Retrospections on West 23rd
Street
Two blocks south of my house on 25th
Street, at 464 West 23rd Street, stands a
bleak building, its original façade and upstairs entry-way demolished for profit
from rental space. The building
lost all decorum when t
"2 partridges
2 Mallard ducks
a Dungeness crab
24 hours out
of the Pacific
and 2 live-frozen
trout
from Denmark"
(William Carlos Williams, Collected Poems 2, 208-09)
An idiot interviewer complained to Williams that these items in is poem
sounded like a fashionable grocery list, and Williams
One of the functions of mail-art has been to question habits and habitual
responses. If I pick only music, food or mail-art that suits my taste, and
as Plato would say, flatters my taste (but may not be healthy), then I
am like that bear staked to the ground who turns in ever-smaller circ
Ray Johnson has been
classified as a Pop Artist. A more
adequate way to describe him is to say that he was first within Pop Art, among
Pop Artists, but later he was next to Pop Artists. He made many collages which he
designated as “portraits” of other artists. His collage and his mail-
...including Ray Johnson(USA), the Father of Mail Art...
Thinking with visual and verbal images as we do, we must be careful with the implications of images. Ray Johnson, who never fathered a child, was in no sense "the father of mail-art." In the 2nd half of 1962, he set in motion a net
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzUqXQ9jARo_
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzUqXQ9jARo)
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_www.ravenrow.org_ (http://www.ravenrow.org)
Raven Row – 56 Artillery Lane, London e1 7ls –
Raven Row is a new non-profit contemporary art exhibition centre at 56
Artillery
Lane, Spitalfields, E1, which will open to the public on 28 February 2009.
Behind one of the finest eighteenth-cent
Ray Johnson. Please Add to & Return.
Inaugural Exhibition. 28 February to 10 May 2009.
Raven Row's inaugural exhibition is the first large UK show of the collages
and
mailings of New York artist Ray Johnson. Johnson used radical means to
construct and distribute images, and his influence on tw
I hope to hear about (learn about) disposable cameras, because during the
last few years of his life and art, Ray Johnson photographed his long
farewell letter and suicide note with disposable cameras. The camera is an
image conveying significant ideas. In my current notes, "The photogra
"...the last sunrise before nature claims its bounty." What does "nature"
have to do with building a house near a sea which is swelling as it is
heated up by human actions? Art should be at least as well thought as
science. Think or swim.
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 3/11/2010 1:42:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
ralte...@gwi.net writes:
http://livematter.blogspot.com
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"A new book out soon about a mail art pioneer who was sending weird things
through the post before Ray Johnson was even born!" And after that birth,
in high school, Ray began a relay of notes passed in class (I have a note
passed to "Pete" in 1943-1944, asking Pete to write back), and then,
"Go, talk your way to Kiev," as Ukrainians suggest.
In a message dated 3/14/2005 2:20:14 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dalichinsky's work is really nice//derek's xerox
work
(i assume) after/for bp is fantastic too
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:16:13 -, lophozia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
about Johnson on eBay:
>
In a message dated 3/16/2005 1:42:27 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
She received far less than the minimum wage!
I should have said that she worked pro bono, but had expenses of ca. $11.50
a year for which she has now been compensated. Bill
[Non-text portions
photocopy addnpass from Ray Johnson
Please, People: What are your opinions and judgments of the title on a piece
of work auctioned on eBay under this claim?
photocopy addnpass from Ray Johnson
I enjoy trustworthiness in persons, pieces of paper, and in words. Somehow
the Internet s
This note to a messageboard that has banned rain rien, from the person who
patrols it: B
The question ask is about why rain rien has been banned.
In a message dated 4/4/2005 2:41:14 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"do you mind if i ask why?"
No problem at all.
"something
In a message dated 4/15/2005 1:26:26 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
why do so many mail-artists document what they send out?
why do house-dogs eat their vomit? B
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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