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	DATED MAILART CALLS last updated February 4, 2010 Selection for inclusion on this page is based upon a number of criteria. I have instituted a general review of the calls on this page purely as a means to aid those new initiates who have little or no experience with mailart. Some of the considerations that I use are if the call is targeted at visual art, whether the work will be exhibited, if there will be documentation, and if there is a known history of coordinating. If you like to explore, submit to any call purely for the sake of play and with no expectations. one perf - unknown or insufficient information given two perfs - may lack some of the qualities of a complete call three perfs - good call four perfs - known coordinator, or with artistamp history five perfs - exceptional If you have a call that you wish to have considered for listing here and it includes: a deadline to be received, an exhibition in a public space and mailed documentation for participants, please send it to me at the following address and include “mail art call” in the subject line. Listing is not automatic. METRICS CONVERTOR- for easy size/dimension conversion 02 *** FEBRUARY 2010 The Last Post (five perfs) Landscape artist Kane Cunningham has used his credit card to buy a house that is about to fall into the sea. A bungalow at Knipe Point in Scarborough, North Yorkshire – near the scene of the infamous Holbeck Hotel cliff collapse 16 years ago has been condemned after a fresh landslip. Cunningham states: "I have bought a house that will be the next one to fall over the cliff. It feels like I have no choice. I’m going to rig the house with cameras and film the last sunrise before nature claims its bounty. It’s the perfect site-specific art installation - a stark reminder of lost dreams, financial disaster and threatening sealevels. It’s global recession and global warming encapsulated. This little house is feet away from the edge of the cliff – it can go at any moment. The idea is to create an artwork on a scale never been seen before in North Yorkshire and to stimulate within the imagination of the public the idea that this house falling into the sea can become a work of art. If the aim of art is to stimulate discussion and debate on issues, then surely this will get people talking. My work has always been about understanding the social and political context of landscape; the house is just a development of these ideas". Cunningham who bought the house on his credit card for £3,000 said, 'the house was worth over £150,000 two years ago, now it is worth just a fraction of the original price. The purchase of this house on my credit card is a deliberate financial transaction suggesting the link to credit, sub prime mortgages, property ownership, debt, loans, the financial markets, property speculation, boom and bust'. One idea, which has emerged recently as a consequence of the work, is to invite people to send me mail art and letters on any subject, these will be pinned to a wall as part of the overall artwork, then destroyed as the house disappears. So who knows what they may contain! Because "Destruction and creation have often gone hand in hand in the art world", this project is called "The Last Post", as the address will one day cease to exist and so it’s a rare opportunity to participate in an original and unique work of art. Finally "The House" in many ways epitomizes the decade, of unprecedented greed, of lies and deceit, the art market, credit debt, war and conflict across the world. It’s a symbol that can be interpretive in many ways. The timing of the press release is deliberate, just after Copenhagen and just before Christmas when all focus is on the home, when families come together and when we all reflect upon things we feel are important. Documentation: Just after Christmas we will have a webcam to see the sunrise and possible destruction of the house as it goes over the cliff, so please visit the site again to see new work being produced as I go along. To include video, digital photographs, paintings, prints, sculptures and site specific work within the house as I physically deconstruct the building over the next few weeks. Artists from across all disciplines can contact me to discuss the project, though I am particularly interested in new exciting ideas and possibilities from anyone with a big idea. Info: http://kanecunningham.co.uk/house.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6914093/Artist-buys-house-to-watch-it-fall-in-sea.html http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/whatson/exhibitions/4818014.Kane_Cunningham_s_House_art_project_at_Cayton__Scarborough/ Deadline to be received: NOW!... time is obviously of the essence The Last Post 20 Knipe Point Cayton, Scarborough North Yorkshire England * Your BED (four perfs) Theme: Call for all mail artists to send artwork of your BED, for my upcoming group art show which I am curating. Technique/Media/Size: FREE - any dimensions, materials, interpretations welcome. Photograph and/or picture/poem/mixed media... etc. Exhibition: The exhibit will be presented in 2010 at a venue in Spokane, Washington. Probably the Hoot Owl Fellowship Hall (2016 E. Sprague Ave., Spokane) and/or Kolva/Sullivan Gallery (115 S. Adams, Spokane). Documentation to all participants. Deadline to be received: Feb 8, 2010 Donna Han 24 S. Crestline St. #4 Spokane, WA 99202 USA * Escapism (four perfs) Theme: an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy Size/media: free, but postcard only... no envelope. Technique: free (a drawing, a photo, a collage, etc.) Cards should be sent using postage stamps. No jury, no returns. Exhibition: The mailart received by the A.A.C. By 2-12-2009, will be exhibited in a public space and online. Documentation sent to all participants. Please include your email and mailing address. Info: mckenziebrosphotography@yahoo.com Deadline to be received: February 12, 2010 Algonac Arts Council attn: C.A. McKenzie P.O. Box 213 Algonac, MI 48001 USA * Running on Love (five perfs) Theme: An open mail call for Valentines with poems in conjunction with a public event at the Victoria City Hall called "Lyrics for the Human Race", featuring readings by Victoria's Poet Laureate Linda Rogers http://www.victoria.ca/residents/artscl_ptlrt.shtml Technique/Media/Size: free Exhibition: Works will be selected as part of a public reading by Ms. Rogers and all works will also be on display for the public