Dear Mail artists, The project FRIOUR's EARTH CHARTER was exhibited during the alternative art festival in St Niklaas Belgium, the weekend of April 22-23, 2006.
The documentation of this project became a huge BLOG publication instead of a Xeroxed magazine. More than 200 artists reacted and were involved, which makes it one of the most successful mail art projects I ever proposed. You can view all contributions on the blog at this address: http://frioursearthcharter.blogspot.com For those who are not yet used to blogs: what you see when you open the site is only the tip of the iceberg and shows the most recent uploading. To view everything you have to click on the archives of the blog. In this case you click on the archives of May 2006 and April 2006. You'll find them at the end of the opening pages. The blog opens with an impression of the festival and exhibition, continues with the contributions linked with each principle of the charter, and ends with contributions that combined principles, visual poetry creations and the list of all participants. Thank you all and ENJOY THE EXPERIENCE AND DISCOVERY of FRIOUR's EARTH CHARTER !!! ************************************************************************** If you want to participate in the next Friour project, please send artistic creations on the theme of "LAUGHING & SMILING FOR PEACE" I got the idea at the festival when Pete Spence labelled him and me as the "last 2 laughing agnostics". Laughter is a serious weapon of resistance in the hand of the poor verses the powerful. I invented the stamp "smiling is the rebellion of the poor", so it's a topic that is already a long time in my head. The emperor is naked when you make fun of him. Everybody knows that. Why do you think that the Dalai Lama is always smiling and not the Chinese leaders in their red free market paradises build on the corpses of dead miners? Free size and medium as usual. You can send me fun stuff, laughing or smiling self portraits and portraits, red nose communications (thank you Zois & Lynn), group portraits of smiling buffoons for peace, clowns united for peace performances, tape me your laughter and mail it to me so I can make a compilation and so on... The danger of laughter was the essence of Eco's In the name of the rose. I'm sure that you'll find many connections yourself if you reflect on the issue. Deadline is April Fools Day 2007. Exhibition and documentation in the form of another blog. Have FUN, as much as you can, and those who take themselves too seriously: beware! because you'll be hit by flying pastries (a Belgian speciality by the way....) Send contributions to: Guido Vermeulen, Vincottestreet 81, B-1030 Brussels, BELGIUM. Postal Greetings, Guido Vermeulen http://groups.msn.com/POPOPEINT/guidovermeulenartiste.msnw Memorial BLOG http://shadowtributes.blogspot.com BLOG on artist books and small print publications http://boklist.blogspot.com FRIOUR zine blog(s): http://Friour1.blogspot.com A BLOG ON MY LIFE IN BRUSSELS http://brusselsesjoekes.blogspot.com " If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace." - John Lennon - ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> You can search right from your browser? It's easy and it's free. See how. http://us.click.yahoo.com/_7bhrC/NGxNAA/yQLSAA/fuDrlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
