Mail Art Chro No Logy
Arte Correo: Mail Art aus Latin Amerika. Mail Art in Latin America, exhibition

Organizer(s): Padín, Clémente

Location: DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany

Date: 26 May–30 June, 1984

Number of participants: 86

Document(s): Reference, Catalog

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Nogueira, Held [Umbrella (Autumn 1984)]

Available for research at Artpool: Catalog

Bibliography: Nogueira, Fernanda: El cuerpo político más allá de sus límites. Clémente Padín y el flujo postal, in: Artecorreo, México DF, Museo de la Ciudad de México, RM Verlag, 2011, pp. 77-92.

"Many exhibitions related to Latin America traveled to the Museo de la Solidaridad de Managua [Nicaragua], among them, Mailart aus Lateinamerika, organized by Clémente Padín in 1984 at the DAAD Galerie in Berlin" Nogueira, Fernanda: Revolution: A Collective Poem. The Poetic and Political Powers of the Mail Art Network III, post-moma.org, 2014

Artistampex, exhibition

Organizer(s): Bidner, Mike

Location: Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada

Date: 1–9 June, 1984

Number of participants:

Document(s): Artistamps, Photos, Poster

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Lloyd, Held [Creative Thing]

Available for research at Artpool: Artistamps, Photos, Poster

"In 1984 he organizes his first artistamp exhibition, entitled ‘Artistampex’.” artpool.hu

Arts Above the Couch, exhibition

Organizer(s): Arts, Arno

Location: Kunstverein, Stadt Museum, Kassel, Germany

Date: 1984

Number of participants: 280

Document(s): Catalog, Call

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Lomholt, Held [Salvatore De Rosa]

Available for research at Artpool: Catalog

Arts on the Move, exhibition

Organizer(s): Arts, Arno

Location: Arnhem, Holland

Date: 1984

Number of participants: 400, 39 countries

Document(s): Catalog

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Lomholt, Held [Creative Thing]

Available for research at Artpool: Catalog

Campaign ’84: Promise Them Anything, exhibition

Organizer(s):

Location: Chicago Gallery, CCC, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Date: 7–30 November, 1984

Number of participants:

Document(s): Call, Catalog

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Held [Umbrella (Autumn 1984), Salavatore de Rosa], Lomholt

Available for research at Artpool: Call, Catalog

Bibliography: Campaign ‘84 – “Promise Them Anything”, Chicago Gallery, IL, USA, 1984, 15 p.

Collaboration, exhibition

Organizer(s): Rippel, Larry – Larry D. Smith

Location: The Mail Box Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Date: 1984

Number of participants:

Document(s): Catalog (List of Participants)

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool

Available for research at Artpool: Call, Catalog

Correspondence Art. Source Book for Network of International Postal Art Activity

Organizer(s): Crane, Michael – Mary Stofflet (eds.)

Location: Contemporary Art Press, San Francisco, USA

Date: 1984

Number of participants:

Document(s): Book, Photos (Inter Dada 84 Catalog)

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Inter Dada 84

Available for research at Artpool: Book

Bibliography: Lloyd, Ginny (ed.): Inter DADA 84. True Dada Confessions, TropiChaCha Press, Jupiter, Florida, 2014, 132 p.

Ear. The Last MA Show, project

Organizer(s): Ruch, Günther – Vittore Baroni

Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Date: 1984

Number of participants:

Document(s): Clinch No. 4, Arte Postale No. 47

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Ruch

Available for research at Artpool: Call, Clinch No. 4

Related link(s): Günther Ruch 1942-2013

To Get Close Human Contact. O Bliski Miedzyludzki Kontakt, meeting

Organizer(s): Joseph Semah (MAKKOM) – Hedie Meyling – Jerome Symons – Menno van der Velde

Location: Stichting MAKKOM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Date: 25 October – 10 November, 1984

Number of participants: 11

Document(s): Catalog

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool

Available for research at Artpool: Catalog

House of Artist, exhibition

Organizer(s): Frangione, Nicola

Location: Agorá, Giulianova, Italy, August; 13 Biennale Internazionale Museo civico agli Eremitani, Padova, December

Date: 1981

Number of participants: 11

Document(s): Catalog

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool

Available for research at Artpool: Catalog

Hungary, Commonpress No. 51

Organizer(s): Galántai, György – Júlia Klaniczay (Artpool)

Location: Hungary Can Be Yours, Young Artists’ Club (FMK), Budapest, Hungary 27 January, 1984; Reconstruction of a Banned Exhibition, 9 – 21 December, 1989, Young Artists’ Club (FMK), Budapest, Hungary

Date: 1984; 1989

Number of participants: 110, 18 countries

Document(s): Catalog (1984/89), Invitation (1989)

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Lomholt

Available for research at Artpool: Catalog, Photos, Works etc.

