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MAl k ART NEWS If you would like to display work at the exhibition, send your artistamps to Artistamp Congress, The Stamp 2080 artists postcards in 2080 days, one by one Art Gallery, 466 - 8th St., San Francisco, CA 94103. handmade in a rich variety of themes and techniques by Work will not be returned, but all entering will obtain Angela and Peter Netmail and mailed out derring the last documentation from the exhibition, including a list of 20000 days of this millenium equals a unique project of names and addresses of all participating artists. inail as art In the long tradition of artists postcards which Running concurrently with the Pacific Rim Artistamp st:u.tocl soon after the invention of the "correspondence Congress exhibition, the Stamp Art Gallery will be card" over 100 years ago. This includes lots of hosting the exhibition, Fe-Mail Adlstampers, which ~tehvorkingevents and homages to other mail artists. will display the work of over 100 artists ( 4 January - 28 ?'he collection was shown for the first time in Holland as February 1997). For further information, contact John an "exhibition in progress" with a new add-to daily. The Held, Jr., Artistamp Congress, Stamp Art Gallery, 466 - Netmails are looking for more exhibition sites. Please 8th St., San Francisco, CA 94103. let them now if you are interested in showing this singular collection. Mail to Angela & Peter Netmail, An exhibition by Emiko Shimoda at the Bruce R. Lewin P.O. Bo:< 2644, D-32383 Minden, Germany. Gallery in New York City shows portraits of people with smiles--much like the portraits E. F. Wiggins !XI A wonderful website, Dragonfly Dream, has makes for his ever popular stamp sheets. Alas--coopted annoilncements for mail art shows, as well as links to and appropriated again. other Mail Art Sites. llttp:://'1~ww.rt66.com/-dragonfy Global Mail has changed its address: For more information, contact Michael Dittman, Global Mail, Maif Art Exhibit from 1984 Franklin Furnace Exhibit Grove City Factory Stores, P.O. Box 1309, Grove City, ;it Franklin Furnace, 25 Oct. - 21 Dec. 1996. In the PA 16 127 or see them on the Net. Flow: Alternate Authoring Strategies Web Site: h~p://www.franMinfnrnace.org/flow Birger Sesck organized an international Mail Art Project with 204 participants from 40 countries. The From Cinema Archaeology to Mail Art, Exhibition 17 exhibition, called Gazetta, was generated from a collage - 20 October 1996 at Palazzo Martinozzi, Fano, Italy mailed to him by an anonymous sender with the names d~iringthe Fano Video Film Fest, curated by Marcel10 of deceased Mail Artists. Jesch had asked mail artists to lliottallevi was an amazing exhibition with catalog only create work from their local newspaper on 7 July in black and white, but what a catalog! 1995--a kind of "day in the life". Some people folded, Marcello Diottallevi also had a retrospective at the boiled, cut the newspaper, covered a cassette, perforated Galleria d'Arte La Borgognona in Rome covering his it like a stamp sheet, sewed, copied, painted, printed, work from 1978 - 1996. A beautifid catalog was stamped, rolled it up, made it turn yellow from sunlight, produced for the occasion with essay by Marcello etc. A hefty catalog was produced, but Jesch also got a Venturelli. The dates were 2 - 19 October 1996. big spread for the show in the Weekend Magazine Section of the Schweriner Volkszeitung for 29 June The Pacific Rim Artistamp Congress 1997 is being 1996. The article is all about mail art, rubberstamps, organized by Picasso Gaglione and John Held, Jr. of the book art, the Network, Mail Art in East Germany, names Stamp Art Gallery in San Francisco. It will be held 22 and addresses of everyone in the show, which reached a and 23 February 2997 in Fiesta Hall at the San Mateo larger audience than any exhibition of the mail art itself. Expo Center, just 20 miles from downtown San Hurrah to Birger Jesch, Friedhofsn. 15, 99444 Francisco and near the San Francisco Airport. It will Blankenhain, Germany. An original piece of paper take place the same time as The California Art and made from the newspaper is included by Jesch. The last Rubber Stamp Festival. There will be exhibitor few copies of Maill Art Scene GDR 1975 - 1990 which booths, artist talks, slide presentations, panel discussions is only in German, published by Haude & Spener, and an exhibition of artistamps from artists around the Berlin, Germany, edited by Friedrich Winnes and Lutz world. L.eading lights such as James Fetter, Carl Chew, Wohlrab with 124 pages in two colors and 350 visuals is Ed Vamey and Anna Banana will all be in attendance. still available for $20 or DM 30 from Jesch. For those wishing to register, send a $25 check