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
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Latest Activity: Dec 14, 2023

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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 May 12, 2020.

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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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Comment by Cernjul Viviana María on November 4, 2013 at 2:44am

Comment by Helder Coelho Dias on November 2, 2013 at 2:56pm: You can also join TILT lab, here on IUOMA:

TILT lab

Comment by Helder Coelho Dias on November 2, 2013 at 2:47pm: ADD & PASS project by TILT lab: TILT Laboratory aims with this project; distribute a certain number of "Add & Pass" with a specific theme in which each participant can only use one “page” of it. Upon receipt all ADD & PASS or part of them (this because we must always count with the factor "lost" when speaking about the postal service) will be done an exhibition in the future installations of TILT Lab in Portugal. For more informations go to: https://www.facebook.com/TILT.lab you can also join the EVENT on facebook:

ADD & PASS project by TILT lab.

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 2, 2013 at 8:47am: Me not a big fan of Add 'n Pass, but just had 3 from Turkey, so have passed on.

Usually I add and send back to the originator.

I always wonder where they end up,if they are part of an archive, as even the originator seldom will post that they were received :-(

Comment by Ruud Janssen on November 2, 2013 at 7:34am: I love these Add and Pass papers. The circulate until someone finds them so lovely they keep and archive them. Hopefully there is a final destination for the paper where it lands in the right collection. Sometimes the originator gets them back, and when there are enough, it makes a wonderful exhibition of what 'the network' is capable of in creating. I have some lovely samples in the TAM Archive which I should dig out and digitize.....

Comment by Amy Irwen on November 1, 2013 at 10:44pm: Great Piro, will let you know when it is on its way... *!*

Comment by PIRO on November 1, 2013 at 10:40pm: I am interested Amy.

Comment by Amy Irwen on November 1, 2013 at 7:26pm: Received Dimitra's book from Carmela today.....who would like it after me?

Comment by Ruud Janssen on October 30, 2013 at 7:24pm

Comment by Ruud Janssen on October 30, 2013 at 7:24pm

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