After sending comes receiving.

The first letters to China are sent out. The waiting starts. A postcard from Hong Kong already arrived, but I am especially curious on mail from mainland China. I know I received some mail-art back in the 80-ies from China. It was an American who taught english languale in China and was also a mail-artists. He sent out some wonderful things back then. Have to go through my Archive to find that specific envelope.

Also I know Peter Kuestermann and Angela went to China on the Worldtour and sent me something then. Again, will have to go through the TAM-Archive to find such historic samples.

In this blog the main issue remains. China, being the largest country and therefor with so many artists, has almost no mail-artists active in their main cities. With this project I am trying to change that and make a connection from the mail-art network with China.

So, when someone is reading this, and can help me reach this goal, I am very glad with your suggestions and help.

Mail to Amo Mao - Shanghai - China

On the IUOMA platform (see: http://iuoma-network.ning.com/) there are 44 visitors from China. One of them is a member of the IUOMA and lives in Shanghai. So I am please to have her mailing address and am sending this into the mail today. Because of the Social Network I can keep trach directly to if the mail arrives or not, and even get comments on the process. So a first connection to the mainland China.

Amo Mao wrote that mail-art to Hong Kong is different to the mainland. Because of the British history of Hing Kong the regulation in that part are different. So that is why this first test is an important one. Shanghai is a large city in China. There are so many artists in that city. Would be interesting to have a first communication by traditional mail.

Visitors from China on IUOMA

1. Dongguan 181 4,32 00:02:09 95,58% 96,13%
2. Guangzhou 60 1,07 00:00:03 100,00% 96,67%
3. Shanghai 52 6,63 00:07:12 30,77% 42,31%
4. Beijing 15 1,33 00:00:51 93,33% 80,00%
5. Shenzhen 5 1,20 > 00:00:00 80,00% 80,00%
6. Putian 3 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
7. Kunming 3 1,67 00:00:07 100,00% 66,67%
8. Shanghai 3 27,00 00:09:46 100,00% 0,00%
9. Zhengzhou 3 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
10. Changsha 3 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
11. Beijing 3 2,67 00:00:23 100,00% 66,67%
12. Xian 3 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
13. Nanjing 2 1,50 00:00:16 100,00% 50,00%
14. Chongqing 2 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
15. Foshan 2 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
16. Shijiazhuang 2 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
17. Tianjin 2 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
18. Hangzhou 2 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
19. (not set) 2 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
20. Xiamen 1 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
21. Changchun 1 1,00 00:00:00 0,00% 100,00%
22. Wenzhou 1 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
23. Hangzhou 1 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
24. Ningbo 1 2,00 00:00:04 100,00% 0,00%
25. Zhuhai 1 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
26. Suqian 1 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
27. Qujing 1 2,00 00:00:06 100,00% 0,00%
28. Chengdu 1 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
29. Huaian 1 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
30. Wuhan 1 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
31. Fuzhou 1 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
32. Hohhot 1 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
33. Haikou 1 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
34. Changzhi 1 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
35. Linchuan 1 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
36. Leshan 1 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
37. Handan 1 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
38. Shenyang 1 2,00 00:00:15 100,00% 0,00%
39. Zhangqiu 1 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
40. Deyang 1 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
41. Shenzhen 1 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
42. Shijiazhuang 1 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
43. Jinan 1 1,00 00:00:00 100,00% 100,00%
44. Changchun 1 2,00 00:00:47 100,00% 0,00%

Visitors from 44 cities in CHINA visited our IUOMA-platform. Just discovered that through Google Analytics. Qute a public from China already!

Chinese Addresses of Mail-Artists

There is now a new support in the search for mail-artists in China and to establish a contact. On the IUOMA network there is now a group where several mail-artists will attempt to join forces to find addresses, test if we can get our mail-art there, and see if we get responses. An interactive platform that will work more effective.

Join in at: http://iuoma-network.ning.com/group/chinamailart