Mail Art Periodicals - MoMA

(Uruguay), conducted by Ruud Janssen (Holland) for "The Mail Art Interview
Project.". Publications received. contributions by Géza Perneczky (Germany),
John M. Bennett (USA), et al.
No. 36 (Solsticio de Invierno 1998-1999). Photocopy and Mixed
Media. 8 1/4"x5 3/4". 24 pages. Editorial explaining reasons (Art Strike
2000-2001) for discontinuing publication. "Sobra la Desmaterializacion Artistica,"
by Xavier Moreno (Spain). "Dick Higgins (1938-1998)." Publications received.
Interview with the editor about Merz Mail. Index of articles in "P. O. Box," (nos. 1-
35) including reproduction of covers.
Panmag: International Magazine. Mark Bloch, Editor. Postal Art
Network, New York, New York. 1983-1992.
No. 1 (September 1983). Photocopy. 14"x8 1/2". (2 pages). "This
issue of PANMAG is primarily aimed at getting out into THE NETWORK a clear
picture of what THE LAST MAIL ART SHOW is about...People in the NETWORK
are talking about how MAIL ART is dead. The good old days are over they say.
Well The LMAS is the funeral, if you will. I way LET'S MOVE INTO PHASE
TWO. Phase one sprouted almost spontaneously out of Ray Johnson's pineal
gland. since then, the collective sludge of the 60's. 70's, and 80's has spawned
more and more MAIL ART until we now lie engulfed in our own filing systems.
The NETWORK evolving into some new form: SHOULD WE TRY TO MAKE
MONEY/ GO UNDERGROUND/ END WAR/ Well, I invite all MAIL ARTISTS
past, present & future, to air their feeling on this subject via THE LAST MAIL
ART SHOW." History of events leading to the appearance of this "first" issue of
the magazine.
No. 2 (December 1983). Photocopy. 11"x8 1/2". (one page). More on
"The last Mail Art Show." "Join with me, comrades, send your ideas once and for
all to the Last mail Art Show...It is not the end of Mail Art. It is not even the end of
mail art shows. N-Stead, it is a new BEGINNING (big N-ing) for us all, a chance
to appraise where we've gone and chart our course for the future."
No. 4 (January 1984). Photocopy. 8 1/2"x5 1/2". (16 pages). List of
those present (with addresses) of a Mail Art meeting on the occasion of a Bern
Porter (USA) exhibition at La Galleria dell'Occhio, directed by Carlo Pittore
(USA). The editor reports on the evening, followed by another view by Jim
Quinlan (USA). "Panifesto # 7333." Reproduction of the cover of "Panmag"
number 3, "a calendar countdown to The End that I distributed at the meeting."
"Excerpts From a Rough Draft on Mail Art for the Franklin Furnace mail Art
Show." "Panarchy." "The Last Word." "1st printing 50 copies Jan 84/2nd printing
100 copies Mar 84."