Hey Vittore, You can call me Geert. I see that you know many about street art and that you have many of the books I have also. You should check out "Stick 'em Up" at the abck where all artists are named, there should be stickers of me also in this book (search Sztuka Fabryka). I believe that it is this book where stickers of my can be found. I know some magazines such as Peel zine: www.peelzine.com. But if you want to know more then you should check out www.woostercollective.com this is a hughe site with lots of links and information. Infact you should pass on your remark about Mail-Art and street art to Wooster so that it could be published and that people can read about it. Find some good reactions the past days on what I wrote. I believe there is going to come different Mail-Art scenes. One in which people do send out only things and that will it be. Is this communication? I do not believe that. And one which continues the traditions of Ray Johnson. But ok then I wonder an apple cake without the apples is that still an apple cake? It is easy to say to build up a network, but I do not see the chanes anymore. In the past you were able to see who is active through the documentation of Mail-Art projects. But from about 90% of the Mail-Art projects I participated in 2004 I have heard nothing afterwards so I do not participate to Mail-Art projects anymore, beside a few exceptions. So, a good idea Vittore to pick up your Arte Postale again. I will start to intend to document my chains and pass it on to the other chains. May this be something constructive.
> 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)? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Know an art & music fan? Make a donation in their honor this holiday season! http://us.click.yahoo.com/.6dcNC/.VHMAA/Zx0JAA/fuDrlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
