Is mail art dying out?

[Margaret Jeddry]

Not much activity here.  Not many people doing add & passes.  Is mail art dying out?  

[Ruud Janssen]

Mail-Art is still alive and well.

Add & pass isn't that attractive for some since the goal of what people do is too unclear.

[Margreet Beemsterboer]

Add and pass in my humble opinion should go round and hopefully come back some time in the future... so I can see how/what inspired other mailartists to do what they did... Exiting!
I like that idea...

[JAC MAIL]

I do add n passes every few weeks when I get inspired to paint.

[Amanda Becerra]

I receive/return about 10 pieces of mail art a month.  Although the winter months were more active for me I still receive mail art at least once a week.

[RUTH GILES]

I'm always happy to do add & passes, but it's knowing who to send them on to next - not everyone likes them. I have a few add and pass books that I started, but I've never seen again. I wonder if they're in circulation? Do they usually find their way back to the originator?

[Margaret Jeddry]

Good questions.  I’m involved in add & passes with Geronimo Finn in Vienna, and I know that he’s been getting some back.  I have a couple to send back to their originators today.  It’s all a matter of luck snd faith, I guess.

[Ilya Semenenko-Basin]

I am always involved in adding and passing on. I have a rule - I always complete the artwork and send it to the initiator without passing it onto third parties.

[Margaret Jeddry]

If I know that someone else is a reliable passer, I will certainly pass it on.  Isn’t that the point?

[Ilya Semenenko-Basin]

Hi Margaret, 

I agree, a reliable passer can be sent an incomplete artwork. This summer I'm going to do that.

[JAC MAIL]

I do the same,usually. I try to finish it up and mail to the owner, especially if it is a few years old.

[Ilya Semenenko-Basin]

Hi Artbylac, 

I'm usually interested in seeing the end result created by my own hands. What will come of it? It's hard to stop until the very end.

[Margreet Beemsterboer]

You have chosen the most save way to give the innitiator his/her return!

Would you like to try me? You start, I complete and return to you?

Margreet Beemsterboer from The Netherlands :-)