ADD & PASS - The X Files

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In the Mail Art activity, there are interesting ideas that are explored, like Mail Art Calls, Collaborative Books, Visual Poetry etc, and we also have the ADD & PASS, which are created somewhere in the world by a Mail Artist who send by mail one "object", proposing that it be changed or simply Added an Artistic Intervention by another Mail Artist, appealing that the "object" being referred back to an following artist, chosen randomly or not.The original creator Add its Address on the "object" in hopes that later return him, filled with interventions of Mail Artists from different places and countries, giving him a great satisfaction to see the "object" with a new "life".

This group aims to be the dissemination place to the Add and Pass, and a ARCHIVE of it, however, giving preference to " Booklets",becouse it is here that the individuals have their own space to give wings to is imagination and technique.

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borderlinegrafix

CZ Lovecraft et al

May 21, 2015
Cernjul Viviana María

Desde ITALIA. Gracias Renata Solimini.

Jul 30, 2015
Richard Canard

01.08.15 Dare res ,...Oh, me, me, me, !!! ...i.e. It's got my name on it! "saccharine, trite, sentimental" ...actually , I'm sort of surprized--I didn't realize you were interested in the lowly LimpPo. Since Riley, Richard Cliche' 409 S. Emerald Lane, Carbondale, Illusion 62901-2140 U.S.A.D.D.

Aug 1, 2015
Susan McAllister

Res, you can come up with others things to subvert while you're waiting. It's always a good use of time.

Aug 2, 2015
SamaLama

Res, I'm not sure if you still need more people for your add/pass/return but count me in if you do

Aug 2, 2015
SamaLama

Would anyone like to be part of a add and pass book? I have a book I started but it would be better to have others contribute. I was thinking I would make a list of whoever wants to participate and we could pass it around. It's an 8 page book so I think at least 8 people would need to participate. But there is a front and back so if just depends on how much space everyone would like. Message me and I will compile the addresses. I have one other person and myself so far would love to start this next week. Thanks

Aug 7, 2015
borderlinegrafix

I'll be a part of it, count me in!

Aug 7, 2015
SamaLama

Great Borderline Grafix I'll add you. Thanks

Aug 7, 2015
SamaLama

Still looking for others to participate in an add and pass book. I have 2 people so far and would love to have 2 to 4 more. Please message me if you are interested. I will provide packaging and some stamps for its travels. Thanks!

Aug 15, 2015
Grace Sanford

Hi Samantha, I'd like to be a part of your Add & Pass book. In another time and place I created an Add & Pass postcard and also an Add & Pass little book, both lovingly begun by me, sent to people who were not new to such projects, but I never saw them again. But I know here at IUOMA such a thing would never happen with Mail Artists and not just mail swappers. I may yet again someday initiate a new Add & Pass project.

Aug 15, 2015
Heleen de Vaan

Hi Samantha, If you still need someone (and if it's not a problem to have your book travel to and from Europe) I would like to participate!

Aug 16, 2015
Gü

If anymore are needed I'd be happy to receive from Heleen and send back to the US...

Aug 16, 2015
SamaLama

Gina and Heleen I have this book pretty full now. But I would like to do another one of this one goes well. I will put you two in the next list and hopefully start another one in a month or 2. I will send out a group message with everyone who is on it and let everyone know the order. Thanks. In the meantime lets trade some regular mail art (:

Aug 16, 2015
Gü

Thanks Samantha that's great!

Aug 16, 2015
borderlinegrafix

Add and Pass Number 6, with CZ Lovecraft, Massimo Medola, Colin Scholl, Walter Pennacchi, Amy Irwin, Carolyn Oord (Flypaper & Kerosene), A. Sleep and ex posto facto.

Aug 16, 2015
borderlinegrafix

Add and Pass Number 5 with Stangroom, Amy Irwin, A. Sleep, ex posto facto, Alan Brignull and Katerina Nikoltsou.

Aug 16, 2015
Terry Owenby

Grace Sanford...I'm sorry to hear of your lost add & pass creations. I always feel sad when I hear this. I don't understand why 1) someone who is a member of a group that has these kinds of activities doesn't follow through when receiving a project, and 2) if one doesn't have time or the inclination to work on a certain project, why it isn't simply passed on to another person. I love the idea of traveling journals, add & pass books...that type of thing, but I don't like thinking they may never return. It dampens the enthusiasm.