in downtown Victoria, BC, CANADA at #1 Centennial Square, Conference Room from 1:30 to 3 PM. There will also be live music and refreshments. Documentation: http://runningonlovemailart.blogspot.com Info: mailarta@gmail.com Deadline to be received: February 12, 2010 Running on Love Studio J - 1324 Broad Street Victoria, BC CANADA V8W 2A9 * Indulgence (two perfs) Theme: All interpretations of the concept indulgence are welcomed. Size/Media: Postcards of any size. Technique: Free Submissions must be sent through normal postal system. Exhibition: January 20-February 24, 2010. No returns. Info: wellingfan200437@msn.com Deadline to be received: We accept submissions from January 20 to February 24, 2010. If you wanted to do a series over a number of days that would be great. Mail Art/B. Reinhardt/Photography Club PCA 1P-203 College of Staten Island/CUNY 2800 Victory Boulevard Staten Island, NY 10314 USA * Self-portrait (two perfs) Size: Small format postcard (10 x 15 cms) Technique: free No returns Documentation: to all participants as well as online at http://osile.blogspot.com and: http://elautorretrato.blogspot.com Info: osile221152@gmail.com Deadline to be received: February 28, 2010 Eliso Ignacio Silva Apartado 67011 Caracas 1061 Venezuela * ART AND MENTAL DISORDER (four perfs) Theme: The Cultural Association and psychosocial research organization PSICOTREX is a non-profit that has among its objectives, the promotion of art as a way of integrating the different groups at risk of social exclusion. Our group is composed primarily of psychologists and multidisciplinary artists. This time we are looking to investigate the relationship between art and mental disorders. We believe that artistic creation is a very valuable tool to improve our quality of life, alternative communication systems and facilitate the balance of mind. That is why we as an association aim to investigate these matters and ask the cooperation of all those creators who feel identified with this proposal, as well as institutions, organizations and institutions working in this field, in order to achieve an artistic background and documentary that it can work and provide a basis for future research. TECHNIQUE: Free - collage, Photo, painting, object… SIZE: without limits. EXHIBITION: Entries submitted will be part of the exhibition to be held in May 2010 at the Hotel de Entidades de Tarragona. DOCUMENTATION: The ARTWORKS will be published. Information for all participants will be given. INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS: The call is organized by Psicotrex. Psicotrex@gmail.com http://www/psicotrex.com - This is a not competitive call, there is no jury and no previous selection. - There will be no refund of the submitted works. They will remain in the archives of PSICOTREX AEIDP. - The works are not subject to commercial transactions, but can be reproduced FOR informative purposes and used in research works. Participation in this call implies full acceptance of these rules. Deadline to be received: February 28, 2010 Psicotrex César Reglero Aptdo. de Correos 861 43080 - Tarragona Spain * Fish (four perfs) Theme: The symbol of the fish has been tied to a series of old Lunar deities, astrology, Christianity, the basis of some Pythagorean geometry and many other relationships to humans. Technique: Free, but art work must be 2-dimensional. Size: 11 X 11 CM On the back of each work, please include brief data of the author: name, title, mailing dress and email since that is the means the documentation will be sent. Works will also be posted on a blog. The received artworks will be made into a book that will be contained in a CD case. (if it is necessary, several books will be created). Info: muny2601@yahoo.com.ar Deadline to be received: February 28, 2010 MÓNICA VALLEJO 25 DE MAYO 569 9° A. C.P. 4000 - SAN MIGUEL DE TUCUMÁN TUCUMÁN ARGENTINA 03 * MARCH 2010 The Last Post (five perfs) Landscape artist Kane Cunningham has used his credit card to buy a house that is about to fall into the sea. A bungalow at Knipe Point in Scarborough, North Yorkshire – near the scene of the infamous Holbeck Hotel cliff collapse 16 years ago has been condemned after a fresh landslip. Cunningham states: "I have bought a house that will be the next one to fall over the cliff. It feels like I have no choice. I’m going to rig the house with cameras and film the last sunrise before nature claims its bounty. It’s the perfect site-specific art installation - a stark reminder of lost dreams, financial disaster and threatening sealevels. It’s global recession and global warming encapsulated. This little house is feet away from the edge of the cliff – it can go at any moment. The idea is to create an artwork on a scale never been seen before in North Yorkshire and to stimulate within the imagination of the public the idea that this house falling into the sea can become a work of art. If the aim of art is to stimulate discussion and debate on issues, then surely this will get people talking. My work has always been about understanding the social and political context of landscape; the house is just a development of these ideas". Cunningham who bought the house on his credit card for £3,000 said, 'the house was worth over £150,000 two years ago, now it is worth just a fraction of the original price. The purchase of this house on my credit card is a deliberate financial transaction suggesting the link to credit, sub prime mortgages, property ownership, debt, loans, the financial markets, property speculation, boom and bust'. One idea, which has emerged recently as a consequence of the work, is to invite people to send me mail art and letters on any subject, these will be pinned to a wall as part of the overall artwork, then destroyed as the house disappears. So who knows what they may contain! Because "Destruction and creation have often gone hand in hand in the art world", this project is called "The Last Post", as the address will one day cease to exist and so it’s a rare opportunity to participate in an original and unique work of art. Finally "The House" in many ways epitomizes the decade, of unprecedented greed, of lies and deceit, the art market, credit debt, war and conflict across the world. It’s a symbol that can be interpretive in many ways. The timing of the press release is deliberate, just after Copenhagen and just before Christmas when all focus is on the home, when families come together and when we all reflect upon things we feel are important. Documentation: Just after Christmas we will have a webcam to see the sunrise and possible destruction of the house as it goes over the cliff, so please visit the site again to see new work being produced as I go along. To include video, digital photographs, paintings, prints, sculptures and site specific work within the house as I physically deconstruct the building over the next few weeks. Artists from across all disciplines can contact me to discuss the project, though I am particularly interested in new exciting ideas and possibilities from anyone with a big idea. Info: http://kanecunningham.co.uk/house.