| Alberto Sordi arrives at 1:30 PM. Go out to the airport with Young Jay Lee and Jang Eun Cheol to retrieve him. He is a young artist (35) from La Spezia, Italy, near Genoa. He began doing mail art in 1989, after seeing a Cavellini show organized by a college professor. Drawings and collage are his main artistic activity. This is his first meeting with Mail Artists outside Italy. He has some difficulty throughout the stay with language, unsure of his English, which I find good. For better or worse, he has Snak-y to talk to in Italian during the course of his stay. Take a walk with Felter and Mia Spiral for lunch. We end up at a Lotteria, a Western style hamburger restaurant. Mia has shrimp tempura on rice roll. I have a Big Boy. On the walk back, we find a rubber stamp store, and I order a rubber stamp that says, "John Held, Jr./Artist." Michael Thompson and Michael Hernandez de Luna arrive at the exhibition space. I'm really glad they are here. They come from Chicago and are celebrated artistamp artists, who have just published a book (printed in Korea), on their work, with accompaning essays by Jas. Felter (on artistamps) and Simon Anderson (on mail art). Thompson and Hernandez were in Oaxaca, Mexico, the previous year for an artistamp exhibition at the Philatelic Museum, which also sponsored a symposium. they were joined by Felter, and among other, Clemente Padin from Uruguay, who took them to task for being "professional mail artists." Padin that the fact they sold their artistamps, rather than give them away in exchange, like the majority of mail artists, was a bad omen for the future of mail art. I argued in print, that they were not mail artists at all, simply producers of artistamps. The whole issue is somewhat convoluted, but the upshot is that Thompson, Hernandez de Luna and I straightened out our differences, and I invited them to come. I'm glad they did. They are both accomplished artists and totally cool. Each in their very different ways. Go to the airport with Jang Eun Choen and Young Jay Lee to pick up Peter K�stermann and Bettina Angest at 3:30 PM. K�stermann needs no introduction in Mail Art circles. He is the most widely traveled of all Mail Art Tourists, arriving in his signature antique German postal uniform. He was originally planning to come with his companion, Angela P�hler, but she was unable to travel. Bettina has come to assist him in his performances. K�stermann adds an unmistakable legitimacy to the event. Back to exhibition. Walk around to make last minute adjustments. Over to hotel and get new arrivals checked in. Those present include Jas. Felter (Canada); Mia Spiral, Michael Thompson, Michael Hernandez de Luna, and myself (USA); Peter K�stermann and Bettina Angest (Germany); and Snak-y and Alberto Sordi (Italy). Thursday, October 18, 2001: Korean breakfast at the hotel-kimchi, broth soup with mushrooms, smoked mackerel. Go for a walk with Felter, Michael Thompson, Michael Hernandez de Luna, and Mia Spiral. Lunch of haemul-ttukbaegi (seafood stew)-clams, scallops, crab and abalone-at Folk Tourist Village restaurant, near the exhibition hall. This was something I was willing to pay extra for, but Snak-y ate most of it. The meal also included onunjsrki, a shellfish belonging to the abalone family. It's about the size of a chestnut. You crack it with your teeth and suck the fluid out. Pretty crunchy. Radio interview with the Foundation Director and Young Jay Lee. K�stermann plays cello in the background. Knockout reporter. Prettiest women I see all trip. There is an internet connection at the exhibition. The visiting artists are constantly on it, keeping up with their e-mail. When they aren't, mail art web sites are on display. A television plays K�stermann video interviews with various Mail Artists, and other contributed video works. Opening at 6:00 PM. Speeches by government officials and the Director of the Foundation. I speak on behalf of the artists present. Given flower for my lapel and included in a ribbon cutting ceremony to open the exhibition. A photo of the ribbon cutting K�stermann plays the cello. Snak-y in costume with sign proclaiming "AlteRnaTive". Young Jay Lee's parents there with Hari. Reception with food -sushi, sausage, kimchi, dough balls with bean paste, tangerines. Stay till 9:30 PM drinking rice wine with visiting Korean (three have come from the mainland), the visiting foreign artists, as well as various Foundation staff. Back to the hotel. Tired after a big day-and celebratory rice wine. Friday, October 19, 2001: Wake up at Alps Hotel. Go for coffee and shopping trip. Order another rubber stamp. Go to stationary store and buy Korean handmade paper. Eat hamburger at Lotteria. Go to park in back of exhibition hall filled with school children. Pose to take photos with them at their