ABOUT BLAH MAIL ART ZINE

ABOUT BLAH

Blah is a cut and paste, black and white zine.

Blah was first conceived on Saturday the 4^th of July 1998.

Blah isn't about anything in particular, it's just more blah, blah, blah.

Blah isn't written by Monty Cantsin, in fact I've never met him. Although I was friends with someone who met him at a party once, or at least she thought it was Monty.

Blah is written by Apple Jack Dada and Joe Decie.

Blah is an art movement, which plays in the Eternal Network of mail art.

Blah is rarely clever and usually lacking originality.

Blah is sometimes nonsense, sometimes a contradiction.

ABOUT JOE DECIE

Joe Decie is the youngest member of the renowned 'Mail Art Family' He has been actively involved in the eternal network for the past few years. He works from his art space aptly named "Joe's Art Corner" where he also runs his archive and gallery. He is a member of IUOMA and Field Study UK, but hey, this is all a bit boring eh ? You don't want to know about Mr Decie after all it's all just blah, blah, blah...

ABOUT APPLE JACK DADA

Apple Jack was born in Berlin but moved to Leeds in the north of England in 1994. He has taken part in many anti art shows including London's famous "Papers Not Art" show in 1995. He has written Dada manifestos and articles which have been published in many art magazines around the world. He joined forces with Joe Decie when they met at an underground Post-Neoist event in July 97. He likes garlic.

CORRESPONDANCE & THE ETERNAL NETWORK

Basic introduction

Correspondence art, also known as mail art, is a group of artists, designers and writers. They come from all walks of life and all over the world. They communicate with each other via the postal service, sending art, photos, project ideas and stuff. Mail art is open to anyone. For the price of a stamp, and some of your creative out put, you can join the network.

There is a lot of information about mail art around at various web pages, visit a few via our links page and find out more. Or try and get hold of the following books: Correspondence Art (Michael Crane, Contemporary Arts Press) or Eternal Network (Chuck Welsh, Calgary Press) or for those of you who speak Italian Arte Postal (Vittore Baroni, AAA Edizioni)

THE MAIL ART FAMILY

On the contrary to what many believe, there are three mail artists working from the Malvern Road address. A lot of mail artists have different pseudonyms, so it would be easy to think that we were only the one artist adopting different names. However this is not the case, the Mail Art Family is as such: Roger Radio (my step dad) Jilly Jargon (my mother) and me (Joe Decie)

PROJECTS

There are several mail art projects set up by this family, for which documentation is in the process of being completed. They are as follows:

JILLY JARGON: San Francisco Project

ROGER RADIO: Shoes Project and Theme Park Project

JOE DECIE: Visual Delight v Visual Disaster Project.

The documentation books for these projects are all being produced, If you have sent work do not worry, the doc's will be with you shortly.

This page will also be used to showcase new projects set up by the mail art family, so watch this space.

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