((( Mail Art Archive at the Staatliches Museum Schwerin ,,,

Mail Art as an art form which is democratic, spontaneous and reacts to current affairs was developed in the 1960s – it was first practised in the USA and then came to Europe shortly after. Mail Art does not mean the personal correspondence between two people, but rather using art to communicate to concrete, advertised projects. The motto: no fee, no Jury, no return puts no restraints on the content or the form of expression. The Mail Art network enabled the worldwide exchange of thoughts and of art, for both artists and amateurs. Special mediums of expression developed through Mail Art, such as rubber-stamp art, artistamps, shaped envelopes, postcards, posters and assemblings. Significant portions of the Schwerin Mail Art Archive are made up of a collection of Berlin artists and Mail Artist Joseph W. Huber, who was active in the Mail Art network from the early 1970s.

Mail Art-Archive at the Staatliches Museum Schwerin

((( Arte Postal da XVI Bienal de São Paulo ,,,

((( THE CAVELLINI FESTIVAL IN NYC ,,,

THE CAVELLINI FESTIVAL IN NYC
3 day celebration of Guglielmo Achille Cavellini Nov. 14 to 16 to
celebrate GAC's centennial 1914-2014


Friday night November 14

530 pm to 730 pm

Reception at Museum of Modern Art library to see their mailings received
from Cavellini and to celebrate him and to look at their current mail art
historical show called "Analog Network."
Museum of Modern Art, Cullman Education Building, 4 W 54 St., New York.



Saturday November 15

10 am

Meet and go to the various museums around town and unfurl a Cavellini
1914-2014 banner for the purposes of self-historification.
Meet at Guggenheim Museum at 10 am.


12 to 2 pm

Richard L. Feigen & Co. viewing of "Ray Johnson's Art World" exhibition
with their archivist, Diana Bowers.
34 E 69th St, New York, NY.


3 to 5pm

Lynch Tham, a gallery on the Lower East Side presents a centennial
exhibition of works of Cavellini from his estate and some performances.
175 Rivington Street, New York, NY.


6-10 pm

Whitebox Art Center Lower East Side for a mail art show in honor of GAC.
Opening, performances and poetry readings.
329 Broome Street, New York, NY.


Whitebox and Lynch Tham Performance Lineup:

Performances by
Mark Bloch | Britta Wheeler as Belinda Powell | William Evertson from
Easthampton, Connecticut Giovanni and Renatta Strada from Ravenna, Italy |
Pasha Radetzki from the Republic of Belarus

Poetry by
Valery Oisteanu | Steve Dalachinsky | Yuko Otomo | Ron Kolm | Bonny Finberg
 Jeffrey Cyphers Wright | Allan Graubard

Music by
Antonello Parisi (piano rhodes) with Michael Gam (bass) and Julieta
Eugenio (tenor sax)

Video by
Richard Kostelanetz | Galeazzo Nardini and the Italian Museum | Jennifer
Weigel
Guglielmo Achille Cavellini and others



Sunday November 16

9:30 am New York Correspondence Brunch Meeting in honor of Cavellini and
Ray Johnson and also Buster Cleveland, John Evans, Dick Higgins, David
Cole, Fernand Barbot, Carlo Pittore and other late New York mail artists
at Katz's Deli.
205 E. Houston St, New York, NY.


3 day celebration of Cavellini Nov. 14 to 16 to celebrate GAC 1914-2014.
Organized by Mark Bloch

((( Focus Latin America: Art Is Our Last Hope , Phoenix Art Museum

October 1, 2014
to November 23, 2014

http://www.phxart.org/exhibition/mailart

((( Analog Network: Mail Art 1960-1999 ,,,

Analog Network: Mail Art, 1960–1999

October 1, 2014–January 5, 2015

http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2014/analognetwork/