I really don't know, Bill. Why don't you ask someone like Christine Stiles? She's the one who popularized the term. All mailings are performances for mail artists who want to adopt that stance. Rather like what Allan Kaprow called "activities". Mail artists often speak of their "activities" probably not referencing Kaprow directly but still. It's all related in my mind in a poetic sense... but as the Association of Autonomous Astronauts always says : you can't take words into space. heh. RA
par...@aol.com wrote: > Reed: now I speak of "mail-art" as PERFORMATIVE MAIL. Perhaps you can > explain to me what I ought to mean by "performative" -- Bill > > > In a message dated 3/11/2010 1:42:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > ralte...@gwi.net writes: > > http://livematter.blogspot.com > > > > ------------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > ma-network-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.comyahoo! Groups Links > > > > > >
