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++++ The Mission of Free International University-Batesville is to play upon the theory of Social Sculpture and the creative energies of everyone taught by the creator of the Free International University German artist Joseph Beuys. Our Mission is and will continue to be an evolving and fluid process staying within the context of Beuys ideas and teaching of the nature of art and creativity within a universal democratic framework. One step in this direction is Mail Art in the Ozarks. The creation of the micro galleries, Ray Johnson Galleries I & 2 and the Ozark Sculpture Gardens will be a vehical to expose the local community to art being produced by artists from around the world. Viewers are also encouraged to create their own small works and become engaged in and with the international network of snailmail and email artists. Founder/Director and Curator of the Micro Galleries John Chiaromonte ++++ MICRO GALLERIES
Mail Art Show Reeperbahn 1997 "Mail art or networking art is an alternative art that puts its emphasis on communication. Communication is its message. A communication that goes beyond the boundaries, both in space and in a spiritual sense. Mail art networking considers art as a product of communication, fruit of the human work (the work), and as a web of relations among the senders united throughout a net (the net) that makes connexions possible for them. Similar to internet, where there is no central head, each networker (mail artist) acts as a contact point of recyclement and creation of communication and information. Thus, mail art is neither a style, nor a specific technique nor one of the many „isms" in art, but a creative process in community. Everybody is welcome in mailart. All participants are equally worth, the interchange is made by post, fax, e-mail and WorldWideWeb. In this way, a global culture develops from the basis, building worldwide networks of artists of the most different disciplines. Some of these disciplines are the performance art, music, video, rubber stamp art, conceptual art, painting, graphic, poetry, visual poetry, land art, body art, multimedia, virtual art and some others; also here mail art - being interdisciplines part of its essence - puts no boundaries. This mail art, also called networking art, has been originated among others in Ray Johnsons New York Correspondence School of Art and Fluxus and it has been continously developing for more than 40 years. Some theorists maintains, this is the greatest boundless artist movement that has ever existed." Hans Braumüller + Merlin, Hamburg 1997 THE LIVING SCULPTURE. Kassel 1977-Venice 2007 by Clive Phillpot NE Rapport - William S. Wilson List of mail art artists from around the world Coyote "I like America and American likes me" 1974
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2008 CALL FOR ENTRIES ++++ CONTENTS: OBJECTS, PILES AND BOXES MAIL ART SHOW ++++ Ray Johnson Micro Gallerie I & II ++++ THE TELEPHONE POLE MAIL ART SHOW
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