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Comment by Guido Vermeulen on November 27, 2011 at 6:25pm

Simon is rocking!

CALL FOR RECALL is a

new mail project on memory and memories, proposed by the German networker Eberhard Janke, behind JANUS editions.

Format: 2D maximum A5 (so postcard size) vertical.

Free medium.

Deadline is June 2012.

Mail your contributions to:

Edition Janus, Eberhard Janke, Schlos strasse 8, D-13507 Berlin, GERMANY.

 

His documentations are always splendid, real little book productions, so I advise everybody to react and participate.

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on November 23, 2011 at 5:30am

Very imaginative indeed. Haunting.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on November 21, 2011 at 6:10pm

We could think about a project on «libraries» ...

 

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on November 21, 2011 at 3:19am

Thanks, Theresa, and that's a nice piece by Simon Warren. (I love his handwriting, too.) I miss the solemnity of libraries. It was a contemplative solemnity. Not dour. Every Friday night meant a trip to the library for the six of us when I was a kid, and getting lost in the stacks was the high point of the week.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on November 20, 2011 at 12:47am

New collage on «reading books» for the book of Ann, called it Ann or the forbidden moment, great lines from 1872 zine on the difference between veiled and unveiled women; the unveiled ones were considered as more attractive, alluring and seductive because unknown and free for the imagination. Another light is shining on the veil debate and comes from 2 centuries ago.

The machine that is ventilating letters is an old machine to chase flies away. I love these old images of old machines and putting them into a different context. I am staying a pupil of surrealism I guess....

 

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on November 19, 2011 at 9:14am

Irving had (still has) an obsession with after war town Vienna who like Berlin was an occupied city divided in sectors because Austria had backed the German nazi regime and it became one country even (anschluss).

The photo of the caged bear is one of the Berlin zoo, photo of 1942, so we are here at the height of nazi power. Setting free the bears indeed. The bear was also an image used for Russia or the SU in those days and later even.

Small details with a lot of hidden meanings...

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on November 18, 2011 at 11:31am

Hi Theresa, thanks for Kafka text and moon tree photo. I responded with collage card «setting free the bears», tribute to the first novel by John Irving, a less known book but for me his best! The French lines means «ways to jump on riding wagons of trains and trams», title of an hilarious article in 1872 with actual tips on how to do this. I suppose in those days the vehicles were slower and there were no health and safety regulations. The Arzamas machine is a picture of one of the first laundry machines. Oh, I had FUN with this collage this morning!

GUIDO

 

Comment by TIZIANA BARACCHI on November 17, 2011 at 1:21pm

The Diary of a Young Girl
Theme: a Mailart exhibition dedicated to Anna Frank and to International Holocaust Remembrance Day. January 27th, 1945: death camp Auschwitz was liberated
Size and technique free
No jury, no returns, no fees
Exhibition in 2012 in Giulianova, Italy
Documentation online gallery and catalogue to all participant if it will possibile (because of sponsor)
All works via post, no email please.
Info: daliobaracchi@hotmail.com o image000@libero.it
Deadline to be received January 2nd, 2012

Isabella Branella
via Giardino 12
I- 64021 Giulianova Lido
Teramo
ITALY

 

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on November 13, 2011 at 11:59pm

Thanks Theresa,

Yes, I was reading the conversations between you and Nancy and said to myself: wait a minute, I have a VISPO somewhere that illustrates this type of conversation and remembered having similar talks with Jim Leftwich in the past, so consulted XTant 4 and there is was.

G.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on November 13, 2011 at 9:49am

ART TO SLOW DOWN WORDS, a work I made and that was published in Xtant 4, Jim Leftwich,2004

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