INTERNATIONAL MAIL-ART CALL

WITH MAIL ART ARCHIVE VIENNA 

Mail-Art, postcard art, art postcard 

For artists, mail art is a way of creating non-commercial art that eludes the established channels of mediation and marketing.

Postcards are collaged from photocopies, newspaper clips and selected stamps and sent to acquaintances. With his Mail-Art, Padhi Frieberger propagated the concerns of the ecological and peace movements and referred to political debates. Above all, however, he polemicised against "pseudo-artists". As a social and political medium, Mail-Art was also a means of resistance in the dictatorships of Latin America and Eastern Europe.

Even in the digital age, mail art is not sent by e-mail. Small-format art is still very popular and remains an analogue medium. In the Mail Art Archive Vienna, Mail-Art is collected and presented in the form of magazines.

In cooperation with Mail Art Archive Vienna, WestLicht announces an international open call and invites mail art artists to send their works. All submissions will be presented on the site on an ongoing basis. 

SUBMISSIONS DETAILS

Themes: critical mail art / image text collage

Medium & Size: free

Deadline: 15.06.2021

Please note on the back of the work:

/ Name

/ Address/Country

/ Contact information

Please send to:

WESTLICHT. SCHAUPLATZ FÜR FOTOGRAFIE, Westbahnstraße 40, 1070 Vienna

Austria

No jury, no fee, no return

Each artist can send one work on one or both themes. But you can also combine them into one work! However, each artist should please submit no more than 2 works.

There will be an online documentation and the works will remain in the Mail Art Archive Vienna. 

CONTACT

maav@gmx.at

vermittlung@westlicht.com

Mail Art Archive Vienna     

WestLicht. Schauplatz für Fotografie