You've got to ask yourself as a viewer of this exhibition; How on earth does one man know so many people who fly and jet off all over the world:

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The work from 2 year residency is curated into a trail exhibit throughout the Artsadmin building and spaces, so that the work can be shown in the areas the artist worked with and recorded: This begins in The Foyer.

Mail Art From Mapping Artsadmin 2007

Windows: A Mail Art Series: All this work was successfully sent back through the post from Guatemala to South Africa tracing it;s way back to Artsadmin; in all sorts of trails and measurements of the person involved and the journey the work had made itself.

a. Longitude & Latitude: The sender sent back a card that measure exactly in longitude and latitude where it had come from, taking in a measurement format that took in all the world; a physical measurement, from place to place.

 

 

  


2. Windows: A Mail Art Series: All this work was successfully sent back through the post from Guatemala to South Africa tracing it;s way back to Artsadmin; in all sorts of trails and measurements of the person involved and the journey the work had made itself.

a. Longitude & Latitude: The sender sent back a card that measure exactly in longitude and latitude where it had come from, taking in a measurement format that took in all the world; a physical measurement, from place to place.



g. Drawings and Painting ( a personal response) MacAskill's sketchbook take on the thinking and conceptual ideas he was working through on the duration of the project. All Dating June 2005 - June 2007
   

Windows: A Mail Art Series: All this work was successfully sent back through the post from Guatemala to South Africa tracing it;s way back to Artsadmin; in all sorts of trails and measurements of the person involved and the journey the work had made itself.

e. Map Cards: the contours of the place an artsadminee would go to, to send the card back, marked and re-worked by the artist, mapping the place it had come from.

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g. Drawings and Painting ( a personal response) MacAskill's sketchbook take on the thinking and conceptual ideas he was working through on the duration of the project. All Dating June 2005 - June 2007

 

Windows: A Mail Art Series: All this work was successfully sent back through the post from Guatemala to South Africa tracing it;s way back to Artsadmin; in all sorts of trails and measurements of the person involved and the journey the work had made itself.

g. Drawings and Painting ( a personal response) MacAskill's sketchbook take on the thinking and conceptual ideas he was working through on the duration of the project. All Dating June 2005 - June 2007
Vitrines: The envelopes; I make for artsadminees to take away with them, on projects and meetings they have. They are sent back through the post from where they were. Measuring the distance back to Artsadmin. A memoir of where they have been - the collaborator was involved to by being asked to put something of their trip in the envelope for the artist; for example in Simon Vicenze's case, he placed sand, which was then intervened by the Portuguese officials who had to take the envelope apart, test the sand and then pack it back up and send it on it's way, and so many mail artworks have interventions like this, especially in the changing security climate. All these accidents and changes become important part of the work and project.
the rest of the vitrine contains other measuring instruments and objects.

Vitrines: The envelopes; I make for artsadminees to take away with them, on projects and meetings they have. They are sent back through the post from where they were. Measuring the distance back to Artsadmin. A memoir of where they have been - the collaborator was involved to by being asked to put something of their trip in the envelope for the artist; for example in Simon Vicenze's case, he placed sand, which was then intervened by the Portuguese officials who had to take the envelope apart, test the sand and then pack it back up and send it on it's way, and so many mail artworks have interventions like this, especially in the changing security climate. All these accidents and changes become important part of the work and project.
the rest of the vitrine contains other measuring instruments and objects.

e. Map Cards: the contours of the place an artsadminee would go to, to send the card back, marked and re-worked by the artist, mapping the place it had come from.

Windows: A Mail Art Series: All this work was successfully sent back through the post from Guatemala to South Africa tracing it;s way back to Artsadmin; in all sorts of trails and measurements of the person involved and the journey the work had made itself.

b. Viewing Cards: Witness cards - a hole in the card is used to look and witness something, someone of a happening that the sender then records and sends back to tell the artist their personal response, as they are absent, they are still linked and witnessing for the artist, representing Artsadmin itself as a physical presence abroad.

f. Time (chewing) Cards: Artsadminees, were asked to chew for a certain amount of time, that it would then re[present or measure the act they did at that precise time, a witness like the viewing cards, to bring the personal into the mail, as a response to the artist and his act to record them and their place at Artsadmin, see cards for individuals stories and details of how this worked)

Vitrines: The envelopes; I make for artsadminees to take away with them, on projects and meetings they have. They are sent back through the post from where they were. Measuring the distance back to Artsadmin.

Martin Caiger-Smith over looking the exhibit in the Foyer at the Private View 25th June 2007

d. Stamp Cards: MacAskill collected all the stamps from the mail sent to Artsadmin, about all the work and projects they were doing and cut them into beautiful collages, that measured this energy, and sent the stamp-ridden card back to the place it originated from. Recording a full circle!

Vitrines: The envelopes; I make for artsadminees to take away with them, on projects and meetings they have. They are sent back through the post from where they were. Measuring the distance back to Artsadmin. A memoir of where they have been - the collaborator was involved to by being asked to put something of their trip in the envelope for the artist; for example in Simon Vicenze's case, he placed sand, which was then intervened by the Portuguese officials who had to take the envelope apart, test the sand and then pack it back up and send it on it's way, and so many mail artworks have interventions like this, especially in the changing security climate. All these accidents and changes become important part of the work and project.
the rest of the vitrine contains other measuring instruments and objects.

e. Map Cards: the contours of the place an artsadminee would go to, to send the card back, marked and re-worked by the artist, mapping the place it had come from.

    

the vitrine contains other measuring instruments and objects.

 

    
measuring sticks, measuring something the artadminee sent through about their personal circustances that day, back to artsadmin as a memoir, a record of their activity!
   
b. Viewing Cards: Witness cards - a hole in the card is used to look and witness something, someone of a happening that the sender then records and sends back to tell the artist their personal response, as they are absent, they are still linked and witnessing for the artist, representing Artsadmin itself as a physical presence abroad.    
d. Stamp Cards: MacAskill collected all the stamps from the mail sent to Artsadmin, about all the work and projects they were doing and cut them into beautiful collages, that measured this energy, and sent the stamp-ridden card back to the place it originated from. Recording a full circle!    
f. Time (chewing) Cards: Artsadminees, were asked to chew for a certain amount of time, that it would then re[present or measure the act they did at that precise time, a witness like the viewing cards, to bring the personal into the mail, as a response to the artist and his act to record them and their place at Artsadmin, see cards for individuals stories and details of how this worked)