My letter to RF arrived! 

Museum of Temporary Art - donation

http://www.museum-of-temporary-art.com/theexhibits08.html is the link where you can find this image. This rubberstamp was part of the TAM-Rubberstamp Archive since I made the stamp. Now it is donated to the Museum of temporary Art (temporarely located in Cambridge, UK). If you want to send in something for this museum as well, go to the link and check the link participate.

More Mail-Art Blogs, less time for Mail-Art?

I sometimes (often?) look at the statistics of my blog. Call it a strange habbit that comes from my love for statistics (I did study Mathematics for 6 years....). What I notice is that the amount of visitors has decreased over the last months. is it just the vacation? When I look at a longer interval I notice the decrease is structural. Reasons?

More mail-artists started their blogs (some even quit because they found out it is very time-consuming). Scanning all the mail you send out, the mail you get in. Yes, it can cost you more than one hour each day. Less time for mail-art for sure.

Also more blogs to see out there. Can you keep track? Does a mail-artist really go through the mail-art of others all the time or is he just scanning to see if HIS/HER mail-art was published. The Blogs are a mail-art project on its own.

Is it all still interesting? Some blogs show a repetition of things. The same in a slightly varied form. Is that wat one is looking for? Or are there still these places (URL's) where it really is happening?

Ruud

Moving for real

The P.O. Box has moved a few months ago. Next week I will be moving myself with all the boxes that form the TAM Archive. A few days later Litsa arrives with all her boxes (also containing the Fluxus Heidelberg Center Archive and her paintings). You might guess we will be busy for the coming weeks...

Ruud

Mail from Latuff (Brasil)

Envelope by Latuff (Brasil) arrived today. I already send him a card in return..... Maybe it will pop up on his blog.

Mail to John Evans (NY, USA)

John Evans (NY, USA) has sent me always little surprises on my birthday. Also this year! As a reply I prepared this envelope for him which will go to NY today.

My mail-artists photoalbum in the 80-ies

In 1984 I started to meet the first mail-artists. Inside the Netherlands, but also outside my own country. Bacause I was interested to know how people looked like I made an album with portraits of the mail-artists I was in contact with. Here below you find a small selection out of that album. It shows how some of these mail-artists looked like in the 80-ies. Some might hate me for reminding them of how they looked then. Others have passed away. For the new generation of mail-artists is is easier to find out how their contacts look like. But on the Internet one can be fooled easily. Is the miniature image really the person I am writing to? The personal meeting will always tell.

If you know any details of the individuals on the photos, please DO leave a comment for me & others to read. Thank you

Ruud

Historic Mail-Art meeting in New York, 1985. 

Guy Bleus - 42.292, Wellen, Belgium. (1985) 

Ben Allen, Northern Ireland (1985) 

Luc Fierens (Belgium) in 1985. 

Andrej Tisma, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. 

Emilio Morandi in Ponta Nossa, Italy. 

Klaus Groh (Germany) - 1985. 

Henning Mittendorf (Frankfurt/M , Germany) - 1985. 

Michael Leigh in his old Lambeth Walk 71 address. (UK). 

Hazel Jones (before she met with michael Leigh) - UK 

Al Ackerman (USA) 

1985 

Marcello Diatallevi, Fano, Italy (1985). 

Sonja van der Burg at the Schottenburg expo in Amsterdam, 1985 (NL). 

RE Watington, NYC, USA. (He sent me always beautiful photos of the streetlife in NY). 

Clemente Padin, Uruguay. 

Private World from San Francisco, USA. 

Al Ackerman and Buz Blurr in the 80-ies 

Mogens Otto Nielsen from Denmark visits DDR and meets Robert Rehfeldt and Joseph W Huber.  

James Hill (TCab studios), San Francisco, USA. He made the most wonderful music and shared the audio cassettes with his mail-art friends. Lost touch with him in the 90-ies and never found out where he went or what happened to him. Information would be welcome! 

Matty Jankowski, Brooklyn, NY, USA.