ADD & PASS

Thank you Amy, i might do some in the future, but i currently need some time away from them :-)

Hi all.

Long time mail artist.

Wannabe add/passer. 

How does one jump in?

Hey @DustinCecil - thanks for the cool A&P and goodies! Who wants an A&P next...? 

Sending out a large batch of various A+Ps today, if you have some hanging around you'd like to pass along, you can send my way! :)

Received my first Add & Pass started by Mike Dickau. Thank you Fleur!  - I've added to it and will post out to the network! Feel free to send me A&Ps.

Hola a todos, como nuevo miembro estoy abierto a todo proyecto , los ZINES y libro art, me gustan y los add, & pass tambien un saludo a todos
mi dirección-:
Felipe Lamadrid-
Litoral, 25.
11500 El Pto Sta Mra. Cádiz ,SPAIN-

Thanks Julie Dennehy. Arrived today. 

Open Call for Artist dedicata alla DIFFERENZA DI GENERE

La galleria VISIONI ALTRE di Venezia in collaborazione con il collettivo AE di Roma, invita gli artisti a riflettere sul tema contestualizzandolo nel proprio quadro socio-geografico.
I temi della ricerca e della riflessione sono: I DIRITTI DELLA DONNA E DELLA COMUNITÀ LGBTQ+

La chiamata è realizzata in collaborazione con la studentessa Guenda Mai, laureanda in Economia e Gestione dell’arte presso Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, tutto il materiale ricevuto dagli artisti rappresenterà una parte importante per l’elaborazione della sua tesi di laurea.

GLI ARTISTI POTRANNO INVIARE PIÙ DI UN'OPERA A:

galleria VISIONI ALTRE
Campo del Ghetto Novo, Cannaregio 2918, 30121, Venezia (VE)

DEADLINE: 15 dicembre 2020- CONDIVIDETE

Puoi inviare firmate e complete di titolo e tecnica utilizzata:
Collages, Fotografie, Cartoline, Oggetti e Libri d'arte e altro senza limitazioni sulla tecnica e il supporto da utilizzare MA DI PICCOLE- MEDIE DIMENSIONI

Tutto il materiale sarà esposto presso la galleria Visioni Altre di Venezia dal 15 al 30 gennaio 2021, successivamente sarà conservato nell’archivio Visioni Altre per eventi futuri.

Fotografie e notizie delle opere e dell'evento saranno pubblicate sulla pagina internet della galleria: www.visionialtre.com e sulla pagina facebook di VISIONI ALTRE.
Documentazione a tutti. No giuria, No quote, No ritorni.

Per maggiori informazioni:
email: adolfinadestefani@gmail.com guenda.mai95@gmail.com  

+ 39 3347275646, Guenda

SI RICHIEDE DI COMPILARE E SPEDIRE CON L’OPERA IL MODULO SCARICABILE TRAMITE LINK https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LHbdWyZvlgrJNQSAMKP8mBukl3dxHba_/v...

ENGLISH VERSION

Open Call for Artist dedicated to GENDER DIFFERENCE

The gallery VISIONI ALTRE in Venice  in collaboration with the collettive AE in Rome, invites artists to reflect on the theme contestualizing it in their socio-geographical framework.
The topics of research and reflection are: WOMAN’S RIGHTS AND THE LGBTQ+ COMUNUITY

This call is made in collaboration also with Guenda Mai a grad student in Economics and Art Management at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. All the works recived by the artist will rapresent an important sourse for her  thesis paper.

ARTISTS CAN SEND MORE THAN ONE ARTWORK TO:

galleria VISIONI ALTRE
Campo del Ghetto Novo, Cannaregio 2918, 30121, Venezia (VE)

DEADLINE: 15 dicembre 2020- PLEASE SHARE

It’s possible to send, signed and completed with technique and title:
Collages, Photografs, Postcards, Objects and Art’s book and so on without any limitation on the use of techniques and medium, but all the works must be in small or medium size.

All the material will be exhibited at the Visioni Altre gallery in Venice from 15 to 30 January 2021, and then will be kept in the archive of Visioni Altre for future events.

Photographs and news of the works and the event will be published on the internet page of the gallery: www.visionialtre.com and on the facebook page of VISIONI ALTRE 

Documentation to all. No jury, No fees, No return.

Hi, I'm very new here but also very keen to send and receive Add and Pass books. I received my first A+P from Lindsay Stewart and have sent it off to someone new. If you have one to send, feel free to send to me!

I’m just here to say, send things to Jo. She makes amazing things and is a friend of mine ;) 

Also, As always, my mail box is open.

