Send Me a Flower Mail Art Call

February 25 at 12:00am - March 26 at 3:00am

Location: Art Exchange, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom

Send your poetic, loving, tender gestures - mail art, photographs, poems - for our exhibition Intimate Bureaucracies: Art in the Mail. The exhibition is an investigation into the intimate artistic gesture within bureaucratic structures. You don't have to be a professional artist to participate, all submissions are welcome.

The exhibition will run for a month, and during this time the display of mail art works will be in constant ...flux. The exhibition begins on 25th February and ends on 26th March 2011. Please send your entry at the earliest possible date and pass on this call to your networks.

‘Bureaucracy, as a mode of governmental or corporate organization, depends on officials rather than elected representatives or charismatic leaders. It usually connotes a cold, faceless, and excessively complicated system of administration. It epitomizes the distance between a governing bodys' procedures and the needs and desires of its citizens, subjects, or customers.

Intimacy, the close familiarity of friendship or love, by definition depends on a small-scale system of communication. Its warmth, face-to-face contact, and fleeting impact has it often the subject of art and literature.’
Craig J Saper

The submissions will be exhibited as part of the exhibition Intimate Bureaucracies: Art and the Mail.
All works will be exhibited
No returns
Size: maximum 21 x 30 cms (A4