RECEIVED: Documentation for PTRIZIA TIC TAC's Chapter T in the 26 Mail-Art Collaborative Book Project (Starnberg, Germany)

[De Villo Sloan]

Mail-art book chapter by IUOMA member PTRZIA TIC TAC (Starnberg, Germany)

 

"the archaeology of a thought (through the relativity of time)"

- Note from TIC TAC accompanying Chapter T

 

February 18, 2011 - PTRZIA TIC TAC is a conceptual artist in Germany, although I believe she is originally from Latin America. Among other things, she creates beautiful and distinctive books. So I have been very much looking forward to receiving her Chapter T contribution for the 26 collaborative mail-art book project conceived by Cheryl Penn (South Africa) and coordinated here at the IUOMA. The beginning of TIC TAC's chapter (above) uses a T descending into a page perforation/collage, which moves us into the pages and connects them:

On the left (above) is the perforation bringing in the T and a newspaper text collage. TIC TAC is very skilled at using altered text to create narratives and poems. I believe she is incorporating that technique here as well as a concept based on images. On the right is a rectangular piece of plastic with torn paper glued to it. TIC TAC's books are made of all sorts of interesting materials, and she seems to favor plastic. You also see one of her fish stamps. TIC TAC has a whole symbol system working with her unique stamps. They are one element that gives Chapter T coherence:

Above is my personal favorite two-page spread in T that also stands at the center of the chapter. See-through plastic with linear bands is on the left. A ripped partial page with whimsical T variations is on the right. There are clearly plays on the T shape throughout and all sorts of possibilities for breaking down traditional notions of page boundaries and compartments:

You can see the deconstructed page idea working on the left. I love the image on the right with the octopus. TIC TAC uses many images like this of women holding various opposing forces together with ropes, pins, etc. In mail-art, you have to expect the use of stamps; and I think she does it very well here.  The final page is cardboard with some documentation. I never tire of TIC TAC's stamps. The fish is a nod to surrealism? Some people would read it that way.

Her envelopes, of course, are superb:

And reverse. The T symbol is fantastic:

TIC TAC clearly doesn't sign on for any project unless she knows she can give it 100%+ thought and care. Chapter T is worth a close look because there is A LOT going on. Thank you, TIC TAC. It's been too long!

TIC TAC has many blogs and blog projects. For instance, she is involved with an online journal called "Discharge" that is VERY interesting and headquartered somewhere in Europe. So you can access TIC TAC blogs via:

http://www.blogger.com/profile/11823303807599994639

 

TIC TAC blog outtake. Upside down first chapter page with original string knots:

 

MAIL-ART PSYCHIC

Emotions will flare up if you don't get your way. You will attract someone with special outfits. Pond denizen. A kind of committee. Hiccups, so to speak. The most direct approach isn't always the best: Lucky numbers: 11, 19, 20, 39, 40, 55. One box

 

Mail-art color of the day: burnt sienna

 

Mail-art typo of the day: psychick

 

Mail-art quote for the day:

 

"who threw potato salad at CCNY lecturers on Dadaism and subsequently presented themselves on the granite steps of the madhouse with shaven heads and harlequin speech of suicide, demanding instantaneous lobotomy...

 

"who jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge this actually happened and walked away unknown and forgotten into the ghostly daze of Chinatown soup alleyways and firetrucks, not even one free beer."

 

- Allen Ginsberg, from "Howl"

[cheryl penn]

I always appreciate the artist's input about their work - so thanks TICTAC :-)

[De Villo Sloan]

Hi TIC TAC, thanks so much for the thoughtful comments. Cheryl and I are both gathering material for documentation. T is different from your other work I've seen. Yet it is recognizable. You certainly shaped the pages as if they were a material, as if you were working metal - I like what you said about that. The fact you are a conceptual artist shines through. I also appreciate the biographical information. I like anthropology too. My chapter along with John Bennett's is on the way to you. Love your chapter. Great to do 26 with you!

[Ptrzia (TICTAC)]

nice place you have here...thank you for blogging my T, De Villo..
my commentary on my own work is maybe about where it is coming from. i like to give some kind of instalation dimention to my booklets and the mixing of various material, at times in contrast as texture and quality, is influenced by my art work as a contemporary conceptual jewelry and object-stories artist. i use the metaphor and the narrative as my work unfolds stories. which are commentaries on my unperfect personality in continuous development, on my experimentation in search for poetry and to reverse the parameters of the industrialization and the ego as a cult of preciousness, with irony. and mailart is no different.

 i cannot twist, melt, forge by hammer and torch the paper but i can still express the metaphor with it. at least is what i am working on.
regarding my roots... they are italian 100%, i was born in south america from italian parents. my father's career and anthropological interests exposed us to different countries and cultures including the indigenous but mostly gave us the opportunity to explore/appreciate what opposites have in common: fragility, fractality and a long etc.too. :-) or it gets boring against the jollity of this place.

thank you De Villo for your kind appreciation of my work.

thank you Cheryl for your lovely words.
project 26 was a cool experience, i quite enjoyed being part of it.

cheers

[De Villo Sloan]

gb b stallin. jo stallin. party b sending gb 4 vacation on the gulag, FREE MARIE. butt the hand of g antonin? narie antonette? let them eat d-kake

[Marie Wintzer]

Yeeeeeeey!! :-))

[De Villo Sloan]

I feel terrible, Marie. That's not fooling around. I'm turning into some kind of tyrant or something. The ban is lifted.

[Marie Wintzer]

DW, thanks for your support, as deleted and banned people we understand each other. I fear DVS-GB is on the wrong trek.

[De Villo Sloan]

oh, and I'm holding firm on Marie.

[De Villo Sloan]

dw seems to have managed to roll out of bed before me today. the kid is fast on the draw, i'll give hime that. during david stafford's tenure there were no monkey incidents anywhere across the globe. the West Coast school was radiant. Is it possible David is "the one"? (from The Matrix)

[cheryl penn]

David says he's defending the world from monkeys, so I'm guessing he's found a new job as resident psychic.  I think its working - no monkeys in the last 24 hours to report.