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6914093/Artist-buys-house-to-watch-it-fall-in-sea.html http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/whatson/exhibitions/4818014.Kane_Cunningham_s_House_art_project_at_Cayton__Scarborough/ Deadline to be received: NOW!... time is obviously of the essence The Last Post 20 Knipe Point Cayton, Scarborough North Yorkshire England * Flying (three perfs) International Mail Art Call Theme: The Local Authority of Nyíracsád, Dózsa György Cultural Centre and the Tourist Information Office are issuing a call to create Mail-Art (postal –art) works of arts, for an exhibition in Nyíracsád. The theme is "Flying". Size: maximum: 40 cms by 30 cms Technique: free Number of works: maximum 2 Submissions must be free of any content that would disturb the feelings of any nation or feelings of ethnic minorities. Exhibition: Artwork will be shown at the Mill Gallery in Nyíracsád starting April 24, 2010. We are planning to continue mail art calls every second year with different topics. We are also planning to open a Mail Art Gallery in Nyíracsád and exhibit the collection there. No returns. Artwork will be archived by the Local Authority of Nyíracsád. It would be advisable to start sending your “Mail Art” early so they don’t accumulate at the post office just before the deadline. Coordinated by Dr Katona Gyula, Mayor and Kiss József, painter, organizer Info: kissjo@freemail.hu or kissjola@gmail.com Deadline to be received: March 1, 2010. Kiss József Nyíracsád Széchenyi Street 11 Hungary 4262 * 150th Anniversary of the Pony Express (five perfs) Theme: Be part of the historic 150th anniversary celebrations by creating a piece of Pony Express mail art and sending it to the Modesto Art Museum for the international exhibition in April 2010. Creative variations on the theme of mail delivery by horse are encouraged. Format/Media: Envelopes, post cards, and art stamps. We will display only the side of your mailing with postage and address. We will not open envelopes or packages. Mail art must be on the outside of the envelope or postcard. Exhibition: Modesto, California in April 2010. Watch the museum's web site for details. Also, online exhibit on the museum Flickr site. Viewers and artists will be able to comment online about the art. Documentation: online at museum web site http://modestoartmuseum.org No returns. All mail art will become part of the museum's archive. Note: Please include your mailing address on your entry for acknowledgment Info: modestoartmuseum@yahoo.com Deadline to be received: March 5, 2010 Pony Express Modesto Art Museum 404 Patrick Lane Modesto, CA 95350 USA * Dancing Through Life (four perfs) Theme: I operate a ballroom dance studio in St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA. This studio is in the center of the city which hosts art crawls four times a year. During the evening of the art crawls, I convert my studio into an art gallery. Nearly 300 people pass through my studio those evenings. About one hundred people come to my studio each month for dance lessons. I am sponsoring this mail art project for our next art crawl which will be on March 20, 2010. Please contribute to my mail art project on the theme "Dancing Through Life". The theme can be interpreted literally or figuratively. Size/Media: free. Any mailed format is acceptable: envelope, post card, box, any size, any type, as long as it is mailed. Exhibition: Mail art submissions will be on display for 6 weeks around March 20. All submitted work will be exhibited. Submissions may be exhibited at other dance studios in Minnesota or elsewhere. Select submissions may become permanent features of StudioJeff. Documentation: will be mailed to all who submit. No work will be returned. All submissions will become property of StudioJeff. Info: jeff@studiojeff.com http://www.studiojeff.com http://www.youtube.com/studiojeffmn http://www.youtube.com/scsuballroomdance Deadline to be received: March 6, 2010 Jeff Ringer P. O. Box 1031 St. Cloud, MN 56302-1031 USA * ARTIST'S BOOKS (two perfs) Format and technique: Free No returns Documentation: Catalog to all participants Exhibition: All artworks will be shown at the library of CARENTAN Square Hervé in MANGON. Artwork will travel to other locations in the future. Deadline to be received: March 15, 2010 ARSOR 7 rue des mares 50660 ORVAL FRANCE * A Venus for Ille (four perfs) Theme: Published in 1837, Prosper Mérimée wrote "The Venus of Ille". Unlike his story however, there have been no real sightings of Venus in Ille. To fill this void, I invite you to participate in a mail art project "A Venus for Ille". Exhibition: All artwork will be exhibited in my workshop at 13 carre Santa Creu, 66130 Ille sur Têt, France, during summer 2010 Documentation: http://desvenuspourille.blogspot.com/ Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_V%C3%A9nus_d'Ille Deadline to be received: March 17, 2010 André Robèr 2 rue Julien Panchot 66130 Ille sur Têt France * GREEN SEEN Mail Art (four perfs) Theme: The Wendell Free Library invites you to send a postcard size art work for our mail art exhibit, GREEN SEEN. Green – sustainability, conservation, freecycle, the color green….. Technique/Media: free Size/Format: Postcard - Maximum 5 ½ x 8 ½ in. / 13.97 x 21.59 cm Exhibition: Participants’ mail art works will be displayed as soon as they are received at the library. Ongoing exhibit will end in June and works will become part of a permanent art collection at the Wendell Free Library. Documentation: Mail art will be documented at the library website and contributors will receive printed documentation. Info: tarantinochristine@yahoo.com Words of Light Mail Art, an archived blog of mail art sent to and from Christine Tarantino. http://www.christinetarantino.blogspot.com http://www.fluxusa.blogspot.com/ http://www.wordsoflightart.blogspot.com/ Deadline