request. Not many Westerners visiting the Island. I see one or two, beside the visiting artists, during my travels in Jeju. Back to exhibition space. Set up for Flea Market. During the run of the mail art show, the visiting artists set up tables in the lobby outside of the exhibition area. We both offer items (artistamps, books) for sale, as well as create works on the spot. Most are given away free to interested visitors. Keiichi Nakamura comes from Japan. Pick him up at 5:30 PM with Young Jay Lee and Jang Eun Cheon. Keiichi and I have been correspondents for many years. He lives in Tokyo, where he works with computers. He is well-known in the mail art networks for his collaborative visual poetry booklets. He produces artistamps, as well. Return to exhibition space. Cable TV show. K�stermann does "Nude Cello" performance...in underwear. Foreign artists collaborative stamping on Korean handmade paper, which is given to the Foundation Director after completion. Breakdown Flea Market. Store items in the gallery, which is locked at night. Eight o'clock dinner at the Alps Hotel with K�stermann and Bettina, Young Jay Lee, Snak-y, Alberto Sordi, Michael Thompson and Michael Hernandez de Luna, Felter, Keiichi Nakamura, Ki-Ho Park and Jang Eun Cheon. Sleep. Saturday, October 20, 2001: Go to exhibition space at 9:00 AM. Set up for Flea Market. Three-hundred plus school children come for show. Governor of Jeju Island, Keun Min Woo, comes and takes tour of the Flea Market and exhibition. Give him Jeju Artistamp Portfolio, which he promptly hands off to an assistant to give me one of his business cards. I give him mine. It's polite. After all, he is our primary sponsor. Speeches by government and Foundation officials. Big buffet lunch with salads. oysters, shrimp, salmon (with sour cream and capers) Chinese noodles, spaghetti, fruit, beer, cokes, amd much more. Take a nap at Alps Hotel. Back to exhibition space at 3:00 PM for television taping with Korean National Television. They interview foreign artists. Work on K�stermann commemorative sheets. I do a rubber stamp performance, pasting rubber stamps on the sole of my boots, inking and impressing them on handmade paper. Then I put the stamps on the soles of the comely announcer's high-heel shoes. Makes for good television. Michael Hernandez de Luna and I go to a performance by a Shaman priest, a performance sponsored by the Foundation. I see surprising links to Mexican folkloric traditions. Go to the airport to pick up Ryosuke Cohen and Eiichi Matsuhasi-but they don't arrive. Go back to the exhibition space and pack up Flea Market. I stay in, while Young Jay Lee and Cheon go to Cho Yun-Deuk's house with Spiral, Felter and Sordi. Sunday, October 21, 2001: Meet at 10:00 at Folk Tourist Village with other artists. Foundation has chartered a tour bus to take the foreign artists (Keiichi Nakamura, Felter, Snak-y, Sordi, Spiral, K�sternamm, Bettina, Thompson, Hernandez de Luna) along with Foundation staff (Ki-Ho Park, Secretary General), Young Jay Lee, daughter Hari, Jang Eun Cheon, and an English teacher at the University we have met and her child.. Ryosuke Cohen has returned to Jeju late last evening to join us. First stop at food mall to get food and drinks. Drive for about thirty minutes to the Manjang Caves, the longest lave tube cave in the world. Stratified lava line the walls. Rock formation in the shape of a turtle. Walk about one mile into it. Continue on to Songsan Ilchulbog (Sunset Peak) on the northwestern tip of the island. It is a crater of an extinct volcano that juts out from the mainland into the sea forming a peninsular. Ninety-nine jagged rocks stand along the rim of the crater producing an image like a crown. Next stop Songeub Folk Village. It is raining, so we don't walk around very much. Eat at restaurant there. Vegetarian hot-pot. A tourist souvenir shop has postcards; the only time I see any throughout the trip. Return to Jeju City at 4:30. Ryosuke Cohen does Brain Cell Portrait Performance at 5:00 with myself, Felter and K�stermann. We lay on large Brain Cell sheets, Ryosuke's signature works, which are covered with the insignia of various Mail Artists in bright colors. We lay in our underwear, while Ryosuke traces around us in pencil. Back to hotel. Talk with Ryosuke and Mia Spiral. Drink rice wine and eat Japanese snacks that Ryosuke has brought. Ryosuke coming to San Francisco, where he will be my guest December 24 through January 3. Dinner with foreign artists and Foundation staff at hotel. Eiichi Matsuhashi comes from Tokyo. He is the founder of the Tokyo Street Museum, which has hosted the only rubber stamp exhibit ever held in Japan. He has been a long time correspondent of mine. I'm glad so many Japanese mail artists (three) have come for the show and festivities. They