Kablusiak Felt Kitties

 

Kablusiak

Felt Kitties

Calgary, Canada: Self-published, 2020

14.5 x 14.5 cm

Edition size unknown

Hand stitched felt swatch images of cats, complete with cross-stitched anuses. 

Produced for the Undecimal Mail Art Group, likely in an edition of twelve or thirteen (with each a unique colour). 

Dave Dyment | Thirteen Serious Considerations

Dave Dyment
Thirteen Serious Considerations
Toronto, Canada: Self-published, 2019
13 pp.,11 x 16 cm., loose leaves
Edition of 25

Thirteen Serious Considerations borrows it’s name and format from a little known mail-art project by Dick Higgins, published in 1978.

The hand-stamped cards are excerpts from a video called Pop Quiz, which collects every question from the lyrics in my personal music library. A recent iteration contains over two thousand questions and is over four hours long. A previous sampling was published as a bookwork by Paul+Wendy Projects in 2010.

Produced as part of the Undecimals mail art project, which also included Jimmy Limit, Maggie Groat, Liz Knox, Lyndl Hall, Kara Uzelman, and many others.

Lucien Durey | Hamsterley Farm Water Tower (view from Haro Road)

Lucien Durey
Hamsterley Farm Water Tower (view from Haro Road)
Vancouver, Canada: Self-published, 2015
silver gelatin contact print
5 x 7"
Edition of 11


"For Hamsterley Farm Water Tower, I turned a Hamsterley Farm strawberry jam tin into a pinhole camera, poking a small hole into the face of the tin using a sewing needle. With the homemade camera and 4 x 5” film, I traveled to Saanich, BC, to document the jam tin’s referenced site–its water tower now a recognized heritage structure–in an attempt to reveal something of the object to itself."

- Lucien Durey

Last year I was part of a group of 12 artists (Gina Badger, Maura Doyle, Annie Dunning, Lucien Durey, Maggie Groat/Jimmy Limit,  Jesse Harris, Tomoyo Ihaya, Hannah Jickling/Helen Reed, J.J. Kegan McFadden, Andrea Pinheiro, and Emiliano Sepulveda) who each produced an editioned work sent it in the mail to the other members. The project, initiated by Durey, is called Undecimals.  Hamsterley Farm Water Tower was the November project, which I had neglected to post.

The 2016 Undecimals group includes Vanessa Brown + Mike Bourscheid, Patrick Cruz, Lucien Durey, Blair Fornwald, Maggie Groat + Jimmy Limit, Lyndl Hall, Letch Kinloch, Liz Knox, Micah Lexier, Kegan McFadden, Andrea Pinheiro and Aislinn Thomas.

Dave Dyment | No You Don’t Bring Me Flowers Anymore

Dave Dyment
No You Don’t Bring Me Flowers Anymore
Toronto, Canada: Self-published, 2015.
Audio CD, 3:19
Edition of 25 signed and numbered copies

Undecimals is mail art group that invites twelve artists a year to each produce a work in an edition of eleven copies or more. Each artist is assigned a month and the participants receive artworks in the mail for the full calendar year. This year I took part, alongside Gina Badger, Maura Doyle, Annie Dunning, Lucien Durey, Maggie Groat + Jimmy Limit, Jesse Harris, Tomoyo Ihaya, Hannah Jickling + Helen Reed, Kegan McFadden, Andrea Pinheiro and Emiliano Sepulveda.

The project I prepared didn't pan out, so I was late with my work, but (with the pile below as evidence) the replacement project was mailed out this morning, with a little over a week left in 2015.

It's a hand-made CD 'digipack' containing a three and a half minute turntable duet and a nine minute narrated powerpoint presentation. The latter tells the story of the origin of Neil Diamond/Barbra Streisand ballad, which began life as the theme song for a failed Norman Lear sitcom, and then a mash-up made by a radio program director for his wife, whom he was divorcing.

For the duet, two copies of the 7" single are played simultaneously, manually on two turntables, attempting to stay synchronized.

Listen to the audio track here: https://vimeo.com/147770246

The April and June entries (May is delayed) for the Undecimals mail art group. By Annie Dunning and Tomoyo Ihaya, respectively.

Kegan McFadden | Partners in Crime

Kegan McFadden
Partners in Crime 
Winnipeg, Canada: Self-published, 2015
10 x 10 cm.
Edition of 12

The March multiple for the mail art group Undecimal.



"The work is conceived as an effort in two parts: mine and that of the recipient. My thumbprint has been added above the word “me”, leaving space for an additional thumbprint above the work “you. Once the second thumbprint is added to the metal surface, the work is considered complete. This action aligns us, me & you, producer and recipient, as co-conspirators and as partners in crime."

 - Kegan McFadden 

Jesse Harris | Slogan Supplement

Jesse Harris
Slogan Supplement
Toronto, Canada: Self-published, 2015
18 pp., 5.5 x 8.5", staple-bound
Edition of 20

Part of Harris' February Undecimal delivery. See below.

Jesse Harris

Jesse Harris' Undecimal work for February consisted of 24 buttons, a Fad Cycle Chart card and an 18 page staple-bound artists' book called Slogan Supplement.

Visit his page at Cooper Cole Gallery, here.

Maura Doyle | Beaver Chip

Maura Doyle
Beaver Chip 
Ottawa, Canada: Self-published, 2014
stoneware with underglaze, beaver chip
Edition of 12

Produced as the first Undecimals work of 2015 (see below).

Visit the artist's website, here.

Undecimals

Undecimals is mail art group that invites twelve artists a year to each produce a work in an edition of eleven copies or more. Each artist is assigned a month and the participants receive artworks in the mail for the full calendar year.

The 2015 group includes myself, Gina Badger, Maura Doyle, Annie Dunning, Lucien Durey
Maggie Groat + Jimmy Limit, Jesse Harris, Tomoyo Ihaya, Hannah Jickling + Helen Reed, Kegan McFadden, Andrea Pinheiro and Emiliano Sepulveda.

Past participants include Lyndl Hall, Julia Anne Goodman, Tiziana La Melia, Kerri Reid, Leah Rosenberg, Aislinn Thomas and Momoko Usami.

For more information, visit the website here.