Instructions:

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. You will shortly be receiving the s.m.a.p. parcel: DO NOT OPEN IT.
2. Locate both the instruction i.e. word/quote/phrase/question, and the allocated number (in a sequence of 1-7).
3. Respond creatively to the instruction.
4. Photograph your response on a white background.
5. Wrap the response in a new layer on the parcel.
6. Write an instruction, and the words DO NOT OPEN, on the outside of the parcel, along with the consecutive number in the sequence of 1-7.
7a. If you are number(s) 1-6 in the sequence, select the next recipient of the parcel, then proceed to step 8.
7b. If you are number 7 in the sequence then you are the last person in the sequence and are required to email your response, and the instruction you received to secretmailedartproject@gmail.com and
post the parcel back to the s.m.a.p address (as detailed in the original email) then proceed to step 11.
8. Email a photograph of your response, the instruction you received and the name/postcode/email address of your intended recipient to secretmailedartproject@gmail.com

9. Forward the original email on to the next recipient.
10. Post the parcel on to the next recipient.
11. Thank You!! You have completed all the necessary steps!


Amanda, Andre and Lizzie (s.m.a.p heads)






Friday 11 February 2011

Postcards from Paris

I went to Trove in January for the Paris Correspondence School exhibition. It opened up a whole new world of postal art. The postcards were beautifully displayed using perspex pillars. The interventions and responses that different participants had made were intriguing - one of my favourites was the blackberry fingerprints series....




http://trove.org.uk/exhibitions/january-2011-paris-correspondence-school/

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