Hi Joe Beckford - I don't have Add + Pass books but I do have single page A+Ps I can send you. Let me know if you're interested and I'll get them posted to you.  

Hi Amy Kiessling, I would love to receive your single A+Ps!

Add & Pass book below - would anyone like it next?

Ruth, my mailbox is always open ;)

omg.  i LERVE schiele.  great work!!

would like to send out some postcards..and receive some in return. happy holidays, everyone...from memphis, TN. 

I'm new and not sure how to get started sending and passing.

Mail-ART * ¡ OJO POR OJO ! *

TÚ, me envías una obra o varias y YO te mando una o varias FIRMADAS. Más una biografía del autor.Como Una por Una, Dos por Dos. Etc

Todas las técnicas: Grabado, Pintura, Collages, etc.

SIN LÍMITE DE FECHA

1ª Exposición en DICIEMBRE 2020

2ª Exposición en JUNIO 2021

3ª EXPOSICIÓN GLOBAL en DICIEMBRE 2021. FIN DEL MAIL-ART ¡ OJO POR OJO!

Enviar a:

Atelier & Galeía Felipe LAMADRID.

Litoral, 25.

11500 El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz (ESPAÑA)

Mail-ART * ¡ OJO POR OJO ! * / * EYE FOR AN EYE ! *

YOU, send me one or some artworks, and I send you one or some of them.SIGNED And the artist biography For example: You send me 2 artworks, I wll send you 2 artworks, and so on.

Every technique: Engravings, Paintings, Collages...

NO DEADLINE

1^st EXHIBITION in DECEMBER 2020

2^nd EXHIBITION in JUNE 2021

3^rd GLOBAL EXHIBITION in DECEMBER 2021. END of the MAIL-ART ¡ OJO POR OJO !

( EYE FOR AN EYE! )

Send to:

Atelier & Gallery Felipe LAMADRID.

C/ Litoral, nº 25.

11500 El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz (SPAIN)

Do I correctly understand Add and Pass to mean I send (or get) a piece of art, the recipient adds to it, and then passes it on to someone else of their choice? If that's not right, please explain how it works. Thanks!

Hi all

I have been so busy these past few weeks that my add and pass pile has been stacking up a little bit. I'm looking for at least 8 willing recipients. I know Jenn is open to receive, but are there more keen members who have time in this busy month to receive some singles and books?

@Susan Weisberg That is correct. The recipient gets either a single page or a small book, adds to it and then passes it on to another address. I have quite a few to send on. If you like, I can add you to my list of recipients.

I have time this month, Jo.

i'm open to add and passes.. :)

I'm happy to get one.

My mailbox is always open, just make sure you use the newer address on my profile ;) 

I just received an envelope with four xeroxed pages, with a few stickers added on to them. And names/addresses of three or four people. It's not clear to me how many people have been involved in this add&pass. Do I assume that those four people are the only ones who have sent/received this and send my addition to a new person I can pick from the group list? Or what?

Susan, if there is still room to add something, add and pass along.

If whatever you add makes you feel is finished, try to pass it back to the person who created it. 

Cheers! 

It's not clear to me who created it.  Also, how come I am getting xeroxes rather than the original pages?

Susan, maybe you could take a photo and upload it here and you can find out who sent them?

There are some mail artists who ask that participants xerox and keep their own copy, and sometimes they just send out the “copies” for different added results.

I second what Jo said, you can post pictures here.

In addition, there are add and passes that are sometimes unable to be returned to the original owner. You can post them here and “archive” them for your collection. 

Let me share my experience. At some point, I decided that now I will always finish the image, after which I will return the sheet to the initiator, and I will never again be one of the many stations on the way. Only completion, with maximum expression! (And only once did I break this oath).

Thanks, all. Here's a photo (sorry it's so big) of what I received. Can anyone identify themself as the initiator?

Mim, or anyone, could I ask for a bit more info on Dennis? I was reached out by him as well and got some mail from him...he reached out via my instagram and we were discussing erotic art (someone that doesnt bother me) but then he deleted the IG account and a couple days later I received mail. When I googled the return address (I was getting some weird vibes and was just curious) it showed a construction site lol. I'm all for the mystery of mail art (especially the kind that I imagine predated the internet and our ability to find out more about each other) but I keep seeing comments on here about how he seems to be a controversial mail-artist, and I just want to know if its worth my time continuing a correspondence with this person or not. This is not meant to stir drama, I am happy continuing this convo via inbox if prefered. Thanks! :)

**i meant (something that doesnt bother me) not someone... in my previous comment

Thanks, Mim. I found Josh's address and I'll send this cluster on to him. The postmark on the envelope was Tampa/St. Pete. Does that confirm Dennis Gergen? This was actually the second A&P I received in this style, but the first (also from Tampa/St.P) was so cryptic and unidentified that I'm afraid I consigned it to the circular file. I have to say that I don't find these very artistic and would just as soon not get them.