to be received: March 21, 2010 GREEN SEEN Mail Art Wendell Free Library P. O. Box 236 Wendell, MA 01379 USA * Heebee Jeebeeland in the 4th Dimension (four perfs) Theme: When I was a kid, there was an old cartoon I saw many times on TV. While a child was sleeping, the unusual wallpaper all over his room came to life and began to dance back and forth, up and down in a rather fanciful symmetry accompanied by a sort of goofy graveyard mischief music. All manner of mayhem went on until the sun shone again at dawn and the dancing pranksters rushed back to their original spots and the wallpaper became still again. It is in the vicinity of that realm that Heebee Jeebeeland exists. Please send Mail Art that needs to live in Heebee Jeebeeland . Snail mail only please. No returns Exhibition: Public showing to be announced early 2010. Documentation to all participants who include an address and online at: http://heebeejeebeeland.blogspot.com Info: testtower@aol.com Deadline to be received: March 30, 2010 Test Tower 1201 W. Main St. Centralia, WA 98531 USA * MAIL Art in THE World "2010" (three perfs) Global mail art call. Free theme but no offensive artwork please. Size: 13x18 cm. max. postcard Exhibition: The artwork will be inserted on my blog: http://mailartfossiant.blogspot.com Documentation: to all participants. Please include your address and email. Info: macchia.ale@tiscali.it Deadline to be received: March 30, 2010 Stefano Sini Fossiànt via del Lentischio, 50 09048 Sinnai (CA) Italy * THEY LIVE NEAR US (four perfs) Theme: (domestic + wild animals/birds, fish, reptiles, insects, etc.) Format: painting, drawing, print, collage (only originals) Technique: free Please sign your work and include your mailing and email address. Catalogue and Exhibition. Deadline to be received: March 31, 2010 Aleksandr ZHMAILO Tereshkovoy 15. Skalistoe Bahchisaraisky R-N 98440 CRIMEA Ukraine * LIMIT, EXCHANGE, SIGN (five perfs) Theme: A tribute for the city of Portogruaro through a project involving art through mail. The keywords chosen as the theme are the motif of its foundation, joined in a common flow. Limit - border between earth and water, the river harbor and the trade routes, the channels and the gardens of the palaces, a constant reference to a change in system, material and color. Exchange - not only of goods but also of colours and scents, artistic and architectural influences, mutual knowledge, therefore culture. Sign - a condition of consent expressed in gesture, the conclusion of an agreement, a trace superimposed on many others: whose meaning is beyond the sum of the parts. Project by Rizoo Group, Tiziana Baracchi and Pro Loco di Portogruaro Format and dimension of work: Artwork must be square. Maximum size 21 X 21 cm No e-mail No returns, no jury, no fee, no sales Exhibition in Portogruaro, 2010 Online documentation: http://www.rizoo.altervista.org info: daliobaracchi@hotmail.com – aurogentile@tiscali.it Deadline to be received March 31, 2010 Proloco di Portogruaro via Cavour 33 30026 Portogruaro (VE) ITALY * View from the Window (four perfs) Theme: We want to show how artists translate this classical topic into mailart. Technique: free Size: 10 x 15 cm up to 21 x 29 cm Quantity: max. 2 works per participant No jury, no return, no fee Documentation: http://www.mail-art-projekt.kunstforum-weilheim.de Exhibition: Stadtmuseum Weilheim - May 8-30, 2010 - Marienplatz 82362 Weilheim, Germany Info: Kunstforum Weilheim/ Thorsten Fuhrmann tfuhrmann1@t-online.de Deadline to be received: March 31, 2010 view from the window c/o H.E.W galerie wielenbach Peter-Kaufinger-Str. 18 82407 Wielenbach Germany 04 * APRIL 2010 BACON! (three perfs) Theme: All art must feature bacon. Size/Technique/Media: Free - (video, sound work, postcard, poetry, 3-D, etc.). Anything goes - surprise me, shock me, make me sizzle, raise my cholesterol. All art shown on blog: http://www.baconmovie.blogspot.com Exhibition(s) to follow. Additionally, a short film about bacon will include much of the received art. Info: scottrayrandall@gmail.com Deadline to be received: April 1, 2010 BACON! Scott Ray Randall 21294 Leslie Drive Grass Valley, CA 95945 USA * Blue in all its states (four perfs) Theme: Blue... peace, music and free men. Its history, its symbols, its poetry 'O bleu' … blue Mondays, Klein blue. blue of the South Seas waters… Technique and format: free Exhibition: at the Media Library of PLEGUIEN 22290 during June 2010 Documentation: on the blog at http://desvigne.blogspot.com/search/label/Galerie%20%22Le%20Bleu..%22 Deadline to be received: April 15, 2010 Jean Pierre DESVIGNE 1 Kerly PLEGUIEN 22290 FRANCE KISS (two perfs) Theme: I CALL ALL ON TO HELP ME MAKE MY PROJECT "KISS" Size/Format: SEND POSTCARDS ONLY Exhibition: IN THE VISUAL ARTS FESTIVAL PARAIBA THE MONTH OF MAY 2010. Deadline to be received: April 15, 2010 Sandra Valdujo CAIXA POSTAL 142 58310-000- INTERMARES CABEDELO- PARAIBA - PB BRAZIL * Cranberry Days (three perfs) Any theme is welcome except that erotica art or violent art or hate mail will not be shown. Technique/Media: free Exhibition: brick and mortar mailart exhibit in the late spring of 2010 Artwork posted online: http://cranberrydays.blogspot.com/ Please include your email address so a link with your art on this blog can be sent to you. Deadline to be received: April 15, 2010. Cranberry Days PO Box 573 Dyersburg, TN 38025 USA * ROMA SOUVENIR (five perfs) Theme: The project “ROMA SOUVENIR, the city and the green” was born from the idea that reality now is actually dominated by the PC, SMS, WEB sites etc.. It also pertains to memory and communication. The tangible souvenir underlines the sensibilities expressed as love, emotion, history, beauty, poetry, enchantment and the light that this city provokes within us and in the expressions of its guests. Please express yourself on this theme. Sizes : Two dimensional works 20x20 cm, or envelopes and artistamps free Medium : free NO RETURN – NO SELECTION – NO JURY Exhibition: in ROME, November 2010. Documentation: to all participants Project in collaboration with Anna Boschi – Mailartmeeting Archives - Castel S.Pietro Terme Info: info@romasouvenircittaver http://www.romasouvenircittaverde.it Deadline to be received: April 30, 2010 PATRIZIA RUFINI Associazione Chi semina raccoglie Via A. Bennicelli 37 00151 - ROMA Italy * ORMAI E' FATTA! (four perfs) Theme: It is the title of a Horst Fantazzini book - a detailed recounting of his escape from prison on 23rd July 1973. He's An anarchist's