International Mail Art Exhibition

Project idea: Claudia Sawallisch, Rosa-Therese Harter, Peter Gustavus

27 November to 31 December 2004

 

Quarts e.V. | Projekt - P. O. Box - Einladungskarte

Their zenith had mail-art in the 70s and 80s. But even in the age of enamels and digital photography, paper mail is a verifiable medium between art and non-art. Mail Art works as project art. Your basic idea: No jury, no return, documentation to all participants (no examination, no return, each participant receives a documentation). Creative ideas were designed so that they could be sent by mail. Only works which, by their stamps, had an actual postal route behind them, qualified themselves for the participation.

Mail Art also wanted to explore what is actually available. The senders were encouraged to anticipate difficult things for the post office. A further aspect was the mutual networking - in this respect, Mail Art is a precursor of Web 2.0: recipients were sent to transmitters who in turn e-mailed mail, etc. Thus, sometimes extensive networks developed.

Claudia Sawallisch, Rosa-Therese Harter, and Peter Gustavus from the Berliner Kunstverein Quarts e.V. have once again invented MailArt: who visited the post-art exhibition of this Berlin artist trio, could become a mailartist himself. So write down the addresses and interact with the project creators.

For this exhibition, the initiators came back with their shipped works. Thus the multi-faceted communication of half a year could be shown - more than 350 exhibits, which the participating artists have sent. In this case, the volume of ideas among the mailartists often collided with the readiness to transport by post.

Information about Mail Art initiatives can also be found at www.mail-art.de

 
Mail-Art Participants:

 
Gabriella Alonso, Argentinien
Marie Anakee, USA
Vicki Arige, USA
Colleen Baran, Kanada
Dan Bernick, USA
J. D. Blair, Kanada
Renate Borchart, Deutschland
Anne Braunschweig, USA
Jakob Brendle, Deutschland
Hanning Bruhn, Deutschland
Dan Buck, USA
Ulrike Chirwa, Deutschland
Mansour Ciss, Deutschland
Ryosuke Cohen, Japan
R. F. Côte, Kanada
Angela Cremer, Deutschland
Carla Cryptic, USA
Gustavo da Liña, Brasilien
David Dellafiora, Australien
Dagmar Diekmann, Deutschland
Uwe Dressler, Deutschland
Emerenciano, Portugal
Patricia Estela, Argentinien
Oliver Fischer, Deutschland
Michael Fox, Deutschland
Francois Frisch, Luxemburg
Giorgio, Frankreich
Babara Gockel, Deutschland
Peter Gustavus, Deutschland
Rosa-Therese Harter, Deutschland
Claudia Hartwig, Deutschland
Carlo Herpoel, Belgien
Harald Hesse, Deutschland
Gabriele Hilsbos, Deutschland
Denise Hunley, USA
Daniel Jaloux, Deutschland
Kerry Jeffrey, USA
Birger Jesch, Deutschland
Frank Kanjere, Zambia
Katharina Klimsa, Deutschland
Christine Klöhn, Deutschland
Micha Koch, Deutschland
Karoline Koeppel, Deutschland
Mona Koliwer, Deutschland
Lorraine Kwan, Kanada
Ralf Leske, Deutschland
Hendrik Liersch, Deutschland
Dagmar Lohbeck-Klameth, Deutschland
Blanka Lysszczarz Vautraves, Schweiz
Ken Magri, USA
Tina Mankiewicz, Deutschland
Russel Manning, USA
Sonja Martins, Deutschland
Christian Mildbrandt, Deutschland
Morning Star, Kanada
Siegrid Müller-Holtz, Deutschland
Omar Ndiaye, Senegal
Angela und Peter Netmail, Deutschland     

Iris Neumann, Deutschland
Helga Ntephe, Deutschland
Anne Ochmann, Deutschland
Wynne Palmer, Kanada
Wilfried Postier, Deutschland
Veronika Pöttgen, Deutschland
Wolfgang Primbnow, Deutschland
Stefan Reichle, Deutschland
Jens Reulecke, Deutschland
Simone Rosenow, Deutschland
Ronald Rosowski, Deutschland
Fabio Sassi, Italien
Claudia Sawallisch, Deutschland
Marianne Schemmel, Deutschland
Jarmo Sermilä, Finnland
J. Shantz, Kanada
Evelyn Sommerhoff, Deutschland
David Lawrence Stafford, Australien
Klaus-Dieter Steinberg, Deutschland
Anton Straub, Deutschland
Lothar Trott, Schweiz
Michel Della Vedova, Frankreich
Guido Vermeulen, Belgien
Melanie Vogt, Deutschland
Dr. Gerhard Weil, Deutschland
Horst Wendt, Deutschland
Susan Williamson, Kanada
Friedrich Winnes, Deutschland
Dr. Lutz Wohlrab, Deutschland
 
 

Invitation to the exhibition as a PDF

   
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