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Between the poles
It seems fair to say that a mail art piece needs to be sent through the mail system to be “mail art”. But then there is German artist Bodo Berheide (b. 1944) and his two handgribs. The handgribs were...
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Nuclear New Year
Many of the items in Mogens Otto Nielsen’s mail art archive are personal messages, and it is very difficult to distinguish private messages and artistic expressions intended for the network or a more...
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Mapping the messy mail art archive
There has been an interesting development in my work with Mogens Otto Nielsen’s mail art archive. A cooperation of very different people and organizations in Denmark – three museums, three...
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Mapping Not-arrived Letters
Russian artist Rea Nikonova’s mail art piece with an “architectual” treatment of Nielsen’s letter to her + invitation to send contributions to her Vacuum exhibition including not-arrived letters, empty...
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Mail Art as Knobs Instead of Nodes.
When we talk about networks, we usually imagine a structure of dots with connection lines. However, the images of networks show a peculiar place where dots and blobs are suspended in empty space. The...
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