"Thank you Stephen for the great surprise! The art piece from Magog is amazing!"
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Stephen Rife
- Male
- Saint Paul, MN
- United States
Stephen Rife's Groups
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Ray Johnson (1927-1995)
98 members
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Fluxus
28 members
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Canadian Embassy
57 members
Stephen Rife's Page
Latest Activity
"Hello Stephen,
I got your two art cards by you - thank you!
Happy IUOMA 🍀"
"Delayed thank you for your mail art! Sending something back this week!"
"Thank You, Stephen!
I'm glad my mail reached You. Emperor Hadrian is very good in English translation!"
"Not Canadian, but was educated there. (Also, really love the new Guy Maddin film.)"
"Looking forward to a new mail art friend! Are you also Canadian? That would bump us up to three similarities"
"Thanks! Enjoying seeing your wall and look forward to exchanging some mail art! "
"Very interesting letter project by you and your partner."
"Hi Stephen, greetings from South Italy. Since some years ago I'm not involved in the Mail Art Network but I continue to create art to share in others ways. "
"Hola soy de Argentina y estoy iniciando en el mail art
Gracias por recibirme"
"Welcome back to the POST-world (as it were) after your hiatus."
"Hello again! I will send you my mail art first. Please send me yours back after you receive from me :-)"
Profile Information
- Mail-Artist since:
- 1989
- My Website (without http://):
- http://www.mnartists.org/artwork/steve-rife-tweaks-artpolice-instal...
- Why I am involved in Mail-Art:
- To rejoin the hand to the spirit, the foot to the hand, the paper to the word.
I've been involved in Mail Art for several decades, beginning in the late 80s, when I invited people to contribute, by mail, to a program for cable access here in the Midwestern US. Postcards, art video, letter-art, poetry, detourned ads, mysterious objects. In downtown St. Paul, in a former boot factory, I maintained a shrine for several years, to a figure I no longer remember the name of. (The shrine was kept in an envelope.) It had acolytes in the form of postcards, bearing figures and landscapes that helped me sing the name of the hidden figure. Within a span of some thirty years, this devoted pageant came together in a final rite, giving birth to a mother. "More to come," they said. Man, were they right. (A few of their holy siblings can be found through the video link below.)
For instance, a sighting/summation, a word of warning about the virtual posting, in the period post postcard:
Winds of Noisome Publicity;
Lands of Groundless Assertion;
Seas of data, desire inflamed, and desire unquenched...
- My Mail-Adress (snail and/or E-mail)
- 3433 N 14th Street
Saint Louis, MO 63107
USA
A recent vid, from last year... But quite relevant. The eternal exit.
Stephen Rife's Photos
Comment Wall (26 comments)
- At 10:00pm on June 19, 2025,
Isabelle Vachon said…
Thank you Stephen for the great surprise! The art piece from Magog is amazing!
- At 6:59am on March 23, 2025,
Kiki said…
Hello Stephen,
I got your two art cards by you - thank you!
Happy IUOMA 🍀
- At 4:00pm on February 10, 2025,
Caitlin Friesen said…
Delayed thank you for your mail art! Sending something back this week!
- At 3:52pm on November 18, 2024,
Ilya Semenenko-Basin said…
Thank You, Stephen!
I'm glad my mail reached You. Emperor Hadrian is very good in English translation!
- At 1:29am on November 15, 2024,
Looking forward to a new mail art friend! Are you also Canadian? That would bump us up to three similarities
- At 11:07pm on November 14, 2024,
Sarah Figlio said…
Thanks! Enjoying seeing your wall and look forward to exchanging some mail art!
- At 9:46am on October 11, 2024,
Helen Amyes said…
- At 11:09am on August 30, 2024,
Pierpaolo Limongelli said…
Hi Stephen, greetings from South Italy. Since some years ago I'm not involved in the Mail Art Network but I continue to create art to share in others ways.
- At 4:40pm on August 25, 2024,
Beatriz Romano said…
- Hola soy de Argentina y estoy iniciando en el mail art
Gracias por recibirme
- At 11:30am on August 21, 2024,
Hello again! I will send you my mail art first. Please send me yours back after you receive from me :-)
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