CALL | the bed head project
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i am looking for people to participate in my photographic project.
it's all about bed head. all i need is a photo of your best bed head
emailed to me at:
seriousrabbit@gmail.com
please include your first name.
i have created a blog at:
http://thebedheadproject.blogspot.com/
that i will be using to showcase all the photos i am sent. my hope is that
you will not be shy + send me your head shot.
29 September 2009
(e)mail project call ....
27 September 2009
23 September 2009
****************** TARANCO MAIL ART --->ongoing project <----- Dialma Ottazzi
--->ongoing project <----
Send your card to:
Dialma Ottazzi
17010 Giusvalla
Italia
15 September 2009
WORLD FAST - post flux proust
WORLD FAST
Il mondo è veloce. Facciamo posta nel flusso con Proust. Inseriamo la nostra poesia visiva lenta nel flusso veloce che percorre il mondo. Proust con gli occhiali scuri che riflettono e filtrano l'esterno. Diamoci spazio interiore per riflettere e creare con lentezza. Marcel con i baffi di fine ottocento, con le sue pose studiate per diventare mito, icona, statua... Il volto di oggi è come una maschera per i sentimenti di ieri: facciamo posto alla posta che fluisce dopo il pasto, quando entriamo in pista, dopo un piatto di pasta...
The world is fast. We enter in the fluxus with Proust. We insert our visual poetry slow in the fast flux travelling the world. Proust with dark glasses that reflect and filter out. Let's interior space reflect and build slowly. Marcel with a mustache of the late nineteenth century, with its poses to become a myth, icon, statue ... The face of today is like a mask for feelings of yesterday: we place the mail flowing after the meal, when we get on track, after a plate of pasta ...
Le monde va vite. Nous entrons dans le flux avec Proust. Nous glissons notre poésie visuelle lente dans le flux rapide qui voyage à travers le monde. Proust avec des lunettes noires qui reflètent et filtrent l’extérieur. Créons un espace intérieur pour réfléchir et construire lentement. Marcel avec une moustache fin du XIXe siècle, avec sa pose étudiée pour devenir un mythe, une icône, une statue ... Le visage d'aujourd'hui est comme un masque pour les sentiments d'hier: faisons place au courrier qui coule à flot après le repas, quand nous entrons en piste, après une assiette de pâtes ...
Bruno Chiarlone. e-mail: bchiarl@tin.it
Box 163 - 17014 Cairomont ITALIA
13 September 2009
Postcards
Elder Street Gallery calls for entries for a postcard art show to be held during the month of October, 2009. All work will be exhibited. No jury and no returns.
Create the postcard on an existing 4"x6" post card or a 5” X 9” post card or start from scratch on a blank 4" x 6" or 5” X 9” piece of card stock. The art does not have to be done on an "official" post card, just something of similar weight and size. Please include on the back of your postcard - Your name, full mailing address, title of artwork, medium and email address, (website if you have one) .The artwork on the postcard can be either horizontal or vertical. All artwork can be mailed as a postcard or sent inside an envelope.
Materials will vary, depending on the technique you choose. You may create the art with any technique, and all media are acceptable, including collage, markers, crayons, pen and ink, colored pencils, rubber stamps, tempera, acrylic, watercolor and printmaking. The only consideration is that the artwork cannot have a raised surface. Please no nudity, racist, or pornographic art.
All work will be on display at Elder Street Gallery, in October. A reception will be held on Saturday, October 16, 5:00 to 10:00. This reception is free and open to the public.
Mail postcards to Elder Street Gallery, 1101 Elder Street, Suite 109, Houston, Tx 77007.
Postcards must be postmarked by Oct 3, 2009. Questions and/or a copy of prospectus call Terrence at 281-250-4889 or e-mail elderstreetgallery@gmail.com
Postcards become property of Elder Street Gallery and will be for sale, with the proceeds benefiting the English Speaking Union Houston Branch - Shakespeare Competition.
The English Speaking Union Houston Branch is a non profit organization dedicated to international relations between the UK and the other countries of the world and the celebration of all things British.
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Terrence Boggs
Elder Street Gallery
1101 elder street Suite 109
Houston, TX 77007 - USA
281-2504889
www.elderstreetartist.com
Create the postcard on an existing 4"x6" post card or a 5” X 9” post card or start from scratch on a blank 4" x 6" or 5” X 9” piece of card stock. The art does not have to be done on an "official" post card, just something of similar weight and size. Please include on the back of your postcard - Your name, full mailing address, title of artwork, medium and email address, (website if you have one) .The artwork on the postcard can be either horizontal or vertical. All artwork can be mailed as a postcard or sent inside an envelope.
Materials will vary, depending on the technique you choose. You may create the art with any technique, and all media are acceptable, including collage, markers, crayons, pen and ink, colored pencils, rubber stamps, tempera, acrylic, watercolor and printmaking. The only consideration is that the artwork cannot have a raised surface. Please no nudity, racist, or pornographic art.
All work will be on display at Elder Street Gallery, in October. A reception will be held on Saturday, October 16, 5:00 to 10:00. This reception is free and open to the public.
Mail postcards to Elder Street Gallery, 1101 Elder Street, Suite 109, Houston, Tx 77007.
Postcards must be postmarked by Oct 3, 2009. Questions and/or a copy of prospectus call Terrence at 281-250-4889 or e-mail elderstreetgallery@gmail.com
Postcards become property of Elder Street Gallery and will be for sale, with the proceeds benefiting the English Speaking Union Houston Branch - Shakespeare Competition.
