Often credited as the instigator of “mail art,” Ray Johnson (1927-95) was a foundational example for the Canadian avant-garde in the late 1960s to the early 1970s. Johnson’s elliptical puns and promotion of confused identity act as the master template for many of the self-constructed artistic mythologies of this time. Ray Johnson has never been presented in terms which allow for an understanding of his work as a significant contribution to artistic dialogues about masculinity, homosexuality and celebrity culture. The show investigates Johnson’s imagination of mass culture, theories of symbolic exchange, his gay subjectivity, his role as a “Pop” artist, and his relation to Andy Warhol. His mail-network identity, clubs, events, etc. foresee aspects of today’s cyberculture and Johnson is being increasingly recognized as such.