’s artistic flexibility was in part a result of cultural and political repression imposed by the military dictatorship in control of Brazil from 1964 to 1985, solidifying his resolve to create art that challenged the status quo and caused viewers to rethink the rulers of the everyday.