The English Speaking Union Houston Branch is a non profit organization dedicated to international relations between the UK and the other countries of the world and the celebration of all things British.
--
Terrence Boggs
Elder Street Gallery
1101 elder street Suite 109
Houston, TX 77007 - USA
281-2504889
www.elderstreetartist.com
10 September 2009
ROSTROS ANONIMOS
ROSTROS ANONIMOSI walk in the street, in the metro station, in the mall and the majority of the faces are almost anonimous, just for a while I feel lonely in this crowded society and in my mind I ' d like to add colors on some sad faces, and somebody want to paint the mine sometimes. I back home and I start to draw lots of faces those sorround me with my homemade eucaliptus ink, and I immagine peoples taking my drawings and interact them with the colors. I will expose my original drawings in a simple installation, and approaching the viewers for invite them to be the performance. I let them choose a potrait, I let them sit and relax and using the material for design on a desk they will interact the drawing however they wants. Like in a psichiatric session, they will draw what they have inside their mids. The partecipants will be documented by videos and photographies. All the centre of the action will be painting the heads establishing a fluxus between the drawing and the participant.
The fluxus is the intervention on the drawing and rappresent a kind of reflection on the subject with a bit of introspection. I paint this subject like this because my immagination see this person in this colors. Colors means, acts, sensations,lifes, attitudes, madness why not? and with the faces they will resume an ipotetical life.The persons whom participate last event amuse very much. This operation it wants to enjoy and to make reflection on the modalities to make art, being left free field whoever interact and write a fundamental part of the history of the work; breaking absolutely the rules fixed artist- public.
The artist in this operation wants to play with the identities, sharing the portraits space with all the world and accepting all the contributed expressions in the works. Whom take part must sign the back of the work. The example that a more "democratic art" exists but, approached by everybody and outside the art market rules.
My project looks like a kinda psycanalisis, you just choose a drawing and you will start to remember when you was young, what colors, what shapes, what lines do you like. You do remember the last draw you did, or a potrait you did to somebody, or remind you pleasant moments. Some peoples color my drawings following a tidy order, others make the opposite, others dont like to draw or color but they do it as well.
http://www.rostrosanonimos.co.cc/ where the project runs online as well and absolutely free.
Luca Squarcialupi.
A BOOK ABOUT DEATH/ Matthew Rose
LIVE WEB CAST FOR THE OPENING IS HERE: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/abookaboutdeath
Please bookmark the page. We'll be starting around 6 pm NYC Time.
If you are planning to come to the opening, come around 6 PM, bring a bag for the pages of the book (some are large).
See the most recent works on the blog: http://abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/
And artist Caterina Verde's "wall" web site of the show here:
http://abookaboutdeath.net/
More photos coming... if you will be at the opening feel free to video tape the performance.
Thanks to all who made this happen.
Best,
Matthew
Please bookmark the page. We'll be starting around 6 pm NYC Time.
If you are planning to come to the opening, come around 6 PM, bring a bag for the pages of the book (some are large).
See the most recent works on the blog: http://abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/
And artist Caterina Verde's "wall" web site of the show here:
http://abookaboutdeath.net/
More photos coming... if you will be at the opening feel free to video tape the performance.
Thanks to all who made this happen.
Best,
Matthew
9 September 2009
POST FLUX PROUST - WORLD FAST
Artistamps about Marcel Proust Post are welcomed!
Send your creations to:
Post Flux Proust
Bruno Chiarlone Collection
box 163
17014 Cairomont - Italy
email: bchiarl@tin.it
7 September 2009
4 September 2009
Today at work I was bored so I made you this
okadascat
43 Navigation Point
Middleton Road
Hartlepool
TS24 0UQ
UK
1 September 2009
Project by neRRaDa - Australia
10 Years of Boxes and Envelopes - a collective and continual time capsule project
Within a box, envelope or other container place and item or items that you wish to include in your personal time capsule. This may come in the form of a letter, drawing, photo or object. You may wish to include something that is significant or symbolic of who you are at this time, or the way you perceive the world around you. What you place in your time capsule is completely up to you (please do not include any organic material as customs may confiscate them).
• Seal your vessel
• Label the outside of your container with the project tittle, your name (or alias), and the date it was sealed
• Send to
neRRaDa
PO Box 15
ARANA HILLS
QLD,
4054 Australia
Each capsule will remain sealed until the project concludes on September 1st 2019. On the day the Grand Opening will occur (location and times to be decided at a later date). At the grand opening visitors will be invited to open the capsules, the contents will be documented and exhibited (locally and on-line). All participants will receive an official certificate of participation, project ticker and post card once your capsule has been received. Please feel free to design and decorate your capsule as you please, upon being received they will be photographed and documented progressively at
[ http://nerradas-mailart.blogspot.com ]
Within a box, envelope or other container place and item or items that you wish to include in your personal time capsule. This may come in the form of a letter, drawing, photo or object. You may wish to include something that is significant or symbolic of who you are at this time, or the way you perceive the world around you. What you place in your time capsule is completely up to you (please do not include any organic material as customs may confiscate them).
