SENT: TRASHPOETICS - A Theory of Trash Mail-Art Including Origins, Reign of DK, and Cerealist Trashpo Man-da-da-la

[De Villo Sloan]

TRASHPOETICS (1)

 

TRASHPOETICS (2) - Reign of DK

 

TRASHPOETICS (3) - Cerealist Trashpo Manadala

[Nancy Bell Scott]

No worries about a prize. Shouldn't there be a seniority requirement, like at IUOMA for a year? Thank you, I would LOVE a non-pink hard copy of the manofesto. Diane you need the spell chick, I'll send her with the next batch.

[DKeys]

You're right. This is a travesty. I was so overcome with joy and gratitude over Nancy sending me huge slices of her trashpile, that I neglected to notice she hadn't won a TrahPo-litzer. Please nominate her and send her the nonefesto! she must NOT have a pink one! and I have no printer. not now. not ever.

[De Villo Sloan]

OMG, YOU haven't won a TrashPo-Litzer. I'm nominating you right now for the invention of Aesthetic Trashpo. How could DK have allowed this to happen?

[Nancy Bell Scott]

Can non-trash-po-litzer-winners put in a special order for a hard copy of trashpoetics if they really want one? My printer sucks. Everything comes out pink.

[DKeys]

I definately approve  (as long as they don't arrive postage due)

[De Villo Sloan]

Erni, that's great that you printed a hard copy of Trashpoetics. Of course everyone is welcome to do that. My plan is to send copies to all the people who have been awarded TrashPo-litzers. I don't think I can send it to everyone affiliated with Trashpo, but those prize winners should cover a lot of ground. This answers the question about what people who receive TrashPo-Litzers receive. I will get on this ASAP, given I still have to finish Asemics 16. Thanks!

 

Does DK need to approve this?

[Nancy Bell Scott]

Dream house. Great photo, Erni! I'd love to live across the street from it, preferably in a dump shack.

[De Villo Sloan]

Man Erni, let's not worry about what constitutes an authentic Beatnik or DK's notorious biography.

 

What you write about DaDa and anti-art makes sense. Ben Vautier's later matchbox performance score has become an icon for anti-art. (Although I think it's safely locked in the Museum of Modern Art). The Vautier piece circulates a lot. I don't think anyone takes it as a literal challenge to burn museums and or their own work. Yet it resonates with a modified, contemporary view of anti-art:

[DKeys]

Stubbs is a pig friend of DVS' --besties with his Uncle Ramone. For reasons unknown, he sent them my way around the debut of Roadkill==The movie. They were a no show, a total disappointment, yet they won me over with the charm of the sad clown. But you know Erni, it's all starting to make sense now that I see he is probably a zombie under that pink. It explains why he likes Mexico so much. He was always talking about the delicious monkey brains

[De Villo Sloan]

"Trashpo is the opiate of the masses." - Stubbs