Markie! So cool, its just personally wonderful to hear the voice of  a man i love as the dearest of friends wax so informatively and sincerely and so delightfully!  You’re rocking your new podcast, and i love it. Please change the e-mail you keep me posted ( pun intended) as to your installments to greateay@mail.com. The one you first used i rarely accesses. Keep to the great work, brother.... Working hard with  strong determination doing what you love! Love you! ( Love too that you folks to meditate!!) ( Speaking off word usage like “fraught”... Have you noticed how President elect Biden always says in his speaches when addressing the people, “folks”? I love that too!                         Bravo Mark! 

Photo of me licking an envelope circa mid-1980s by Steve Random

"...we're growing accustomed to chaos..." - isn't that what people who have been traumatized do?  Anyway, love Pod1 and definitely like the idea of staying connected to weed (no pun) out the erroneous news/information.  To answer your question, I'm not sure what people are doing.  I would love to go back to sending art through the mail, writing letters. But here we are, digital, so how can we use this all for good, instead of harm and manipulation.  And how can we inspire each other and keep each other informed, especially now in Corona19 age?  My answer is art, no matter what size and medium -- a way to communicate any topic: politics, truth, laughter, anything.  So before I hit the studio I'd like to say thank you for starting the conversation.  Sorry your show got canceled but do let us know the new date(s).  Look forward to Pod2 (30min is not long at all).  P.S.: Miss the city, even the sirens...though that's never a good indicator of anything.

A discussion of the art of communication following the postponement of an art exhibition PANMODERN! at New York University due to the Covid-19 virus. This is first podcast of PANMODERN PODCAST by Mark Bloch, the author of two books about art: Listening to Thistles, about art in New York City and a biography/catalog, Robert Delford Brown: Meat Maps and Militant Metaphysics. In 1978, Bloch, a native Ohioan, founded the Post(al) Art Network a.k.a. PAN. NYU’s Downtown Collection now houses an archive of many of Bloch’s papers including a vast collection of mail art and related ephemera. Since the late '70s, Bloch has done performance art in the USA and internationally. Here he discusses communication channels in the wake of the Corona Virus pandemic that originated in Wuhan, China in 2019.

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