Crg Hill's poetry scorecard

Call for Foto Vispo for Group Exhibition in Australia

FOTO VISPO

Foto Visual Poetry from The Eternal Network

call for foto vispo for group exhibition in the Fringe of Foto Freo Festival, Fremantle, Western Australia.

MEDIUM any photo medium [still], film, digital, altered photo,photo trouve [found] photocopy,scanner,

any drawing/writing with light etc

SUBJECT visual poetry,asemic writing,haptic,trashpo,text as point of departure, poetry related ie photos of wearable poetry?

SIZE approx postcard size,can be artist book, or other format.

DATES please send between sept 1st 2011 and dec 31st 2011 .

EXHIBITION Foto Freo Fringe march 2012, application pending approval.

DOCUMENTATION works will be blogged on IUOMA as they come in , discussion welcome.

exhibition documentation march/ april 2012

SEND snail mail please, to 

Foto Vispo , 

Helen Amyes, 

Kitty Paw Cottage, 

12 wheeler street,

York,Western Australia 6302

 

Mail Art Project from Jurgen Olbrich

 

Calls for Mailart: KART and WIPE:

KART - magazine of multiplicity

KART is an edition of original artworks in a handcrafted folio box.

Curated by David Dellafiora at Karingal Community Living, KART is produced in limited editions of 40, each box containing 15 artworks.

You are invited to contribute to KART

Artists, writers, graphic designers, students, print makers, cartoonists, photographers, badge and zine makers, mail artists and members of the community are invited to contribute to KART.

To participate, send:

·               40 x artworks (originals or multiples)

·               postcard size or smaller (16 x 11 cm x .25 cm)

to: KART-  David Dellafiora, PO Box 1838 Geelong, VIC 3220, Australia

KART accepts all mediums on any theme but no poor quality photocopies or offensive material will be accepted.

Artist contributing 40 artworks will be sent a copy of KART.

KART is an on going project and issues will be regularly produced.

WIPE

Light-Weight Bookwork

Please send 40 sheets of printed toilet tissue. Open theme and technique, rubber-stamp,ectc.

No organic materials or traces please.

On going project, no deadline. Edition made every 20 participants. Copy of edition send to all taking part. Max size: 14cm x 11cm.

Send to: Field Study, P.O.Box 1838 Geelong, VIC 3220 Australia

 

 

ReSite

Re – a prefix indicating repetition.

Site – the place where some activity or event takes place.

 ReSite is a new assembling publication with a difference. All pages are to be conceived as having an element of audience participation or interaction. Works could take the form of scores, instructions, or interventions to be realized by the reader.

Send 40 copies size 21cm x14.8cm (A5). Copies have to be flat and landscape format. Please leave 2cms on the left hand side for the binding.

ReSite is an on going project, issue made every 20 participants.

Send to: Field Study, P.0.Box 1838 Geelong, VIC 3220 Australia

(Please note: Apart from Field Study Publications sent as gifts/ exchange, spare copies are also sold to institutions and artistbook collectors. Field Study is a non-profit project and all monies rised are ploughed back into the Field for future projects.)

International Mail Art Exhibition in Honor and Memory of Judith Hoffberg

June 27 – August 22, 2010

To be held at:
Susan and John Caldwell Gallery

Armory Center for the Arts
Jay Belloli, exhibition curator

Opening Reception Saturday, June 26, 2010, 7-9 p.m.
Susan and John Caldwell Gallery
Armory Center for the Arts
145 N. Raymond Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91103

Judith A. Hoffberg (1934-2009) was an avid and active promoter of mail art and artists books. Judy was editor and publisher of Umbrella, a newsletter devoted to all manner of art publishing and art exhibitions.  In addition to Judy's work as a librarian, archivist, lecturer and curator, she gave unstintingly of her time and energy to promote artists through her encouragement and connections in the art world.

To participate in the exhibition

, art submissions must be received by June 4, 2010 by postal mail or email. Please send submissions to:

Jay Belloli
Director of Gallery Programs
Armory Center for the Arts
145 N. Raymond Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91103
jbelloli@armoryarts.org

All mail art included in the exhibition will be donated to the Judith A. Hoffberg Archive at the Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, with the permission of the artist.

For questions about the exhibition contact Jay Belloli at jbelloli@armoryarts.org or 626-792-5101 ext 117.

Poemics is an Art Combining Elements of Poetry and Comics:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/24714508/Poemics-is-an-Art-Combining-Elements-of-Poetry-and-Comics

 

Call for Mailart: Honoring the Shadow

The Shadow is a psychological term introduced by the late Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. It is everything in us that is repressed, undeveloped and denied, both dark and light. The shadow represents all that the conscious person does not wish to acknowledge within themselves. Jung emphasized the importance of being aware of shadow material and incorporating it into conscious awareness. Otherwise we project these attributes onto others.

Honor your shadow by giving it visual form.

All mediums are welcome.

Deadline: December 31 2010.

Artworks will be permanently displayed on my website.
http://www.alchemicalwedding.com/mailart/mailart.htm

Send to:

Honoring the Shadow
c/o David Aronson
3330 Dogwood Dr.
Willow Grove, PA 19090
USA

Jurgen Olbrich's Autopoems

Out of Kassel, Germany, Jurgen Olbrich has been a juggernaut in mail art, performance art, and conceptual installation since the early 1980s. Receiving an envelope from him stuffed with postcards and other ephemera always made my day. It's been a delight to reconnect with him this year. Life's long yet a decade's absence abcesses.