get along very well with their Korean counterparts. Monday, October 22, 2001: Go to exhibition space at 10:00 and set up Flea Market. Ryosuke Cohen finishes work on the three Brain Cell Portraits by inking around the silhouettes in Sumi ink. This causes the silhouettes to stand out, while the background retains faint images of the signs and symbols underneath. After Ryosuke finishes the three large portraits of Felter, K�stermann and myself, he does smaller head portraits of Michael Thompson and Michael Hernandez de Luna. Pick up a second rubber stamp that I ordered. A large round one with my name in Korean. Trade color photocopy and rubber stamped artistamps with Eiichi Matsuhashi. He does rubber stamp prints made from a children's stamp kit. His new color photocopy stampsheets are fabulous. He also brings a bird cage, and has people write poetry on tags, attaching them to the bars of the cage. It is a wonderful piece of concrete poetry. Go for lunch with artists. Interview Alberto Sordi. Go to exhibition of Kim Hyun Sook in an exhibition space in the Folk Tourist Village. She paints flowers in watercolor with sumi ink wash over them. It relates to what Ryosuke is doing with his Brain Cell portraits. She gives the foreign artists who are present catalogs for the show, and we sign and rubber stamp her guest book. With very few commercial galleries available to them, Korean artists usually rent exhibition spaces for a week, usually paid for by a sponsor or patron. Felter video program at 5:00 PM. He shows a half-hour tape he produced on a South American native tribe, while a member of the Peace Corps. K�stermann gives slide show of his history in Mail Art, with Bettina assisting. My notes of his lecture: Was a teacher, but does so much mail art there is no time. Mail Art and Money Don't Mix-but Mail Art is expensive, especially to put on a show like Jeju. After the catalog of an initial mail Art catalog he produced, he received much mail art. Workers Paradise project. Became an editor, publisher and artist. One wants to show what one receives. He interested a cultural center in Minden to show works. Galerie in Burgerzentrum. Also became a curator as a result of mail art. Mail Art usually 2 dimensional. But meeting people is 3-dimensional. Mail Art made him a Tourist. Typical activity is to do collaborative projects with rubber stamps and artistamps. Visited Jonas Nekarious in Lithuania, while part of Soviet Union. New Lithuanian stamps, but postmarked with Soviet cancellations. Mail artists like to play with postal elements-postage stamps, rubber stamps, cancellation stamps. Mail Artists have a number of different jobs. Knows 500 mail artists -from bus drivers to millionaires- also artists from other fields. Artistamps from many sources including rubber stamped labels, carved rubber stamps. Invited by Peter Horobin in Scotland to do an eraser carving workshop with unemployed. Made a stamp sheet that could be canceled by the official post. Contact with Robert Rehfield in East Germany, but Rehfield could never visit him in West Germany. Henning Mittendorf and carved rubber stamps. Old tradition in Asia of carving stamps. Made a project about 1984 in 1984. Catalog made by assembling works of artists. One contribution by a Panamanian artist who lost his job because of mail art. Mail art projects on cities Berlin-donuts. Paris-condoms. Creative Thing in Los Angeles does marathon stamp. Traveling Netmail project in postal uniform. Has gone around the world three times. 1992 Decentralized Mail Art Congress travels got him into Guinness Book of World Records. Delivered mail from Croatia to Yugoslavia, where no mail service existed. "Open World" magazine published by Dobrica Kamperelic in Beograd. Networking -contact beyond the postal system. Often physical experience. Head shaved by Mayumi Handa in Osaka, Japan. Did not wash head until going to Vancouver, Canada. Sat in bathtub filled with jelly and Terry Reid. Video interviews. "Peter's Endless World Art Video." 250 interviews with Mail Artists. Each about 20 minutes in length. A love of puns in Mail Art. Mail Artist named Atmosphere Controlled, a Danish artist who got his name from a fruit box. Fruit Basket Upset in America. Private World. H. R. Fricker creates an image from the reflection in his eye made from photo booth portrait. Every year K�stermann makes a book of his activities. His hometown of Minden has become a Mail Art Mekka. Joki, another Mail Artist, now deceased, was also active there. Gallery, formerly a church, in Minden is 800 years old. Used by Napoleon as military hospital. Peace Island project very timely. Currently performing "Nude Cello" Project. Dinner at hotel. Talk with Eiichi Matsuhashi. His initials in Japanese, PWB, means Pine Wood Bridge. Cohen means Happy