This exhibition, curated by Kornelia Roder, provides an extensive review of Mail Art examples and exhibitions in Eastern Europe. It is well documented with respect to visuals and text. Several practitioners have contributed essays. Among them, Guy Schraenen's "Addressee Unknown" is particularly relevant to the field. He writes, "Although Mail Art was influenced by visual and concrete poetry, a language of pictures internationally understood, it was English that became the language of Mail Art right from the start. This is the reason why you speak of Mail Art rather than of Art Postal, Arte Postale, Arte Correo or Postkunst...Postal items to unknown addressees have created a circle of related minds. Such ties are the grandeur of a worldwide movement of communication. But Mail Art is only a facet of it. Mail Art used to be a fashion, and as a fashion it will again disappear. It has, however enriched the international art scene by numerous works which otherwise would have been forgotten in some distant drawer." Geza Perneczky reconstructs the past history and heyday of the Mail Art movement in Hungary. Jiri Valoch writes about "Incomplete Remarks Regarding Czechoslovakian Mail Art" and Rea Nikonova about Mail Art in the USSR. In her essay, Nikonova describes the journal she publishes with her husband Serge Segay, "Transponans.," its history, political background, and method of production. The Sackner Archive holds several issues of this journal whose highly original design layout has its roots in early twentieth century Russian Avant Garde publications. Piotr Rypson's essay on Mail Art in Poland relates much of the activity to the changing political scenes from the 1970's to the present. He points out that "networking is a term used today by Internet afficionados as well as people engaged in the new sales divisions of foreign companies. It has also become a social, economic and cultural norm today. Perhaps we have to learn anew what communication art is today?" The catalogue also includes essays about Mail Art in Yugoslavia and East Germany. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.