• Seal your vessel
• Label the outside of your container with the project tittle, your name (or alias), and the date it was sealed
• Send to
neRRaDa
PO Box 15
ARANA HILLS
QLD,
4054 Australia
Each capsule will remain sealed until the project concludes on September 1st 2019. On the day the Grand Opening will occur (location and times to be decided at a later date). At the grand opening visitors will be invited to open the capsules, the contents will be documented and exhibited (locally and on-line). All participants will receive an official certificate of participation, project ticker and post card once your capsule has been received. Please feel free to design and decorate your capsule as you please, upon being received they will be photographed and documented progressively at
[ http://nerradas-mailart.blogspot.com ]
31 August 2009
New Mail-Art Blog requests entries
http://dreadlippencott.blogspot.com/
Welcome to Dread Lippencott's Menagerie: A Mail Art Port of Call! This is an on going exploration of the universe and beyond! Send postcards from your voyages and share your cosmic discoveries with others! Coordinated by your cruise director, Coralette The Crafty Hag. Dread Lippencott sails the universal seas in search of creative creatures and concepts to house in his menagerie!
Send your contributions to:
Dread Lippencott's Menagerie
875 5th Street North
St. Petersburg,
FL 33701
USA
Coralette Damme is The Crafty Hag
Website www.craftyhag.com
Etsy: www.craftyhag.etsy.com
Flickr: craftyhag on Flickr
Friend me: http://myspace.com/craftyhag
Twitter: http://twitter.com/craftyhag
and I'm also on Facebook!
Welcome to Dread Lippencott's Menagerie: A Mail Art Port of Call! This is an on going exploration of the universe and beyond! Send postcards from your voyages and share your cosmic discoveries with others! Coordinated by your cruise director, Coralette The Crafty Hag. Dread Lippencott sails the universal seas in search of creative creatures and concepts to house in his menagerie!
Send your contributions to:
Dread Lippencott's Menagerie
875 5th Street North
St. Petersburg,
FL 33701
USA
Coralette Damme is The Crafty Hag
Website www.craftyhag.com
Etsy: www.craftyhag.etsy.com
Flickr: craftyhag on Flickr
Friend me: http://myspace.com/craftyhag
Twitter: http://twitter.com/craftyhag
and I'm also on Facebook!
Arnolfini Mini[e]MailArt - New Call
Dear Friends, please participate our new autumn e-mail art project. See details: here.
Best, Ervin Zsubori, Hungary
Best, Ervin Zsubori, Hungary
30 August 2009
Ticket To Jerusalem
Mail-Art Project "Ticket To Jerusalem" http://www.tickettojerusalem.com/
Create artwork called "Ticket To Jerusalem". Use a horizontal piece of thick paper, 8x3" (20x8 cm), the size of conventional airplane ticket (a boarding pass, to be exact). Any media: collage, drawing, rubber stamps etc. Attach a stamp, write return address and mail WITHOUT envelope to:
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Radik Shvarts
PO Box 245614
Brooklyn, NY
11224, USA.
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Project deadline is January 1st, 2010. All entries are posted online. Most of them will also be exhibited internationally and featured in a book "Ticket To Jerusalem" that will be published in 2010. Every person, whose artwork is featured in the book will get a free copy.
Create artwork called "Ticket To Jerusalem". Use a horizontal piece of thick paper, 8x3" (20x8 cm), the size of conventional airplane ticket (a boarding pass, to be exact). Any media: collage, drawing, rubber stamps etc. Attach a stamp, write return address and mail WITHOUT envelope to:
***
Radik Shvarts
PO Box 245614
Brooklyn, NY
11224, USA.
***
Project deadline is January 1st, 2010. All entries are posted online. Most of them will also be exhibited internationally and featured in a book "Ticket To Jerusalem" that will be published in 2010. Every person, whose artwork is featured in the book will get a free copy.
29 August 2009
Arnolfini Mini[e]MailArt No7. - Last call!
Dear Friends,
the Arnolfini Minife]MailArt No7.: Ordinary buttons will close at the end of August.
If You like, please participate our e-mail art projekt!
the Arnolfini Minife]MailArt No7.: Ordinary buttons will close at the end of August.
If You like, please participate our e-mail art projekt!
28 August 2009
Three projects by Field Study
I contributed to a Field Study Artistamp project last year
and received an amazingly well assembled book in return.
It was well worth the effort.
and received an amazingly well assembled book in return.
It was well worth the effort.
26 August 2009
CIRCUS
CIRCUS IN YOUR MAILBOX
On August the 31st 2009 the Belgian Mail services will issue a serie of circus stamps. ARTBOEM takes this opportunity to organise a mail art expo in Leuven (B) on the theme circus.
More info and the first contributions
http://erzitcircusinjebus.wordpress.com
MAIL ART CALL
Theme
Circus
Size/Media
All postal objects that deal with any technique
Exhibition
November 2009 at the circus festival of ARTBOEM in Leuven, Belgium.
Deadline
15th of October, 2009
SEND TO
ARTBOEM
Valkerijgang 12
3000 Leuven
Belgium
On August the 31st 2009 the Belgian Mail services will issue a serie of circus stamps. ARTBOEM takes this opportunity to organise a mail art expo in Leuven (B) on the theme circus.
More info and the first contributions
http://erzitcircusinjebus.wordpress.com
MAIL ART CALL
Theme
Circus
Size/Media
All postal objects that deal with any technique
Exhibition
November 2009 at the circus festival of ARTBOEM in Leuven, Belgium.
