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RAY JOHNSON PERFORMATIVE MAIL BEARS FOR BILL WILSON
bye ! E. Maily Hochman
BUBBLE e.bill mail
-Original Message-
From: rrrainr...@aol.com
To: ma-network@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, Mar 12, 2010 6:10 pm
Subject: Re: (",) WHAT PERFORMATIVE MAIL MEANS DEPENDS UPON THE KINDNESS OF
STRANGERS
per·for·ma·tive (pr-fôrm-tv)
adj.
Relat
per·for·ma·tive (pr-fôrm-tv)
adj.
Relating to or being an utterance that peforms an act or creates a state of
affairs by the fact of its being uttered under appropriate or conventional
circumstances, as a justice of the peace uttering I now pronounce you husband
and wife at a wedding ceremony
PERFORMATIVE MAIL - sounds like an action, rather than an object.
--- In ma-network@yahoogroups.com, par...@... wrote:
>
> Reed: now I speak of "mail-art" as PERFORMATIVE MAIL. Perhaps you can
> explain to me what I ought to mean by "performative" -- Bill
>
>
> In a message dated 3/11/201
MAIL ART PROJECT
Theme: BE MY TUBA IN THE SKY!
Size: Postcard (10 x 15 cm only please)
Technique:free
Deadline: 30 April 2010
Send to:
Netmailart
P.O.Box 2644
D 32383 Minden / Germoney Utd.
Not in an envelope please, no e-mail-contributions, and no black&white copies.
The idea is