Ink Impressions, exhibition

Organizer(s): Rippel, Larry

Location: The Mail Box Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Date: May–June, 1984

Number of participants:

Document(s): Poster (List of Participants)

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool

Available for research at Artpool: Poster

Inter DADA 84, festival

Organizer(s): Lloyd, Ginny - Terrence McMahon

Location:

Date: 1984

Number of participants:

Document(s): Call, Catalog (1984), Catalog (2014), InterDada Blog

Source(s) of the listed documents: InterDada Blog

Available for research at Artpool: Catalog, Call

Bibliography: Inter DADA 84. True Dada Confessions, TropiChaCha Press, Jupiter, Florida, 2014, p. 132 (Ed. by Ginny Lloyd)

International "Mail Art" Exhibition Budapest. Nemzetközi "Mail Art" Kiállítás Budapest

Organizer(s): Vásárhelyi, Antal

Location: Young Artists' Club (FMK), Budapest, Hungary

Date: 14–28 September, 1984

Number of participants:

Document(s): Catalog

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Held [Salvatore De Rosa]

Available for research at Artpool: Catalog

Mail Art "L'Objet Cultuel", exhibition

Organizer(s): Braunstein, Jacques

Location: Pont-A-Mousson, Lorraine, France

Date: March, 1984

Number of participants: 675, 40 countries

Document(s): Catalog

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool

Available for research at Artpool: Catalog

Mail Art Then and Now, exhibition

Organizer(s): Cohen, Ronny

Location: Franklin Furnace, New York, New York, USA

Date: 18 January – 10 March, 1984

Number of participants:

Document(s): Call, Articles, Book reference, Works

Source(s) of the listed documents: Pan Modern, Franklin Furnace

Available for research at Artpool: Catalog

Bibliography: Held, John, Jr.: Small Scale Subversion: Mail Art & Artistamps

"While some welcomed the medium being put into an art-historical context, others fought the process. Despite the contrasting positions, one thing had become obvious: Mail Art had become self-conscious of its role as an alternative art form, generating a significant history begging for examination." Held, John, Jr.: Small Scale Subversion: Mail Art & Artistamps, TAM-Publications, Breda, Netherlands, April, 2015

Mail Artist With Camera, exhibition/b>

Organizer(s): Moller Rasmussen, Steen

Location: Huset, Copenhagen, Denmark

Date: 10 September – 10 October, 1984

Number of participants:

Document(s): Catalog

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Held [Salvatore De Rosa]

Available for research at Artpool: Catalog

Mail-World's-Artists-Family, exhibition

Organizer(s): Anelli, Salvatore – Rodolfo Granafei – Sergio Iagulli

Location: Centro Studi Mancini, Cosenza, Italy, April 12-13, 1984.

Date: 12–13 April, 1984

Number of participants:

Document(s): Catalog

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool

Available for research at Artpool: Catalog

Comment: Anelli and Granafei curated the Thinking of Mail Art exhibition at Centro Studi Pietro Mancini, Corso, Italy 20–30 March, 1982.

Mani Art, assembling magazine

Author(s)/Editor(s): Lenoir, Pascal

Publisher: Pascal Lenoir, Grandfresnoy, France

Date: 1984–2001

Number of participants:

Document(s): Issue Nos. 1-135

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Paganguild

Available for research at Artpool: Issue Nos. 6, 8, 10, 1986; 12, 13 1987; 21: 1988; 26: 1989; 40, 48-51: 1991; 52-56: 1992; 64-73: 1993; 74-76, 78-81: 1994; 82-91: 1995; 92-99:1996; 100-106: 1997; 107-116: 1998; 117-125:1999; 126-131: 2000; 132-134: 2001

Comment: See also the exhibition organised in 1985.