Aug 17, 2015
Grace Sanford

Hi Borderline :) Wow your Add and Pass Number 5 AND Number 6 are both really wonderful! They are beautiful collaborations worthy of being framed. What size are they?

Aug 17, 2015
Grace Sanford

Hi Terry :) Thanks for your commiseration on my troubles with my previous add and pass experiences. I hope I get to be in Samantha's new Add and Pass Book project and forge new experiences with this art form.

Aug 17, 2015
Grace Sanford

Yay! I'm in Samantha's Add and Pass book project. She has amazingly and thoughtfully thought of all the logistical details ahead of time for us all to make this a great experience. THANKS SAMANTHA :)

Aug 17, 2015
SamaLama

Glad you got the message Grace Sanford. It's on it's way out today!!! (:

Aug 17, 2015
borderlinegrafix

Grace: They are 8.5 x 11 inches. No. 5 is actually somehow a combination of my a/p and A. Sleep's

Aug 17, 2015
Heleen de Vaan

Thank you, Samantha, no worry, no hurries!

Meanwhile there's something on its way to you :-)

Great Add-and-Passes, BG!

Aug 17, 2015
Jan Hodgman

2 Add and Passes ready to go out the mailbox, recieved from Terry Owenby.

Aug 22, 2015
Jan Hodgman

Aug 22, 2015
Jan Hodgman

Aug 22, 2015
SamaLama

I have a add and pass to pass on. Who wants to go next?

Sep 6, 2015
Jan Hodgman

So these 2 below have been out there for 2 weeks---I guess there could still be some action on 'em. It does seem like mail is slowing down these days....

Sep 6, 2015
Sheri Rice

I'd love to be next.

Sep 7, 2015
Sheri Rice

I'd love to be next.

Sep 7, 2015
SamaLama

Perfect. Your next Sheri!

Sep 7, 2015
Sheri Rice

Yes, I'm in

Sep 9, 2015
Amy Irwen

Me also res....

Sep 9, 2015
SamaLama

I'm in Res.

Sep 9, 2015
borderlinegrafix

Back to the originator with my adds

Sep 23, 2015
Ruud Janssen

Sep 23, 2015
Ruud Janssen

Sep 23, 2015
Terry Owenby

Am catching up on Adds & Passes. I have quite a few to post. This Brandon Haney original and Theo Nelson original, with my adds, going out to Vic Jonez today.

Oct 5, 2015
Terry Owenby

Three Vic Jonez originals received from Borderline Grafix, with my adds, going out to Lord Fugue today.

Oct 5, 2015
Terry Owenby

Two Lord Fugue originals with my adds. One going to Theo Nelson and one to MusicMaster.

Oct 5, 2015
Terry Owenby

Two A&P received from The Haddock, with my adds. One going to MusicMaster, the other to Brandon Haney.

Oct 5, 2015
Amy Irwen

Super...will watch for it in the mail!

Oct 20, 2015
Sheri Rice

I have a very small book, about 2 1/2" x 3 1/4". Anyone interested in being the first to add & pass? (Besides me, of course.....)

Oct 21, 2015
Amy Irwen

Sheri...please me!

Oct 21, 2015
Jan Hodgman

Amy. I volunteer to be next in line...

Oct 21, 2015
Amy Irwen

So...the line ip for Sheri Rice's collab book is:

Sheri
Amy
Jan
Res

Oct 21, 2015
Amy Irwen

Nice res

Oct 21, 2015
Gü

Add and pass postcard looking good res.

I should have come to this group when I started an A+P page, I sent it to a willing newbie 7months ago and they haven't been on here since :(

Oct 21, 2015
Heleen de Vaan

Great added-to-and-passed-on-to-me work, by E. Coles. Sarah Waldron, Dean/Artist in Seine and Suus in Mokum. My scanner couldn't catch all more beauty it shows in real.

I will add my additions to it. But then... to whom to send it next?!?

Oct 24, 2015
Ruud Janssen

Oct 25, 2015