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November,
1973 Exhibition plans: "Strange picture postcards" "Self-documentation" "The 'Exhibit' exhibition" "Absurd/pictureless pictures" "Ruined photos" MAIL WORKS Conceptual and postal
work plans - Create situation
documentation that documents nothing. December, 1973 (Find a good way to invent): A picture postcard that has a picture on both sides, and one which is a postcard on both sides. It's the mailman's choice. Transparent picture
postcard. May, 1978 Parisian ideas The Linda Francis exhibition Exhibition plan Variations 1979 Competition themes (plan) Write down what I should do instead of your doing it. (What you would like me to do instead of you.) I'll turn them into an exhibit, or rather a publication; I'll document your action with my action, I'll carry out the action on successive mornings. 30 exercises Plan To do something in such a way that I'm not doing it, I only participate. 1. Fictitious exhibition
for Cavellini on Balatonboglár (Collage) A suggestion (to myself) 1. One must try every idea. 2. One must do everything (that one can). Collect activities, as experiences, in an archive, and make them available to all in a variety of ways (exhibitions, publications, etc.), so that we might not all invent the same thing over and over again, while time is passing us by. I suggest the establishment of a great multitude of museums. Everyone who is interested should set up his own museum. The private museum as a recreational facility. Let us organize competitions between museums, etc. (Who can make a better museum?) Museum network! World (redemption): To do all possible good in spite of all existing evil; the result is nothing, more exactly, the something that is the history of nothing, and the justification of being. February 18, 1979 - The acceptance of a piece of fiction, and of reality. - The acceptance of a piece of fiction and of a conflicting piece of fiction. - Value + countervalue = 0 - 0 = the symbol of existence. What is Mail Art/Network? Sect, sickness, [safety] valve, exchange of information, satisfaction of secret desires, constant presence, expanded space, readiness, discipline, devotion, daily exhibition, maximal inspiration, voluntary hard labor, feedback, etc. 1980 Telegram to Pécs on January 15 MAILDRAWING Iron Sculpture Stamps 1. Anything with everything, 2. Everything with everything, 3. Anybody with everything, 4. Anybody with anybody, 5. Everybody is, or may be, connected with everybody. Steel and paper, the steel mill and the post office, the sole of a shoe and an industrial object, the fire of the blow torch and the artists' stamp, everyday existence and artistic existence. It is quite likely that these opposites make sense only if they are together. That's why I've put together this spread of stamps, and that's why I like Art and Mail Art. - I see the most important feature of my own personality not in the fact that I am a sculptor, painter or whatever else, but in the fact that I yearn for art. For me, that's the strongest motivating force. Not that I make sweeping gestures with a brush in my hand, nor how masterfully I can work the copperplate. While I enjoy these manual aspects, what's most important is the will to art. PROJECTS The founding of ARTPOOL, 1979 Primary aims: 1. To collect material for the museum of artistic inventions scheduled to open in 2079. 2. To inspire the founding of the museum. 3. To fill the gap, for the time being, with spaces available periodically. 4. To operate as part of the museum when it is established (according to the original plans). The purpose of Artpool
is to collect, classify and preserve artistic experiments which, under
the present circumstances, would disappear without a trace. Offering direction
and information, Artpool encourages every attempt aimed at the renaissance
of art, and fosters the development of an atmosphere conducive of creativity. ARTPOOL - SPACE Themes 1. Art can be anywhere, in any form! 2. Art is small. 3. What other forms can art take? 4. The questions of art today. 5. What is beyond art? 1980 GALLERY 300 BY ARTPOOL (plan - Gallery network) Point: To operate
at 300 locations, with duplicated material. You, too, can be a gallery. 1. You, too, can
be a gallery if you have one copy of the assembling in your possession. Plan The TELEPHONE GALLERY will open its doors on Wednesday, January 7, 1981, and will operate on every Wednesday falling on an odd day, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. The gallery will collect its program on these days. The gallery requests that artists submit their 3 to 6 minute telephone works to: 162-659 TRAVEL PROJECT, 1982 The missive is a trans-functioned meeting. The meeting is a trans-functioned missive.Meet us at the following addresses: Our reply will be a trans-functioned meeting. Artpool Buda Ray University (from 1982) Here, as in real life,
one keeps switching roles. For there are two people in all of us: the
teacher and the student; thus, there is no difference between teacher
and student. Every member of the university asks and answers questions.
