So far in 2024 three publications have landed in my hands. Fawn Daphne Plessner recently left a copy of the exhibition brochure Near Dwellers as Legal Beings in my work mail box. It is from a 2023 exhibition at The Tree Museum & Street Road …
Mail Art
Renegade Library Box #13
From 1996 to 1998, Renegade Library was a social practice and a collection of over 500 artist books. Originating with a mail art call for “collaborative mail art in book form,” this project brought over 700 artists from some 40 countries into …
Mail art from The Poem Factory (Ed Varney)
This nice packet of paper goods came in the mail from Ed Varney's "The Poem Factory" in Courtney, BC (on Vancouver Island). I initiated the exchange by sending the DADA of mail art 2 full sets of RML books (with a few more poetry chapbooks, added …
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La bibliothèque Liza Leyla
Moving studio contents this week, I found four small books that were mailed as mail art to me from the prolific and generous Brussels-based writer, Liza Leyla (Eliza Muylaert). Leyla is diligent about sending publications addressed to Renegade …
Embassy Cultural House, “A Trans-National Artist Collective…”
A couple of copies of this tabloid summarizing community art activities generated during pandemic years arrived in the mail box from Embassy Cultural House (ECH) in London, Ontario. Thank you to Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner for this big packet of …
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