Collaborative Mail Art Books

I get that, good intention, of course! It was all the rage when I was in grad school. I suppose my critical slant is more aimed at stylistics. That is, I understand what you're saying, and the point, nonetheless I think that's, A, an individual matter, and, B, one of the time[s]. [I long ago decided that if I let my politics guide my taste, I would engage w/ very little art - especially as I looove "testosterone heavy" music. It's all relative baby! %_^] Nonetheless, revisionism is more than fine by me! I just saw so much hypocrisy in its name. Spoiled rich white kids who had never worked a day in their lives making 'pc' art which they often didn't even vaguely understand. There was no core politic usually, just a vogue - 'twas the thing to do/trendy - no integrity. followed by such a glut of pc images that they simply lost all their potency/[intended] meaning ["until we can no longer see"]. Consuming itself...

Thanks, Cheryl. I sorta like this one. As the MinXus lexicon states: "Arthur Rimbaud is a fictional character created by Jack Spicer." Now that's pomo!

Meta-L - As a foundation I used an old, destroyed, annotated edition of Virgil's "Aeneid" - the epic of the establisment of Rome - right up there with the Illiad and Odyssey.

It truly is fine indeed De Villo!

Wait! What is "Meta-L?" I missed that...

Cleo, I see some of the disconnect is that I'm thinking of pomo lit & theory & you are factoring in pomo art. Geez, what I've seen of pomo art. Personally, I think that was a bust, short-lived.

Thank you :-) - I confess to looking Ourang-Outang while writing the blog (for tomorrow)... Hey Cleo - Meta-L is a fine piece of work I received from De Villo for my book collection which will be exhibited in October.  I will be posting the blog tomorrow - so please take a look - sounds like its work right up your street :-) X

Meta L = metalanguage, which probably is a real differnces between pomos & mods.

There is a kind of Cargo Cult in Africa that thingk Rimbaud is still alive - that's in the lexicon too. He sends people letters now and then.

Thanks for the heads Cheryl - keep us posted!

Spell chick needs her insulin.

"Piece of work"

Thanks for the intro, De Villo!  most useful -

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DVS, thank you very much for the vispo2 intro! Well done and thought-provoking as usual ~

Thanks, edition #2 is one of my all-time favs. Rosa Gravino's chapter arrived a few days ago & is over the top. I'm still not done blogging chapters.

Cleo, pomo stretched across four goddamned decades, if you trace. For me, it became "The Thing That Wouldn't Die." It became totally the realm of critics & theorists. Certainly it was trendy at several different stages - but the worst - and I think I remember the era you're talking about - was when the theories were so impossibly incomprehensible that the students it was being foisted upon had no real idea what it was about, most of their professors even less, but people felt like they had to jump on the bandwagon because it must be cool. I think it maybe really is gone now & it's safe to go back in the water. However, the clean-up that toxic spill will take a long time. The people who started it never had any intention that it would become what it became and many them ended up its most badly maimed victims. But that's true of most things.

many thanks DeVillo for the great introduction, very focused as usual.

Hi TIC TAC, I'm glad the intro. works for you. Your use of (relative) minimalism in the chapter triggered some very serious meditation on my part. You are part of "The Great Tradition" of poetry indeed, among your other talents. Thank you again for your wonderful chapter!

Greetings collab book members. Some of you might remember or participated in the Project 26 collab book. I've blogged a "Lost Classic" from that project - Litsa Spathi's "O" chapter - great vispo & some further documentation:

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-fluxus-beat-litsa-...

Bizarre Cities volume 8, Urban Travel Book is in the process of being diffused.

Artist book edition of 25 with contributions by Bernd Reichert, Teresa Reichert, Lotte, Theresa Williams, Kerri Pullo, David Stone, Connie Tettenborn, Cheryl Penn, Lesley Magwood Fraser, Mikula Lullwitz, Private World, Andrew Niss, Guido Vermeulen, Carlos Zurck Cruz, Hans Braumuller, Keith Buchholz, John Bennett, Juri Gik, Walter Bachmann, Matt Taggart, Guido Bondioli

Hello visual poets, I have documented three more chapters from the vispo book project.

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/visual-poetry-antholog...

BLACKBIRD issue 10 (editor: David Stone, USA) is in the process of being diffused, amazing collection of poetry and visual poetry by 56 mail artists and  networkers; cover art from Denis Saleh (USA)

I was hunting for De Villo's introduction to Vispo Book 2 - it is now in DVS's Introduction discussion for easy reference :-)X

This is a FINAL appeal to the good 'something' of the artists who have not yet sent their contributions in for the VISPO Books. PLEASE!!! 