child and also an anarchist himself, who has spent more' of 30 years in the jail. He says that his life is in the now... and now he must try to be free. TECHNIQUE: FREE (collage, photography, poetry, drawing, printing, stamps, photocopy, assemblage , sounds....) SIZE: max A4 No Returns. No Jury. No Fees. Please include your email and mailing address. Exhibition: in the blog: http://cst-mailart.blogspot.com/ Documentation: Catalog of work at the end of the call to all participants. Info: cstmailart@gmail.com DEADLINE TO BE RECEIVED: April 30, 2010 CST c/o Gianluca Taborre Via Monte Bianco n.6 66020 - San Giovanni Teatino (CH) ITALIA * ANGELS IN ART (two perfs) Theme: Mandatory reference to art history. Please put your address and stamp on the side of your artwork. Exhibition: In Caen, May 1 - 22, 2010 Info: http://angels-anges-art.blogspot.com/ Deadline to be received: April 30, 2010 Cécile Carpena 5 rue Saint Blaise 14000 - CAEN FRANCE * Splice (four perfs) Theme: To join together or unite. Splice has multiple definitions, but crucially contains the word ICE, which directly references the combination of chemotherapy I will be receiving for the duration of cancer treatment for relapsed Hodgkins Lymphoma at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford in the month of January, 2010. Size/Media: 2D pieces, 12cm x 12cm (standard CD cover size). 3D pieces, must fit through a standard UK letterbox (approx. 12 x 2 inches or 30cm x 5cm). Video or audio pieces are also welcome, as long as they conform to the above size guidelines. All submissions to be accompanied by a passport sized photograph or representation of the contributor. Note. It doesn’t have to be an actual passport photograph. No returns. Exhibition: Works will be shown in Oxford or London or both. Venue and date to be announced. By submitting your mail art, you grant us permission to display it publicly. Documentation: Artworks will be posted on the blog at http://splicemailart.wordpress.com/ Info: spliceart@googlemail.com Deadline to be received: April 30, 2010 Ruben Cooke 13 Shipton Road Woodstock UK OX20 1LW 05 * MAY 2010 Dogs Dogs Dogs (two perfs) Theme: Dogs! Media/Technique: free Documentation: all participants receive a catalogue. Info: Jenny191297@web.de Deadline to be received: May 1, 2010 Jenny Klein Wasserburgstr. 36 41569 Rommerskirchen Germany * The Four Elements (four perfs) Theme: We are pupils of the Collège Fontaines de Monjous, in Gradignan (33). We are taking part in a mail art workshop and have launched a call on the topic: Four elements air… water… fire… ground. Format and Technique: free, but please put your address and stamps on the same face as the artwork. Include your name, postal address, e-mail, site or blog on the back or in the envelope. If you do not wish that your information to be shared, please note it on your sending. Exhibition on the blog: http://4elements2010.blogspot.com and in Gradignan, France in 2010 (dates and places to be announced). Documentation: to all participants by e-mail. Deadline to be received: May 15, 2010. Art Postal Collège Fontaines de Monjous BP 30130 33173 GRADIGNAN France * Lettres & Images (four perfs) Theme: Speak from the small paper. Media, Size : free. Please include your name, address and website or blog. If you do not wish your details to be circulated, please advise on your correspondence. No returns. Documentation: to all participants by e-mail. Exhibition: on the blog http://laissezparlerlespetitspapiers.blogspot.com as well as in Gradignan Gradignan-33- in 2010. Info: lettresetimages33@orange.fr http://www.lettresetimages.net http://www.lettresetimages.blogspot.com Deadline to be received : May 15, 2010 Lettres & Images Calligraphie latine, Encadrement, Art Postal 5 rue de Mandavit 33170 Gradignan France * Peace! (four perfs) Theme: We like to quote one of the pioneer mail artists Robert Rehfeldt: "Your idea helps my idea, our ideas help the ideas of others", because we think that both cooperation and dialogue can generate something new and beautiful. Open to all. Size: This mail art project invites you to find alternative ways to use a postcard. Please send a rectangular card of 10x15 cm on the longest side. Media: The Mail Art postcard must be created with one or more photographs in any way that you like. On the back please write a short text: a thought, a message, a poem... The postcard must have a signature, and if possible also your name, so that we can create a list of the participating artists. The postcard must also contain the written date. Choice of subject is free. There will be no selection procedure. Participation is free, but the artist takes the responsibility that the Mail Art postcard will be correctly sent through the postal service of his/her own country. It is possible to send more than one Mail Art postcard or to create a series reassembled from a single work. Please inform us if you intend to do so! Documentation: All works will be published on the website http://www.officinadelleimmagini.net Exhibition: The final show of all the received postcards will be organized in an exhibition space. Deadline to be received: May 25, 2010 Officina delle Immagini Casella Postale 6133 00195 Roma Italy * TEFL International (three perfs) Theme: TEFL International announces their First Mail Art Call. Size: postcards Technique: work the name "TEFL International" into the design. No other restrictions. Open & Free to all. No Returns. Documentation: by email only. Exhibition: All entries will be on free public display at the Siam School of English, in Ban Phe, Thailand. Info tim@tefllife.com http://www.tefllife.com Deadline to be received: May 25, 2010. Tim Torkildson 38/53-55 Moo 1 Klaeng Muang Rayong 21160 Thailand * EL MAIL TAO (two perfs) Theme: Since1998, Karl F. Hacker has published "El Mail Tao" the International Journal of Mail Art History Today. You are invited to participate in this original assembling magazine. Technique: please send 25 works on the subject of Mail Art History Today. Painting, collage, drawing or photo, but not B/W photocopies. Size: A4 only Media: paper, numbered and signed 1/25 through 25/25. Documentation: a copy of the publication will be sent to all participants DEADLINE to be received: May 30, 2010 Karl F. Hacker - El Mail Tao Karolingerstr. 