Ilya Semenenko-Basin's Blog – June 2022 Archive (3)

The mail-art stream...

This spring, the mail-art stream has become very shallow, but it has not dried up. Mail from some European countries still reaches Moscow, and there is also correspondence within Russia. Recently I received artifacts from Vlada Lapteva from Yekaterinburg, from two artists from the UK: Mail_Art_Martha and Kevin Gillen from the UK, from Lutz Anders from Germany, Luís Filipe Gomes from Portugal and Silvia Dubois from Belgium. The exhibition catalogue from Spain has arrived. At the same time the…

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Added by Ilya Semenenko-Basin on June 28, 2022 at 5:25pm — 1 Comment

Akiko Shinmura

It's about Mail Art again. This time it's about using someone else's work in a return message. Some Mail Art artists allow themselves to take the work they receive in the mail, cover it with paint, glue something on, and return it to the author in this form. There is another way of working together, a pure exchange of gestures, a subtle dance of meanings. Akiko Shinmura, a Japanese Mail Art artist who lives in Aioi, Hyogo prefecture, gives an example.

Last year, I sent Akiko a…

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Added by Ilya Semenenko-Basin on June 24, 2022 at 8:10pm — 4 Comments

EcoFuturo festival

Since 2014, Rome has hosted the annual EcoFuturo festival dedicated to eco-technology. At the same time, EcoFuturo is an Italian network of companies, professionals and researchers working on new technological solutions to energy and environmental problems.

On the occasion of the edition of EcoFuturo in May this year, a special…

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Added by Ilya Semenenko-Basin on June 16, 2022 at 11:11pm — No Comments

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