INVESTIGATIVE MAIL-ART: Deep Inside the DKULT with KDJ & Diane Keys (Orlando, Florida, USA)

[De Villo Sloan]

Cover: July 2011 issue of the DKULTNY (DKULT-New York) fanzine

 

November 25, 2011 - Posing as an adoring fan injured in the infamous D-Koder Ring Scandal, I infiltrated the D-KULT (a mail-art movement based on the enigmatic and charismatic mail-artist Diane Keys (Illinois, USA), following a slippery chain of command to its highest levels. My findings are deeply disturbing.

 

Once headquartered in Elgin, Illinois, DKULT "problems cases" are now routed to an address in Orlando, Florida (USA). This is managed under the iron hand of DK's current "Lieutenant": KDJ (aka DKDJ). DK now barely communicates with the growing throng of her international fans. Instead, insiders say her time is devoted to courting corporate sponsorship of her increasingly extravagant performance pieces. A shadowy character known as "Heath" has risen to a high position in the organization.

 

Most of the trash that drives her thriving industry, that she previously collected herself in the streets of Elgin, is now imported from the U.S. State of Maine where a regional DKULT operation has sprung up under the leadership of Nancy Bell Scott, known to have ties to the controversial and alleged cultist Trungpa Rinpoche. DK's trash cartel can be traced further to Hamburg, Germany, and probably beyond. An unidentified DKULT watcher claims a major partnership is in the works with Grigori Antonin of Minnesota.

 

In response to my request for a new D-Koder ring I received a baffling document, prefaced by this letter and followed with page upon page of forms to complete:

 

Now the second page:

 

 

I regret I cannot reproduce the voluminous reports I am requested to complete. Clearly, the average mail-artist is powerless against the D-KULT. Here is an example of some of the contents:

 

Exhibit H is alleged to be a psychological test designed by Grigori Antonin (Minnesota, USA).

I cannot imagine what Exhibit C has to do with a defective D-Koder Ring. The slick marketing that helped the D-KULT's rise to the top is still being used to its advantage. The bad news came to me in this wonderful envelope:

 

 

D-KULT marketing and recruitment is clearly as slick as ever. Has a once benevolent mail-art movement evolved in a dangerous kult of personality? I will leave that for readers to decide.

 

Mail-artists are encouraged to monitor the official Diane Keys blog and report any strange or unusual activities:

http://dianekeys.blogspot.com/

 

MAIL-ART PSYCHIC

 

Mink schnitzel

 

Don't take it out of the bag, Louise. It's not normal.

 

The proper remedy is catwalk maroon. waffles or waffling

 

Snooker's Mink Ranch.

 

Bifidus has found the key to the 13th dimension. The signs were always there.

 

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You don't look that good in red anyway. Sleeve it alone.

 

Coffee cups & doughnut holes.

 

He asked for a white handkerchief & an orange. Max knew him in Queens. It was the noise of the chainsaw that bothered me the most. No, the other Max.

 

Harvey Brown. Yet another genius from Cleveland.

 

Ray says the Glimmer Twins are back.

[De Villo Sloan]

no! I have obtained D-klassified DoKuments. Dk is a Russian gypsy former KGB operative trained in remote viewing chosen for her exceptional psychic abilities as a child in Minsk. She is possibly the sister of Uri Geller. She came to the United States to work in the cia front operation of Leland Hickman in Los Angeles - look it up - a printed publication that used alien technology as the fact that the hieroglyphics from the Roswell space craft had been deciphered by a Harvard professor - another CIA operative who gave the power of the alien hieroglyph to his then student C. Bernstein - look it up through a network of CIA radar units. (as you recall he developed Chicago pan pizza - that would be the connection. But the involvement of the Russian was especially apparent in the SYNTHETIC FOOD experiments (at Northwestern) and this the use of the roadkill in the global food system, only it became obvious that synthetic derivatives would have to be created. LOOK - today! - look at the decriminalization of HORSE MEAT! It is right in front of you. All this can be easily confirmed

[De Villo Sloan]

DK, I'm sorry to report that sometimes Dw's amputated finger becomes infected and the blood poisoning causes delusional thinking. That is compounded by the fact that the info in this blog has caused him to become extremely agitated. We are unsure about the identity of "The Russian."

[DKeys]

Is the Russian Ernitchka?

[De Villo Sloan]

The Russian is in grave danger

[De Villo Sloan]

Yet another shocking revelation! I'm sure it will make the cover of the next DKULTZine.

[DKeys]

I sent John Bennett a big box of food. But it was a test to determine if he could tell the real food from the fake. He said he came to a conclusion but would not share so others could draw their own. He used our collaborative artwork on the covers of his newest book and wrote this in the front page of mine. I'm honored. But he never let me know if he shared any of it with his wife or anyone else for that matter.

[De Villo Sloan]

Snota. Was John Cage a semi-conductor? Don't blow it?

[De Villo Sloan]

That's sonata, not snota.

 

Edible & drinkable mail-art make me nervous. I was around for the Grigori Antonin "Eat Me" cult kits. That might have been the first mail-art recall.

[DKeys]

a snota-seriously DVS/DW where do you come up with this stuff? Yes, Elgin Holy Water comes directly from the Fox River (might be closed down because of  e coli)

[De Villo Sloan]

musical, like a snota. A few vials of Elgin Holy Water left

 

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