67 D-25524 ITZEHOE GERMANY 06 * JUNE 2010 THE PUZZLE OF THE LIFE AND ITS EVOLUTION (three perfs) Theme: We are an elderly group living in EHPAD. Among us, “the Club of the Friendship” was formed. Curiosity and interest carried us to Mail Art and eventually to issue our first call. Please send us artwork that relates to: “The puzzle of the life with its evolution” Format/Technique: free Exhibition: For one week focused around art, in the autumn 2010. Please put your addresses and stamps side on the side of your creation. Info: animatrice-ehpad@ch-calais.fr Deadline to be received: June 1, 2010 « Club de l’Amitié » EHPAD « la Roselière » Bd des Justes Pôle Santé du Virval 62100 Calais France * Impossible Objects (four perfs) Theme: A clear example of improbable or impossible objects is without a doubt the work of the sketcher and engraver M.C. Escher. Create images of that object that is in your imagination, everything is possible. Size: Maximum A4 (21cm x 29.7 cm) Only works by artists. Free technique. No returns. Exhibition: " Espacio de Arte Klee" – Estación Vicente López – Ramal Retiro – Tigre – Provincia de Buenos Aires – Argentina Documentation: to all participants. Info: luismorado@hotmail.com http://www.luismorado.tk Deadline to be received: June 1, 2010. By postal mail to Luis Morado Pedernera 360 PB "5" CABA (1406) Argentina * Gaza Strip II (four perfs) Size/Technique: free No copies Exhibition. Atelier Felipe lamadrid. Documentation: Color docs to every participant Info: felipe.lamadrid@gmail.com http://franjadegazafelipelamadrid.blogspot.com Deadline to be received: June 30, 2010 Atelier & Galería Felipe lamadrid Litoral, 25 11500 Puerto de Santa María Cádiz, SPAIN * Piranha Betty (three perfs) Theme: Create an image of Piranha Betty and send it to us. All visual interpretations are welcome. Media/technique: free Exhibition: Entries will be featured in a month-long exhibition at the gallery Documentation: Permanent display on the piranha betty's website. Info: http://www.piranhabettys.com Deadline to be received: June 30, 2010 Piranha Betty c/o David Aronson 3330 Dogwood Dr. Willow Grove, PA 19090 USA * Capital Flower (two perfs) Size/Media: free Exhibition: Artworks will be exhibited in Germany while Moers and the Rurh region are being designated as the "European cultural capital of 2010". Info: centre.culturel@orange.fr Deadline to be received: June 30, 2010 Frau Silke RECK VHS Moers - Kamp-Lintfort Kastell 5 Moers 47441 Germany 07 * JULY 2010 IN INTERESTS OF MAIL ART EVOLUTION (three perfs) Media: Please send visual poems, pictures, drawings, poems, book art, collages, artistamps, etc. Format: free. No returns. Documentation to all participants. Info: mailposht@gmail.com Deadline to be received: July 20, 2010 In interests... A/C 9875 Sadivnycha 19/1 79038, Lviv Ukraine * YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT (four perfs) Theme: Interpret the subject any way that you like and also include a recipe. Technique: open Media: Works should be on the package, card or envelope, not inside. What is mailed is the entry. Size limit: 12x12 inches max. No fee Please include your email address on entry. Exhibition: Work will be displayed at An Art Affair Gallery and Art Studio. Documentation: On line documentation at http://www.anartaffair.com and our blog http://bsloveproduction.wordpress.com Info: trippur2001@yahoo.com Deadline to be received: July 29, 2010 You Are What You Eat c/o An Art Affair 7606 North 83rd Ave Glendale, AZ 85303 USA * Abolition of the Slave Trade (five perfs) Theme: In partnership with a project by UNESCO, August 23, 2010 marks the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and of its Abolition. The night of 22 to 23 August 1791, in Santo Domingo (today Haiti and the Dominican Republic) saw the beginning of the uprising that would play a crucial role in the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. The International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is intended to inscribe the tragedy of the slave trade in the memory of all peoples. In accordance with the goals of the intercultural project "The Slave Route", this project should offer an opportunity for collective consideration of the historic causes, the methods and the consequences of this tragedy, and for an analysis of the interactions to which it has given rise between Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean. Submissions are sought from mail artists throughout the world. No jury, No returns, No sales Size: Postcards that can be hung on the wall (10 x 15 cm, max) Technique: free Exhibition: August 23, 2010 Documentation: All works will be posted on the blog: http://memorialdotraficonegreiro.over-blog.com/ Info: inezolude@yahoo.com.br Deadline to be received: July 31, 2010 Inêz da Silva Rue Saint Bernard, 17- bte 54 1060 Brussels Belgium * UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE (four perfs) Theme: What is a universal language for you? In which manner do you communicate your dreams, energy and wishes to other people? What is the easiest way of communication and what does communication mean for you? Please send me your interpretation of this phenomenon and give your creative energy to all people who will see this exhibition. Technique: free Size/Media: Preferable the work will be handmade on paper, (max. 2 works, size: 10 x 15 cm/up to 21 x 29 cm Snail mail only. No jury, no return, no fee. Exhibition: during August 2010 in CEH (Centro de Estudios Hispanicos), Sarajevo Documentation: Artworks will be permanently displayed on my blog http://universalartlanguage.blogspot.com/ Images of exhibition will also be e-mailed (include your e-mail address, name, surname, country, address and web site one exists). Info: natasastanisic@gmail.com Deadline to be received: July 31, 2010 Nataša Stanišić Asima Ferhatovića 1 71 000 Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina 08 * AUGUST 2010 UR TOY STORY (three perfs) Exhibition: I plan on having a mall art show at a gallery next fall similar to the one I had this past August. Art will be documented on my mail art webstie... http://www.jenniferzoe.blogspot.com Info: jenniferzoe@juno.com Deadline to be received: August 1, 2010. Jennifer Zoellner UR Toy Story 665 Jasmine Way South St. Petersburg, FL 33705 USA * THE OWL (one perf) Theme: The Owl size: free no returns documentation online at: http://www.guzzardi.it/arte/pagine/theowl.html all works must be sent by post please include a photo of yourself, some lines of biography, postal and e-mail address deadline to be received August 25, 2010 The Owl Claudio Grandinetti Via Popilia Palazzo Manna 1 87100 Cosenza ITALY * Our Planet (four