Géza Perneczky - Ruud Janssen

envelopes etc.. are not what you would expect to find in the „traditional gallery“.
The important question is: can Mail Art itself be framed? The „by-products“ are
like photos, tickets and programmes of an event and not the event itself?
I once said „Mail Art is a search“. Of course there are „by-products“ as you
mention. The answer to your quaestion is simple. NO; Mail Art itself can't be
framed, it is even difficult to explain to a non-practicioner what Mail Art is (...)
I am not in contact with the official art world or the gallery-scene... That postal
museums are interested in Mail Art in nothing new... But the postal museums
mostly let mail artists curate the show or let them advice the museum. Nothing
wrong with a sponsor for a great show on Mail Art. But showing „by-products“
isn't what Mail Art is all about...»
(Mark Greenfield: The Mail-Interview with Ruud Janssen. (TAM Publs.:
TAM-970163. A/5, phc., 19 p. Tilburg, 1997)
«...I started with these mail-interviews 2nd November 1994. At that time I also
just switched to the use of Internet (I was working with datacommunication since
1987), and so I had a lot of communication possibilities to send out mail. I remember
I just had read one of the interviews in the magazine ND with a mail artist, and
realized that I was in contact with so many mail artists without knowing their
„whole story“. In mail art you only get to see the part of the correspondents they
send you by mail. So I realized I would like to read more about a lot of mail artists,
but actually there isn't that much to read besides the books with selections others
made.
The first week I started the project I invited Klaus Groh, Robin Crozier,
Ruggero Maggi, John Held Jr., Dobrica Kamperelic, Guy Bleus, Svjetlana Mimica,
Ray Johnson, Michael Leigh, H. R. Fricker, Rod Summers, Michael Lumb. The
first series of twelve persons. To my surprise EVERYBODY reacted, and already
8 of these started interviews are finished with a publication. (...) Till today six
series have been started and already 23 interviews are finished. This wasn't the
plan in the beginning; if a project is interesting it grows on its own. Besides the
booklets for the interviewed person and myself (the TAM-Archive) I also printed
more interview booklets for other mail artists to read, and because the interviews
are also an experiment of using the different communication tools, I am working
with the traditional snail-mail, the FAX, but also the e-mail on the Internet.
(Carol Steetser: The Mail-Interview with Ruud Janssen. (TAM Publs.:
TAM-970169. A/5, phc., 20 p. Tilburg, 1997)
Vittore → Baroni: Ruud Janssen. In: Arte Postale. Guida al network della corrispondenza
creativa. (Text: Italian) AAA Editori. Bertiolo, 1997. 220-221 p.
John → Held, Jr.: L'Arte del Timbro / Rubber Stamp Art. A/5, offset, 176 p.
Editor: V. Baroni. AAA Edizioni, Bertiolo I, 1999. 31, 160-161 p.
Japan Mail Art 832-8 Kawabe-cho Hodogaya-ku Yokohama-shi Kanagawa 240 Japan 1983
^'83 International Summertime Mail Art Show. Cat.: 26x18.5 cm., phc., 44 p. / Hodo-
gaya Post Office, N° 24. The Kanagawa Pref. Hall, Gall. of Art, July '83
Jarvis, David Aardpress. 31 Mountearl Gardens London SW16 2 NL United Kingd. 1980
↑ Aardwerk Studios, 15 Ambleside Av. London, SW16 1QE - “ - 1978
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^Poems – 1. (Literature works 1973 / 1978) A/5, phc., 10 p. {200} Secomd edition
published 1978?
^Poems – 2. (Literature works and drawings – some pages hand coloured) A/5, offset,
20 p. {200}. London, 1975
Poems – 3. London, 1977
Visi –Poem from Alfred Austin. A/5?, 1978?
Poem – Drgs (various single sheets with poetry and drawings) London, 1975-78