Nonlocal variable's Blog (32)

After 27 years, the Bicycle mail art call has been turned into a 48-page book. Check it out and download at https://nonlocalvariable.art/2024/08/27/bicycle-artbook/…

Hope you'll join this MA call before it expires. Print & mail, or email my IOUMA email address.

We've updated our archive site with new pieces from NLV and incoming pieces from Mail Art friends. The In The Mailbox page carries over 1300 pieces from 2023-2024 alone. One caveat - these are heavy pages, so they may take up to 30 seconds to load, especially on tablets and phones.…

ZMAG announced their first publication, ZMAGazine No. 1, an "Internal Organ of the Zoom Mailart Group." Seventy-Two pages of essays, visual art, fiction and poetry on Mailart or Art, all submitted by our members. Free high-res PDF or purchase from Blurb.com. More here.…

As a follow-up to Adam Roussopoulos’s Mail Art Playlist, here’s a new Musical Mail Art Call – this time prioritizing interesting, obscure, experimental music you want to share. Responses must be mailed. Feel free to share this Call far and wide.…

Just finished up a 52-page book, made from the 78 pieces gathered from my never-completed 1997 "Transport" mail art call. Amazing contributors (many now gone) and pieces. You can download it here, or ask for a print version via IUOMA Message. My site is also up-to-date with now over 1200 pieces since returning a year…

Inspired by earlier Mail Artist Cow pieces, I put something together to document everyone who's sent things to the Nonlocal mailbox since 1 January 2024. Nice start to the art year, thank you...

We at the Crevicist Institute are pleased to announce that the results of the Mail Art Continuum project, An Art Investigation, is in the mail to participants. If you want a copy, send me a message in IUOMA, my email or the postal system.…

I've been sending around a survey about your Mail Art styles. If you haven't gotten the Mail Art Continuum, it's below. Feel free to add your response to my IOUMA message box or print and send it to my address.

We need a Dada 2024 Calendar to keep our art anarchy fresh. I am looking for (or more!) 12 mail art images in the style of dada, fluxus, neoism, situationism or our own crevicism. I need 4” x 6” (10cm x 15) works of mail art to adorn the top bit of each month. If you want to participate, please send your work via mail to Nonlocal Variable / Calendar by 31 December 2023, or send a high-res image to my email in Iouma. All participants get a calendar and participant list. Calendars will be…

Big package from Japan landed on the porch, from Ryosuke Cohen. Inside was original Brain Cells - 1141 to 1175, 35 in all. Here's the back cover of the package. More details/images in the Brain Cell - Ryosuke Cohen - Compilation group in IUOMA. What a generous gift. Will scan and post issues missing in that group over the next couple of weeks.…

It's that time again. Celebrate our brilliant little art movement. Thanks with graphics from Keith Bates...…

Just spent time updating and enhancing my site. There are now over 300 pieces received in the mail in 2023, over 200 items I've created in 2023, and a pretty comprehensive mail artist website roll. And of course the Crevicist Manifesto if you haven't checked it out. Enjoy.

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Just tripped over a piece sent from Crackerjack, part of call after Ray passed. Guy Bleus posted contributions @ T.A.M. Archives, 22 Feb 1995.…

I've posted a big batch of new incoming mailart from friends, and new items from Nonlocal. Swipe right on mobile, click left arrow on PCs/Macs to get new postings. And check out the new art manifesto as…

The art movements leading up to mail art all had manifestos and -isms: Fluxus, Dada, Neoism and the rest. I've been thinking about how mail art has continued for over 60 years. As it's a generally obscure practice, it seemed it's time for a new manifesto to answer that question. Today I'm happy to present the Crevicist Manifesto (Manifesto à la Crevicismé), inspired by George Maciunas' Fluxus Manifesto. It's posted on…

Found a little Neoist book on Amazon, Give Up Art by Tony Lowes. After reading it, Monty Cantsin decided to clear the wall and put up a completely blank canvas.

This is getting out of hand. Jammed mailbox. Still Life with Mailart below from C Bennett, Ryosuke, Carol Stetser, Carl Baker, Peter Wilson, Valentina Cozzi, Opal Moiety. Thank you all!

The nonlocalvariable.art site has 50 new pieces of art from nonlocal variable and incoming pieces from mailart friends. Scroll backwards to see new items… I’ve also added Josh Ronsen and Paulo Alexanxre Rocha Teles’ sites in the blog roll on the…