to IIeirlsom Productions, 1405 Spring Valley Dr., "Sometimes You Feel like a Nut" is an article on Ted Koseville, CA 95661. Additional information can be Bale's mail art madness. Check it out in obtained by calling (91 6)782-8823. Rubberstampmadness for JanuaryEebruary. The Ray Johnson Memorial Space of Artpool will Thread NetworGng. Send a thread (tape, cord, rope, exhibit the Ernst Muzeum in Budapest, 19 February - 23 etc.) to Reika Ymarnoto, 3-5-60 Uenohigashi, March '1997, presenting available documents and work, Toyonaka, Japan 560. You can also send mythology, the pioneering correspondence activity of Ray Johnson, story, painting concerning a thread. Documentation to his creative networks, his determining influence on all all. art forms Pinked to the exchange of ideas. A catalog with studies and bibliogaphy will be published for the Mani Art. International networker magazine exhibition and sent to all contributors. Included will be assembling mail art for 10 years. Send 60 originals or original works and Johnson correspondence form the copies, 21 x 15 crn. in return receive collection of all Artpool archives (1 982- 1994); copies of correspondence submitting artists' works. Any medium, any theme. Send material form the network related to Ray Johnson to Mani Art, Galerie Postale, Pascall Lenoir, 1 1 Ruelle (I 955- 1994); Buda Ray University project: reflections de Champagne, 60680 Grandffesnoy, France. by 580 artists to five letters by Ray Johnson (1982-1988), memorial works made after Ray Johnson's The Secret Life of Marcel Duchamp. Send your death, Ray Johnson on the Internet and more. See all of original black and white work, 14 x 21 cm. Subject: this at the Artpool Art Research Center, H-1277 Fresh Window. Documentation to all participants. Send Budapest 23, Pf. 52, Hungary. email: to The Secret Life of Marcel Duchamp 10, Pascal [email protected] and the website is: Lenoir, 11 Ruelle de Champagne 60680 Grandkesnoy, http://www.artpool.hu France. No deadline. Popcorn Box. Send 100 small items (2D/3D) to be Mail Art Deadlines compiled into 3 x 6 x 3" popcorn box. Deadline: April 1997. Box 703, Navesink, NJ 07752. USA 3 Little Bigs and the Wolf. No deadline. Answer to all. Exhibitions. Art work to be only: 9 x 14 or A4 or Artistamp Exchange. Creative exchange. If you send very big poster. Story in any languages, old or new. four or more artistamps, you will receive the same Send a) Baudhuin Simon Hog Fiiwus, 71 rue number zine exchange. Send to Arte Correo Sudaca, d'Hofbckmidt, B 6720 Habay, Belgium. Jorge Gamica, JR Velasco 816, 1414 Buenos Aires, Argentina. No deadline. (lorrugated Paper Mail Art Project. Please send your ~!orkon corngated paper. Any kind is 0.k. Send to FIuxus. Ongoing, flux- Mai1 happenings, Reika Yamamoto, 4-7-7 Eirakuso, Toyonaka-City, social sculpture. Send addressed envelope to participate Osaka 560, Japan. to Stephen Harding, The Old Rectory, Symondsbury DT6 SHF, England. AIl About the Fox! All free with documentation every Janua~y! Send to Michael Fox, Rostocker Strasse 3, Kitchen Tables. Send a photograph of your kitchen D-3 1 141 Hiidesheim, Germany. Deadline: Ongoing. table--best examples of it in day-to-day use--for exhibition. Documentation to all. Send to Nathan, 3 1 Art of Shoes. No deadline. Please send an idea of Russell Sq., Brighton BN1 2EE, England. No deadline. Shoes which you imagine, you are wearing now, or of your favorite illustration. Photograph, Collage, and any The Rubber Stamp Exchange is a continuing project of kind is 0.k. Send to Yayoi Yoshitome, 1-1-10 the A 1 Waste Paper Company , 71 Lambeth Walk, Koshienguchi, Nishinorniya 663, Japan. London SEI 1 6DX, England. Send your old stamps and get new ones in return. Abuse (Child and/or Spouse, Partner) No fee, no jury, no returns. Periodic documentation. Ongoing. Send your Animals. Any medium, any size. Send to Pungilcz 4 x 5" art to: Stamp Out Abuse, arto posto, 199 14th St. Karoly, str Miroitei 43, 4800 TG, Mures, Rumania. NE, W2505, Atlanta, GA 30309-3691 USA Deadline: Ongoing. Dada is Everywhere Mail Art Show: All work Images of Elvis. Send your images of "The King". No exhibited. Documentation to all. 3 x 5" or 4 x 6" returns. Send to Clive Earley, Rolls Farm, Peldon, postcards only. Send to Stamp Francisco, Stamp Art Colchester C05 7QA, England. Deadline: ongoing Gallery, 466 Eighth St. San Francisco, CA 94103. Deadline: Ongoing to November 1997. Cyberstamps. Send work on the theme of cyberstamps. Women Make Art. Any medium, any size. Deadline: No returns, artwork will be placed in a commemorative ongoing. Call for women to give them validation, value sfampsheet over the Internet. Size must be exactly 1.5" and time to their art, and the time they spend making it. wide x 2" long.