Liberty Smeared

Posted on April 20, 2013 by
Jørgen Christensen's contribution to the Pocket Museum (Detail).

Jørgen Christensen’s contribution to the Pocket Museum (detail). 

Danish artist Jørgen Christiensen's envelopes/ and rubberstamps. One of many envelopes in/attached to the Pocket Museum

Danish artist Jørgen Christiensen’s envelope and rubberstamps. 

This envelope was found somewhere else in Mogens Otto Nielsen’s mail art archive, outside the Pocket Museum.

Posted in Pocket Museum | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

More Pictures from The Pocket Museum

Posted on April 4, 2013 by
Pocket Object 06

Mika Taanila’s (FIN) contribution to Mogens Otto Nielsen’s Pocket Museum (1983-84).

Please see this earlier post about The Pocket Museum.  

 

Marianne Rønnow's (DK) contribution to Mogens Otto Nielsen's Pocket Museum (1983-84).

Marianne Rønnow’s (DK) contribution to Mogens Otto Nielsen’s Pocket Museum (1983-84).

Helmuth Löhr's (GER) contribution to Mogens Otto Nielsen's Pocket Museum (1983-84).

Helmuth Löhr’s (GER) contribution to Mogens Otto Nielsen’s Pocket Museum (1983-84).

 

Posted in Pocket Museum | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Piece to the Ear

Posted on March 24, 2013 by

American artist Alison Knowles /Allison Knowless’ contribution to Mogens Otto Nielsen’s “Send a piece of your nature”.

Allison Knowless: Piece to the ear (year unknown).

Allison Knowless: Piece to the ear (year unknown).

Posted in Send a piece of your nature | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Sliced and Stamped

Posted on March 12, 2013 by
Italian artist Jean-Paul Morelle's contribution (1086) to Mogens Otto Nielsen's Send a Piece of Your Nature (back)

Italian artist Jean-Paul Morelle’s contribution (1986) to Mogens Otto Nielsen’s Send a Piece of Your Nature (backside of envelope)

Frontside of envelope. Morelle is one of very few mail artists who use window envelopes.
Frontside of envelope. Morelle is one of very few mail artists who use window envelopes.

Posted in Send a piece of your nature | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Glass of Beard

Posted on March 5, 2013 by

Mogens Otto Nielsen’s mail art archive is truly an open-ended archive. Last spring, pulling my hair trying to figure out a way to organize the archive, he visits the museum and delivers a new box with more mail art objects to add to the archive. This is one of the objects from the new box.

Erik Gram:Hanssen: Beard on Glass

A sealed glass containing cut off beard from Danish artist Erik Gram:Hanssen. A text on the glass informs that the shaving took place on the 17th of January 1986.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Liberty for All Rubber Bears

Posted on February 16, 2013 by

A contribution to Mogens Otto Nielsen’s Send a piece of your nature from Galerico i East Germany (possibly Hildegard Weiss). Galerico

Posted in East | West correspondence, Send a piece of your nature | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Documenting work

Posted on February 14, 2013 by

A big part of the archive is documentation of mail artists’ work (work that would not fit into an envelope), for example this scan of a letter from Japanese artist Seiei Nishimura. Of course, this kind of documentation often becomes a mail art collage.

Seiei Nishimura (3)-DETAIL

Seiei Nishimura (3)-DETAIL-02

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment