gustave morin - $50.00 

new chapbook by Mark Sonnenfeld (12 pages) ISBN: 1-887379-72-X 

peace cat by jim leftwich 

a defence of addnpasses

why do people hate these things so much? i actually kind of like them: here's a few of the things they have going for them: 1) chaos! what self-respecting mail-artist doesn't love a little chaos? 2) collaboration! doesn't a sort of "group-mind" emerge on some of these? especially when you can't tell who did what? 3) series of gifts: mail-artist A sends out some work as a gift to mail-artist B who adds a gift and sends it on to C and so on 4) letting go: a) letting go control of the art work: when you send it on it's out of your hands what happens next b) letting go of the physical object (not easy for some of us archivers & collectors!) letting go to the point where the next person may very well destroy or round-file the work (i.e. throw it in the garbage) 5) karma! it strikes me as extemely bad karma to throw these in the garbage 6) random! who knows what the next person is going to put on the page or who it will go to next? 7) trust: you pass on the thing trusting the next person to do the right thing with it (whatever that may be) 8) history! every addnpass is a little history lesson: who's been active etc. some of them go right back to Ray Johnson (and before that there was the exquisite corpses of the Dadaists or maybe the Surrealists)

it strikes me that to be anti-addnpass is to be anti-mailart
these are the heart and soul of the network
so cheer up and get to work!

Monty Cantsin (from Jim Hayes via Dale Speirs OPUNTIA) 

"ABC" by Volker Nix - $50.00 - add to cart? 

addnpass from steve dalachinsky et al. 

add and pass from steve dalachinsky et al. 

add'n'pass from steve dalachinsky et al. 

addnpass from rf cote  

Gene Ray George (PO Box 18530, Denver CO, 80218 USA) 

OA 04 Phosgenia

the next five posts (or the previous five maybe) are from Vittore Baroni's OA 04 Phosgenia bulletin issue n. 4 : here's a few of the links mentioned:

http://www.hermetic.com
http://www.mededeler.nl
also Henrik Drescher's website (for "Postal Seance")

and Vittore's own:

http://www.aaa-edizioni.it

anyone care to comment on the mixing of mail-art and money?

COOP BOOK NEW COOK 61 by WORM PRODS.  

Jean-Willem Doorenbal (from Phosgenia suppl.) 

Claudio Romeo (Ruvida Vita = Rough Life) from OA 04 (suppl.) 

Claude Lemaire (eagle ink print made with plasticine) from OA 04 (supplement) 

atc by anna banana from OA 04 Phosgenia bulletin (Vittore Baroni) 

Artpool: "Fourth Dimension"

there's a tremendous collection of work at:

http://www.artpool.hu/2004/dimenzio.html

(and elsewhere at the artpool site!)

& it looks like there's a new project on the go for 2005!

Artpool Fluxus Bucks 

Mark Sonnenfeld

below is a glimpse into the new release from Marrymark Press: Mark Sonnenfeld has been putting out collaborative poetry chapbooks, broadsides and "give out sheets" for years: hardly a week goes by when Mark doesn't pop up in the mailbox: if you're not already on his mailing list, drop him a line at:

45-08 Old Millstone Dr.
East Windsor, NJ
08520
USA