Circle. Nakamura means Middle Village. He will leave early the next morning. Keiichi and Ryosuke will also depart for Japan. Go to Internet Cafe with Felter, K�stermann, Bettina, Spiral, Ki-Ho and Eiichi Nakamura. Write five points of discussion for "Mail Art Accord" at Felter's request. Rice wine at the hotel with Spiral, Thompson and Hernandez de Luna. Tuesday, October 23, 2001: Go to exhibition space at 10:00 AM. Set up Flea Market. Peace Island Networker Congress to write "Peace Island Mail Art Accord 2001.". Felter moderates, K�stermann is Secretary and Negotiator. Present are Alberto Sordi, Snak-y, Michael Hernandez de Luna, Michael Thompson, Mia Spiral, Young Jay Lee, Jang Eun Cheol. Come up with document all agree to after debating various points. K�stermann does the bulk of the final draft. Felter types it up. PEACE ISLAND MAIL ART ACCORD 2001 October 22, 2001 Exhibition Hall, Jeju Folk Tourism Town 1F Jeju -City, Jejudo, 690-832, Korea Held in conjunction with PEACE ISLAND Jeju International Art Show 2001 October 18 - 27, 2001 Jeju Culture and Art Foundation PREAMBLE Mail art has been widely accepted as a contemporary artistic movement. It should remain an open, non-hierarchical structure. It is both a new medium (mail art) and a movement (Mail Art). Mail art offers a new and tremendous possibility of making art in the new millennium. Mail art is an established tradition in North America, Europe and Australia, and is experiencing new expansion in South America. The Peace Island Jeju International Mail Art Show 2001 represents an historic moment in spreading mail art in regions like Asia. Such shows give us the chance to develop an international language and imagery against the challenges of violence. 1. Mail art is the indigenous art of the global village. Categories of mail art include: 2-D & 3-D work, film, video, sound-tape, and visual poetry, art mailed to another artist as a gift or as exchange, envelopes used to mail art (either inside or on the outside), postcards as surfaces for art works, artistamps and images used as postage stamps, photo-copy art, e-mail images and/or sound attachments, fax art and other communication art, such as mail art congresses, mail art tourism, networking and personal meetings. Mail art is artistic communication through various media. It overlaps occasionally with other art forms. We experience mail art as a venue for alternative art forms. In contrast to main-stream art, mail art accepts all contributions to a project on an equal basis without selection or evaluation or set quality standards (no jury, no fee, no return, documentation to all participants). 2. In spite of the rapid increase of electronic mail, as well as letter bombs and posted envelopes containing Anthrax, mail art will survive because it is not dependent on the postal systems. We affirm Robert Filliou's concept of the Eternal Network in Mail Art in which participants come and go, while a certain core remains. We encourage individuals in the Middle East, Africa and Asia to join the Mail Art movement. Then and only then shall we have a truly global art movement, open to any individual wishing to participate in the international free exchange of artistic expression. We agree on the necessity to take mail art to the general public through exhibitions, catalogues and venues. We encourage mail artists to curate shows with due respect to the artists represented and to regional cultures, and to make creative use of their archives for scholarship, for representation in art institutions and for increasing public awareness of the art mail movement. 3. Mail art is based on a free exchange of art and communication without censorship. The production, exhibition and presentation of mail art should remain non-commercial. We are aware, however that there should be no barrier for mail artists to cover the costs of mail art production through mail art itself and to raise public and private funding for exhibitions and events alike. We support and are ready to defend the artistic freedom of every mail artist against any kind of censorship. We the undersigned, in agreement with the above and with due respect to all international mail artists, do affirm our dedication to the philosophy behind the PEACE ISLAND Jeju International Art Show 2001 sponsored by the Jeju Culture and Art Foundation on October 18 - 27, 2001 as expressed in the Exhibition Catalogue by the Governor of Jeju: Woo, Keun-Min, Yang, Chang Bo, Chairman of the Jeju Provincial Congress and Kim, Jae-Ho, Chairman of the Jeju Culture and Art Foundation. We express our appreciation to the above, the staff of the Jeju Folk Tourism Town, the artists and the other citizens of Jeju for their open and warm hospitality. ------------------------------Jas W Felter (Moderator)(Canada) ------------------------------Peter Netmail (Mediator)(Germany) ------------------------------Alberto Sordi (Italy) ------------------------------Snak-Y (Italy) ------------------------------Eun Chul Jang (South Korea) ------------------------------Young Jay Lee (South Korea ------------------------------John Held, Jr. (USA) ------------------------------Michael Thompson (USA) ------------------------------Michael Hernandez de Luna (USA) ------------------------------Mia Spiral (USA) Delegates attending the Peace Island Mail Art Network Congress 2001 Jas W Felter 2707 Rosebery Avenue West Vancouver, BC CANADA V7V 3A3 E-mail: [email protected] URL: jas.faximum.com Peter Netmail P.O.Box 2644 Minden GERMANY D-32383 E-mail: [email protected] URL: http://www.netmail.de Alberto Sordi via Dalmazia, 5 19124 La Spezia ITALY E-mail: [email protected] Snak-Y Villa Vivaldi 07020 Padru (SS) ITALY E-mail: [email protected] Eun Chul Jang 184 Samdo 1-dong Jeju City, Jejudo SOUTH KOREA E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.jjart.net Young Jay Lee 886-7 Konip-Dong Jeju-city, Jeju, 690-800 SOUTH KOREA E-mail: [email protected] John Held, Jr. P.O. Box 410837 San Francisco, CA USA 94141 E-mail: [email protected] URL: http://www.geocities.com/johnheldjr Michael Thompson Box 106 500 West Cermak Road Chicago, IL USA 60616 E-mail: [email protected] URL: http://www.badpress.books.com Michael Hernandez de Luna 1821 South Allport Chicago, IL USA 60608 E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.badpressbooks.com Mia Spiral 3939 SE Madison Portland, OR USA 97214 Email: [email protected] Go to Korean Airlines to change ticket from October 26 to October 28 departure. Back to exhibition space. Stamp out large paper with rubber stamps. Felter reads from his "Artistamp" book to audience of college art students. I give them a tour of the show, figuring that it would be more interesting than just a talk on the subject. Dinner at 6:00 PM at Alps Hotel. Over to the Folk Tourism Village to watch a nationally broadcast television program on the Peace Island Exhibition at Jeju. Program first features tangerine industry in Jeju. Mail Art segment features Jang Eun Cheon and his artistamps made with traditional stone chops. Michael Hernandez de Luna talks about the artistamps he made on Korean themes. Michael mentions the exhibition's theme of peace, and the need for Korea to reunite. They also show the performance I did with rubber stamps on my boots. When interviewed, I mention that performance is an artwork performed at a certain time in a particular space for a specific audience. Go to waterfront with Ki-Ho Park, Young Jay Lee, Jang Eun Cheon, Alberto Sordi and Mia Spiral. Then to Jazz Story nightclub with trio playing. The singer befriends us, and sings. "I left My Heart in San Francisco," in my honor. Back to Alps Hotel at 1:00 AM. Wednesday, October 24, 2001: Over to exhibition Hall to set up flea market at 10:00 AM Other artists go to Sculpture Garden at invitation of college professor. Mia Spiral and I explre more of the city. Find stationary store and buy rubber stamp pads and velvet presentation portfolios. Go to Natural History Museum and see selection of Jeju Island fish, animals, insects, historical villages and customs. Lots of schoolchildren there. Many pass shouting greetings in English. Some request having their picture taken with me. Sign Jeju Accord. Pack up Flea Market at 6:30 PM. Watch Chinese acrobats in Auditorium at the Folk Tourism Village. The troupe is here for six months performing balancing acts, gymnastics, and other physical feats that have earned the Chinese worldwide fame. I befriend one of the young members, and buy some souvenir photographs of her dressed as a butterfly. Write postcards. Bed. Thursday, October 25, 2001: Set up the Flea Market at 9:30 AM. Meet Thompson, Hernandez de Luna, Spiral, Felter and Sordi at hotel lobby at 10:00 AM. Take taxis to Central Bus Station. Take bus to Eastern part of the island. Our first stop is the Kosanri Pre-historic Site. This was Thompson's idea. It sets into motion an incredible series of events. We get off the bus and ask in a bank for directions. Two bank clerks, escort us to their cars and drive us to the seashore. Then they leave. We walk along the seashore, where the volcanic eruption reached the sea. The beaches are littered with lava rocks. We reach a rest area and begin to get coffee when the bank clerks arrive with cold drinks for us. They beckon us to get into the two cars they have arrived in. I am hesitant to leave, because this present spot is so picturesque. There is squid drying in the sun on fishing lines. A women in a traditional bonnet is hanging them. But we go into the cars provided us, and the women drive us to the Kosanri Pre-historic site. Basically it's