...air mail from 2013...

 ...asemic construction installation works with Jeff Crouch...this was at New Post Literate and I do not have the link, photographs taken over 2-3 weeks as it disintegrated in the fog and wind.

Per festeggiare i dieci anni della rivista Utsanga.it.....

 

Utsanga.it 2014-2024

Per festeggiare i dieci anni della rivista Utsanga.it, fondata nel 2014 da Francesco Aprile e Cristiano Caggiula, vengono proposti una serie di eventi, organizzati in una sorta di congresso/festival decentralizzato di ispirazione mail artistica, che guardano all’intreccio dei linguaggi nel solco della ricerca della rivista. Un progetto di mail art, curato da Francesco Aprile, Ruggero Maggi e Vincenzo Lagalla, articolato in tre mostre che si svolgeranno in periodi diversi, in luoghi diversi:

• Dal 20 al 26 ottobre 2024 presso Casa dei Kalimeriti, Calimera (via Mayro 28), Le, a cura di Egidio Marullo e Francesco Aprile; inaugurazione il 20 ottobre alle ore 20:00
• Dal 16 ottobre 2024 al 10 gennaio 2025 presso il MAM (Museo d’arte moderna e della mail art) di Montecarotto (AN) a cura di Ruggero Maggi; inaugurazione il 16 ottobre alle ore 18:00
• Dal 14 novembre 2024 a Genova, presso Former (via di Sottoripa 1a/69, 5° piano), a cura di Vincenzo Lagalla; inaugurazione alle ore 17:00

Le tre mostre prevedono ulteriori articolazioni, inserendosi in altri contesti o inglobandone ulteriori. È il caso della mostra che si svolgerà a Montecarotto, curata da Ruggero Maggi all’interno del M.A.D. Mail Art Day (Giornata internazionale dell’arte postale), proposto al MAM dallo stesso Maggi con una serie di eventi e mostre, fra queste anche quella dedicata ai dieci anni di Utsanga, fra questi eventi del Mail Art Day ricordiamo: Arte in trincea, Mail Art Poetry – Poetry is resistance, Utsanga, Oima, Save Artpool, e l’evento ospitato dal Musinf di Senigallia “Io e Ruggero Maggi – GAC”.

Allo stesso modo, all’interno dell’esposizione di mail art che si svolgerà presso la Casa dei Kalimeriti, verrà ospitata la mostra “Forme di un naufragio” che vedrà la presenza di opere asemiche e verbovisive di Cornelis Vleeskens, Vittorino Curci, Francesco Aprile, Egidio Marullo, Cristiano Caggiula, Ruggero Maggi.

I festeggiamenti per i dieci anni di Utsanga continuano in Argentina, per la precisione a Buenos Aires dove, all’interno della biennale POSVERSO, organizzata da Hotel Dada per la curatela di Silvio De Gracia e Ana Montenegro, dove avrà luogo la mostra Toward liminal spaces/Espacio liminar, curata da Francesco Aprile e che vedrà la presenza di opere di: Egidio Marullo, Cristiano Caggiula, Andrea Astolfi, Giuseppe Calandriello, Martina Stella, Clotilde Palasciano, Alessandra Greco, Lorenzo Basile Baldassarre, Annalisa Retico, Davide Galipò, Elena Bonanni, Alessio Guano, Paola Silvia Dolci, Paola Mancinelli, Federico Federici. La mostra sarà inaugurata il 31 ottobre 2024 alle ore 20:00 presso l’Asociacion Cutural Dante Alighieri di Buenos Aires. 

Altre iniziative sono in corso di definizione e vedranno il coinvolgimento della Galleria ArtPoetry di Salvatore Luperto, a Lecce. 

Programma:

• Mail Art Utsanga: dal 20 al 26 ottobre 2024 presso Casa dei Kalimeriti, Calimera (via Mayro 28), Le, a cura di Egidio Marullo e Francesco Aprile; inaugurazione il 20 ottobre alle ore 20:00
• Forme di un naufragio, opere di Cornelis Vleeskens, Vittorino Curci, Francesco Aprile, Egidio Marullo, Cristiano Caggiula, Ruggero Maggi, dal 20 al 26 ottobre 2024 presso Casa dei Kalimeriti, Calimera (via Mayro 28), Le, a cura di Egidio Marullo e Francesco Aprile; inaugurazione il 20 ottobre alle ore 20:00
• Mail Art Utsanga: dal 16 ottobre 2024 al 10 gennaio 2025 presso il MAM (Museo d’arte moderna e della mail art) di Montecarotto (AN) a cura di Ruggero Maggi; inaugurazione il 16 ottobre alle ore 18:00
• Mail Art Utsanga: dal 14 novembre 2024 a Genova, presso Former (via di Sottoripa 1a/69, 5° piano), a cura di Vincenzo Lagalla; inaugurazione alle ore 17:00
• Toward liminal spaces, a cura di Francesco Aprile, Buenos Aires, Asociacion Cultural Dante Alighieri, POSVERSO/Hotel Dada, inaugurazione 31 ottobre 2024, ore 20:00

