ADD & PASS - The X Files

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In the Mail Art activity, there are interesting ideas that are explored, like Mail Art Calls, Collaborative Books, Visual Poetry etc, and we also have the ADD & PASS, which are created somewhere in the world by a Mail Artist who send by mail one "object", proposing that it be changed or simply Added an Artistic Intervention by another Mail Artist, appealing that the "object" being referred back to an following artist, chosen randomly or not.The original creator Add its Address on the "object" in hopes that later return him, filled with interventions of Mail Artists from different places and countries, giving him a great satisfaction to see the "object" with a new "life".

This group aims to be the dissemination place to the Add and Pass, and a ARCHIVE of it, however, giving preference to " Booklets",becouse it is here that the individuals have their own space to give wings to is imagination and technique.

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Hello.I've done add and pass swaps before and love them. In those swaps, we passed a postcard from one person to another through the mail, using a predetermined online list. I am a bit unclear on the…Continue

Started by Terry Owenby. Last reply by Jennifer Wallace Nov 21, 2024.

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Here are two pages of Jon Foster's larger magazine A & P. Or maybe it is MomKat's? It has been through a few people already. Would anyone else like to add to this? There are some nice pages…Continue

Started by Pam McVay. Last reply by Pam McVay Dec 2, 2018.

started by Jon Foster with adds by Sabela Baña

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Started by Sabela Baña Feb 1, 2017.

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Comment by Jennifer Wallace yesterday: Is there anyone in this group in the UK who would welcome an A&P?

I must admit to being fed up with the inquisition at the post office now about the contents for international mail for anything other than a letter or documents. If the envelope is not the smaller standard size letter one I have to declare contents and value for a customs form, and if I say mail art I get quizzed on what exactly that is. And for the officially 'large letter' size, the postage rate is now even more! All too depressing?

Comment by C A McEntee on February 24, 2025 at 2:24am

Comment by Sil on January 13, 2025 at 5:17pm: Sure Heleen, no problem! Consider it sorted. 😊

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on January 10, 2025 at 10:34am: That's great, Ilya, yes please, and thank you!

Comment by Ilya Semenenko-Basin on January 10, 2025 at 3:35am: Hi, Heleen. Welcome. Should I send You A&P sheet?

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on January 10, 2025 at 12:41am: As I have not too much spare time at the moment, but am ready to start or join an A&P, I'd like to be active in one of the groups only. So if you want (Sil, Fleur, Martine, Ilya), I'd be in to be part of your A&P's :-)

Comment by Ilya Semenenko-Basin on January 9, 2025 at 5:35pm: Thank You for the opportunity to participate in this group. The portal has two groups of single content on the same topic. This group and the group :

https://iuoma-network.ning.com/groups/group/show?groupUrl=add-pass&...

Maybe combine them into one group for the sake of efficiency.

Comment by Sil on November 24, 2024 at 10:09am: Started in 2021, finished in 2022.

List of identified participants: Sable Baña, Mikel Untzilla, Gillian Stevenson

Comment by Sil on November 24, 2024 at 10:06am: Started in 2021, finished in 2022.

List of participants: Boozy Barb, Karen Wood, Ms. Bonnie Diva, Tamara Wyndham. There may be another name, but it is covered up.

Comment by Ruud Janssen on November 18, 2024 at 5:53am: In 1985 I did such a ADD & Pass project.

Eventually the papers got returned, documented and exhibited.

Postage was cheap then.

The results:

https://www.facebook.com/tamwashere/

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