perfs) Theme: 2nd annual mail art exhibition in Pereira, Columbia. This call is focus upon "our Planet". Size: Postcard - 10x15 cm. Send one or two postcards without envelope. No returns. Please include your name address and email on back. Documentation: to all participants via email. Exhibition: October, 2010, simultaneously in various exhibition halls in Pereira. Info: grabadopostalpereira@gmail.com http://www.mailartnuestroplaneta.blogspot.com/ Deadline to be received: August 28, 2010 Nuestro Planeta Juan Carlos Vargas Gómez Balcones de Villa del Prada Pereira M6 C 22 Columbia 09 * SEPTEMBER 2010 Learning Differences (4 perfs) Theme: Please send mail art on the topic of learning disabilities. Size/Media: free Exhibition: Elgin Art Showcase in September 2010 Documentation: to all participants No returns Info: friendlyfeline@sbcglobal.net Deadline to be received: September 1, 2010 LD 407 South Liberty Street Elgin, IL 60120 USA * Mailmania 4 (four perfs) 4th Biennial: An open call for submissions for an upcoming 4th Biennial exhibition of all forms of mailart. Media/Technique/Size: Post Cards, ATCs, Artist stamps, envelopes, or whatever will make it through the postal system. This will be the final exhibition in this biennial event. Exhibition: Studio J, Victoria, BC, September 16-30, 2010 and Slide Room Gallery, Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria, BC, CANADA, October 8th - November 8th, 2010 - 2549 Quadra Street, Victoria, BC, CANADA Documentation: Online at http://mailmania4.blogspot.com/ Info: kenndal@gmail.com Please include name, address and email Deadline to be received: September 4, 2010 Dale Roberts Studio J - 1324 Broad Street Victoria, BC V8W 2A9 CANADA 10 * OCTOBER 2010 Octopus (three perfs) Theme: Collective book of mail art. Send 18 works that are numbered and signed, for making up a series of volumes with different artists in each. Each volume will contain a minimum of 14 artworks, one per artist. Modify each copy in order to make them unique originals. Size: 14.8 X 21 cm (A5 vertical) Technique: free - printings, drawings, paintings, photographs, collages... Documentation: Each participant will receive a volume. Info: http://www.carlosibotana.blogspot.es Deadline to be received: October 1, 2010. Carlos Botana General Sanjurjo, 62 - 2º 15006 A Coruña Galicia - España/Spain * MOURNFUL DEMON - SPIRIT OF BANISHMENT (LOVE STORY) (five perfs) Theme: "Fruits of our own fantasy – that’s what we can love truly and worship..." This is a mail-art project devoted to 200 year anniversary of Russian poet of the 19th century Michael Lermontov. The image of Demon is one of the most important in Lermonov`s art. His Demon is an angel banished from the sky but not accepted by the earth. Obsessed, impassioned, rejected by everybody rushing over the sinful earth between the good and the evil. Demon is doomed to create the evil but his heart is opened for love. The image of Demon is a personification of the inner world of Lermontov himself who was killed in a duel in 1841 at the age of 27. Lermontov's Demon is the solitude and the estrangement, the anxiety and the depravity and at the same time the intellect and the craft. The image of Demon is infinitely contradictory and many-sided. Many poets, painters and composers addressed to the topic of demonism in their art. The basis of this mail-art project is a peculiar historical art parallel of Lermontov`s Demon with the creative process of Russian talented painter Michael Vrubel which he had at the beginning of 20th century working over his masterpieces devoted to the image of Demon. Exhibition: Kazan, Actor’s House. November 2010. Format: free. Technique: free. Documentation to all participants. Deadline to be received: October 1, 2010. Valery Shimanovsky P.O. Box 804 Nizhnekamsk 423578 RUSSIA 11 * NOVEMBER 2010 Caffeinated Correspondence (two perfs) Theme: Most of my ideas are caffeine inspired on sleepless nights I fill my art journal with sketches and catch phrases hoping to remember the reason I thought it was a good idea in the morning. What ideas come to you when you are wired? Media/Size: free as long as it is mailed through traditional mail systems. No returns Exhibition: I have a traveling mail art collection, goes to open art shows, hospitals, kids art classes. If you would like a response or credit then please include necessary information. Documentation: If you would like a picture and brief message updates of who enjoys looking at your piece of art then include your email on what would be considered the back side. Info: liz0047@gmail.com Deadline to be received: November 30, 2010 Buggurl Productions / E J Terrian 1403 Howland Kalamazoo, MI 49001 USA 12 * DECEMBER 2010 No Commercial Potential (five perfs) Theme: The production of an art that fits exclusively one’s own creative needs without stooping to compromises to make it into consumer goods. Format: free Technique free: 2 & 3 d, music, video, performance, poetry and small stories(on digital support) no return, no fee, no selection, no jury (No pornography please) Please include name, surname, country, address + e-mail address (for notification of final documentation) and web site if one exists. All works must be send by post with postage stamps. Documentation: pdf catalog by Claudio Romeo and online catalogue on the website: http://itsonlymailartnocommercial.blogspot.com/ Exhibitions: Galleria Terre Rare - Bologna Garage N.3 Gallery - Venezia Mestre Spazio espositivo "Barrique" - Scriò di Dolegna del Collio GO Info: maurizio.follin@alice.it Event organized in collaboration with: DodoDada Arte Postale - http://dododada.ning.com/ Terre Rare - http://http://www.terrerare.net/ Ambasciata di Venezia : http://www.artistampnews.com/dated_calls/html/italian_calls.html Reantà Non Ordinaria - http://realtano.it/ Deadline to be received: December 10, 2010 Maurizio Follin Via M.te Cervino, 27 30173 Favaro V.to Venezia Italy * "Planet of Love" and/or "Inspiricy" (three perfs) Theme: The word inspiricy means the opposite of a conspiracy. Send mail art based on your interpretation of either topic. Media/Technique: Free - drawings, paintings, illustrations, photographs, poems, visual poetry, songs, sounds, objects, etc. Please sign the front of your art and put name, address and email on the back. Exhibition: I will attempt to arrange a public exhibition, but that will depend on how much art comes in and finding a location in 2011. Documentation: A DVD with some "Planet of Love" music that's