Partecipanti alle mostre di mail art:

ARGENTINA Maria Castillo AUSTRIA Monika Lederbauer, Klaus Pinter BELGIO Guy Bleus, Broc, Merlyn Paridaen, Sjoerd Paridaen, The Wasted Angel, Jan Theuninck, Thierry Tillier, Johan Van Geluwe, Josè Vd Broucke, Viva Vercruisse BRASILE Sergio Monteiro De Almeida, Dario De Souza, Cris Piloto, Marise Piloto, Hugo Pontes, Marcia Rosenberger CANADA Diane Bertrand, R.F. Cotè, Susan Gold, Mailarta, Snappy, Ed Varney COLOMBIA Tulio Restrepo DANIMARCA Poul Poclage FILIPPINE Michelangelo Mayo FINLANDIA John Gayer FRANCIA Julien Blaine, Christian Burgaud, Christiane Carrè, Virginie Loreau, Katerina Mandarik, Christophe Massé, Remy Penard GERMANIA Lutz Anders, Thomas Behling, Hans Braumüller, Dorothea Fleiss, Thorsten Fuhrmann, Wolfgang Ghünther, Thomas Glatz, Klaus Groh, Elke Grundmann, Annegret Heinl, Uwe Höfig, Eberhard Janke, Jürgen O. Olbrich, Reinhard Ploetz, Peter Ritz, Peter Schubert, Lars Schumacher, Jörg Seifert, Horst Tress, Sigismund Urban, Anke Vos GIAPPONE Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver, Mukata Takamura GRAN BRETAGNA UU Flat 5, Simon Warren GRECIA Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Nicolas Malevitsis, Katerina Nikoltsou INDIA Renuka Kesaramadu ITALIA Walter Accigliaro, Antonio Amato, Salvatore Anelli, Giovanni Arici, Luigi Auriemma, Franco Ballabeni, Nino Barone, Vittore Baroni, Pier Roberto Bassi, Elisa Battistella, Lancillotto Bellini, Carla Bertola, Rovena Bocci, Maria Bonaduce, Adriano Bonari, Anna Boschi, Marzia Braglia, Sandra Branca, Rossana Bucci, Mirta Caccaro, Giulio Calabrò, Roberto Calabrò, Giuseppe Calandriello, Verdiana Calia, Carlo Capeti, Angela Caporaso, Loretta Cappanera, Guido Capuano, Lamberto Caravita, Bruno Cassaglia, David Cassano, Arianna Cedo, Francesca Cenciarini, Renato Cerisola, Lidia Chiarelli, Antonio Chiarello, Mabi Col, Gaetano Colonna, Letterio Consiglio, Francesco Cornello, Natale Cuciniello, Giampietro Cudin, Niccolò D’Alessandro, Crescenzio D’Ambrosio, Maria Grazia Dapuzzo, Fabio De Poli, Albina Dealessi, Pina Della Rossa, Francesco Deotto, Antonio Devicienti, Elena Di Felice, Antonio Di Michele, Renata Di Palma, Franco Di Pede, Marcello Diotallevi, Paola Silvia Dolci, Stefano Donno, Benedetto Fanna, Lara Favaro, Federico Federici, Margherita Fergnachino, Laura Ferraro, Giovanna Filippello, Anna Finetti, Anna Fiore, Roberto Formigoni, Marco Furia, Antonella Gandini, Gianluca Garrapa, Claudio Gavina, Gruppo Sinestetico, I Miradebora, Luigina