Glad to  have my instinct confirmed.

I recycle those, too.

If I remember correctly, his last name is "Gergel."

I've also received envelopes containing sheets like those from Tampa/St. Pete with a "Shirley Gergel" return address. I suspect that those are really from Dennis G.

More for the recycle bin.

Speaking of Josh Ronsen's project: I've received two of those little zines that he made from add-and-pass sheets and they are great!

Whenever I get a sheet that looks full but I can't figure out who started the add-and-pass, I send it to Josh.

Mah Nu, Gergel is a stalker and involves people who don't want to be involved, like the guy who's the director of the art museum. A guy I know, when I contacted him he said that Gergel was employed at the museum before he came there, what capacity he didn't say, and that he was disguntled. 

He also stalked a female mail artist last year and sent explicit mail art which she wasn't interested in. She had to close down her PObox. The last batch with the St.Pete's/Tampa postmark, with his tell-tale markings, I was the first recipient so they went into the "file" next to my studio table. If they'd have had other participants, I'd have sent them to Josh.

My view is that Gergel is a menace.

Sometime last year he sent me FAKE add & pass sheets attributed to DSFCult & I almost blogged them but checked w/DSF who knew nothing about them & didn't want them published.

I get the prank thing in mail art but I believe this incident was different, 

Mail art has very few "bad apples," but it is my personal view that Gergel is one of them.

Thank you all very much for your feedback and advice... as a newer artist in this network, it means a lot to me... (and sorry for taking up so much space in this discussion on this matter). As an artist who appreciates erotic and unconventional work, I also know it is important to be sensitive and consensual with how the art engages others. He definitely seems like someone I do not have the interest or time to spend on... thanks again <333

Welp... DVS he apparently is still passing fake DSF stuff, I was passed some recently. 

I have a lot of experience with “Gergel” and spoke privately with some of you about it but if you’re curious you can message me directly. 

You're are correct De Villo Sloan, Gergel is the bad apple for sure. I've been very fortunate not to experience others, even though I have all my information on my page. 

He's not pranking, he's being dishonest. 

Hi Mim, yes, and you probably remember back before the DSF fakes. I think he was actually an IUOMA member at one point & was either kicked out or driven off the platform (which is incredibly unusual). There's a bizarre history going back several years. 

Jenn, so sorry you attracted his attention. Gergels are very unusual in the network so I hope it doesn't tarnish your view of mail art.

Mail art is a genre where to an extent you become a public figure or persona. The established figures develop a trusting relationship with their audience. People build relationships over months and years. Again, "bad apples" don't survive long. 

Mah Nu - I think you've come to the right place to get a grasp of how the network functions. The interesting things you are doing, like cassette culture, are genres that thrive in the Eternal Network. So I'm looking forward to seeing more of what you're doing.

Yeah, when I got into this in the late 70s (Lord, I'm old) there was downright pornography, violence, extreme politics & all forms of insanity in the mailbox (along with extraordinary art). The network - after all - was mainline counter culture in the beginning. 

That's changed, of course. And in my decade at IUOMA we've - collectively - dealt with people freaking out over things that have shocked them in the mail. We've talked about it a lot, in fact. Ruud Janssen's concept of "unspoken rules" has worked surprisingly well.

When Ray Johnson was alive he was called in for questioning over some nudity in mail art someone received by accident. I don't remember the story completely but even bunny rabbit Ray was accused of being a pronographer.

Oh, and DSF was not really pleased when I contacted him (imho) and I had spent all this time putting the blog together.

Despite his persona, DSF is a really good guy with a positive message. I don't know why DG is targeting DSF.

I'm actually the one who set off this latest thread because I'm a new member and as soon as I signed up I received two batches of Gergen/Gergel stuff. I did add to one and send it to Josh at Mim's suggestion. Thank you all for all the clarification. If he's no longer an active member, he is obviously trolling the site because how else would he know about me?Is there any way to not get more of Gergel's DSF stuff? Or if I do get it I guess I should just consign it to the recycling bin.

Hey Guys, I get the Gergel "Tampa/St. Pete" postmarked mail pretty often and I toss them right in the recycle bin. He's an idiot because he spends all that money on postage. I don't appreciate anything that does not have a return address. He's a sociopath. His trademark is the dot-boarders made with markers. I've been getting mail from Opal Moiety in San Francisco that has the same dots. Any connection there?