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At 3:41am on November 25, 2025, Kiki said…: Welcome to IUOMA! Greetings from Japan 🙋

At 5:28pm on November 24, 2025, Ruud Janssen said…: Currently, I am a master's student in the Postgraduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Paraná. I am a visual artist and educator, and in my research and poetics, I have sought to discuss the relationship between mail art, the body, and education in light of Artaud, Deleuze, and Guattari. I seek to explore mail art and the concept of the Body without Organs in the creation of other existential territories that allow for escape routes from power. In this dialogue, mail art becomes an object of investigation precisely because it escapes the institutional spaces of art.

I engage with mail art because it offers me a territory of creation that escapes the institutional circuits of art and allows me to invent other forms of existence, thought, and relationship. Based on Artaud, Deleuze, and Guattari, I understand mail art as a device capable of producing a Body without Organs: a field of experimentation where the body, education, and creation can reorganize themselves without hierarchies and without the constraints of power.

Mail art interests me because it circulates along marginal paths, crosses borders, and creates unexpected encounters. It operates through displacement, interference, and exchange—elements that fuel my artistic process and academic research. Working with it, I find the possibility of constructing other existential territories, of establishing small escapes, of dissolving fixed forms of subjectivation.

In short, I engage with mail art because it is a gesture of freedom, an artistic practice that opens itself to the other, that dismantles systems of control, and that allows me to experience art as a living, pulsating, and undisciplined field.

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