SPECIAL: Mark Mothersbaugh x Beatie Wolfe on "Postcard Playbox"

Beatie Wolfe and Mark Mothersbaugh pull postcards from the tens
of thousands they’ve received for their collective art
demonstration ‘Postcards for Democracy’ and pair them with tracks
of their choosing. Join this movement and potentially a future
radio show by making and mailing your post art to 8760 Sunset
Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069. Alternatively if you’re in LA
drop in on one of our pop-up postcard making events. Head
to www.postartfordemocracy.com for all the info about
this campaign celebrating USPS, our right to vote and the power
of art with support from The Broad Foundation and dublab.


Tracklist:


X-Ray Spex – Oh Bondage! Up Yours!

Vaquita – On Her Side

Blaze Foley – Oval Room

Johnny Brewton – Small Metal Objects

Staff Benda Bilili – Staff Benda Bilili

Uno Lady – Uno Lady Sings Town of Don’t You Worry

The Marvelettes – Please Mr Postman

Siena Riley – Rich Kid Blues

Leenalchi – Tiger is Coming

Yuri Suzuki – AI Acid

Mort Garson – Symphony for a Spider Plant

Ian Svenonius – Rebel Outlaw

Aretha Franklin – Think



POSTCARDS FOR DEMOCRACY
Ahead of the 2024 November presidential election, artistic
visionaries Mark Mothersbaugh and Beatie Wolfe join forces to
re-activate Postcards For Democracy – their non-partisan,
collective post art campaign with support from The Eli &
Edythe Broad Foundation and dublab. This collective post art
campaign, originally launched in lockdown ahead of the 2020
election, stirred tens of thousands of people to create and
contribute to the public art movement, supporting USPS in the
process, and all the while reminding and mobilizing people to
vote. Mothersbaugh and Wolfe received postcards from every part
of the U.S. (and across the world) with the ever-growing
collection first exhibited at the Rauschenberg Gallery before a
selection of the art went into the Smithsonian. Such a chord was
struck that post art is still being received today four years on!
As democracy and our right to vote still hangs in the balance,
Postcards for Democracy invites everyone and anyone to create a
piece of mail art and send it in to become part of this public
art demo, with an exhibition and book to follow.





With the aim of the campaign being to encourage as many people as
possible to vote, you can join it by buying stamps, making a
piece of postcard art and mailing it to:
8760 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069.