Message from Bernd Reichert:

The eight issues of the collaborative art magazine “Bizarre Cities” which appeared so far since 2000 are now also visible in electronic form. Enjoy. They can be seen and downloaded from this blog.

Best regards, Mailworks@Bruxelles.

I will leave this message in the Zine discussion too - but GREAT pages are starting to arrived for the Zine.  So far:

1  RCBz – USA

2  Roland Halbritter - GERMANY

3   Vittore Baroni - ITALY

4   Giovanni and Renata StraDA DA - ITALY

5   John M Bennett -  USA

6    EGO-TEK - ITALY

7    David Dellafiora (Field Study -  AUSTRALIA

8    Bruno Cassaglia - ITALY

9    Claudio Romeo - ITALY

10   Cheryl Penn - South Africa   

11   Tiziana Baracchi - ITALY

More Zine pages have arrived:

TICTAC (Germany)

Christine Tarantino (USA)

Roberto Keppler (Brazil)

Any pics to show us for inspiration Cheryl? I am up against a brick wall when it comes to ideas... :(

For Sure Les :-)- hurry up!! I need another Seffican on board!! Sue's also at the drawing board...

RCBz (USA) and Roland Halbritter (Germany)

Vittore Baroni - ITALY and Giovanni and Renata StraDA DA - ITALY

John M Bennett -  USA and EGO-TEK - ITALY 

David Dellafiora (Field Study -  AUSTRALIA and Bruno Cassaglia – ITALY

o - please make sure both sides are done :-) X

OK I have started my Zine thingy but am confused with what books I am meant to be doing.... and of course Cheryl the old "concept" is rearing its head, never mind I will find one I am sure. It always comes after the act! Recycling artworks ready to work onto...

Zine font pages from (left) Christine Tarrantino (USA)  and TIC TAC (Germany) - this is a beauty - one cant see the layers and the use of acetate - but contributors soon will :-) X

From Roberto Keppler (Brazil) and Tiziana Baracchi (Italy)

wow! Beautiful pages for the zine, Cheryl! I am putting boekie "Library" on the back burner, and will work on the zine pages this weekend. Let's see 27 pages for Zine#1, back and front= 54. And 27 pages for Zine #2, back and front = 54.Right, that's 108 pages  :-0

working..working...working...

WOW! We're obviously a chatty bunch :-) - welcome to the new members X

Zine pages from Guido Vermeulen (double dream spread :-) (Belgium) and Archives - Fulgor c Silvi (Italy) (each hand-painted)

those zines are going to be awesome! :-)

TICTAC, thank you -for sure  - it IS looking good :-)!!! X

BEAUTIFUL new pages received from Lesley Magwood Fraser (South Africa), Cuan Miles (South Africa) and Marie Wintzer (Japan). AND contribution to Zine  2 from Guido Vermeulen.  I've been clearing out my book studio because I've lost a camera chord.  4 hours later, still no luck... As soon as I'm back in the photographic business I'll show some images. :-) X

Hello

If possible I'd like to apply.

best:csaba

GREAT Zine pages from Marie Wintzer (Japan) and Cuan Miles (South Africa)

From Lesley Magwood Fraser (South aFrica) and Svenja Wahl (Germany) - each one of these pages is different - phew - A LOT of work!! Many many  thanks  :-) X

Zine pages from Katerina Nikoltsou (Greece) (Issue 1 and 2), Stephanie Turnbull (UK) and Prof Roberto Scala (Italy) - many thanks - images on the morrow :-) X

Issue 1 and 2 from Katerina - Grecian Blue for you :-) X

From Stephanie Turnbull (UK) and Roberto Scala (Italy)

From Mirta Caccaro (Italy) and Mail Art Martha (UK)

From Dragan Jukic (Germany) and Yves Maraux (France) - beautifully hand printed pages from Dragan and handworked pages from Yves.

Volume 2 contributions - from TICTAC (Germany) and Tizianna Baracchi (Italy).  Please note - Zine 1 is full and Zine 2 is NEARLY full!! If you would like to participate in THREE Zines, send more work! And thank you - to artists like TICTAC and Tizianna, Guido and Rolan Halbritter who have sent for both :-) XX

And when you follow TICTACs instructions to pull - OF COURSE there is something there!

HI Cheryl, I'm confused.  Are we sending two or four images? I have one maybe two and ma struggling with three and four? I will definately be sending in but HELP life is just too needy at the moment!

Rebecca - 27 pages, double sided.  Some people have sent different images, some people have photocopied the same image - up to you - LIFE!!! Yip, know that one... X