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Posted by Mim Golub Scalin on September 15, 2026 at 12:14am 0 Comments

Schreibstatt Collective at the "EXPANDED FIELD II THE TREE" Exhibition in MITTE37

Posted by Lars Schumacher on September 14, 2026 at 5:30pm 0 Comments

A literary evening unfolds within the international exhibition EXPANDED FIELD II – THE TREE as the Schreibstatt Collective gathers in Kunstraum MITTE37 on 1 October 2026. Invited by artist and host Susanne Schumacher, the group presents a constellation of voices…

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I'VE BEEN A MEMBER OF IUOMA FOR EXACTLY 14 YEARS!

Posted by Valentine Mark Herman on September 14, 2026 at 4:44pm 3 Comments

It changed my life for a long time and provided a channel for some of my creative urges.

I founded some Groups -- including Manhole Covers, Cat Lovers and Groucho Marx -- and organised some international exhibitions of envelopes, post cards, phone boxes, etc in which many of you participated.

And the IUOMA sign you see at the side of this page is one of my earlier ceations that Ruud adopted.

Now I have more or less retired -- old age has caught up with me, and the cost…

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Mail from BB Grimm

Posted by Mim Golub Scalin on September 14, 2026 at 3:25pm 0 Comments

a mail art thing

Posted by Zeno Izen on September 14, 2026 at 2:43pm 2 Comments

Just posted this on instagram. posting here for collegial interest. IUOMA privilege says you can request one  of these if you actually want it. that is for people on this forum only. meanwhile here's the copy for the instagram post:





"little green rocks"

a performance art concept

by Matthew Carey

Approx .5…

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Posted by Cassaglia artista Neo-Fluxus on September 13, 2026 at 7:13pm 0 Comments

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Somehow people always think that if a group of artists work together that then there must automatically be some kind of organisation that coordinates it all. Well, in mail art there are many groups working together. These groups themselves also work together, but there is NO organisation that arranges all the things that go on in the mail art network. The I.U.O.M.A. is the Union that mail artists can become a member of. The Union has no rules. Everybody who is active in mail art and hears about the Union can become a member just by saying so.

In 1988 the idea of the IUOMA was born. I invented this name and made forms for people to become a member of this (fictive) union. About 300 mail artists reacted in a year, and official membership cards were made, even a official Union Magazine was published. Anybody who was a member of the Union could also claim a special function within the Union.

Even today, people still join the Union. And somehow it gives power, to say that YOU are a member of the International Union too.  It is just the center for archiving all the things that are going on. But I am not in control of the Union. I just invented it. And to make it official, I made myself General-President of this Union. Sure was impressive when I travelled to the USSR in 1991 and went to visit some friends there who were also members of this Union........

Today online on Ning there are thousands of members. On December 2nd 2018 the 5000th member joined in.

 

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Since the beginning of my involvement in Mail Art that I keep a digital archive of sent material.Do you document in any way the Mail Art you send to others? Or do you just let it go its way and forget about it?Continue

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