Metaphysical Telepathic, project

Organizer(s): Dürer, Dudek Andrzej

Location: Warsaw, Poland

Date: 21 May, 1984

Number of participants: 123

Document(s): Call (poster)

Source(s) of the listed documents: Held [Salvatore De Rosa], Lomholt

Available for research at Artpool: Poster

Neoism. Open Popstar, project

Organizer(s): Below, Peter

Location: Kryptic Press, Würzburg, Germany

Date: 1984

Number of participants: 9

Document(s): Catalog

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Lomholt

Available for research at Artpool: Catalog, Umbrella

Comment: This was a project initiated by Peter Below’s open letter to István Kántor (Monty Cantsin). The participants who responded were: Pete Horobin (Scotland), Vittore Baroni (Italy), David Zack (Mexico), Mark Bloch (USA), R. U. Sevöl (France), Tentatively a Convenience (USA), István Kántor (Monty Cantsin). Printed in 16 copies.

Night Excercise Audio/Video, exhibition series

Organizer(s): Meyer, Peter R.

Location: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Malmö Kunsthall, Malmö, Sweden; Bild o Ljudverkstan, Södertalje, Sweden; Basel, Switzerland, June, 1984; Toronto/Vancouver, Canada, November, 1984; Liege, France, January, 1985; Franklin Furnace, New York, New York, USA, 2–20 April, 1985

Date: 1984–1985

Number of participants: 900, 40 countries

Document(s): Call, Catalog, Postcard

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Lomholt

Available for research at Artpool: Call, Catalog, Postcard

Bibliography: Homewood, Alison: This may be art… but is it good TV?, TW World, August 1985, p. 36
Taska, Ilmar: Swedish Television’s “Night Exercise”, Video Guide Vol. 7 No. 1, January 1985

1984. The Big Brother’s Year, exhibition

Organizer(s): Open Head Arts

Location: Athén, Greece

Date: 1984

Number of participants:

Document(s): Call, Catalog

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool

Available for research at Artpool: Call, Catalog

Odžaci ’84, rubber stamp assembling publication

Author(s)/Editor(s): Supek, Jaroslav

Publisher: Jaroslav Supek, Odžaci, Yugoslavia

Date: 1984

Number of participants: 21

Document(s): Catalog

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool

Available for research at Artpool: Catalog

Mail-Art Olympic Games, exhibition

Organizer(s): Tisma, Andrej

Location: Sunday Afternoon, Novi Sad TV, 12 February, 1984; Gallery Forma, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, 15 February-1 March, 1984; Museum of XIV Winter Olympic Games, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 19 November-1 December, 1985; CCAG, Calgary, Canada, 19 February-29 March, 1986

Date: 1984–1986

Number of participants: 120, 20 countries

Document(s): Call, Catalog, List of Participants

Source(s) of the listed documents: Held [Salvatore De Rosa], Lomholt, Andrej Tišma

Available for research at Artpool: Call, List of Participants (2 versions)

“Tisma did also his first Mail-Art project called 'Mail-Art Olympic Games', in conjunction with the 14th 'Winter Olympic Games' in Sarajevo. This Mail-Art project resulted in three exhibitions. But before these exhibitions, it was installed in a television studio in his home town in February 1984 and first shown on the television. This was realised in co-operation with the 'Novi Sad Television' in the program Sunday Afternoon and broadcasted in whole Yugoslavia during the 'Winter Olympic Games'. After that it went first to the 'Forma Gallery' in Novi Sad. Second exhibition was in Sarajevo, at the 'Museum of XIV Winter Olympic Games', in 1985. It was the first ever Mail-Art show in Sarajevo, combined with a lecture about Mail-Art by Tisma. The third exhibition was in Calgary in 1986, in Chuck Stake's (Canada) 'The Canadian Correspondence Art Gallery'. Transport of the exhibition was sponsored by the Sarajevo Olympic museum. The contributions to his first Mail-Art project he received in two months time and was participated by 120 artists from twenty countries.” Decker, Geert de: Mail-Art Encyclopedia, 2003
Update (October, 2024): Andrej Tisma was so kind to make corrections in our original post and he sent us scanned pages from the Sarajevo catalog.

