Accumulation

LIVE STREAMING - Action !
20.11.06, 11am - 8pm (CET)
http://www.machfeld.net/studio/aufzeichnungen

As a performativ act, the organizers (machfeld & elffriede) create
within a 9 hours microcosmic studio situation a unique book from the
accumulated material.
All participants will be part of the book "MACHWERK".

Please send us all your material at 20.11.2006 live to :
aufzeichnung[at]machfeld.net


Before, the streaming per snail-mail to:

MACHFELD | Studio
Max Winter-Platz 21/1
A-1020 Vienna

We need your material on 20.11.2006!

A cooperative project by: MACHFELD & elffriede

http://www.machfeld.net
http://www.elffriede.net

Supported by: BKA-KUNST/Austria


Background

Mail art is art that uses the postal system as a medium. The term
"mail art" can refer to an individual message, the medium through
which it is sent, and an art movement.
Mail artists typically exchange ephemera in the form of illustrated
letters; zines; rubberstamped, decorated, or illustrated envelopes;
artist trading cards; postcards; artist amps; faux postage;
mail-interviews; naked mail; and three-dimensional objects.
An amorphous international mail art network, involving thousands of
participants in over fifty countries, evolved between the 1950s and
the 1990s from the work of Ray Johnson.[citation needed] It was
influenced by other movements, including Dada and Fluxus.
One theme in mail art is that of commerce-free exchange; early mail
art was, in part, a snub of gallery art, juried shows, and
exclusivity in art. A saying in the mail art movement is "senders
receive," meaning that one must not expect mail art to be sent to
them unless they are also actively participating in the movement.
As an art form the early genre produced low- and high-minded works
ranging from the comic and satirical through commercial and
industrial advertising to the promotion of social causes such as free
trade, world peace and brotherhood, and the abolition
of slavery. Examples exist of pictorial propaganda envelopes with
patriotic motifs produced by both sides during the American Civil War.