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COMA represents a new artistic collective with its operation base in Portugal, having Mail Art as “background”.

One of the reasons for its creation, due to the fact that the Mail Art movement is still very murky in portuguese territory, its participants and assets represent a very small niche of players.

COMA aims to be a cultural emancipatory diffuser on the portuguese Mail Art scene, clarifying and approaching artists, curious and laymen to this art that has its origins in the 60s.

As a collective, COMA's main functions, in addition to raising awareness of this artistic expression, are:

1 - Promote the artistic practice regardless of age, education, area, philosophical, religious and ethnicity of each individual.

2 - Organizing cultural events and exhibitions, thus underpinning national and international projects.

3 - Maintain an Universal network of contacts between Mail Artists,providing their postal addresses and artistic virtual spaces, if authorized by them.

4 - Decoding the historical background and chronology of Mail Art in Portugal, establishing a database for future members reference and general public.

5 - Connect with different International Mail Art platforms, and creating cultural partnerships with the same.

Briefly, COMA will be the place of present and future portuguese Mail Artists, that will establish a cordial, friendly and uninhibited dialogue among all mail art "lovers".

Helder Coelho Dias ( COMA president )

!namaste!

Website: http://colectivomailart.blogspot.com/
Location: PORTUGAL
Members: 31
Latest Activity: Nov 21, 2017

Take1 - Film and Mail Art? (new mail art call)

"Take1 - Film and Mail Art?" is the 1st Mail Art project proposed and published by the portuguese COMA collective and corresponds to a New Mail Art Call, for more informations please go here:

http://take1mail.blogspot.com/

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Comment by Helder on February 16, 2012 at 1:34pm: New mail art work to the project TAKE1:

for more informations about the piece go to:

8# FLEUR HELSINGOR (USA: Oakland-CA)

Comment by Helder on February 14, 2012 at 11:40pm: New received Mail Art Works:

7# JAROMIR SVOZILIK (Noruega-Norway: Oslo)

6# PEDRO BERICAT (Espanha-Spain: Zaragoza)

5# JOHN JENNINGS (Irlanda-Ireland: Galway)

4# DANIEL DE CULLA (Espanha-Spain: Burgos)

Many Thanks :)

Comment by Helder on February 13, 2012 at 7:01pm: Hi Janine,

Many thanks, when your piece arrived to my mail box i will post the same on the website :)

Comment by Helder on February 10, 2012 at 8:22pm: New received Mail Art Works:

2# VALENTINE MARK HERMAN (França-France: Sigean)

3# GUIDO VERMEULEN (Bélgica-Belgium: Brussels)

Thanks to the new Mail Artists that sent their pieces to "Take1-Cinema e Mail Art?" call, e obrigado Sabela :)

Comment by Sabela Baña on February 10, 2012 at 1:28pm: Gracias Helder,Espero que envien muchos mail art al correo postal , ya que considero que el tema es muy interesante.

Comment by Helder on February 9, 2012 at 8:10pm: Officially, this is the first Mail Art contribution, sent and received by "snail" mail to "Take1- Film and Mail-Art?" project, of the COMA Collective, and come from Spain. Thank you :)

1# SABELA BAÑA ROIBÁS (Espanha-Spain: a Coruña)

Comment by Helder on February 9, 2012 at 12:05am: Janine like you say we must Respect MAil Art, but there is a lot of people that dont do that, The Google translater sometimes is funny, " Eu como a cola " in real portuguese translated in english is " i eat the glue " if was what you want to meant, is funny, if was other thing, more fun have :) lol

Comment by Helder on February 8, 2012 at 10:32pm: Today i received the first Mail Art to the "take1-Cinema e Mail Art? " project, but i CANT accept it, the Artist had sent me a reproduction of his work on a postcard, a COPY of his Painting, for me this is simply advertising his work, nothing else, for me in REAL Mail Art, people send ORIGINAL works and ideias, that could be painting, photography, drawing, collage, digital art etc., well i dont like very much Digital Art, but if is unique and without being sent to other Mail Artists its ok for me.

Im a Artist and Mail Artist too, and i dont send reproductions of my works to others, only originals, and i work with Mix Media (Painting, Collage and drawing), every one is free to do what they want, but please dont call yourself Mail Artists, and this is my view point.

Comment by Sabela Baña on February 8, 2012 at 6:12pm: Helder I send My Take 1-Cinema e Mail art?. by post. And e-mail: comacolectivo@gmail.com

Comment by Helder on February 7, 2012 at 11:17pm: Many thanks Guido :) when it arrived, i will post your piece on TAKE1 website.

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