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03/04/06 @897

Call For Mail Art - The First International April Fool's Day Mail Art Exhibition

Call For Mail Art - The First International April Fool's Day Mail Art
Exhibition

The Tate Modern Gallery, London is sorely lacking in examples of Mail
Art for a permanent exhibition of Mail Art.

"Mail art is art which uses the postal system as a medium. - Mail art
is also, simultaneously, a message that is sent, the medium through
which it is sent as well as one of the longest-lasting art movements in
history. To be precise, an amorphous international mail art network
evolved of thousands of participants in over fifty countries between
the 1950s and the 1990s from the work of Ray Johnson and influenced by
earlier groups, including Dada and Johnson's contemporaries in the
Fluxus group."*

Today, there are over 500 companies listed on Froogle as trading in
Mail Art memorabilia and thousands of informational internet sites and
galleries. However, mainstream galleries and critics do little to
publicise or promote the art form and artists. Mail Art is major
sociological phenomenon which has been under-represented in the art
world for too long.

The purpose of this call for Mail Art is that artists contribute
(donate) one or more piece of their work which is drawn, printed or
painted onto an envelope, parcel or postcard to the Tate Modern
Gallery, London on or before April Fool's Day.

The style, subject matter, and media are open to the individual
artist's desecration.

To learn more about formats, visit
http://www.mailartist.com/kiyotei/index.html

Address all Mail Art submissions to:

April Fool's Day
Mail Art Exhibition
Tate Modern
Bankside
London
SE1 9TG

George Glasser
For contact details visit: http://www.g-tigerclaw.com

Editor's Notes:
See more information about Mail Art at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_art
http://www.mailartist.com/

Juro

03/05/06 @187

Cool, I might enter that.

wildlifehoodoo

03/06/06 @647

I don't get it!
You want us to draw on an envelope and send it to the Tate? Why?

I read the wikipedia link etc and still don't get it! Maybe I'm not artistically minded enough.

Tavan

03/08/06 @772

to the tiger-claw link:
he talks about design and stuff-but the whole site is an eye-cancer-like "design"-crime.

the mail-art topic sounds interesting, but is there anything to win? or is the prize to be part of the exhibition?

garkin

03/14/06 @393

from what can i say as an experienced webdesigner in coding and in design too, that tigerclaw web is realy horrible in each way, graphics, accessibility, ...

mail art sounds a bit weird to me, but also interesting ;]

hkron1997

12/05/08 @359

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