The Embassy of Utopia and "E" started this group … We would like to reconstitute the totality of sheets "brain cell" since N°1. For the archives of the embassy, thank you for sending to us "brain cell" of Ryosuke Cohen.
In december 2017 the 1000th brain cell was produced. The production continues....... We collect all traces here.
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L’Ambassade d’Utopia et « E » ont besoin de votre aide… Nous voudrions reconstituer la totalité des feuilles « brain cell » depuis la N°1. Pour les archives de l’ambassade, merci de nous envoyer des « brain cell » de Ryosuke Cohen. Originaux ou bons scans avec la liste des participants. La totalité des feuilles « brain cell » recensées sera affichée sur ce blog http://brain-cell-compilation.blogspot.com/
The Embassy of Utopia and "E" need your help … We would like to reconstitute the totality of sheets "brain cell" since N°1. For the archives of the embassy, thank you for sending to us "brain cell" of Ryosuke Cohen. Original or good scans with the list of the participants. The totality of sheets "brain cell" listed will be posted on this blog
http://brain-cell-compilation.blogspot.com/
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April 2018, Jackie Loves Art, drawing by Tiina from Finland going to Braincell project of…Continue
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I calculated today: 1000-937= 63 more before the 1000th comes out. He sends them every 10 days. so in 630 days , 630/30 = 21 months the 1000th issue will come out, Should be arround december 2017.So…Continue
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Thank you, Jeff Bagato, for the information! I find it interesting to hear how Ryosuke Cohen creates Brain Cell. And to think he has gone through this process every 10 days until now, when there are over 1,000! Wow! He is obviously very dedicated to his project. Yes, a book about him and his project would be most interesting.
Thank you, Heleen, Jeff, and Ruud, for your responses about sending Ryosuke additional items and mail art. I appreciate it. I'll do that the next time I send him a stamped image.
You have all been very helpful. Thank you!
Here's some info I found on the website https://mailart.pt/permanent_calls :
"Brain Cell is a mail art project begun by Ryosuke Cohen in June 1985. The project is a networked art project where individual artists contribute stamps, stickers, drawings or other images. These are sent through the mail to Cohen, who assembles and prints them as part of each cell. He prints 150 copies (30 x 42 cm) with a small silkscreen system called a Cyclostyle (now out of production). Each participant is mailed a Brain Cell print along with a documentation list of contributors worldwide.
"Cohen keeps a copy for himself. Some of the remaining Brain Cell prints from each edition are assembled into sets of 30 consecutive editions. These set are sent to artists and Mail Art shows around the world."
The mystery deepens! I have never seen a "Brain Cell form"! I have only sent him unmounted rubber stamps which he then incorporates into a Brain Cell. Although on #1103 pictured below, I'm *pretty sure* he took the red devil girl in the upper right from a rubber stamping I had put on the envelope! (It's an image I found in an old book and had made into a stamp for my private use!) This is in addition to the "Halloween" stamp lower down. I usually include some other kind of artwork, stickers, note, etc in the package. I participated in a few Brain Cells in the 90s and they have always been amazing. A book or interview on his project methods, etc would be wonderful to see.
Indeed it is amazing! A good question, Terry.
I think many people send him mail art in return, which he replies to by sending a new Brain Cell form...
What I am wondering about, is what he would do with the received mail art, if not sticked to the Brain Cell forms.
Usually I am sending a stamp design (drawn by hand in black and white on a 300 grams water colour postcard-size paper), in an envelope, most of the time a mail-arted (stamped/drawn) one. Who is sending to whom in return remains the question, though mr. Cohen was the first to send a Brain Cell form spontaneously to me, some years ago. At that time I didn’t know about the project at all. And when I learned about it, I so very much appreciated - and of course still do - the fact that he is connecting mail artists of all times and places in such a beautiful way.
I'm amazed when I think of how much postage Mr. Cohen must buy in any given time period! Does he accept money to help out with his project? Also, does anyone ever send him mail art in return for Brain Cell, as we do with other mail art we receive? Thank you.
You may send just ONE or more rubber stamp images on an envelope,
and Ryosuke will print it on a Brain Cell.
He does a Brain Cell every ten days, so I send one envelope with a few rubber stamp images for him to chose from during a month or so. However, in my case, mail has not been sent to Japan from Greece during this Covid Era, so my stampings are not on any Brain Cells recently :-(
Others send their artistamps in a series of 50 or more, and Ryosuke then glues these onto each Brain Cell page...but that for me is a lot to send overseas, so i stay with rubber stampings only.
I have wondered about this too. I have been sending 1 at a time. Am I doing it wrong? I saw my image on a post here of a current issue today not sure what issue number it was. There were a few posted here close to each other.
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