Ongoing Interview Ruud Janssen

on http://rjinterview.blogspot.com/ I published a new answer for an interview that is going on with Luciana Tamas from Roumenia, and used this illustration for the answer as well.

The website / blog "Ongoing Interview with Ruud Janssen" will be documented in a bookform as well. So if you ask questions there and the answers get posted, they will end up in a book I will publish probably next year.

Fluxus Journey - Part 3 - Passing Gilze-Rijen

Mail from Letterhead - Maastricht - Netherlands

Mail from Cascadia Artpost - USA

Mail from Carted - France

Mail from Mail-Art Actions - Germany

Mail from Reneé Wagemans - Netherlands

Mail from Brasil

Mail from Mudheadreynolds - USA

Mail-Art ready for History?

Somehow the Mail-Art is being historified. If we want it or not. Mail-Art archives are sold or given to museums. Books about mail-art end up in muesums. The postal rates go high and less mail-art is being sent out. Digital platforms take over the communication-function for the new generation. I addressed this point to in a lecture I gave in Rotterdam last year. I invested a lot of time for that lecture. The sheets I used there to explain my views are all published in the book available at: http://www.lulu.com/content/5521047 . Or when you want it in colour that is possible too at: http://www.lulu.com/content/5520212 .

New Interview - Blog

Again someone is interviewing me. Because it is not sure where the complete interviews end up I have a new strategy with interviews. The blog: http://rjinterview.blogspot.com/ is used for that. Any question I get in is answered with a blogposting. That way others can read the questions and answers, but even can intervene with another question. The concept is also good because I can use hyperlinks and images with the answers. Just have a look.....

Mail from John M. Bennett - USA

Mail from Ed Buddz - USA

Mail from Node Pajomo - USA

PJM sent me his issue of Node Pajomo!

Mail from Mudhead - USA

Mail from Lubomya Tymkiv - Ukrain

Mail from an unknown Zipcode

received this wonderful piece of linocut material. On the back just a zipcode inside the Netherlands. I returned an envelope to this zipcode with in it a small surprise. will see if this causes a reaction.

Mail from Wilma Duguay - Canada

Mail from Joli - Netherlands

Mail from E. Buado - USA

Mail from Torma Cauli - Hungary

Mail from Thorsten Fuhrmann - Germany

IUOMA Certificate

Sent out to Wilma Duguay - Canada

Mail to Wolfgang Skodd - Germany

Special envelope for Wolfgang Skodd because he returned the O-Booklet for the Alphabet Booklet series. More about that later. I am slowly catching up on all the mail-art that piled up here.

Mail to Nancy Scali - USA

Mail to Nico van Hoorn - Netherlands

Mail from Nico van Hoorn - Netherlands

My painted envelope returned this way......

Mail from France

Notice the spacial Artistamp!

Mail from Alexander Charistos - Austria

Mail from Kat van Trollebol - Netherlands

A lovely addition to the TAM-Archive: A book from Kunsthal Rotterdam, sent by Kat van Trollebol, Tilburg, Netherlands. Thank You!

Mail from Xtina Solano - USA

Mail from The Carlo Pittore Foundation - USA

Mail from Carla Cryptic - USA

Carla Cryptic's catalogue arrived!

Mail from Maya Van Jeier - USA