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Comment by Ruud Janssen on June 14, 2013 at 8:20pm

a good start would be to read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxus

and follow up on some names and links from there on.

 

Not Just Yoko Ono......   Dick Higgins, George Maciunas, and lots of more connections. Ben Vautier is also from the old fluxus starters and still acyive and also into mail-art sometimes. So lots of connections......

Comment by chimerastone on June 14, 2013 at 7:50pm

Can someone explain to me what fluxus is? Example I can think is Yoko Ono's cut piece where she invites audience to cut a pieces of her clothes with scissors. On basic note from I gathered from google it's a medium which allows people to interactive with the work rather than look like in galleries and museums.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 13, 2013 at 9:20pm

It can also be Mail Art sent via email. (Although 'traditionalists' like me have as little to do with email art as possible).

Comment by chimerastone on June 13, 2013 at 8:49pm

I was asked what was mailart and replied with basically art sent through postal system and can be anything the openness make it more fun.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 13, 2013 at 2:41pm

In two words Kevin, "Anything goes".

In a few more words, you can  do whatever you like within this genre -- everyone else does.

Some, including me, try and exercise a certain amount of self-censorship (no porn, for example): others don't.

Anything goes;

Go, Kevin, go!

Comment by Kevin M. Roddy on June 13, 2013 at 1:18pm

Is it in the spirit of the group to find images on the Web, print them and then incorporate them in the physical mail art (changing the images in various ways)? I feel it is but wanted to ask.

Comment by Kevin M. Roddy on May 31, 2013 at 1:25pm

I find all this exciting and giving me lots of ideas. 

Comment by Ruud Janssen on May 31, 2013 at 8:21am

Also expect that when you leave an address you will get mail from unknown members too....

Comment by Ruud Janssen on May 31, 2013 at 6:13am

surprise is one element of mail-art.  So yes......

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on May 31, 2013 at 5:12am

Kevin: since it began, one of the fundamental principles of Mail Art is that you can mail any thing (within reason) to any one at any time. So send whatever you want to whomever you want...and see what happens. Val

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