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 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.
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.
Besides the Biennial, I made a performance on Tuesday 14th, where I read an anthology of experimental poetry, in the "October 10" Gallery organized by the Cuban poet Raydel Araoz, with poems by Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Philadelpho Menezes, Guillermo Deisler, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Jose Lino Grunewald, Julien Blaine, Jean-Claude Moineau, Jean-François Bory, Klaus Groh, Bartolomé Ferrando, Fernando Aguiar, Bob Cobbing and my own.
Quiero agradecer al Centro Wifredo Lam de Cuba, a los alumnos del primer ciclo de la Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" de La Habana, a la Asociación de Empleados Bancarios del Uruguay, a David Baptiste Chirot, al artista australiano David Dellafiora, a AUMA (Acción Urgente Mail Art) y a Alexis Abreu, artista cubano que participó en el evento. También, por supuesto, a todos los participantes.
Al margen de la Bienal realicé,
el martes 14, un recital de poesía experimental, en la Galería
"10 de Octubre" organizado por el poeta cubano Raydel Araoz, con poemas
de Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Philadelpho Menezes, Guillermo Deisler, Arrigo
Lora-Totino, Jose Lino Grunewald, Julien Blaine, Jean-Claude Moineau, Jean-François
Bory, Bartolomé Ferrando, Klaus Groh, Fernando Aguiar, Bob Cobbing
y míos propios.
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