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Comment by De Villo Sloan on July 27, 2014 at 5:01am

Found this in the archives: "Throbbing Gristle" by Genesis P. Orridge (1979). I trust some of you are familiar.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on July 26, 2014 at 5:10am

You found a good place to start, lady von halbach.

And these links BG & I have been looking at present a particular challenge for an archivist because they document (among other things) Neoism - a mail-art movement that had a spectacular amount of activity in the 80s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoism

One of the aims of the Neoists was to create something impossible to historicize. Yet here we are trying to reconstruct it. It's hard enough to reconstruct the past without people who were purposefully creating confusion & spreading disinformation just in case someone might someday try to put together the pieces. I think it's fairly unusual.

Comment by Lady von Halbach on July 26, 2014 at 4:45am

Although I haven't been officially doing mail art for too long, I decided to join this group because I've been making zines for a while and I see some zine talk. Also, I'm studying to become a librarian (an archivist at that) and I'm interested in knowing how, exactly, people are physically archiving their mail art (and zines), particularly those of you who have been at it for a long time. I look forward to perusing more of what you all have posted; I'm enjoying what I've seen thus far!

Comment by De Villo Sloan on July 26, 2014 at 3:31am

That's great, BG. I want to post all the links together at M-L, as it's a great resource. I've only gotten through parts of it. Much I didn't know, but also I think a little thin on the USA. I can think of stuff that isn't there. It's amazing someone made that effort. I doubt most of us now have any comprehension how much was being done in the 60s & 70s.

Comment by borderlinegrafix on July 25, 2014 at 11:21pm

http://www.iuoma.org/latlas_1.pdf

DVS - Fascinating material I was not aware of.  Apparently Ruud has followed this and linked on 4 Oct 2006 from his blog the first volume, A-N, which is notated above.  I will email it to you as well.

Also fascinating are the blog notes Ruud has created, noting the parallel trajectories of online mail art and the information revolution.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on July 25, 2014 at 2:17pm

Here's a link to a "Network Atlas" w/detailed info.on mail-art, stamps, Fluxus, zines via Thierry Tillier (Belgium):

http://memex.c3.hu/~perneczky/mail.art/Atlas/A4_size/2Atlas_2.pdf

Comment by borderlinegrafix on July 7, 2014 at 3:46pm

"Mail Art Island in Brain Cell Ocean", performance by John Held Jr., hommage to Nam June Paik's "Fluxus Island in Decollage Ocean" (1963).

Jeju International Mail Art Show, "Peace Island", Jeju Culture & Art Foundation, Jeju Island, South Korea, October 18-27, 2001.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on February 24, 2014 at 2:36pm

Borderline Grafix shared a link with me to an article about Neoism and SMILE zine. Lots of useful info here concerning David Zack, Stewart Home and others. There's a section on tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE.

 

Here was the clencher for me. The author, Stephen Perkins, was a mail-artist and zine contributor who went by the name janet janet. Don't you remember janet janet? I sure do.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/88406844/Stephen-Perkins

Comment by De Villo Sloan on February 4, 2014 at 8:11pm

Palgiarism = plagiarism

Comment by De Villo Sloan on February 4, 2014 at 8:06pm

Borderline Grafix in Texas sent me an issue of SMILE zine (1988). Palgiarism is front and center.

Deepest thanks, BG

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/issue-of-smile-zine-by...

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