Mailart & ArtByMail // open_calls & exhibitions repository
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#MAILART.pt
MAILART.pt, as a platform, lists active open calls sorted out by due date, as well as exhibitions, artists, links of interest, and so on ... but it may end up being much more with your participation. As a project, it launches one yearly themed mailart open call and co-produces a few more open calls and permanent exhibitions.
Therefore, all artwork sent to us will be part of our archive/collection and displayed online. They will eventually end up being part of any mailart exhibition that we are involved with, regarding that the artwork in question fits the said exhibition.
We have some partnerships and some exhibition equipment installed in art spaces ready to receive your best artwork. The artwork that we'll show inside of it will change from time to time to reveal the artist's top artwork. So there is no deadline nor theme. Each one of these small exhibitions will host a single artist at a time so you're free to send your best pieces and there will be no censorship upon them.
Digital content will be created and sent to each artist.
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40's booklet
mail_art & art_by_mail booklet.
This printed booklet lists mail_art and art_by_mail open calls and is used to promote the art gender.
1. create 40 numbered pieces
2. send to mailart.pt
3. we’ll “randomly” mail them
4. get some issues
5. repeat
6. (...)
7. non-profit
Some of the booklets will be sent to museums, libraries and galleries... mainly a bunch will be sent to other artists.
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Alice in Wonderland
A mailart open call get to know other people's views on Lewis Carrol's book Alice in Wonderland.
To start our blog on one of the most emblematic works of literature, I decided to create a mailart call to get a feel for other people's views on Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland book.
This initiative has got an exhibition on-line and a traditional one if number of works received justify it.
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ANACHRONISM
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Appel à projets d'art postal | Mail art Call ■
1. Rebel people.
2. Black and red.
3. What do hide the ostriches under their wings?
4. Angels vomit devils.
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aqui, 'ᴉnbɐ
This show is renewed on the 31st of each month and has artwork done by children and for children.
open to young artists up to 12 years old
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Beard Gallery
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Board Games
This initiative consists of an online exhibition and a traditional exhibition if the number of works justifies it.
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Braincell
Brain Cell is a mail art project begun by Ryosuke Cohen in June 1985. The project is a networked art project where individual artists contribute stamps, stickers, drawings or other images. These are sent through the mail to Cohen, who assembles and prints them as part of each cell. He prints 150 copies (30 x 42 cm) with a small silkscreen system called a Cyclostyle (now out of production). Each participant is mailed a Brain Cell print along with a documentation list of contributors worldwide.
Cohen keeps a copy for himself. Some of the remaining Brain Cell prints from each edition are assembled into sets of 30 consecutive editions. These set are sent to artists and Mail Art shows around the world.
Cohen also uses Brain Cell prints in the Fractal Portrait Project (another long running art series by Cohen) and as additions to Mail Art Add and Pass pages.
New Brain Cell editions are published every eight to ten days. More than nine hundred editions have been published.
Cohen described the origin of the project's name in 1985: "Well, I'll title my work 'Brain Cell', because the structure of a brain through a microscope looks like the diagram of the Mail Art network. Thousands of Neurons clung and piled up together are just like the Mail Art network, I believe."
Brain Cell is an art experiment in the vein of networked mail art, where a network expands from A, copied, forwarded and even returned to the originator. This produces a series of cybernetic cells, which can interact in a non-linear order. Brain Cell enlisted over 6,000 contributors from 80 nations between 1985 and 2002.
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BREAKTHROUGH ■
Postcard-size MailArt Project.
We experience many breakthroughs everyday. So why not to express your breakthrough?
Documentation to all.
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CIRCULAIRE132
Zine assembly on postal art generally intended for mailartists to allow the exchange of ideas, to publicize various projects. To participate, send 20 original stamps of artist, ATC, personalized postcards, works of 8cm X 8cm format, poems, advertisements etc ... signed and numbered. A copy of the zine will be sent to each participant who sent 20 originals.
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COVILI - OPEN CALL MAIL ART ■
exhibition every season
on the back: surname, name, place, date, title, caption, personal message
https://www.coviliarte.com/open.html
https://www.coviliarte.com/open/tecnicamista/tecnicamista.html
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Drawing!
Poca Art Studio an art studio teaching all levels of drawing and painting in Vancouver Canada. We are accepting mail art of any kind to be displayed on the studio walls for all to see.