Deadline
15th of October, 2009
SEND TO
ARTBOEM
Valkerijgang 12
3000 Leuven
Belgium
25 August 2009
23 August 2009
ATC Call
13. CALL | Richmond Art Gallery | Call for Artist Trading Cards | SEP 4
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OPEN CALL FOR ENTRIES :
RICHMOND ART GALLERY
4th ANNUAL ARTIST TRADING CARD EXHIBITION
Open to all participants in the Lower Mainland and Beyond
Exhibition Dates: September 18 – October 30 2009
Deadline for ATC Submission: Post-mark deadline of September 4, 2009
Closing Celebration and Trading Session: Friday, October 30, 7:00 - 8:30pm
The Richmond Art Gallery's 4th Annual Artist Trading Card Exhibition is a display of Artist Trading
Cards (ATCs) from local, national, and international participants. Everyone is invited to
participate, and all techniques and mediums are welcome. Throughout the exhibition there will be
drop-in workshops, trading sessions, artist talks, and a gala closing celebration/trading session.
All contributors will receive a copy of the full-colour exhibition poster featuring one of their works.
What Are ATCs? Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) are miniature works of original art measuring 2 ½” x
3 ½” that are made to trade. This international art movement is intended to be a non-commercial,
non-hierarchical, non-judgemental avenue for artistic exchange.
2009 ATC Exhibition Guidelines:
ATCs will be on display in the gallery coinciding with the exhibition Migration/Immigrant Stories by
Elizabeth Russell, and the group exhibition Black Hole is Also Supernova by Colleen Brown,
Paul Kajander, Kara Uzelman. View our website for details on these exhibitions and for ideas of
related themes: www.richmondartgallery.org.
ATCs must be original artworks, and may be in a series, edition or multiple. Please “sign” the
back of each card. All ATCs will be traded on the closing night of the exhibition. We will try to
ensure fair trades for those not in attendance for the closing Trading Session: original works will
be traded for originals, and digital works will be traded with other digital works.
To Enter: Send in 9 Artist Trading Cards in a standard 9-sleeve plastic sheet (9 cards per sheet).
Cards will be displayed in the plastic sheets. Cards must each measure 2 ½” x 3 ½” in order to
qualify. All works received that follow this criteria will be exhibited.
Check our website for information and submission form www.richmondartgallery.org
Crystal Ball
The Crystal Ball Shop
any size any medium
Deadline: October 31, 2009
I will send something back to everyone who responds
Send mail art to:
The Crystal Ball Shop
407 S Liberty St
Elgin IL 60120
USA
It's just good karma!!
http://dianekeyspsychic.com/default.html
Psychic Services!!Tarot, stones, auras, channeled messages
any size any medium
Deadline: October 31, 2009
I will send something back to everyone who responds
Send mail art to:
The Crystal Ball Shop
407 S Liberty St
Elgin IL 60120
USA
It's just good karma!!
http://dianekeyspsychic.com/default.html
Psychic Services!!Tarot, stones, auras, channeled messages
Fatshion zine
An upcoming and new Fatshion zine is seeking mail art submissions to be republished in our first issue. Submissions are due by August 30th, 2009. Accepted pieces will receive a free copy of the zine in response. Please see the below call for submissions for ideas and political platform. Please send in postcard format, both sides to be reproduced.
Fatshion Zine Call for Submissions
Are you interested in taking part in a yet-to-be named fierce, Radical Fatshion (fat fashion) zine project? I am looking for anyone interested in submitting writing or easy-to-reproduce visual art/comics.
Here are some topics that I specifically would be happy to see in the zine:
-Commentary on/tearing apart the mainstream plus size fashion industry
-Pretty pictures of our favorite cheap and chic and riotous and fabulous fatshions
-Fat/plus-size diy projects
-Reviews and shout outs of products/shops/blogs that we love
-A collage
-FAT PAPERDOLLS!!!!!!
-Other stuff like crossword puzzles, short comic strips, smut about fucking in the Torrid fitting room, whatever. AND OH YEAH, stores about our fat childhoods/pre-adolescent/
teenage years.
-The experiences of folk who are a size 28+, POC, poor/working class, queer, trans, and/or diff-abled.
I am also looking for folk to help me brainstorm a name and make copies and staple things and make layouts and stuff. Volunteer! I also need an artist or two interested in creating cover art and graphics.
This project and its time line are still taking shape, but my goal is to have a finished first issue by September 10th, 2009! The deadline for submissions is August 30th. Please re-post and tell your friends.
This is going to be a wholly fat-positive/glorifying, trans-inclusive, anti-racist/poc centered, anti-class-ist, acknowledging our privilege type of shebang. And, of course, really fun and ferocious.
Submissions, questions, comments, whateves can go to:
Taueret Manu
afrotitty@gmail.com
Taueret Manu
Radical Fatshion Zine
1662 Hoe Ave Apt 3H
Bronx, NY 10460
Holler!
Fatshion Zine Call for Submissions
Are you interested in taking part in a yet-to-be named fierce, Radical Fatshion (fat fashion) zine project? I am looking for anyone interested in submitting writing or easy-to-reproduce visual art/comics.
Here are some topics that I specifically would be happy to see in the zine:
-Commentary on/tearing apart the mainstream plus size fashion industry
-Pretty pictures of our favorite cheap and chic and riotous and fabulous fatshions
-Fat/plus-size diy projects
-Reviews and shout outs of products/shops/blogs that we love
-A collage
-FAT PAPERDOLLS!!!!!!
-Other stuff like crossword puzzles, short comic strips, smut about fucking in the Torrid fitting room, whatever. AND OH YEAH, stores about our fat childhoods/pre-adolescent/
teenage years.
