John wrote: >"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.<
Didn't the Swiss mail artist H.R.Fricker write something back in the late 80s about how the future of mail art was tourism? I think he wrote something in an issue of Lightworks but I can't remember exactly. I'm at work so don't have my references to hand. Personally I like the tourist idea but think it's prohibitively expensive and that mail art through the post is a far more democratic form. cheers, Sol.