a rice paddy. But we walk around a bit, get our shoes dusty, and return to the cars. We thank the bank clerks, but they insist on taking us to our next destination. We had planned to go to a site further down the coast, where the original grandfather stones were found. But as we go down the road, we notice we are headed back to Jeju City. Felter begins to get concerned, but I suggest we just see what happens. Besides, there is another car with our party in it, and we need to meet up with them. We eventually come to a stone quarry, Keumneun Sokmulwon, where grandfather stones and variations thereof are produced. A typical tourist encampment. Not exactly what we came to see, but we are all stunned by the generosity of the bank clerk's intentions. The bank clerks leave us, and we walk down the road to a bus stop, where we catch a bus back to Jeju city. Arrive back at 4:30 PM. Felter, Spiral, Thompson, Sordi and I go to an antique store. Return to exhibition space by taxi and take down Flea Market. Young Jay Lee hands me a letter sent from a visitor to the show: Dear John, During the conference this afternoon, you said that "willingness to communicate is the most important thing in the mailart. Your words gave me the courage to try this one. I hope this one can be a good memory of your stay here in Jeju and of Jeju Mailart Show 2001. Best wishes, Taehyun Kim This simple act of communication is a highlight of my visit. Back to hotel for a brief rest. Go to exhibition space at 5:30 PM. View cable TV program on the exhibition. Stamp out works on memo paper for exhibition visitors as souvenirs of the show. The Director of the Foundation is there, and he invites us to go to a special dinner. Present are the General Secretary, Young Jay Lee, Ki-Ho Park, Felter, Spiral, Snak-y, Thompson, Hernandez de Luna, Sordi, and the head of the archeology section of the Foundation. A special dinner indeed. First to come out are the traditional side dishes we have become accustomed to. But then a large platter is brought out with sectioned eels, still alive, wiggling on the plate. Talk about presentation! My mouth sagged. The backbones were coming out these frenzied three-inch quarter-size in diameter suckers. The live eels are then put on a grill before us. The heat makes them even more furious. Those of you who are about to die-we salute you! Once cooked, they are delicious. There are two sauces provided. One with soy and a yellow mustard, resembling Japanese wasabi in texture and flavor. The other sauce is my favorite, course salt with sesame oil. It was one of the key dining experiences of the trip. Back to Alps Hotel for beer and coffee before turning in. Friday, October 26, 2001: Go to exhibition space at 10:00 AM. Many school children visit the show. Stamp out works for them in assembly line fashion. But his is where Snak-y shines. The children seem to love him and clamor over him like locusts. I'm not sure if it's because he is good with children, or because he thrives on the attention. Mail off Ryosuke Cohen's Brain Cell portrait of me, and other works, inlcuding the Director's watercolor, in a mailing tube. Very expensive. The postal clerks see that I am fascinated with the tape used to seal the tube, depicting the symbol of the Korean post office, and they give me a whole roll of it. Also mail postcards to Baroni, Padin, Daligand, Summers, and other longtime mail art correspondents. Back to the show. More school children. College art professor buys three stampsheets of mine for 10,000 won-about $8. My only sale of the show. The only person who seemed to make any money at all is Felter, mostly through sales of his "Artistamp" book. Back to hotel for a rest from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Back to the exhibition space at 6:00 PM to break down the Flea Market. Dinner at the Alps Hotel with Young Jay Lee, Jang Eun Cheon, Mia Spiral, Michael Thompson and Michael Hernandez de Luna, Alberto Sordi, and Ki-Ho Park. After dinner coffee at Alps Hotel snack bar with Thompson, Hernandez de Luna, Spiral and Sordi. Hernandez de Luna gives me extra leather suitcase. He and Thompson leave early the next morning. I've come to like them very much. Throughout the stay, Hernandez de Luna has been dealing with a legal problem. The United States Postal Service wants to prosecute him for passing fake anthrax related stamps (flavors of cherry, lime, orange, etc.) on War Department stationary. I'm sure it will make him famous. Saturday, October 27, 2001: Wake up in Alps Hotel at 9:00 AM. Go to the exhibition space at 10:00 AM. Many schoolchildren there. Stamp out works for them on memo paper. Check e-mail. K�stermann writes of his meeting with Juri Gik in Moscow, and of possible financial aid for a Mail Art festival in Belgium next Spring. Page 3 |