-The experiences of folk who are a size 28+, POC, poor/working class, queer, trans, and/or diff-abled.
I am also looking for folk to help me brainstorm a name and make copies and staple things and make layouts and stuff. Volunteer! I also need an artist or two interested in creating cover art and graphics.
This project and its time line are still taking shape, but my goal is to have a finished first issue by September 10th, 2009! The deadline for submissions is August 30th. Please re-post and tell your friends.
This is going to be a wholly fat-positive/glorifying, trans-inclusive, anti-racist/poc centered, anti-class-ist, acknowledging our privilege type of shebang. And, of course, really fun and ferocious.
Submissions, questions, comments, whateves can go to:
Taueret Manu
afrotitty@gmail.com
Taueret Manu
Radical Fatshion Zine
1662 Hoe Ave Apt 3H
Bronx, NY 10460
Holler!
21 August 2009
Mail Art Olympix mail-art call
Don't forget to send something to the Mail Art Olympix - if you haven't already.
There will be three "events". 1. Self Portrait, 2. Stamps by artists and artistamps, and Manifeastos. Any 2 dimensional medium but no larger than 8 1/2 x 11 inches. All work shown, catalogue to all, etc.
Send by October 15th deadline to:
Ed Varney/ Mai Art Olympix
4426 Island Highway South
Courtenay, BC, V9N 9T1
CANADA
Exhibitions at: Comox Valley Art Gallery, Penticton Art Gallery and Havana Gallery. Dates to be announced.
Card shown was sent by wackystuff.
There will be three "events". 1. Self Portrait, 2. Stamps by artists and artistamps, and Manifeastos. Any 2 dimensional medium but no larger than 8 1/2 x 11 inches. All work shown, catalogue to all, etc.
Send by October 15th deadline to:
Ed Varney/ Mai Art Olympix
4426 Island Highway South
Courtenay, BC, V9N 9T1
CANADA
Exhibitions at: Comox Valley Art Gallery, Penticton Art Gallery and Havana Gallery. Dates to be announced.
Card shown was sent by wackystuff.Voodoo / Voodoo-Doll mail-art call
.
Card shown sent by wackystuff.
Voodoo / Voodoo-Doll mail-art call.
For my project please send me any medium that deal with any technique.
NO PRIZE, NO COPYRIGHT!
Participants receive b&w catalogue.
Deadline: December 23, 2009
Ilona Petry / Bahnstraße 54 / 41569 Rommerskirchen / Germany / ilonaip@yahoo.de
For my project please send me any medium that deal with any technique.
NO PRIZE, NO COPYRIGHT!
Participants receive b&w catalogue.
Deadline: December 23, 2009
Ilona Petry / Bahnstraße 54 / 41569 Rommerskirchen / Germany / ilonaip@yahoo.de
3 August 2009
24 July 2009
ROBOTS mail-art call
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Address for the ROBOTS mail-art call:
Maison Pour Tous d'Alfort
1 rue du Maréchal Juin
94700 Maisons-Alfort
FRANCE
mpt-alfort@voila.fr
deadline Dec. 31, 2009
Marilyn Monrobot by wackystuff
Address for the ROBOTS mail-art call:Maison Pour Tous d'Alfort
1 rue du Maréchal Juin
94700 Maisons-Alfort
FRANCE
mpt-alfort@voila.fr
deadline Dec. 31, 2009
Marilyn Monrobot by wackystuff
22 July 2009
Buffalo Mail Art Call
America’s last wild buffalo herd is in danger. The Yellowstone, Montana herd is both genetically and behaviorally unique, being the only herd with continuously wild ancestry from the days when 50 million buffalo migrated freely across the Great Plains. Today they are being killed because of the greed of beef ranchers.
For more information see The Buffalo Field Campaign:
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/
Mail Art Call:
Please make Buffalo themed mail art. Any size, any materials. Please write on your artwork anywhere an unambiguous message such as PROTECT THE YELLOWSTONE WILD BUFFALO
No deadline
No documentation
Send mail art to:
Director National Park Service
Mary Bomar
1849 C Street NW Room 3312
Washington, DC 20240
USA
Yellowstone National Park
Superintendent Suzanne Lewis
PO Box 168
Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190
USA
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar
Department of the Interior
1849 C Street, N.W.
Washington DC 20240
USA
For more information see The Buffalo Field Campaign:
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/
Mail Art Call:
Please make Buffalo themed mail art. Any size, any materials. Please write on your artwork anywhere an unambiguous message such as PROTECT THE YELLOWSTONE WILD BUFFALO
No deadline
No documentation
Send mail art to:
Director National Park Service
Mary Bomar
1849 C Street NW Room 3312
Washington, DC 20240
USA
Yellowstone National Park
Superintendent Suzanne Lewis
PO Box 168
Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190
USA
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar
Department of the Interior
1849 C Street, N.W.
Washington DC 20240
USA
21 July 2009
FOUND TEXT
NEW MAIL ART CALL: FOUND TEXT
Any size, any technique, free, no returns. Documentation will be online at www.sharonzimmer.com and deadline is October 1, 2009.
Please do not send email entries. Postal mail only!
Sharon Zimmer
16220 Via Solera Cir #106
Fort Myers, FL 33908
USA
Thanks, in FLUX we TRUST...pass this call on to your friends who FLUX their muscles.
Note:
How does altered text differ from "found text"?
Unlike "found text" (in which printed text items are cut, rearranged and glued to a new location), the process of altering text involves highlighting (wanted) and obscuring (unwanted) words, phrases or individual letters of text while retaining their original positions on the original paper.
