Mail Art Periodicals - MoMA

No. 2 ([1985]). Photocopy. 11"x8 1/2". (28 pages). Collage art by
Michael Voo Doo (USA). "Two Questions for Michael Voo Doo..Why do you
make art?/I make images and object as a means of easing the guilt I feel for
being a monster in a monstrous world./Why do you mail your art to others:/there
are endless answers to that question: (*) Mail Art is not consumerist art (*) Mail
Art is troublesome to the funeral home merchants who pretend to market art (*)
Mail Art is a protective measure so that the messenger isn't slain for the content
of the message (*) Mail Art cause extreme mechanical and physical motion (*)
Mail Art makes good use of a federal service (laxative-like) (*) Mail Art is often
temporary and spontaneous (*) Mail Art is naive spiritualism (*) Mail Art is a
dinosaur guaranteed to evolve (*) etc...'." Biography on Voo Doo ascribed to
Carlo Pittore (USA), who disclaims the text in an accompanying note.
No. 18 (1990). Photocopy. 11"x8 1/2". (28 pages). "Xerolage is an
irregular magazine of visual poetry, copy art & collage graphics. Each issue is
devoted to the work of one artist. 'Xerolage' is a word coined by Miekal And to
suggest the new world of 8.5x11 art propagated by xerox technology. 'the mimeo
of the 80's.' The primary investigation of this magazine is how collage techniques
of 20th century art, visual & concrete poetry movements, & the art of xerox have
been combined." "Clemente Padin: Signographics & Texts." Visual poetry by the
artist from 1967-1970. Biographical information provided by Harry Polkinhorn
(USA) in his text, "Gnosis; Clemente Padin's 'Sigographics and Texts'." Drawing
of Padin by Felipe Ehrenberg (Mexico). Biographical notes.
Yawn: Sporatic Critique of Culture. (Lloyd Dunn), Editor. The
Drawing Legion, Oakdale; Iowa City, Iowa. 1989-1993.
No. 1 (September 15, 1989). Computer Print. 11"x8 1/2". (2 pages).
"Art Strike 1990-1993...We call on all artists in the U.S. to put down their tools
and cease to make, distribute, sell, exhibit or discuss their work from January 1,
1990 to January 1, 1993> We call for all galleries, museums, agencies,
alternative spaces, periodicals, theaters, art schools etc., to cease all operations
for the same period." "Give Up Art Save the Starving." A joint publication by
"Yawn," Art Strike Action Committee (London), Art Strike Action Committee (San
Francisco), and "PhotoStatic/Retrofuturism." Edition 500.
No. 2 (September 22, 1989). Computer Print. 11"x8 1/2". (2 pages).
Detourned comics with Art Strike rhetoric. "The Art Strike (1990-1993) can only
be propagated on the basis of a limited idea of what art is. If art is everything,
according to the definition of Dada and Fluxus...Then an Art Strike (1990-1993)
would be death!...Culture is a sinking ship...By Golly, I'm getting off!" "20 of the
Most Difficult, Awkward, & Searching Questions You Could Ask About the Art
Strike (1990-1993)." Listing of Art Strike Action Committees (ASACs) in San
Francisco, Baltimore, London, Ireland (c/o Tony Lowes), Montevideo. "Any part
of YAWN may be reproduced in any form whatsoever, even without
acknowledgment." Edition 500.