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mail art bulletin # 6 / 04.’05

MAIL ART projects

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Mailart project

Mailboxes

Send a pictures, collage or any art related to mailboxes or post office boxes

Size: postcard 15cm x 10cm max (to fit in the frames)

Deadline: 1 Feb 2006

Exhibition: April 2006 at the Quebec City stamps and postcards show

Documentation to every participants

R. F. Côté, 12465 Ave de Troyes, Quebec, QC, G2A 3C9, Canada

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CALL FOR MAIL ART:

“I’m coming to see you”
On 14 May 2005, the City of Dijon will hold its “Celebrating Europe”
event, with participants from the fields of research, science, politics,
academics, economics and culture.
“Dijon, the European City, Celebrates the Union”, bringing out the
points that Member States share and highlighting the work they do
together, rather than their differences.  One part of the celebration
will be a mail art project on the theme of mobility, in which I am
inviting you to take part today and spread the word around you.
*One of the cultures common to all of Europe is sending mail; when the
mailman brings news, whether good or bad, he turns into a bearer of hope
and culture for a humanistic and social Europe.  Free movement should
not stop at merchandise – every individual should be able to say to his
European neighbour, “I’m coming to see you”, pledging thereby to the
fundamental and universal values that we should be putting forth each day. *
François-André ALLAERT / Deputy Delegate for International Relations and Europe
Curator: Reine SHAD / Technical Coordination: SABOTAGE
Send your vision and ideas on the topic, “I’m coming to see you”,

by 1 May 2005.  Technique and format are open.
Association Sabotage
22, rue de la Perdrix
21 000 DIJON
sabotage_box@hotmail.com
All works received will be exhibited in Dijon, from 14 to 31 May 2005,
with no prior panel selection.  A document with the complete list of mail

artists will be published and sent to each participant.

A virtual gallery will be created on the City’s Web site.

The works will not be returned.

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Call Mail Art
Organized by: Clemente Padín and César Reglero
Homage Guillermo Deisler: NO borders. YES intercultural
On October 21st. it will be 10 years since the death of one of the most important and influential artists and poets of the 60's in Latin America, the Chilean Guillermo Deisler (1940 - 1995).
Poet, performer, mailartist, graphics, engravings, etc., also he too will be remembered for his work as a printer. Not only because of the excellence of his "handmade" editions, especially those created in Chile (Ediciones Mimbre), but also for UNI/vers, a magazine made through artistic cooperation and interaction which delivered 35 issues and brought together hundreds of international artists of varied techniques and aesthetic roots.
Guillermo Deisler's singular situation came as a result of cultural interweaving: that of his German and Chilean ancestors, the mixture of indigenous and conquering cultures; the Araucanian and Mapuche indians, the Creoles... following this, his discovery of the ancient Greek/Latin culture during his exile in Bulgary and, finally, of the German culture. All these expressions reunite and expand in Deisler to make him a universal being, the "networker" prototype in which all cultures coexist in a sort of individual multiculturality, notwithstanding the seeming contradiction.
So, we invited you to participate in this exhibition-homage: NO borders. YES intercultural
None other could be the meaning of his verse: "I sometimes get tired of being a foreigner", or his favourite symbol, the feather, an emblem of the freedom which "crosses all frontiers", or the very name of his utopia -UNI/vers- aimed at the unification of humanity.
Deadline: October 21th, 2005
Technique and size: free
Will be sent documentation to all the participants.
All the received works will be gone exposing on line in the Gallery BOEK 861 "HOMAGE TO GUILLERMO DEISLER"
Curators: César Reglero and Clemente Padín
Sending to:
BOEK 861
c/o Cesar Reglero
Apartado 861
Tarragona
SPAIN
For netartworks send by email to Cesar Reglero: cesar@boek861.com
(Max. 99 KB and JPG)
http://boek861.com

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