Any size, any technique, free, no returns. Documentation will be online at www.sharonzimmer.com and deadline is October 1, 2009.
Please do not send email entries. Postal mail only!
Sharon Zimmer
16220 Via Solera Cir #106
Fort Myers, FL 33908
USA
Thanks, in FLUX we TRUST...pass this call on to your friends who FLUX their muscles.
Note:
How does altered text differ from "found text"?
Unlike "found text" (in which printed text items are cut, rearranged and glued to a new location), the process of altering text involves highlighting (wanted) and obscuring (unwanted) words, phrases or individual letters of text while retaining their original positions on the original paper.
Cancer can be Beaten
Name: Cancer Can Be Beaten
Type: Open
Media allowed: Any
Deadline: Ongoing, but please see website for details.
Details at: http://mailart2.com/
A project designed to put the positive energy of mail art into the hands of people currently battling cancer. The website is a resource for connecting individuals who want to receive mail art with mail artists who have themselves beaten cancer, or, who simply want to share their support.
Submitted work will be scanned and placed on the website. No returns, no printed documentation.
sent in by Dan waber - USA
Type: Open
Media allowed: Any
Deadline: Ongoing, but please see website for details.
Details at: http://mailart2.com/
A project designed to put the positive energy of mail art into the hands of people currently battling cancer. The website is a resource for connecting individuals who want to receive mail art with mail artists who have themselves beaten cancer, or, who simply want to share their support.
Submitted work will be scanned and placed on the website. No returns, no printed documentation.
sent in by Dan waber - USA
20 July 2009
Regeneration Art Fest - USA
We'd like to announce a call for mail art. All entries will be
displayed. 200 entries will be selected by a jury for special
exhibition and posted on the regenartfest.com website.
Regeneration Art Fest distills the post 9/11 world into mixed-media
form and offers a vision of past futures. As novelty increases
exponentially, Regneration Art Fest serves as a time space reference
in timewave zero as we cascade into the baseline of creativity.
Join us September 11 and 12 in Salem and Keizer, Oregon, as we
regenerate the future into the reality of our creation.
Regeneration Art Fest features two days of other-worldly visual art,
film and music in 10 venues throughout Salem and Keizer, including
galleries, cafes, bars and the Capitol. The Fest will also
inaugurate Salem's newest cultural facility, the f-stop visual arts
center, established for the advancement of the visual arts.
Regeneration Art Fest is a Visual Art Mixer program of the Mid-Valley
Video Festival produced in collaboration of Keizer Art Association
and SYN503 Gallery.
CALL FOR ARTISTS
“911-REGENERATION” POSTCARD ART SHOW PRESENTED BY: Keizer Art
Assocition f-stop visual arts center and SYN503.com.
The purpose of the show is to illuminate regeneration in a post 911
world.
SHOW DATES: SEPTEMBER 11TH– SEPTEMBER 30th, 2009
SHOW LOCATION: Coffee House Cafe
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: AUGUST 28th, 2009
THEME: The 9/11 experience and regeneration in the post 9/11 world.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
• Post card size (approx. 4” X 6”) original work - any medium. • 1-3
submissions per artist. • Submissions are anonymous. (If you would
like to be identified as the artist - please put your name on the
front of the postcard.) Images will be displayed online.
• Submissions may be picked up after the show, but will not be return
mailed. • For confirmation of receipt – put email address on back of
postcard. MAIL TO: f-stop visual arts center 335 Grove St NE Salem,
Oregon 97301 USA . DROP OFF AT: f-stop visual arts center 335 Grove St NE
Salem, Oregon 97301 QUESTIONS: contact Jonathan Boys at
syn.gallery.nw@gmail.com or Ross Swartzendruber at
ross@regenartfest.com .
displayed. 200 entries will be selected by a jury for special
exhibition and posted on the regenartfest.com website.
Regeneration Art Fest distills the post 9/11 world into mixed-media
form and offers a vision of past futures. As novelty increases
exponentially, Regneration Art Fest serves as a time space reference
in timewave zero as we cascade into the baseline of creativity.
Join us September 11 and 12 in Salem and Keizer, Oregon, as we
regenerate the future into the reality of our creation.
Regeneration Art Fest features two days of other-worldly visual art,
film and music in 10 venues throughout Salem and Keizer, including
galleries, cafes, bars and the Capitol. The Fest will also
inaugurate Salem's newest cultural facility, the f-stop visual arts
center, established for the advancement of the visual arts.
Regeneration Art Fest is a Visual Art Mixer program of the Mid-Valley
Video Festival produced in collaboration of Keizer Art Association
and SYN503 Gallery.
CALL FOR ARTISTS
“911-REGENERATION” POSTCARD ART SHOW PRESENTED BY: Keizer Art
Assocition f-stop visual arts center and SYN503.com.
The purpose of the show is to illuminate regeneration in a post 911
world.
SHOW DATES: SEPTEMBER 11TH– SEPTEMBER 30th, 2009
SHOW LOCATION: Coffee House Cafe
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: AUGUST 28th, 2009
THEME: The 9/11 experience and regeneration in the post 9/11 world.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
• Post card size (approx. 4” X 6”) original work - any medium. • 1-3
submissions per artist. • Submissions are anonymous. (If you would
like to be identified as the artist - please put your name on the
front of the postcard.) Images will be displayed online.
