Mail Art interview with Jürgen O. Olbrich

1/27/2019

Continuing with my usual praxis of doing interviews on Mail Art to my regular contacts, today I present the last epistolary exchanges with Jürgen O. Olbrich.
Wikipedia

Rafa -
How did you start in Mail Art? What was your first contact with this movement?

Jürgen -
I started Mail Art in 1972. My first contacts were: Arno Arts (some postcards-collaborations in this post), Vittore Baroni, Chuck Stake and Anna Banana.

I’m still in contact with them, only Arno died this year.

Rafa -
Do you think it still makes sense?

Jürgen -
Always: Mail Art makes sense, because it opens heart + mind!

4 Comments

Dylan Houser

1/28/2019 08:41:41

Great interview! It's really cool that they've been committed to mail art since '72, and have kept many of those early contacts over the years!

Rafael González

1/28/2019 10:05:21

You're right, this is really amazing. I inform you that the interview will continue in future postal exchanges with Jürgen (I hope so)

Leslie Singer

1/28/2019 14:38:58

Rafael, thanks for another great mail art posting. Your interviews with the original folks are always very cool and informative. Keep up the great work-- much appreciate!

Rafael González

1/28/2019 14:59:23

Leslie, I appreciate your comments always. Thanks for everything!

Rafael González
Electronic Cottage
Assistant Editor

Failed meditation session of a compulsive
coffee drinker

In 1986, at the age of 16, I released Exenple,
my first cassette of industrial music, which I recorded with my 13-year-old brother under the name Brigada Nadie.

I was a member of the futurist multidisciplinary group Equipo Estético Étika Makinal (or 3EM), and Spanish experimental noise band I.Q.C.M.

Over the years I have created many solo and collaborative audio works.

In recent years I have turned my attention more toward visual and mail art. I like to create collages and rubber stamp art.

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Canary Islands, Spain