Iacuzzi, Benedetta Jandolo, Alfonso Lentini, Leona K., Carmine Lubrano, Silvana Leonardi, Oronzo Liuzzi, Serse Luigetti, Ruggero Maggi, Antonio Mancini, Francesca Marica, Maria Grazia Martina, Anna Maria Matone, Simone Mazzoleni, Moreno Menarin, Virginia Milici, Annalisa Mitrano, Giorgio Moio, Mattia Montemezzani, Emilio Morandi, Giovanni Morgese, Maya Lopez Muro, Giuliana Natali, Cristiano Pallara, Franco Panella, Stefano Pasquini, Enzo Patti, Fabrizio Pavolucci, Walter Pennacchi, Salvatore Pepe, Marisa Pezzoli, Riccardo Pezzoli, Tarcisio Pingitore, Laura Pintus, Veronique Pozzi Painè, Ptrzia TicTac, Alessandra Pucci, Maurizia Ragni, Mariella Ramondo, Viviana Ravelli, Gaetano Ricci, Elisa Rioda, Gian Paolo Roffi, Linda Romano, Claudio Romeo, Gianni Romizi, Fiorenzo Rosso, Sergio Sansevrino, Lucia Sapienza, Antonio Sassu, Roberto Scala, Eugenia Serafini, Luigino Solamito, Alberto Sordi, Lucia Spagnuolo, Giovanni e Renata Strada, Roberta Terzani, Camilla Testori, Elsa Testori, Roberto Testori, Elisa Traverso, Ilia Tufano, Stefano Turrini, Emilio Vance, Silvia Venuti, Rosanna Veronesi, Alberto Vitacchio, WM, Laura Zilocchi LITUANIA Mindaugas Žuromskas LUSSEMBURGO Fraenz MESSICO Diana Magallon, José Luis Alcalde Soberanes NORVEGIA Elisabeth Larsen Torill, Jaromir Svozilik OLANDA Leslie Atkins, Everarts, Piet Franzen, Rob Komen PORTOGALLO BroTTas Mailart REP. CECA Zdenek Sima, Jiři Šubrt ROMANIA Nani Corina RUSSIA Alexander Limarev SERBIA Zorica Obradović SPAGNA Sabela Baña, Maria José Bellido, Pablo Gallardo Bellido, Pedro Bericat, Pedro Pablo Gallardo Montero, Francisco Galvez, Antonio Moreno Garrido, Antonio Gomez, Rafael Gonzales, Miguel Jimenez, Felipe Lamadrid, Alberto Lamas, Neda Mehrjoo, César Reglero, Jaume Rocamora, Manuel Ruiz Ruiz, Horacio Sapere, Manuel Xio Blanco SVEZIA Hugo Catolino, Henry Grahn Hermunen SVIZZERA Ueli Sager, Darko Vulić TAIWAN William Mellott TURCHIA Meral Agar, Deria Avci, Ahmet Hakan Canpolat UCRAINA Irina Novikova, Lubomyr Tymkiv UNGHERIA Abajkovis Peter, József Birò URUGUAY Maria Victoria Bonè Ramirez USA David Stanley Aponte, Rosaire Appel, Roberta Bartel, John M. Bennett, Cascadia ArtPost, Cecelia Chapman, C.T. Chew, J. Cirro, Mike Dyar, Ferrrnto, Jon Foster, Ed Giecek, John Held Jr., Honoria, Malok, C. Marrall, Catherine Mehrl Bennett, Coco Muchmore, Non Local Variable, Joey Patrickt, Picasso Gaglione, Con Coma, Roger Silverberg, The Sticker Dude (Joel Cohen), Cecil Touchon, Vis Vassar, Reid Wood (State of Being) VENEZUELA _guroga

