On these pages I present some texts which Baudhuin Simon (Pig Dada) wrote on mail-art. All the texts are written in French but in the future I may bring them in English or another language too, though they look hard to translate.

More texts will be added from time to time. Please check for updates.

 

 

This is what Pig Dada wrote:

 

 

THE MAILART NETWORK IS ALIVE


In "RNG Magazine", from april 2000 to june 2003, I wrote time by time in French 32 pages (month by month except holidays periods) about the Mail Art Network.

Thanks a lot RNG.

In each column, I add 3 mailart calls for 3 different countries and a kind of visual poetry small size.
The circulation of these 32 mailart regular columns was 7500 each time (32x7500=240 000)

Baudhuin Simon

 

 

Here are the HEADLINES of these pages written in French:

Computer translations into English have been added. Please accept the mistakes and imperfections of them as being part of the pleasure.

Pig Dada on mail-art

back to mail-art

1.april 2000 WHAT IS MAILART? french english computer translation

2. may 2000 HOW TO BEGIN? frenchenglish computer translation

3.summer 2000 WHY TO BE IN? frenchenglish computer translation

4.september 2000 LITTLE LEXICON frenchenglish computer translation

5.october 2000 HOW TO COMMUNICATE? frenchenglish computer translation

6.november 2000 TOOLS FOR COMMUNICATION french english computer translation

7.december 2000 TEN MAIL ARTISTS GIVE ANSWER TO MY QUESTION "WHY DO YOU PRACTICE MAILART?" french english

8.january 2001 25 ARTISTIC TECHNIQUES IN OUR NETWORK frenchenglish

9.march 2001 WHY BY SNAILMAIL? WHY BY POST? frenchenglish

10.april 2001 WHO IS IN? frenchenglish

11.may 2001 AROUND THE WORLD frenchenglish

12.june 2001 PASCAL LENOIR FROM FRANCE frenchenglish

13.summer 2001 RAW ART/ OUTSIDER ART/MAIL ART frenchenglish

14.september 2001 CARDS INDEX SYSTEM FOR YOUR M.A. ORGANISATION! frenchenglish

15.october 2001 JEAN CLAUDE CAGNON FROM CANADA frenchenglish

16.november 2001 KEITH BATES FROM ENGLAND frenchenglish

17.december 2001 P.L.G. FROM GERMANY french

18.january 2002 FOURTY YEARS OF OUR NETWORK french

19.february 2002 R. DELAVAUX FROM BELGIUM french

20.march 2002 RYOSUKE COHEN FROM JAPAN french

21.april 2002 CLEMENTE PADIN FROM URUGUAY french

22.may 2002 BRAINCELL FRACTAL R. COHEN IN BELGIUM french

23.summer 2002 LET'S DISARM VIOLENCE french

24.september 2002 GUILLERMO DEISLER FROM CHILI french

25.october 2002 DANIEL DALIGAND FROM FRANCE french

26.november 2002 MARILYN DAMMANN FROM MICHIGAN frenchenglish

27.december/january 2003 GIANNI SIMONE FROM ITALY-JAPAN french

28.february 2003 LOIS GILMAGARINOS FROM GALICIA-SPAIN

29.march /april 2003 IRMER FROM GERMANY

30.april 2003 MAILART EVOLVED WINGS

31.may 2003 REVIEWS

32.summer 2003 HENNING MITTENDORF FROM GERMANY

Pig Dada at home in Habay-la-Neuve, may '2005

Although Pig Dada has always been very sceptical about the internet and computers in general, he appreciated us putting his texts online.

March 9th, 2006, the day of his sudden death, he posted, in Liege(B), his last envelope to Frips, containing corrections of the articles we had published on these pages not long ago. He added more publications, and asked us to publish them.

So we will, and we shall keep these pages alive in his memory.

But remember Baudhuin Simon and think of what he hand-printed on his mail-art:

this is 'NOT MADE BY COMPUTER'