"Tourism" was a fad in mailart/networking back in the (early to mid 1990's?) which following after things like Neoism, Noism, etc. Mostly just a concept, but some mail artists did in fact make world tours in person, visiting mailart contacts - Peter & Angelika Klusterman, and Mark Pawson among the best known. Peter & Angelika actually carried mail between mailartists on their tours.
Of course, Tourism through mail received and sent is another way to do it... To this day, many mailart projects have geographical place as a theme. How about Cheese chess chest sage sneeze? Smart allergens, John At 12:00 PM 3/11/02 -0800, you wrote: >"tourism" phase? You mean traveling the world by having it mailed to you? >Or Traveling the world by proxy in the mail art you send? > >I have found the Reference where I originally discovered Theoria.. Its a >work called > >Socrate's Ancestor: An Essay on Architectural Beginnings by Indra Kagis >McEwen > >What a far-out name! Dig that nasal stop. > > > > >while I've been trying to sleep I've had > >Mouse Sages playing chess with sage cheese >but then >Mouse Sages playing chess with cheese sages (whole chess set of philosophers >in cheese) > >The Mouse Sages would really be mouse apartment buildings with Video >surveillance inside, like a 3d archit. Maze. >The Video Would be Piped to the Video Screen Eyes of a Large Wooden Bust of >Voltaire by Pigal who watches the "match" >Voltaire would wear a large 80's rapper style gold chain whose golden >medallion was the word "MOLERAT". >Then have some small printed caricatures of Moliere done as a Rat.. ie >Molierat .. Have these passed out as handbills by children dressed in 18th >Century Garb.. Find a line dealing with mice/rats/cheese in Moliere and >print this on the back.. > >The Carved Wooden Voltaire Bust would be ideally about 10ft tall. There >would be large Photographs on Aluminum of Hunting Hawks all around the room. >Also a large refridgerated Glass Mouse with cheese snacks in its open back >for the gallerigoers.. > >shooshing again.. > > > > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "John M. Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 4:12 AM >Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: JMB on the walls of Plaza Vico > > > > Fascinating about "theoria". The "tourism" phase of mailart/networking > > seems to have very ancient roots... > > John > > > > At 01:34 PM 3/8/02 -0800, you wrote: > > >For those of you who have never heard a Theorbos > > > > > >http://www.lutherie-van-gool.nl/geluid/theorbe.asf > > > > > >Also, for those who don't don't know what a theoros is.. > > > > > > > > >I found this but I have read alternate explanations > > >one of which being they were special preists sent to witness provincial > > >festivals.. > > > > > > > > >A review of our disciplinary resources reveals that in fact there are >many > > >significant points of overlap between the arts and tourism. Take for >example > > >the case of Solon, one of the wisest of the Ancient Greeks, who is said >to > > >be both the first theorist and the first tourist. "The Greeks," Wlad >Godzich > > >explains,"designated certain individuals to act as legates on certain >formal > > >occasions in other city states or in matters of considerable political > > >importance. These individuals bore the title of theoros and collectively > > >constituted a theoria. They were summoned on special occasions to attest >the > > >occurrence of some event, to witness its happenstance, and to then >verbally > > >certify its having taken place" (Godzich). Others could see and make >claims, > > >but these would have merely the status of "perceptions"; only the report >of > > >the theoria provided certainty, certifying the attested event such that >it > > >could be treated as fact. "What it certified as having been seen could > > >become the object of public discourse." > > > > > >Travel was an essential element of archaic theoria. Herodotus noted that > > >theoria was the reason for Solon's visit to the ruler of Lydia. >"Originally > > >theoria meant seeing the sights, seeing for yourself, and getting a > > >worldview," E. V. Walter comments. "The first theorists were >'tourists'--the > > >wise men who traveled to inspect the obvious world. Solon, the Greek sage > > >whose political reforms around 590 B.C. renewed the city of Athens, is >the > > >first 'theorist' in Western history" (Walter). This theoria "did not mean > > >the kind of vision that is restricted to the sense of sight. The term > > >implied a complex but organic mode of active observation--a perceptual > > >system that included asking questions, listening to stories and local >myths, > > >and feeling as well as hearing and seeing. It encouraged an open >reception > > >to every kind of emotional, cognitive, symbolic, imaginative, and sensory > > >experience." Nor was the travel of a theoros always a response; it could > > >also be a probe. The motive for Solon's visit to Lydia, where he went "to > > >see what could be seen," was "curiosity": "and it was just this great >gift > > >of curiosity, and the desire to see all the wonderful things--pyramids, > > >inundations, and so forth--that were to be seen that enabled the Ionians >to > > >pick up and turn to their own use such scraps of knowledge as they could > > >come by among the barbarians"(Burnet). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Vico studies.. Finnegan's Wake's structure is said to be based on a study >of > > >Vico > > > > > >http://www.connix.com/~gapinton/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > >From: "John M. Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 9:28 AM > > >Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: JMB on the walls of Plaza Vico > > > > > > > > > > AH!: "fuming coag dulation"! > > > > > > > > Also, "Foambook" is the title of an (unpublished) book of mine... > > > > > > > > Onfoam, > > > > John > > > > > > > > At 07:50 AM 3/8/02 -0800, you wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > >JMB on the walls of Plaza Vico > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Wunderlost > > > > > > > > > >Theoros w/ Theorbos rum age thru the temple calen dar > > > > >Al His slam pome woke like an Arch enboldo of Avian particle s > > > > >Vico Vico the yawn d jawbown ass of jeweled Nitre N Gales > > > > >frost on the jellied Hume curves slow ly wide pouring the > > > > >C of Broken Meat Candles my shoe boat bobs on sonic loi Ns > > > > >Segmented do me Ray grotto where the gestural tongue hides > > > > >gather like fat Exxes goat-skinned figeurs of ontic plac ent rails > > > > >"Daedalus made crossword puzzles out of marble and frozen wine" > > > > > > > > > >VaterStelae > > > > > > > > > >Bro Ken Staves piled in lieu pine howls of butter'd Claus trowels > > > > >un titled tea smirch recto-verso stitch face'd fenest Irrations > > > > >or was the propulsion of gravel eye-beads laking tall the beans > > > > >of giants word-stalk be hemmed froth fuming coag dulation slices > > > > >of cacophonic indices for the snark was a blue jum yew know > > > > >a grew jem in snow corrugium le doe apparently crytographer > > > > >und hoo butta who could hue the hewn so heavily high it floats > > > > >it flew wing ed out the synopticon foambook knotosuction's Li Po > > > > > > > > __________________________________________ > > > > Dr. John M. Bennett > > > > Curator, Avant Writing Collection > > > > Rare Books & Manuscripts Library > > > > The Ohio State University Libraries > > > > 1858 Neil Av Mall > > > > Columbus, OH 43210 USA > > > > > > > > (614) 292-8114 > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ___________________________________________ > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________ > > Dr. John M. Bennett > > Curator, Avant Writing Collection > > Rare Books & Manuscripts Library > > The Ohio State University Libraries > > 1858 Neil Av Mall > > Columbus, OH 43210 USA > > > > (614) 292-8114 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ___________________________________________ > > > > __________________________________________ Dr. John M. Bennett Curator, Avant Writing Collection Rare Books & Manuscripts Library The Ohio State University Libraries 1858 Neil Av Mall Columbus, OH 43210 USA (614) 292-8114 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________
