This issue of Vile, number 7- Winter 1979, is really the crowning jewel (it’s also the most difficult to photograph– the paper is awfully fragile and, since it’s bound with a metal tab nearly impossible to open completely). Made in an addition of 300, this issue includes original works from artists who used rubber stamps.
Note: [...]
Tags: Craft Projects · Reading · mail
In honor of women’s history month, issue number 6 of Vile Magazine features mail art by many, many women artists. This issue includes a substantial essay from Anna Banana in which she reflects on her position as a female artist in the 1970s, postal art’s accessibility to marginalized artists, and her perspective on the sub-genres [...]
VILE magazine, International Double Issue, p. 91
We all know the difficulties it causes to receive the lot of mail we do every day.
That postal authorities have managed to get any item from one address to another is of course not intolerable, but the items themselves derived from and deprived of the postal reference must concern [...]
Tags: Learning · Reading · mail
Several years ago I received five issues of Vile Magazine as a gift from a colleague. He packaged up all 5 copies he owns (the complete volume 3) and a few other things which I’ll share later. Honestly, it was one of the most generous, kindest gifts I’ve ever received. Exactly the kind of [...]