been composed for me, and video of the artwork will be provided to all participants. Info: planetoflove@tx.rr.com Deadline: December 30, 2010 Denise Hunley 13303 Kit Lane Dallas, TX 75240 USA * Otto von Bismarck (four perfs) Theme: send your mail art on the famous politician Otto von Bismarck. Technique/Size: free Exhibition: In 2011, there will be a Mail Art Exhibition in Bad Kissingen, Museum Obere Saline - Bismarck Museum (Germany). Documentation: A Press release of the event will follow the show. Info: Roland.Halbritter@web.de http://bismarck-mail-art.blogspot.com/ Deadline to be received: December 31, 2010. Roland Halbritter Muehlweg 15 97720 Nuedlingen Germany * Brain Cell (five perfs) Media/Technique: Please send me your stamp design, rubberstamp, or 150 stickers or seals. Brain Cell is always seeking a change, does not intend to settle and care of it’s extension of the Network. So... don’t mail a lump of stuff for several issues. Please send them to me one issue at a time, Thank you! Documentation: I will print or paste these materials onto the A3 size paper, creating 150 sheets. I will then send a sheet back with a list of addresses to each participant. I will publish at intervals of 8 to 10 days at that time will include 60 people or so. info: braincell@k6.dion.ne.jp http://www.ryosukecohen.com/ http://www.h5.dion.ne.jp/~cohen/info/ryosukec.htm http://www.h5.dion.ne.jp/~cohen/fractal/franctal050607.htm Deadline to be received: December 31, 2010 Ryosuke Cohen c/o Brain Cell 3-76-1-A-613 Yagumokitacho, Moriguchi City Osaka 570 Japan * 10 Years of Boxes and Envelopes (four perfs) Theme: a collective and continual time capsule project Technique/Media: Within a box, envelope or other container place an item or items that you wish to include in your personal time capsule. This may come in the form of a letter, drawing, photo or object. You may wish to include something that is significant or symbolic of who you are at this time, or the way you perceive the world around you. What you place in your time capsule is completely up to you (please do not include any illegal, organic or dangerous materials as customs may confiscate them). Seal your vessel. Label the outside of your container with the project title, your name (or alias), addresses and the date it was sealed. Exhibition: Each capsule will remain sealed until the project concludes on September 1, 2019 (all work that arrives before this date will be included). On the day of the Grand Opening (location and times to be decided at a later date), visitors will be invited to open the capsules and the contents will be documented and exhibited (locally and on-line). Documentation: All participants will receive an official certificate of participation, project sticker and post card once your capsule has been received. Please feel free to design and decorate your capsule as you please. Upon being received they will be photographed and documented progressively at: http://nerradas-mailart.blogspot.com Info: send_to_nerrada@hotmail.com Deadline to be received: December 31, 2010 neRRaDa PO Box 15 ARANA HILLS QLD, 4054 Australia * The Seven Wonders of the world (four perfs) Theme: Illustrate one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World :Pyramid, Hanging gardens of Babylon, Temple of Artemis, Statue of Zeus, Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Colossus of Rhodes, lighthouse of Alexandria... or any other wonder of the medieval or modern world : Mont Saint Michel, Taj Mahal, Leaning tower of Pisa, Channel Tunnel, Empire State building, Millau Viaduct etc... Technique: Free No jury - No returns All creations will be published online http://merveillesdumondemailart.blogspot.com/ Documentation: will be sent to each participant at the end of the project. Info: servanemorel@skynet.be http://mailartpostal.canalblog.com/ Deadline to be received: December 31, 2010 Servane Morel Avenue Wellington, 4 1180 Bruxelles Belgium * ALL THAT JAZZ !!! & STILL NO FREEDOM ??? (five perfs) Theme: This will be the new FRIOUR project. Personally I don't know any music that embodies more the thirst for freedom than jazz music. Jazz includes the notions of improvisations and excitement. It liberated the soul and hearts of many, opened new roads and ways of playing music and listening to music. In recent years I've become a huge jazz fan and became even friends with a few Belgian jazz musicians, attending concerts and festivals as much as I could. Despite all that jazz there is little room for improvisation in business life, personal life and society as a whole. Do people need a worldwide crisis to be controlled? Blow all fear away and send your contributions for the next Friour Review issue. Free medium. Maximum size: A4. Info: Signsstones@yahoo.com http://friour.multiply.com Deadline to be received: December 31, 2010. Friour #11, All that Jazz & still no Freedom Guido Vermeulen Vinçottestreet 81 B-1030 Brussels BELGIUM ****************** 01 * JANUARY 2011 Artist STAMPS (one perf) Theme: State stamps or mail art stamps? Make artistamps and send them on an envelope. Size, media and technique: free No returns, no fee, no jury Answer to all with a paper assembling car model DEADLINE to be received: January 30, 2011 Giovanni Lattuca Viale Italia, 36 I-93017 S. Cataldo-CL ITALY 10 * OCTOBER 2011 Mail Art Biennial "Desliz" 20 (four perfs) Theme: Mail Art Biennial is an event that hosts artwork from around the world and unites all in a single book that is displayed in a Cuban alternative cultural space. We have just published the Mail Art Biennial 2009 (convened in October 2007), which was presented in book form on October 29, 2009, the day of opening the call for the Biennial 2011. Check out the artwork. http://deslizbienalmailart.blogspot Technique/Media: Submit a visual artwork or literary work. Each mailart piece must be submitted on a crumpled sheet of paper signed by the author. Please include your email and mailing addresses in a separate document or printed on the back of the artwork. Documentation: All works submitted will be displayed as they are received on the Mail Art Biennial website starting July 15, 2011. Participants will also receive digital documentation via email. Exhibition: The collective book edition will be put on permanent display in a Cuban alternative cultural space. Deadline to be received: October 29, 2011** Bienal de Mail Art Desliz 2011 Enna 402 esquina Fábrica - Luyanó Municipio 10 de Octubre Ciudad de La Habana Cuba C.P. 10700