M.A.D. MAIL ART DAY 16 OCTOBER by Ruggero Maggi and Stefano Schiavoni....tomorrow!

 

MAM Museum of Modern Art and Mail Art Montecarotto (AN) 

16 October 2024 | 10 January 2025 Opening | Wednesday 16 October 2024 | at 18.00

On the occasion of the M.A.D. Mail Art Day 2024 project, two events will be held at MAM Museum of Modern Art and Mail Art in Montecarotto (AN) and at Musinf Museum of Information in Senigallia, curated respectively by Ruggero Maggi and Stefano Schiavoni.

The M.A.D. Mail Art Day project | October 16 | International Mail Art Day was launched at the end of 2022 by Ruggero Maggi to remember Ray Johnson, born on October 16 and defined as “the most famous unknown artist in New York”. By founding the New York Correspondence School in 1962, with which he mocked the various correspondence art schools that were springing up in the US at the time, he marked with this explosive initial moment, the Big Bang of Mail Art.

very happy to be in these two shows:

“MAIL ART POETRY – POETRY IS RESISTANCE” Arte Correo collateral project to the first international biennial of Argentine experimental poetry POSVERSO, strongly desired by Silvio De Gracia, who has expanded the experimental research in more multidisciplinary fields, involving artists from all over the world with a branched and articulated diffusion of culture and of LIVE ART in Buenos Aires and Argentina. Poetry and resistance, war and poetry, one has been trying for centuries to annihilate the other with oppression, with violence, but Poetry is difficult to defeat. It will always find a way to emerge in the most unexpected places, in the subways of a bombed London, in the tunnels of underground cities, in muddy trenches. The trench is an emblem of defense, but also a line from which an attack can start... the attack of Poetry towards a world that seems to have forgotten it, seems to have made it obsolete, but poets and artists have always been on the front line to fight with pens and

pencils the insane desire of violence. Mail Art represents one of the most powerful and deflagrating poetic weapons to make one's "voice" heard.

UTSANGA Visual poetry and mail art have always been inseparable companions on the road. Poetry: food of life… poetic chrysalis of mail art, exercise of creative freedom and restlessness of the soul with which to plough through the entire world. This mail art project curated by Francesco Aprile, Vincenzo Lagalla and Ruggero Maggi wants to celebrate 10 years of work and research by Utsanga, through some exhibition moments in different locations, with the participation of hundreds of international artists. Utsanga.it is an online magazine about liminal analysis. The term “utsanga” is a Sanskrit word that meaning “womb, embrace”. The magazine was founded by Francesco Aprile and Cristiano Caggiula in 2014. Border that preludes the beyond, line that expands becoming a conceptual laboratory, a research center, an archive.

WhisperWish 2008 and Rogue Con 2008 videos @ JokerJokerTV 8/22

 https://www.youtube.com/live/jTYR9dUI91w

Two super early vids....WhisperWish from Signs, Wishes and Wonders 2008 with Grat Bodkin music. The Merry Go Round animals and ride was newly renovated, re-finished re-painted by San Francisco artists and art commission as I understand ...I can't stress how impossible to find such a beautiful ride anywhere in the US as this, even in Disneyland where artisans are paid well. This was a work of love and I stood in wonder at the detail like the hippo on the zebra saddle and the carving ....incredible.

And Rogue Con from Mr. E. 2008 with Christa Hunter performer and Jeff Crouch music. I am often intrigued by noir newspaper crime articles...mostly by women thieves and con artists and use their tale. Especially the ones who succeed eluding capture. 

JOKERJOKERtv features the best music videos, short film, animations, interviews & performances from unknown and underground artists around the world. Join us every Thursday night @ 6:30p (eastern time) for the livestream. JOKERJOKERtv is produced by Mux Blank, T.Chodd, and Dain Marx. Livestreamed at JOKERJOKER Gallery in Athens GA. Hosted by Bryant Perez and Mux Blank.

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WHISPERWISH photographs Pacifica, California

ROGUE CON screengrabs Christa Hunter

Confidential 0P 2017 and WonderStrike 2008 videos at JokerJokerTV tonight...

 https://www.youtube.com/live/-ir2ATkPjmA

CONFIDENTIAL 0P 2017...considers the confidentiality of the post and our prospects for a Disney ending in the lost empire's attacks on privacy. With mail artist Rafael Gonzalez, composer Blaine Reininger, uber mechanic Brad Gigliotti and his getaway car, and longtime performer collaborator Christa Hunter.

A post and email collaboration. Rafael sent me cards and video clips from Tenerife and I filmed south of San Francisco. Music by Blaine Reininger of TuxedoMoon is American Buffalo Theme. Since wild buffalo have disappeared from our continent, It is appropriate music for the last act of American privacy.

JOKERJOKERtv features the best music videos, short film, animations, interviews & performances from unknown and underground artists around the world. Tune in every Thursday at 6:30​​p (eastern time) for some of the freshest, weirdest, and most awe-inspiring artists in 2024! Join the community in the live chat. Purchasing cool merch at www.jokerjokertv.com

...and WONDERSTRIKE 2008, from the Signs, Wishes &Wonders series...

Co-opting the Folk /Fairy tales format, not pleasant narrative often, not myth or legend, meant to entertain. Time-twisted tales of things people used to have to know to survive, metaphysical truths, long-lost, twisted reasons for natural phenomenon. There is dismemberment, enchanted animals, incest, shapeshifters, treasures, singing monsters, murder, beautiful women, abandoned children if they survived evil things. Some heroes....not-named-yet tales.....  

