Pushing the Envelope: An exhibition of mailed and correspondance art is a group show of 2D artists that use or reference archaic technology. The mailed artworks are hung throughout the UK’s National Museum of Computing (TNMOC)’s galleries between, beside or over the machines themselves. Opened November 2nd 2024 until March 30th 2025.
Title: Works on Paper, 2023, Screen printed greyboard box 19 books, letters, facsimiles, photogravure print, etc
B2 full colour poster, Catalogue, 365mm x 255mm
For one year—beginning in April 2020—artists Rahel Zoller and Louis Porter undertook a mail art project entitled, Works on Paper. The rules of this project were never precisely established, although each of the works examines in some way society’s relationship with paper.
Amongst a variety of other items the project contains price tags, toilet paper, jigsaw puzzles, envelopes, newspaper, scratch cards, books, calling cards, paper bags, a will, napkins, raffle tickets, calendars, sandpaper, receipts, letters, a parking fine, carbon paper, postcards, hotel notepaper, photographs, edible rice paper, certificates, a clock face, puzzles, blotting paper, glassine, photocopies, security paper, a census, cardboard, graph paper, banknotes, a fortune teller’s calling card and an oversized novelty cheque.
This limited-edition artists’ box containing 19 facsimiles and re-workings of several items in the project as well as a catalogue and a poster was produced in an edition of 50 copies.
Zoller & Porter is the creative partnership of London based artists Rahel Zoller and Louis Porter. Their work together involves direct collaboration as well as mutual guidance and support of each other's personal practices. For almost three years, they have worked and researched on "Works on Paper," an extensive mail art project that encompasses hundreds of objects, including artist books, multiples, standalone artworks, idea fragments, creative experiments, and texts.
www.louisporter.com/Zoller-Porter-1