• Submissions may be picked up after the show, but will not be return
mailed. • For confirmation of receipt – put email address on back of
postcard. MAIL TO: f-stop visual arts center 335 Grove St NE Salem,
Oregon 97301 USA . DROP OFF AT: f-stop visual arts center 335 Grove St NE
Salem, Oregon 97301 QUESTIONS: contact Jonathan Boys at
syn.gallery.nw@gmail.com or Ross Swartzendruber at
ross@regenartfest.com .
14 July 2009
13 July 2009
A.S. Popov - Russia
This year Russia has noted the 150 anniversary from the date of a birth of great Russian scientist A.S. Popov. I will be glad to your participation. A deadline - October. The exhibition in the A.S.Popov Central museum of communications in December 2009 - January, 2010 will take place. Works do not come back. The documentation from an exhibition is dispatched in a current of year in process of material possibilities of a museum. Best regards, Svetlana Serebryakova (Claire Silver)
Adress:
The A.S.Popov Central Museum of communications
7, Pochtamtskaya str.,
190000, St. Petersburg,
Russia
Adress:
The A.S.Popov Central Museum of communications
7, Pochtamtskaya str.,
190000, St. Petersburg,
Russia
10 July 2009
BEATLES OR NOT BEATLES ?
.
Bonjour à tous,
C'est reparti pour un nouveau projet d'Artotem...
En novembre, aura lieu à Ouistreham un festival autour des Beatles organisé par l'association AMA'TALENTS qui souhaite impliquer les autres associations locales.
Dans ce cadre, j'ai proposé de monter une expo d'art postal.
J'espère que vous serez nombreux à être intéréssés par ce projet...
Site du festival
"Beatles or not Beatles ?"
A partir d'une chanson ou d'une image des Beatles, interroger notre monde actuel.
technique et format libres
limite d'envoi : 1er octobre 2009
adresse postale:
ARTOTEM
43, rue Saint Exupéry
14150 OUISTREHAM
FRANCE
"Beatles or not Beatles ?"
From a song or a picture of The Beatles, question the actuel world.
technique and size : free
deadline: 1er octobre 2009
send to:
ARTOTEM
43, rue Saint Exupéry
14150 OUISTREHAM
FRANCE
http://artotem.canalblog.com/
piece shown sent by wackystuff
7 July 2009
One Minute Project
one minute project
Please spend 1 minute of your creativity
and send me art which is produced during one minute.
Works will be archived, exhibition is planned.
In return I´ll send you one of my one-minute-works.
Format: postcard to Din A4
Deadline: 31.Dec. 2009
Address:
Thorsten Fuhrmann,
Bachstrasse 17,
82386 Huglfing,
GERMANY
Please spend 1 minute of your creativity
and send me art which is produced during one minute.
Works will be archived, exhibition is planned.
In return I´ll send you one of my one-minute-works.
Format: postcard to Din A4
Deadline: 31.Dec. 2009
Address:
Thorsten Fuhrmann,
Bachstrasse 17,
82386 Huglfing,
GERMANY
6 July 2009
arte postale terzo millannio
L’arte postale è sopratutto un lavoro collettivo, ogni mostra alla quale partecipano, di norma, centinaia d’operatori è un corpus a se stante. Un operatore invia il suo lavoro ad un altro che postalmente risponde: si crea così un feed-back che è una delle componenti essenziali della mail art. Altra componente è che la mail art non è solo un’arte spedita per posta, ma essa viene concepita fin dall’inizio, proprio espressamente per la posta, dunque non è uno scambio d’immaginine più o meno artistiche tra operatori. Se vi sono antesignani nelle avanguardie storiche, la mail art, così come la conosciamo è stata codificata da Ray Johnson nel 1962. Dalla posta si è poi passati ad altri più sofisticati mezzi di comunicazione quali telefono, telex, telegrammi, radio, tivù, computer, fax ed internet. Molte sono le motivazioni che hanno contribuito alla creazione d’un circuito d’interscambio postale, e una di esse è stata sicuramente la continuazione delle esperienze underground che si trovavano ovunque in un empasse totale, non sono mancati tuttavia notevoli agganci con le esperienze delle passate avanguardie artistiche, dalla pop art ai situazionisti, infine ad alimentare ulteriormente il circuito postale vi è stata l’immissione dei giovani poeti, visivi e non, che erano alla ricerca d’un loro nuovo ruolo e di nuove collocazioni.