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Field Report ■
The Field Report is the annual of Field Study International, produced since 1996 in the form of an assembling book. Artists are invited to create an edition of 100 pages conceived as a ‘Field Study Emanation’. Works include documentations of performances, actions, instructions, manifests, journey works, tracts, rants, reflections and experiments. Each issue contains the work of about fifty artists.
Please note: Apart from Field Study Publications sent as gifts/ exchange, spare copies are also sold to institutions and artist book collectors. Field Study is a non-profit project and all monies raised are ploughed back into the Field for future projects.
Artists contributing will be sent a copy.
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KART - magazine of multiplicity ■
KART magazine is an assembling publication promoting artistic and cultural diversity. KART is an ongoing project with no deadlines and work is accepted on a continuing basis. KART is produced in limited editions of 40, each box containing works by 15 artists.
KART is an on going project and issues will be regularly produced.
KART is published as a collaboration between GenU- Karingal St Laurence and Field Study International.
Please note: Apart from Field Study Publications sent as gifts/ exchange, spare copies are also sold to institutions and artist book collectors. Field Study is a non-profit project and all monies raised are ploughed back into the Field for future projects.
Artists contributing will be sent a copy.
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MIMICRY ■
Envelopes and wrappings will not be opened. Doc-zine to each contributor.
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Obsolete Shit
Your submission may be included in an issue of Obsolete Shit magazine, which comes out randomly, with random issue numbers and random size. If this is the case you will receive a copy of the magazine by post. If not you will still get mail art, a zine, or some other stuff and your work will be published on Instagram.
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Pez Blister Mailart Call ■
As we are passionate about art, correspondence and PEZ, we thought it would make perfect sense to launch a new mailart call, precisely about PEZ.
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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.
Please note: Apart from Field Study Publications sent as gifts/ exchange, spare copies are also sold to institutions and artist book collectors. Field Study is a non-profit project and all monies raised are ploughed back into the Field for future projects.
Artists contributing will be sent a copy.
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STAMPZINE
STAMPZINE is an international rubber stamp assembly zine in the Sanizdat tradition compiled by Picasso Gaglione. Picasso has been creating zines in this manner since the late 1970s.
In order to be included in the issues Picasso requests that you follow these guidelines: for each collection of pages submitted to STAMPZINE.
1. Please submit 20 individual hand stamped pages 5 inches by 8 inches - US size.
2. Each page must be hand stamped somewhere on the page. You can use any type of rubber stamp, found stamps, hand carved stamps, commercial or official stamps, body parts, toys or anything that will make an impression with the use of ink.
3. You can use any color ink on any color paper.
4. You can create any type background for your piece.
5. You can combine mediums: watercolor, collage, ink, pencil, acrylic or oil background.
6. You can stamp a page once or a million times.
7. Each page can be unique or similar or identical as long as it is hand stamped somewhere on the page.
8. Please sign and number each page.
9. It is respectfully requested that any activity connected with the creation of the pages be fun for the artist.
Editions will be mailed out as they are completed and as finances permit. Monetary donations to defray cost of return postage are always gratefully appreciated.
Picasso sincerely thanks you -in advance- for you contribution to STAMPZINE.
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TELL ME ABOUT 1983
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Tristan Da Cunha is an Island Far Far Away
Send some artwork to create a permanent exhibition on the Island for them and for all who will pass by to visit the Island.
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WIPE // Light-Weight Bookwork
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.
Wipe is a small assembling publication in which toilet paper is the medium. The use of a non-archival, indeed anti-archival medium, is intentional, with the ephemerality and fragility of the medium in sharp contrast with the artistic concern for archival materials. Conceived as a playful lightweight publication to circumvent postage costs, Wipe nods to Duchamp’s urinal and challenges contributors to make work on a medium that is almost anti-art.
Contributors source their own toilet paper, a source of fascination in itself and a comment on the hygiene practices of different societies. In spite of its intended ephemerality, toilet paper allows rubber stamping, stitching, collaging, and even frottage.
Please note: Apart from Field Study Publications sent as gifts/ exchange, spare copies are also sold to institutions and artist book collectors. Field Study is a non-profit project and all monies raised are ploughed back into the Field for future projects.
Artists contributing will be sent a copy.