Mail-Art History

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Comment by C. Mehrl Bennett on June 16, 2022 at 3:56pm

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1819499454991738

Comment by carl baker on November 28, 2021 at 4:18pm

FLUX>>>>>>>>

https://ubu.com/film/movin_misfits.html

Comment by John Gayer on January 24, 2021 at 1:29pm

History in the making: Arte Correo 20 Veinte: De Pandemias y Otros Demonios / Mail Art 20 ..., Aguadillo, Puerto Rico. 

Comment by John Gayer on January 24, 2021 at 1:08pm

Was recently made aware of this: You are the Artist of Your Life: An Interview with Anna Banana

Comment by Mah Nu on December 9, 2020 at 10:31pm

Another panel on mail art with many opinions and discussions primarily on the instution vs anti-institution dichotomy much debated about. 

Discussion with Katalin Timár, Klara Kemp-Welch and John Held followed by a final discussion with the audience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0upmQ9b2AKU&t=2506s

Comment by Mah Nu on November 29, 2020 at 7:28pm

John Held: Harboring Hidden Histories: Mail Art's Reception in Unit...

I'm always on the lookout for videos on mail art history on the youtube... found this one from February of this year!

Comment by John Gayer on November 25, 2020 at 7:56am

Pordenone, Italy - Ex teatro sociale 30 aprile / 15 maggio1983

Comment by Mah Nu on November 19, 2020 at 1:07am

I've been enjoying tuning into this recent live stream on both Ray Johnson and Ulises Carrion while getting some A&P's ready for send-off 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnyWUucR6JI

Comment by John Gayer on October 9, 2020 at 7:35am

We Live in Real Time: A Window Exhibition of Mail Art Made During the Pandemic

https://www.printedmatter.org/mail-art/

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on July 18, 2019 at 10:47pm

(continued)

The concept of 'The Eternal Network' also has been related to the French fluxus artist Robert Filliou, who, according to wikipedia, believed that making art was 'part of a permanent, universal and endless process deeply embedded everyday life.'

By the way, the German wiki provides us with more information about this artist, and in the wiki 'the birthday of art', the Eternal Network" also is mentioned (see - and use an online translator if you happen to don't understand German - https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%E2%80%99s_Birthday ).

The book 'Eternal Network, a Mail Art Anthology' by Chuck Welch (1995 University of Calgary Press) is interesting to read, too. The book is dedicated to the memory of Jean Brown (1911-1994, friend of mail art), and about her Chuck Welch writes a very kind note, of which I would quote: 'If envelopes are the flesh of mail art, then spirit would be content. And so, mail art never dies, it returns to sender.' And remembering her correspondence, Welch says: '(...) I realize that a gift of spirit never dies - it lives in the Eternal Network.'

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