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.

Location: IUOMA
Members: 127
Latest Activity: Jan 13

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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 Grace Sanford on August 17, 2015 at 6:56pm: Hi Borderline :) Wow your Add and Pass Number 5 AND Number 6 are both really wonderful! They are beautiful collaborations worthy of being framed. What size are they?

Comment by Terry Owenby on August 17, 2015 at 5:51pm: Grace Sanford...I'm sorry to hear of your lost add & pass creations. I always feel sad when I hear this. I don't understand why 1) someone who is a member of a group that has these kinds of activities doesn't follow through when receiving a project, and 2) if one doesn't have time or the inclination to work on a certain project, why it isn't simply passed on to another person. I love the idea of traveling journals, add & pass books...that type of thing, but I don't like thinking they may never return. It dampens the enthusiasm.

Comment by borderlinegrafix on August 16, 2015 at 11:41pm: Add and Pass Number 5 with Stangroom, Amy Irwin, A. Sleep, ex posto facto, Alan Brignull and Katerina Nikoltsou.

Comment by borderlinegrafix on August 16, 2015 at 11:31pm: Add and Pass Number 6, with CZ Lovecraft, Massimo Medola, Colin Scholl, Walter Pennacchi, Amy Irwin, Carolyn Oord (Flypaper & Kerosene), A. Sleep and ex posto facto.

Comment by Gü on August 16, 2015 at 10:52pm: Thanks Samantha that's great!

Comment by SamaLama on August 16, 2015 at 10:21pm: Gina and Heleen I have this book pretty full now. But I would like to do another one of this one goes well. I will put you two in the next list and hopefully start another one in a month or 2. I will send out a group message with everyone who is on it and let everyone know the order. Thanks. In the meantime lets trade some regular mail art (:

Comment by Gü on August 16, 2015 at 4:26pm: If anymore are needed I'd be happy to receive from Heleen and send back to the US...

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on August 16, 2015 at 4:16pm: Hi Samantha, If you still need someone (and if it's not a problem to have your book travel to and from Europe) I would like to participate!

Comment by Grace Sanford on August 15, 2015 at 7:02am: Hi Samantha, I'd like to be a part of your Add & Pass book. In another time and place I created an Add & Pass postcard and also an Add & Pass little book, both lovingly begun by me, sent to people who were not new to such projects, but I never saw them again. But I know here at IUOMA such a thing would never happen with Mail Artists and not just mail swappers. I may yet again someday initiate a new Add & Pass project.

Comment by SamaLama on August 15, 2015 at 4:03am: Still looking for others to participate in an add and pass book. I have 2 people so far and would love to have 2 to 4 more. Please message me if you are interested. I will provide packaging and some stamps for its travels. Thanks!

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