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: 120
Latest Activity: Dec 14, 2023

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Question from a New Person 5 Replies

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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Started by Sabela Baña Feb 1, 2017.

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Comment by Jan Hodgman on August 22, 2015 at 7:31pm: 2 Add and Passes ready to go out the mailbox, recieved from Terry Owenby.

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on August 17, 2015 at 7:19pm: Thank you, Samantha, no worry, no hurries!

Meanwhile there's something on its way to you :-)

Great Add-and-Passes, BG!

Comment by borderlinegrafix on August 17, 2015 at 7:08pm: Grace: They are 8.5 x 11 inches. No. 5 is actually somehow a combination of my a/p and A. Sleep's

Comment by SamaLama on August 17, 2015 at 7:07pm: Glad you got the message Grace Sanford. It's on it's way out today!!! (:

Comment by Grace Sanford on August 17, 2015 at 7:04pm: Yay! I'm in Samantha's Add and Pass book project. She has amazingly and thoughtfully thought of all the logistical details ahead of time for us all to make this a great experience. THANKS SAMANTHA :)

Comment by Grace Sanford on August 17, 2015 at 6:59pm: Hi Terry :) Thanks for your commiseration on my troubles with my previous add and pass experiences. I hope I get to be in Samantha's new Add and Pass Book project and forge new experiences with this art form.

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.

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