Conceptual Mail Art Projects

I propose a variation of the standard add/alter/pass mail art project. This one will be a subtract/maintain/keep mail art project. Here's how it works:

When you are about to send someone a piece of mail art, Subtract one element of the artwork, Maintain the artwork in that condition, and Keep it. 

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Today, I thought about making some mail art.

This A6 (postcard size) extra thick paper card purchased at HEMA as part of a pack of 50 such cards (KAARTEN extra dik papier; CARTES paper extra épais; KARTEN extra dickes Papier; TARJETAS papel extra grueso) functioned as a template to hand cut 35 other cards out of a sheet of synthetic material...This

CABINET

For a long time now I have had an idea for an imaginary cabinet of curiosities

A photograph of one of the early Surrealist exhibitions shows a large cabinet full of objects: found things, made-up things, all sorts from Duchamp to tribal art.

There is also a rather odd film called 'The Omega Man'.  I won't go into the plot (Look the film up for a fun hour or so but beware the re-make!) but in it, Charlton Heston lives in a fortified penthouse suite believing that he is the last man on earth (!).  He has filled his flat with artwork 'borrowed' from the galleries: Van Gogh and all sorts; things he could never have owned under normal circumstances.

My project - or game if you will - is to imagine your own cabinet.  Any size and in any sort of room.  Once imagine, fill it with any number of things.  Whatever you consider worth the keeping.  Then document it by a list of contents, a drawing, collage or photograph.

Send the completed documentation to any, or all, museums or art galleries; as a suggestion for a possible exhibition.

What fun!

Re CABINET: What a nice idea!

I found this on the internet.  It is dated 1969 but I am thinking it would make a good project if people printed out copies, filled them in and posted them back.  Maybe they would even get sent on to the lady herself at her mansion in cloud-cuckoo-land.

In advance of the archive