In the occasion of the world-wide campaign against death penalty organized by Amnesty International wich will extend until halfway through the year 2000, the group of Tarragona of this organization in favour of human rights, it has taken the initiative to work jointly with the group AUMA (Urgent Action of Mail Art) in the organization of a Mail Art exhibition supporting the mentioned postulates.

A mail art call with the motto For a Millenium of Life, Stop to Death Penalty was made, and we had a great response from all the mail artists omunity: 700 works by more than 350 mail artists from 30 countries.

The most important novelty at this exhibition, was that visitors could select any work and, by payng the postage, select a country where the capital death is in effect to send the work to the governments of that country as a protest. This way, the audience take a participative role in a mail art action against death penalty.

The exhibition was opened in September 1th, and it was open to October the 1th, at the Shed # 4 in the Port of Tarragona.

The opening did include:
 

• Parliaments by Port Authorities, Amnesty International and AUMA.
• Plastic events by: Peace and Dual.
• Performances by Taller del Sol, Txalo Toloza and Matriz Grupal .
• Public reading of poetry by Carlos García Tomillero.

You can see some pictures of the exhibition by clicking here.
You can see too a selection of the exhibited works at the Amnesty International webpage by clicking here.

The second exhibition against death penalty in collaboration with Amnesty International was in Puerto Rico.