Listening to a talk by Vanessa Davidson and Florencia Bassano on mail art in Latin America. There are some ideas here that I’m thinking about. I’m using this blog also to archive some media that is meaningful to me.
Mail art was “concerned with the mechanics of communication in general, [and] with aesthetic communication in particular.”
See also Edgardo-Antonio Vigo: “The fact that the [art] work must travel a set distance is part of its structure; it is the work itself. The work has been created to be sent through the mail. The postal system then does not exhaust its function in the transfer of the work, but it incorporates and conditions it. And the artist changes, in turn, the function of this medium of communication.”
See also mail artists:
Paulo Bruscky. “O meu grito.”
Leonhard Frank Duch: “I Am An Artist.”
Eugenio Dittborn
Claudia del Rio
Did email kill Mail Art?
See also the 2025 exhibit In Creative Harmony: Three Artistic Partnerships in the Blanton Museum of Art. The idea that artists never create in isolation.
Jean Vengua 