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Reanimate
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What
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is a call for work for a live Mail Art project - please take part,
if interested: Theme: Death Row Background: Death Row is the place where those sentenced to die await execution. For some time, I have been writing to a convicted prisoner incarcerated on Death Row in Georgia, USA. Theme: 'Death Row' - What is your response to this phrase? Format: Flat art work, image 23 cms x 13 cms. Please add 2 cms on left hand edge for binding (i.e. increase paper size to 25 cms by 13 cms). Landscape format: binding on left, portrait format: binding at top. Please send 25 (multiple) copies for bookwork. Edition made every 20 participants. Copy to all taking part. Please remember to include your address! Deadline: This is an on-going project. Please send your work to: Death Row Mail Art Project, PO Box 70, Teignmouth, Devon, TQ14 9WQ, UK |
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| 3. Below is the brief for a Mail Art project run for first year students in 2005: | |
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are powerful things: they help us buy and sell; they allow us to catalogue
and measure and build; they empower us to fly to the stars or keep
track of political prisoners. They prevent us from losing our page;
they document how many times we have circled the sun; they help us
catch a bus or decide on a suitable pair of shoes. They represent
an abstract conceptual system and often have a concrete, visual presence.
Numbers exist within magical, scientific and artistic realms - i.e.
they are tokens of culture. This year's Mail Art project has, at its heart, the number sixty-three. Use this number, in any way you wish, to generate a piece (or pieces) of art suitable for sending through the post. You may take any aspect of the number 63 from which to make your work - there are no wrong answers. You do not, for example, have to make 63 things or use 63 parts (but you can if you wish). We are inviting you to find the creative potential of the number 63. |
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 Mail Art Project Instructions: 1. Meet together to discuss project and to swap names and addresses (picked from a hat) 2. Spend some time researching in the library or on the web: Fluxus, Ray Johnson, The Eternal Network, Nouveaux Realists, Happenings, Stewart Home, Vile Magazine, the Gutai group etc. (see 'What is Mail Art?' webpage) 3. The chosen theme this year is 63 - for more details see above 4a. Sometime between 19th March and 3rd April 2005 make some mail art in response to the above theme (for which the only criterion is that you can afford to mail it to the recipient!) 4b. Mail it to the recipient before Mon 4th April 2005 5. The recipient should then bring the received mail art into college on the Wed 13th April when we shall be meeting in room G23 10.00-12.30 to discuss and look at the work. NOW THEN - GO TO IT!  |
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University of Plymouth
| We do: envelopes - paper - stamps - tickets - card - glue - badges - photocopies - book works - postcards - installation - outstallation |
| We: go in a circle - go through the wardrobe - go for a run - go up to strangers - go through the dictionary - go to hell and back... |