Dear Ruud, I guess the secret is considering mail art as just one of many creative activities that can be entered in an open "networking" frame of mind, when you start building a Church of Mail Art there is when the real FUN ends. I always loved and practiced street art activities because I feel they are related to the mail art attitude and really on the same wavelenght, just like I discovered mail art through my interest for the underground press of the 60es and the Beat literature of the 50es. There seems to be a wild, "street art" angle in everything that I like most, including rock and roll and popular music. Regarding stickers, I started producing them in the 70es and you know I did large projects and publications with P.Ciani in the 80es as Stickerman Museum etc. Today sticker-art and stencil-art have become genres in their own right, I recently bought through Amazon various related books (like Tristan Marco's STENCIL GRAFFITI for Thames and Hudson, THE ART OF REBELLION-World of Street Art for Gingko Press, STICK 'EM UP for BOOT Clibborn Editions, various Shepard Fairey publications), they are nice and interesting books but I think they fail to see these expressions as part of an artistic (sub)culture which roots go much deeper than 80es hip-hop and graffiti culture. Of course the many sticker-stencils projects and actions carried out for decades in the mail art environment are never acknowledged in these books, this is another problem of mail art being so insular-isolated, not really mixing with the outside world a lot (but I immediately contacted the authors of these books, sent them material, I encourage you to do the same: direct action is better than groaning and moaning!). And are you aware of active magazines promoting sticker art? if yes, pass me information. And why there are so few really active mail art magazine promoting a discussion on "our" medium (I know, I should put Arte Postale! back on the track)?
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