Ruud Janssen | |
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| Born | (1959-07-29)29 July 1959 (age 65) |
| Occupation | Mail Artist |
Ruud Janssen (born 29 July 1959 inTilburg) is a DutchFluxus andmail artist currently living inBreda in theNetherlands.
Janssen studied physics and mathematics before he became active withmail art in 1980, doing several international mail art projects. From 1994 till 2001 he conducted interviews withFluxus and mail artists. In later years, Janssen focused onacrylic painting and individual correspondences.
Janssen was selected to publish an essay as one of eleven contemporary "New Fluxus" artists who are seen to 'inhabit the site of Fluxus, developing and interpreting the Fluxus tradition in a new way.' in a special double issue of the journalVisible Language on Fluxus.
In 1994, Janssen[1] began a series of mail-interviews. He interviewedFluxus[2] and mail art personalities by using all the communication-forms that were available (fax,e-mail,envelope, personal meeting, telephone). The question traveled by one form and the answer could be sent back in another form. This concept resulted in a series of mail-interviews. These interviews were published in booklet-form and the complete texts are also available online.[3] In 2008, a selection of the mail-interviews were published in book form.[4]
In 1997 Janssen had a solo exhibition of his mail art work and interviews in Guy Bleus'E-Mail Art Archives (Provincial Center for Visual Arts, nowZ33) in Hasselt, Belgium.[5][6]
Janssen publishes articles, magazines and booklets with his TAM-Publications and participates in internationalmail art projects, collaborations and exhibitions.
He founded IUOMA (International Union of Mail-Artists) in 1988 and is also the curator of theTAM-Rubberstamp Archive, the result of aMail Art collection that has been accumulated by him from 1983 till now. The archive[7] contains art prints, original rubber stamps, magazines and literature.[citation needed]
In 2003 Janssen and Litsa Spathi founded the Fluxus Heidelberg Center for which they are building up a collection of Fluxus material and where they also publish their own works.[8]
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