> Clemente Padin wrote: > > Dearest Carol: > Yes! Yes! You could make the one which you want with my >reports, less throw them to the basket of garbage. Also, you could find more >information in: > > http://www.escaner.cl > > http://www.geocities.com/tartarug/parade > > Fraternally, > > > > > > > > > At last, on Friday 17th November at 11 am, the MAIL-ART HIT PARADE 2000 took place, >opening the 7th. Biennial of Havanna in the old part of the city. The event was so >important that the caretakers of the Biennial asked me to repeat it the following >day, due to the opening of a new section of the exhibition of the Biennial in the >Cabin, one of the citadels that protects the approaches to the City Port. > > Our objectives were fulfilled: taking the mail-art out into the streets, where the >people are, in a kind of living exhibition; bringing together the > long-distance communication, intrinsic to mail-art, and the direct communication >with the Cuban people and trying to integrate the audience to the net by giving >postcards as a present in order for them to participate and send them back to my >address. Another important aspect was to reaffirm the disinterested character of >mail-art by giving all the masks and costumes received to those who took part in the >parade, except the ones that the Australian artist David Dellafiora lent me. Last, >it must be highlighted the wide legitimization our art achieved by opening the >Biennial in front of numerous authorities and art critics from all over the world, >including Pierre Restany, in representation of the UNESCO. Soon I will publish a >catalogue with pictures from the event. Also a video was filmed of 20 minutes long. > > I want to thank the Wifredo Lam Centre from Cuba, the students of the first cycle >of the National Academy of Fine Arts "San Alejandro" of Havanna, the Association of >Bank Employees of Uruguay, David Baptiste Chirot, the Australian artist David >Dellafiora, AUMA (Action Urgent Mail-Art) and Alexis Abreu, the Cuban artist who >took part in the event. Also to all the participant mail-artists. > > > > > > > > > > > Clemente Padin, Montevideo, Uruguay, November 24, 2000 -- carol starr taos, new mexico, usa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
