Title
Mail art no. 73
Subject
Mail art
Description
Piece is a white envelope decorated with stickers, colored pencil and rubber stamp ink on the front and rubber stamp ink on the back. Inside envelope is a sheet of paper with black-and-white photocopy on front and rubber stamp ink on back. German postage stamps are affixed. Piece commemorates the 1992 Decentralized World Wide Networker Congress.
A mail art correspondence from Berlin to Belgium related to the 1992 Decentralized World Wide Networker Congress and post-DDR Mail-Art-Congress. The front of the envelope is addressed to “Luce Fierens, Youth & Mail-Art, c/o Boterstraat 43, B-2811 Hombeek, Belgien,” with a German postage stamp depicting Therese Giehse, a Berlin postmark dated 23.4.92, and a purple circular stamp reading “Decentralized World Wide Networker Congress 1992.” It includes hand-drawn illustrations of a face with yellow hair and the German flag, and a sticker showing a hen and chick labeled “© 1992 REMUS GmbH.”
A printed sheet inside advertises the “1992 Decentralized World Wide Networker Congress” and the “post-DDR-Mail-Art-Congress” held at the Art Strike Café, Berlin, on 12 September 1992. It displays a grid of mock postage stamp designs, each labeled “Art Strike. Sonst nichts.,” featuring altered portraits combining cartoon and human faces. Text on the sheet includes: “Original mit Untertitel,” “Where do you come from?,” and contact details: “Konrad & Lutz Wohlrab, Prenzlauer Allee 210, D-1055 Berlin.”
Additional sheets and the back of the envelope both include purple ink stamps reading “MAIL ART” and “WOHLRAB, PRENZLAUER ALLEE 210, BERLIN, D 1055,” with “Konrad” handwritten above the stamped address.
A printed sheet inside advertises the “1992 Decentralized World Wide Networker Congress” and the “post-DDR-Mail-Art-Congress” held at the Art Strike Café, Berlin, on 12 September 1992. It displays a grid of mock postage stamp designs, each labeled “Art Strike. Sonst nichts.,” featuring altered portraits combining cartoon and human faces. Text on the sheet includes: “Original mit Untertitel,” “Where do you come from?,” and contact details: “Konrad & Lutz Wohlrab, Prenzlauer Allee 210, D-1055 Berlin.”
Additional sheets and the back of the envelope both include purple ink stamps reading “MAIL ART” and “WOHLRAB, PRENZLAUER ALLEE 210, BERLIN, D 1055,” with “Konrad” handwritten above the stamped address.
Creator
Konrad
Publisher
Poetry Collection, Special Collections, University Libraries
State University of New York at Buffalo
Poetry Collection, Special Collections, University Libraries
Date
1992
Contributor
Basinski, Michael
Recipient: Fierens, Luce
Fierens, Luce
Rights
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Type
Envelopes
Image
Still image
Text
Identifier
Mail Art Luce Fierens Box #1
MA0073
LIB-PC001
Date Created
2/13/2006
Date Modified
5/25/2006
Extent
11 x 22 cm.
Medium
Envelopes
Collection
Citation
Konrad, “Mail art no. 73,” Digital Collections - University at Buffalo Libraries, accessed November 19, 2025, https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/items/show/582.