Gotta Mail Somebody
The Bob Dylan Mail Art Show (24 May 1983)
Mail-art
Mail art, also known as postal art and correspondence art, is a creative movement centered on sending small-scale works through the postal service.
Media include postcards, collages, rubber stamps and artist-created stamps—and anything else imaginable, or not, that can be sent through the mail.
I was involved in the internationl mail-art network — sending and receiving works through the mails with hundreds of individuals in many countries during the late 1970s and early 1980s. I have 8 large bankers boxes full of these works—ranging from the plain to the sublime. I operated under a couple different nom de guerre’s, but mostly AleX(ander) TorridZone Igloo.
I’ve kept in touch with some individuals but dropped out of any movement or network by the late 1980s.
[Digression:
There is a self-historified history that has arisen to make sure mail-art keeps its foot in the “Art” world—with it’s own resulting hierarchical maps promising recognition and a slot in posterity by echoing the attendent hyperbole. In many ways these encroaching machinations helped calcify the radical apects of the movement a long time ago. Later the internet set fire to much of the remaining snail-mail communications.
I have never…