Peace Earth Peace Global Mail Art Show, touring exhibition

Organizer(s): Ring House Gallery

Location: Ring House Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Date: 1984

Number of participants: ca. 300, 24 countries

Document(s): List of Participants (poster)

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool

Available for research at Artpool: List of Participants (poster)

Posljednja Izložba, exhibition

Organizer(s): Greiner & Kropilak’s Mailart Office (Boris Greiner – Stanislav Habjan)

Location: Galerija Znak, Zagreb, Yugoslavia

Date: 18 October – 3 November, 1984

Number of participants:

Document(s): Publication

Source(s) of the listed documents: Croatian Writers Society

Available for research at Artpool: Catalog

Second Manifesto, periodical

Author(s)/Editor(s): Bogdanovic, Nenad

Publisher: Nenad Bogdanovic, Odzaci, Yugoslavia

Date: 1984–1986

Number of participants:

Document(s): Issues: No. 1-4

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Utsanga

Available for research at Artpool: Publication

Quote: “In 1984. Nenad Bogdanovic started publishing the mail-art fanzine ‘Second Manifesto’. Last, fourth, issue was published during 1986.” Chronology of Nenad Bogdanovic’s mail-art actions, projects and exhibitions, utsanga.it

The Selling of Nimis, project

Organizer(s): Vilks, Lars

Location: Nimis, Sweden

Date: 1984

Number of participants:

Document(s): Letter, Book reference, Wikipedia

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Wikipedia

Available for research at Artpool: Letter, Stationary

"Joseph Beuys buys Nimis from Vilks; the price is 1500 US dollars.” ladonia.org

Smile, periodical

Author(s)/Editor(s): Monty Cantsin (Stewart Home)

Publisher: Monty Cantsin, Woking, England, UK

Date: 1984–

Number of participants:

Document(s): Issues No. 1–

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE

Available for research at Artpool: Issues No. 2–6, 8, 13

"Sometime between February & April of 1984, Stewart Home started a magazine called 'SMILE'. In it, he encouraged everyone to call their magazine SMILE." tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE

Special Delivery. Networking Film

Organizer(s): Gajewski, Henryk – Jacques de Koning – David Weissman

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Date: 1984

Number of participants:

Document(s): Call, List of Participants

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool

Available for research at Artpool: Call, List of Participants, Newsletter

Super 8 Film Festival

Organizer(s): Semah, Joseph (Makkom)

Location: Amsterdam, Holland

Date: 28 January – 5 February, 1984

Number of participants:

Document(s): Call, Catalog

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Held [Spiegelman 84 List], Lomholt

Available for research at Artpool: Call, Catalog

This Is Mail Art Formed in Greetings, exhibition

Organizer(s): Maggi, Ruggero

Location: Milan, Italy

Date: 7-14 April, 1984

Number of participants: 86

Document(s): Catalog

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool

Available for research at Artpool: Catalog

This Mattress Has Spring, project

Organizer(s): Miller, David M.

Location: Figmiller Studio, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

Date: 1984

Number of participants:

Document(s): Call, Catalog

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Held

Available for research at Artpool: Call, Catalog

Thou Art, exhibition

Organizer(s): Schmidt-Olsen, Carsen – Mogens Otto Nielsen

Location: Jomfru Ane Teatret, Aalborg, Denmark

Date: 11–17 May, 1984

Number of participants:

Document(s): Call, Letter, Catalog

Source(s) of the listed documents: Held [Spiegelman's Umbrella (March 1984)], Lomholt

Available for research at Artpool: Call, Catalog

Visions of an Imaginary Spartakiade at the Northpole, 1984, project

Organizer(s): Kattenstroth, Ulli

Location: Berlin, West Germany

Date: 1984

Number of participants: 55

Document(s): Call, Catalog

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Lomholt, Held [Spiegelman's Mail Art Rag (November 1984)]

Available for research at Artpool: Call, Catalog

World's Artists' Family, exhibition

Organizer(s): Kamperelic, Dobrica

Location: HDLUZ-Expanded Art Media, Zagreb - Belgrade Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

Date: 1984

Number of participants: 227, 30 countries

Document(s): Catalog

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Held

Available for research at Artpool: Catalog

Yellow Error, exhibition

Organizer(s): Eriksson, Leif

Location: Bjirred, Sweden

Date: 1984

Number of participants:

Document(s): Call, Poster, Stampsheet

Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Lomholt, Held [Umbrella (January 1984)]

Available for research at Artpool: Article, Umbrella

Bibliography: Eriksson, Leif: Mailed Art In Sweden and Internationally, in: Meyer, Peter R. (Ed.): Mailed Art in Uppsala. Choosing Your Partner, Leif Eriksson Wedgepress & Cheese, Sweden, 1994, pp. 10–21.

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