In the 1980s, SCORE published several pages of Jurgen's autopoems (see here). Jurgen writes these poems by transcribing the license plates that pass him during a thirty minute period. Below are two recent autopoems, the first composed in Berlin, the second in Frankfurt. Not only conceptual poems (preceding and surpassing the Goldsmith tedium), both also offer up themselves as sound poetry scores.

As I Work on an Essay on Xerolage, an in-Progress Interview with mIEKAL aND

CHill: When Xerolage first appeared in the 1980s, there were many small press magazines publishing visual poetry and xerox art--Kaldron, Photostatic, Lost & Found Times, Score, Generator, among them. Whatwould Xerolage add to that body of work?

MAnd: That's a long time back to remember but I should point out that the phrase visual poetry was not in such wide circulation in the early 80s & there were many, many ideas circulating about what follows concrete poetry.  My own approach included prose, poetry, typography & visuals so I favored calling work my work & the work of others visual/verbal literature, a term that I liked because it seemed more inclusive than visual poetry.  Xerolage comes out of wanting to make the space to focus on single author works that were created for a specific magazine format.  One that was particularly easy to reproduce on a copier. So many things have been fit into that frame: copy art, mail art, collage, visual & concrete poetry, scores, found, graphism, conceptual.

 

CHill: Though the term visual poetry indeed was not in wide circulation (not even in a wet dream at Poetry Magazine), the above mags would have been using it. SCORE used the term in its first issue, 1983. I agree that the term visual/verbal literature works is inclusive of visual poetry, and thus also including prose with visuals as well, e.g. your "Erotic Logic" and much of Michael Helsem's work.

Some Qs bouncing off your answer above: Mail art may have been at its peak in the 1980s, projects including all that you mentioned above for Xerolage--copy art, collage, visual/concrete poetry, scores, found art, and conceptual art--How did you see Xerolage speaking to, interacting with, mail art? What was Xerolage attempting to do that mail art was not doing? Or, what do you want to do more of that mail art was doing?

mIEKAL: In the 80s one didn't have to seek mail art out, it just appeared at the door, solicited, unsolicited, surprising & not.  Even back then there were 2 streams as far as I was concerned.  One stream was the garbage in garbage out school, mostly recycling images of popular media such as Reagan, Nixon etc & I have always found that work wearisome. The other stream was a fascinating network of artist / poets mostly working in isolation, many of them from eastern bloc countries, who had to devise ways to even get their mail out of the country.  While a lot of this work was piggybacked on the Fluxus movement, it was remarkably fresh & alive (I'll avoid the use of the word original), constantly changing & growing, & in my mind consciously created for the network of viewers who were receiving these packages.  In that sense, the work was offered, not to a random audience, but to an energetic collective of like-minds, many whom are still in contact with each other 30 years later.  So while the content was / is always important to me, the mode of transmission lent an air of person-to-person value.  When the  internet came along, a lot of mail art stopped being interesting in the same way, because suddenly there was a whole new way to get one's work around.  It has always been a little mysterious to me that it took so many folks 10-15 years to make that switch.

Xerolage has never been identified with movements or genres as such.  It has always been about creating a frame to see the work of single artists alongside of some sense of who they are as a person, because I have always believed the person & the work go hand-in-hand.  I also have been committed to questioning what visual poetry can be by selecting work & artists that would never think of themselves as visual poets yet their work navigates the same proximity.  

Chill: I’m intrigued by your statement that you believe the person and the work go hand-in-hand. Tell me more? How does the person and the work go hand-in-hand in a Xerolage issue such as Vittore Baroni’s “Sangue Misto” (Xerolage 7) or Greg Evason in his issue (Xerolage 12).

Awaiting an answer from mIEKAL.

From the venerable Vittore Baroni: The Utopian Library

ARTIST'S BOOKS – ALTERED BOOKS – IMPOSSIBLE BOOKS

ANTI-BOOKS – REVOLUTIONARY BOOKS – IMAGINARY BOOKS

THE UTOPIAN LIBRARY

In July-August 2008 the BAU Cultural Association (www.bauprogetto.it) 
will organize in Viareggio a multimedia festival titled THE PLACES OF 
UTOPIA, that will include art shows and installations, performances, 
readings, workshops, conferences and other events revolving around the 
theme of UTOPIA.

As part of this festival, I will coordinate THE UTOPIAN LIBRARY, a 
reading room where the visitors will be able to look through a 
collection of international artists' books culled from the E.O.N. 
archives plus books expressly submitted. The books will be on display 
in shelves and over tables, with the possibility of a direct, hands on 
fruition.

You are welcomed to CONTRIBUTE A BOOK to the UTOPIAN LIBRARY, either 
an original work related to the utopian theme, or a book you have done 
in the past that you think will fit the project. An illustrated 
catalogue of the books received will be sent to all the participants 
(Arte Postale! magazine n. 95). Your book will not be returned, but at 
the end of the festival will become part of the E.O.N. archive.

The size, medium and technique for the books is FREE.

The material is not restricted to paper, but please take into 
consideration the hands on approach.

Deadline: all the books should arrive BEFORE JULY 15, 2008.

Mail to: Vittore Baroni, via C. Battisti 339, 55049 Viareggio, Italy 
email: vittorebaroni@alice.it

Thanks in advance for your participation.

Feel free to circulate this invite.

Meeting Up With Malok

Got the chance to meet another long-time friend last weekend at Dreamtime, Malok, whom I met a short 29 years ago in Oshkosh, WI. Below are two recent works (I can live in his glyphs, a bit of Dante's inferno and paradise):

I hear there's a Malok film in the works... That will be something to see!