International Mail Art Exhibition
Project idea: Claudia Sawallisch, Rosa-Therese Harter, Peter Gustavus
27 November to 31 December 2004
Their zenith had mail-art in the 70s and 80s. But even in the age of enamels and digital photography, paper mail is a verifiable medium between art and non-art. Mail Art works as project art. Your basic idea: No jury, no return, documentation to all participants (no examination, no return, each participant receives a documentation). Creative ideas were designed so that they could be sent by mail. Only works which, by their stamps, had an actual postal route behind them, qualified themselves for the participation.
Mail Art also wanted to explore what is actually available. The senders were encouraged to anticipate difficult things for the post office. A further aspect was the mutual networking - in this respect, Mail Art is a precursor of Web 2.0: recipients were sent to transmitters who in turn e-mailed mail, etc. Thus, sometimes extensive networks developed.
Claudia Sawallisch, Rosa-Therese Harter, and Peter Gustavus from the Berliner Kunstverein Quarts e.V. have once again invented MailArt: who visited the post-art exhibition of this Berlin artist trio, could become a mailartist himself. So write down the addresses and interact with the project creators.
For this exhibition, the initiators came back with their shipped works. Thus the multi-faceted communication of half a year could be shown - more than 350 exhibits, which the participating artists have sent. In this case, the volume of ideas among the mailartists often collided with the readiness to transport by post.
Information about Mail Art initiatives can also be found at www.mail-art.de
Mail-Art Participants:
| Gabriella Alonso, Argentinien Marie Anakee, USA Vicki Arige, USA Colleen Baran, Kanada Dan Bernick, USA J. D. Blair, Kanada Renate Borchart, Deutschland Anne Braunschweig, USA Jakob Brendle, Deutschland Hanning Bruhn, Deutschland Dan Buck, USA Ulrike Chirwa, Deutschland Mansour Ciss, Deutschland Ryosuke Cohen, Japan R. F. Côte, Kanada Angela Cremer, Deutschland Carla Cryptic, USA Gustavo da Liña, Brasilien David Dellafiora, Australien Dagmar Diekmann, Deutschland Uwe Dressler, Deutschland Emerenciano, Portugal Patricia Estela, Argentinien Oliver Fischer, Deutschland Michael Fox, Deutschland Francois Frisch, Luxemburg Giorgio, Frankreich Babara Gockel, Deutschland Peter Gustavus, Deutschland |
Rosa-Therese Harter, Deutschland Claudia Hartwig, Deutschland Carlo Herpoel, Belgien Harald Hesse, Deutschland Gabriele Hilsbos, Deutschland Denise Hunley, USA Daniel Jaloux, Deutschland Kerry Jeffrey, USA Birger Jesch, Deutschland Frank Kanjere, Zambia Katharina Klimsa, Deutschland Christine Klöhn, Deutschland Micha Koch, Deutschland Karoline Koeppel, Deutschland Mona Koliwer, Deutschland Lorraine Kwan, Kanada Ralf Leske, Deutschland Hendrik Liersch, Deutschland Dagmar Lohbeck-Klameth, Deutschland Blanka Lysszczarz Vautraves, Schweiz Ken Magri, USA Tina Mankiewicz, Deutschland Russel Manning, USA Sonja Martins, Deutschland Christian Mildbrandt, Deutschland Morning Star, Kanada Siegrid Müller-Holtz, Deutschland Omar Ndiaye, Senegal Angela und Peter Netmail, Deutschland |
Iris Neumann, Deutschland Helga Ntephe, Deutschland Anne Ochmann, Deutschland Wynne Palmer, Kanada Wilfried Postier, Deutschland Veronika Pöttgen, Deutschland Wolfgang Primbnow, Deutschland Stefan Reichle, Deutschland Jens Reulecke, Deutschland Simone Rosenow, Deutschland Ronald Rosowski, Deutschland Fabio Sassi, Italien Claudia Sawallisch, Deutschland Marianne Schemmel, Deutschland Jarmo Sermilä, Finnland J. Shantz, Kanada Evelyn Sommerhoff, Deutschland David Lawrence Stafford, Australien Klaus-Dieter Steinberg, Deutschland Anton Straub, Deutschland Lothar Trott, Schweiz Michel Della Vedova, Frankreich Guido Vermeulen, Belgien Melanie Vogt, Deutschland Dr. Gerhard Weil, Deutschland Horst Wendt, Deutschland Susan Williamson, Kanada Friedrich Winnes, Deutschland Dr. Lutz Wohlrab, Deutschland |