L’idea di partenza sulla quale poggiano le teorie mail, è la seguente: non esiste più l’artista, tutti hanno la possibilità e la capacità d’esprimersi creativamente e d’immettersi all’interno del circuito, la comunicazione è liberata e tendenzialmente indipendente dalle istituzioni, dalle mafie culturali o dalle censure capestro di critici e galleristi. Il medium postale scavalca ogni filtro culturale per aprirsi ad una comunicazione intima, gratuita, personale, al di fuori d’ogni binario prefissato. L’interdisciplinarietà e la marginalità d’ogni operazione è assoluta, con tutti i risvolti, negativi e positivi, insiti nell’operazione stessa; la barriera autore/fruitore crolla definitivamente in quanto il destinatario è stimolato a sua volta a rispondere in maniera creativa, se viene a mancare l’andata e ritorno il messaggio perde di valore, se un anello della comunicazione s’interrompe anche la mail art s’interrompe, essa sussiste se è solo nei due sensi e se poi l’arte postale non circola, non è fruita, pian piano essa muore. Invii postali, cartoline, xerox, poesie visive, fax, messaggi che navigano in internet, fanzine, ingolfano l’etere, i cavi ed i sacchi dei nostri già affaticati postini, così si scriveva almeno fino a qualche anno fa; anche se è impensabile poter effettuare un censimento globale della mail art, la sua popolazione è stata stimata da Michael Crane e Mary Stofflet in Corrispondence Art, aggirarsi attorno dalle dieci alle ventimila unità nel periodo della fine degli anni settanta. Se teniamo conto che il numero di esposizioni, progetti e praticanti è certamente aumentato nel corso del decennio successivo che segna il periodo di massima espansione della mail art, segnando il passo solo in questi ultimi anni, non dovrebbe esser troppo lontano dal vero una stima complessiva di almeno cinquanta o centomila individui che per periodi più o meno brevi di tempo hanno fatto parte della rete postale, questo almeno è quanto afferma Vittorie Baroni. Un numero certo troppo elevato per un qualsiasi gruppo o movimento artistico che voglia presentarsi con una sua precisa e unitaria identità, ma anche un numero, in fin dei conti risibile rapportato alla popolazione del pianeta se vogliamo considerare l’arte postale alla stregua d’un fenomeno culturale.
Se vogliamo invece considerarlo anche in prospettiva statistica, la mail art è qualcosa d’indefinibile che si colloca a metà strada fra due estremi con sue caratteristiche peculiari: è molto di più d’una confraternita d’amici di penna, ma molto di meno di una moda planetaria, risulta impossibile da censire materialmente – chiunque può inventarsi o scoprirsi mailartista – anche se a ben vedere sono poche centinaia i networker rimasti attivi in rete per più di un decennio o addirittura poche decine quelli attivi per due decenni o più. Uno sguardo d’insieme sulla metamorfosi avvenuta nella scena mailartistica dalle origini ad oggi può servire a questo punto per dissipare qualche dubbio sulle reali dimensioni del fenomeno. Lasciando da parte i precursori, di cui fin troppo si è detto, l’arte per corrispondenza degli anni ’60 è un’attività quasi carbonara, che si sviluppa più o meno contemporaneamente in diverse parti del globo, soprattutto grazie alle liste FLUXUS sia in Europa sia negli USA, alle reti di corrispondenza tessute da Ray Johnson, e i contatti fra poeti sperimentali nell’America Latina. Il fatto che non esistessero ancora modelli a cui conformarsi, rende la mail art di questo decennio, estremamente varia, fresca e imprevedibile. Il numero relativamente ridotto di praticanti permette di mantenere alto il livello di comunicazione personale, lo scambio intimo e approfondito. Questi primi praticanti lo sperimentalismo intermedia, si considerano artisti tout court che usano anche il mezzo postale, a fianco di numerosi altri. Le posizioni mutano con le prime grandi esposizioni degli anni ’70, che agiscono come veri e propri virus, contagiando e ispirando decine di nuovi praticanti. Il processo poi si replica a catena, dando vita ad una seconda generazione di operatori che non hanno problemi ad autodefinirsi specificatamente artisti postali.
Si consolida così una serie di consuetudini per quanto riguarda l’organizzazione di mostre e progetti, cominciano a distinguersi autori specializzati in particolari aspetti dell’attività postale: timbri, francobolli, cartoline, buste, ecc.
Prende forma anche lo spirito di rete, il senso d’appartenenza ad una comunità internazionale con la formazione di numerosi gruppi e sottogruppi ad imitazione della New York Correspondance School. Dopo la metà degli anni ’70, parallelamente all’esplodere del fenomeno punk, inteso nel suo complesso di ramificazioni sub-culturali, grafico-visive e comportamentali, oltre che come corrente musicale, l’arte postale subisce una graduale, ma sostanziale trasformazione: da espressione in fin dei conti coltivata da una più o meno cerchia d’artisti e poeti professionisti e semiprofessionisti, si passa ad una pratica allargata che coinvolge migliaia di persone dei più diversi strati sociali col conseguente disturbo di un buon numero d’artisti e pionieri del genere, che non vedono di buon occhio questo processo di popolarizzazione. La crescita del numero di operatori si accompagna ad una progressiva diffusione dei contatti in paesi diversi da quelli ove la mail art ha avuto origine. Negli anni ’80 mentre nell’arte ufficiale, dopo le eccentricità dei due decenni precedenti, le redini tornano saldamente in mano ai mistificatori delle leggi del mercato, critici, galleristi, mafie culturali, ecc., con un reazionario ritorno in auge della pittura da cavalletto, transavanguardie, ecc., la strada della mail art diverge sempre più da quella delle biennali, piene di tele gigantesche e costosissime, ma prive di aura, cercando invece spazi in aree spiritualmente più affini, privilegiando sempre la propria miniaturizzazione del mondo all’insegna del "piccolo è bello". Con un’età media dei praticanti che da 30, 40 dei decenni precedenti, tende ad abbassarsi sui 20, 30 e anche meno, la terza generazione di arte postale s’avvicina a quelle sub-culture giovanili che hanno mantenuto in vita attitudini di ricerche interdisciplinari: il mondo delle fanzine autoprodotte, delle etichette musicali indipendenti, della small press alternativa, circuiti d’autori impegnati in tendenze artistiche messe in disparte dal mercato, quali body art, performer, copy art, video art, poesia visiva e concreta, ecc. fino alle nascenti comunità di hacker e navigatori (cow boy) del cyberspazio.
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