VENICE |“MAIL ART, ART IN TRENCH” Mail Art meeting by Ruggero Maggi | WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2024 at 5.00 pm | SPAZIO THETIS | Palazzina Modelli

 SPAZIO THETIS VENICE 

“MAIL ART, ART IN TRENCH”
Mail Art meeting by Ruggero Maggi

WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2024 at 5.00 pm

“Mail Art, art in trench” meeting curated by Ruggero Maggi will be held onWednesday 8 May 2024 at 5.00 pm in Venice at the Spazio Thetis | Palazzina Modelli  (Castello).
Speakers will be Chuck Welch (aka CrackerJack Kid) American mailartist, Willie Marlowe American verbovisual artist, Antonietta Grandesso Manager of Spazio Thetis, Piergiorgio Baroldi President of the Cultural Association Paolo Rizzi ETS, Stefano Schiavoni Director of the MAM Museum of Modern Art and Mail Art of Montecarotto (AN ) and the artist Ruggero Maggi.

Dedicated to Giorgio Nelva and BuZ Blurr (Russel Butler),  who recently returned to sender.

Mail Art, art in trench.... an artistic trench refractory to the conditioning and fashions of the prevailing "art system"... a social trench against the tragic war-mongering tendencies that are spreading throughout the world. A type of artistic research that finds its natural poetic sedimentation in creative communication; after all, isn't communication at the basis of every human contact, of every artistic impulse? Mail Art represents the apex of this type of experimentation. In the relationship between sender/recipient and through the object sent it finds the right conceptual sublimation. I have always thought that every human action should be motivated by a longing for spirituality deriving from art and science and that it should have as its aim the achievement of high and profound goals. “You were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge” as Dante wrote (XXVI canto of Hell, v. 119). Mail Art is no exception, it has always been a careful spokesperson for artistic and poetic messages, with profound social implications.

There have been mailartists imprisoned for their ideas of freedom, such as the Uruguayan Clemente Padín and the Salvadorian Jesus Romeo Galdamez. Mailartists who turned also to technological research such as the Belgian Charles François,  Sandro Bongiani - Ophen Virtual Art Gallery, Claudio Grandinetti - Artefice, Claudio Romeo - DodoDada and the American Chuck Welch (aka CrackerJack Kid) with his projects and his important collection Smithsonian Artistamp and Mail Art Library present in the archives of American Art in Washington , D.C. Speaking of Chuck Welch, who will be present at our meeting, I want to remember one of the finest mail art projects that Chuck created in the late 70s: he asked me to send him a pair of old jeans and surprisingly, after a while, I received an original letter kit made up of sheets and envelopes made from the fabric of my old trousers, a real mail art surprise! Then there are mailartists who have dedicated themselves to real editorial projects, such as the German/Chilean Hans Braumüller with his magazine Artist Matter Zine and the publication of books such as "United in Mail Art", "Meta+Verse" realized with Ruggero Maggi and “Mail Art In Cyberspace” by Chuck Welch.

Mail Art truly has many faces, far from being a mere exchange of postcards, it has long since taken on a global dimension and there are now very few countries in which at least one mailartist does not reside. Mail Art, the quintessence of creative communication, an international network that embraces the entire world, a forerunner of recent social networks. An “Eternal Network” – as Robert Filliou defined it – open to everyone, artists and otherwise: this is precisely the great disruption represented by Mail Art.
The networker is like a piece of a formidable mosaic in a boundless universe of poetic energies. In reality its function is unique, since its placement within the circuit itself with the relative connections with other operators is unique. Probably the network itself is the greatest work of art in the world!

Mail Art isn't done for money, it isn't done for fame...
it's done... it's lived... it's emotion..
R.Maggi


info | maggiruggero@gmail.com

Porto PT gallery show 4/13....DECALS, POSTCARDS AND SOUVENIRS / FERNANDO MARQUES PENTEADO

'You take paths blindly, but, guided by your beating heart, you will always find beneficial destinations. Here in the exhibition, the anonymous narrator is right at the door and draws a route. There are several stops on it. You can, between different little chapels, sit down and enjoy dreaming again. The works recover fabrics and stories, maps and photos, events that are glued together in a confusing, inverted, insoluble timeline. And all the better because you can then recover them and make sense of them. your own way.' excerpt from show text