The Paper Snake is an essential work in Johnson’s oeuvre. Dick Higgins assembled and designed this book from his amassed collection of Johnson’s letters, tid-bits and artworks, including what Johnson claims are “all my writings, rubbings, plays, things that I had mailed to him or brought to him in cardboard boxes or shoved under his door, or left in his sink, or whatever, over a period of years."
The intent of this book is to call attention to activities in the area of notebooks, community art and correspondence art and to encourage other people to launch projects of their own.
About VILE is a monograph containing the history of the VILE magazine, a summary of Anna Banana’s events in San Francisco, and the 1978 Futurist Sound European performance art tour with Bill Gaglione. The contents featured examples of international mail art, texts & manifestoes, letters, performance documentation, articles on individual artists & their projects, and faux-advertisements.
The Address Is The Art is made from over two decades worth of collected envelopes from family, friends, mail artists from around the world, junk mail, boring letters from the bank and more.
Mac Premo, Oliver Jeffers, Duke Riley & Rory Jeffers, 2005.
For thirty-six weeks a sketchbook was sent in random order between four artists: two in Brooklyn, two in Belfast. Each had five days to complete a spread in response to the one that preceded it. The result is an intimate look at transatlantic friendship and an examination of the gap between intention and interpretation.
