Pro-Active Mail-Art

Well, here is a new thing in Mail-Art. I have spotted the digital image of a letter that still has to arrive here in Breda. It is sent to me by Nico van Hoorn. A reaction is already sent today so my answer even gets to Nijmegen before Nico's mail arrives here. Pro-Active Mail-Art: Send you mail-art answer even before your mail-art from someone else has arrived....

Mail to Cascadia Artpost - USA

Mail to Lancillotto Bellini - Italy

Mail to Roland Halbritter - Germany

2nd attempt for the "Two mailing" cards.

Mail to Printed Matters - New York

Mail to Kat van Trollebol - Netherlands

Mail to Barry Edgar Pilcher - Ireland

Mail to Lothar Trott - Switserland

Mail Art Archives

An article about mail-Art archives I wrote back in the 90-ies. It dealt with how people then were building up their mail-art archives. Nowadays we are 20 years further. Some mail-artists have donated (or sold) their collections to archives, but some collections have vanished. It always is an interesting topic. Maybe should explore this a bit more in the near future.

Mail to Sticker Dude - NY - USA

The postal Workers and Joel Cohen himself will probably have problems reading all the letters in these colourfull settings. The envelope and letter start their journey now...

Thoughts on Mail-Art

A hard-copy version of the first 10 thoughts I wrote for the Internet. The online version is still available at: http://www.iuoma.org/overview.html and a direct access to all the texts you can find though: http://www.iuoma.org/secret_9.html. All the texts are hyperlinked, so you can jump from one text to another. Realize that the texts are old ones. They are my views from back then.

IUOMA-Sticker

How to draw a Bunny - DVD

part of the TAM-Archive (thanks to Rain Rien who bough it on Ebay for me)

First IUOMA Magazine 1991

Mail from Sticker Dude - NY - USA

A surprise package from the Sticker Dude (Joel Cohen) in New York, USA again. This time he has found my new address and send this wonderful surprise with stickers, printed meterials and a amagazine he made of his last mail-art project.

TAM Rubberstamp Archive Address List

1996-version

1994 version

1995 version

Over the years I have kept a database with all the addresses of mail-artists that contributed to the TAM-Tubberstamp Archive. The list grew over the decades and contains also the historic addresses. I printed the list every month and send old versions into the network. Some versions I kept in the TAM-Archive and above you find three old versions. The 1996-version was 50 pages thick....

Mail from Lancillotto Belini - Italy

IPM - Magazine 2nd Issue

First issue of IPM

A copy of the cover of the first issue of IPM (International Poetry magazine) as I issued in september 1993. From this magazine only a limited edition was sent out into the mail-art network.

Mail from Cascadia Artpost - USA

10 sheets with artistamps arrived. Made by Cascadia Artpost. A very generous gift which I will use on the coming outgoing mail. One sheet will go into the archive of Stampsheets I have (over thousands of sheets already...)

Special card made as "First day of Issue" for the IUOMA-stamp that Jack made for me.

he also use the artiostamps on the envelope he sent to me.

Mail from Carlo Pittore Foundation - USA

Mail to Servane Morel - Belgium

thank you envelope for her contribution to the TAM-Rubberstamp Archive.

Mail to Roland Halbritter - Germany

Surprise package for Roland Halbritter - Germany.

Mail from Communications Museum - Bern - Switserland

Mail from Barry Edgar Pilcher - Ireland

Barry returned one of the stampsheets that landed in Ireland....

New Trilogy by Litsa Spathi

Litsa Spathi published a new set of three books today. The complete set is part of the Performance with title "Balla Balla". The performance itself resulted in a collection of visual poetry that is published as part of the performance.

The books are available for others as well at the link: http://stores.lulu.com/fluxusheidelberg.

A colour-version is to be published as well.

Mail from Gary Cromack - UK

Mail from Servane Morel - Belgium

Mail from Lancillotto Belini - Italy

Mail from Nico van Hoorn - Netherlands

Nico van Hoorn sent me this CD with the video of his installation that is currently visible in Nijmegen.

It's a donation for the Fluxus Heidelberg Center (see: http://www.fluxusheidelberg.org ) where it will get a place in the Archive.

Mail from Roberto Formigoni - Italy

Roberto taped two stampsheets together he had received and used the backside as a letter. The from side he used for this stampwork / collage and returned it to me.

Envelope front- and back-side

Mail from R.F. coté - Canada

R.F. Coté returned the card I send to him slightly altered.