The questions and answers are visual. 1983 plan Please send me one of your motifs so I can use it in my work. Everything in the world is half finished, waiting for the artists to finish it. There are no completed works. All that cannot be continued is bad. Good works are open to continuation. Every place is a good place. Completeness exists only in the moment. Time leaves everything unfinished. NEW FLUXUS SIGN BOOK EAST FLUXUS (plan) Modify your country's commonly used signs! Turn social practice into artistic practice. Draw everything into art. Send in your visual, acoustic and verbal motifs, systems (signs) in any form, so that united with the messages and motifs of other artists, they might enter the sphere of eternal movement, and create a sense of the totality of today's world. In the form of drawings,
pictures, audio tapes, video tapes, film, instructions, descriptions,
etc. A step into the future. COMP + ART - WORLD
+ FUTURE (plan) Future-image for
computer COMMUNICATION is the UNESCO's keynote for 1983 as the year of art. "Artpool Letter is an attempt to explore the possibilities inherent in the bookwork (livre d'artiste), a form of artistic expression little known in Hungary today, unique possibilities which can be realized only in a studio." "The purpose
of this letter is to express thoughts which are so haphazard and unorganized
that we normally would not write them down, for writing requires a great
deal more rumination and editing, and expresses a great deal less spontaneity." (Mail-art is considered throughout the world as a form of artistic communication.) Plan (only a plan) A guide to the concepts "meta-mail", "anti-mail" and "super-mail" (terms not in common usage): 1. META-MAIL is a
message delivered by hand. It is neither tended /encouraged, nor taboo,
nor liable to manipulation, and so falls in the category of tolerated
art, for, by its very nature, it is delivered to the addressee without
anyone knowing whether it exists or not. There is only one possible exception:
if it has to cross national borders. December, 1989 What is beautiful is not art, but the artist. Every artist is a museum. Show me your museum, and I'll tell you who you are. What makes the art dispersed all over the world through the postal network significant is that this network has arteries, and pumps to feed these arteries and speed up circulation. What was introduced simultaneously by Ray Johnson and the Fluxus movement, namely, that art can materialize in connection with, or as a function of, real life has now, at the end of the century, become a key concept. What makes these artists happy? An object they received today? Possibly. This, however, is but the pulsation of the network, the concentrates received from the pumps. The exhibits and documents of "communication-art" suggest a new world. And protest against the old. These creations are never depressing, not even if they treat a depressing subject. They are never bad, for something that is done by a lot of people can never be bad. Unlike consumer-oriented mass production, they represent the unique produced in great quantities; they exemplify the flexibility of thought while making it accessible to analysis. There are mail-art projects that tell us all there is to know about what is, and even something about what will be. In short, about the direction in which thinking is headed. Communication-art is, in fact, a kind of brain-storming that enables us to learn what people are interested in, and what the answers are. 1993 One can begin life at any time; in fact, every day there are people who start: those who are born that day. And this does not put the newborn at a disadvantage! One ought to invent a system which recognizes autonomy while preserving its historic context; in short, changes which do not destroy the values created by earlier changes. (Artpool) What is of value?
Everything that is different. What is "the future"? The continuing emergence of values integrated through the examination of new inventions and free and changing forms of thought, their fluctuating operation and pulsation. Every segment of
a process has its own history, which can also be interpreted in relation
to the other segments. February, 1993 theme for Artpool VIDEO/MAIL/ART with camera and existing (finished) material 1. Short, vivid, or long, monotonous shots. 2. Using other people's material, that of friends, television programs or anything else. 3. What's important is that it should be like mail. 4. We will hold video-mail shows. 5. The letters will be arranged into a catalogue which all correspondents can receive. 6. We will rearrange the video material in different ways (which we have yet to figure out). 7. Use the video as a means of creating images and conveying messages. |
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