I'm posting this for someone else, please don't reply to me, but send Scott
any inquires you might have (info at bottom). If you are attached to an
art school, forward it to them too!
........
The short version:
Mail Art Show. Theme: Toy Pianos. Deadline: 9/01/01. Address: The Toy Piano
Collection at Geisel Library, UCSD, Attn: Scott Paulson, 0175-Q, 9500
Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA. Documentation to all. We'll sort
through the mail at a free toy piano recital here at the UCSD Music Library.
THE LONG VERSION:
Mail-Art Show:
Theme: toy piano(s)
Deadline: September 1, 2001
Mail to:
The Toy Piano Collection at Geisel Library
UCSD
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093
Attn: Scott Paulson, 0175-Q
Mail art is a medium founded by famous New York artist Ray Johnson in
the 1950's. Among his diverse arts activities, Johnson mailed small
hand-made postcards as works of art, unsolicited, through the U.S. Postal
Service to people. Part of the aesthetic of this medium is the formality of
the
delivery and arrival process (the stamping, postmarking, sorting through
many hands, etc.)
Themed Mail-Art shows are an outgrowth from Ray Johnson's work. In a
themed show, an organizer seds word throughout the mail-art community about
a theme and a deadline and an address. There is usually some sort of an
opening event where people are invited to sort through the mail. Those who
send mail art know that they do not get their mail back. It becomes
property of the addressee (just like with anything sent through the
postal service.) Participants in a themed mail art show do expect one thing:
documentation of the show. Documentation can be as simple as a thank
you note from the organizer and list of the participants and the
participants' addresses. Participants who don't want their address on the
documentation don't list their address on their mail art.
The Toy Piano Collection at Geisel Library is hosting a toy piano
themed mail art show. Send them a hand-made postcard, a poem, a picture of
you with a toy piano.....send a regular old letter. This show might help
explain the affection and interest in the toy piano collection there. The Toy
Piano Collection at Geisel Library consists of actual instruments,
extant literature, and commissioned scores (composers write works for the
instruments in the collection and toy piano recitals are given among
the music stacks.) September 5, 2001 is the date of the toy piano recital
where the audience sorts through the toy piano themed mail art (level one
of Giesel Library, UCSD, at 12:30 p.m. and again at 6:30 p.m.)
To help explain the interest that people are showing in this
collection, please send us mail art regarding your toy piano interests and
activities!
TOY PIANO THEMED MAIL ART SHOW...
Deadline: September 1, 2001
Send mail to:
The Toy Piano Collection at Geisel Library
UCSD
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093
Attn: Scott Paulson, 0175-Q
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