Call for Mail Art: VisPos

MAIL ART EXHIBIT, CHIAPAS. The First Social Revolution of the III Millennium: The right of all peoples to fight with the weapons of ethical and social justice to lead free and decent lives.

The Zapatista Army of National Liberation of Chiapas, Mexico, is fighting to overcome the social and economic inequalities forcing countless millions of human beings all over the world to live and die like animals in hunger and deprivation. "We are all Marcos" fighting with reason, truth, and for the justice of our cause to raise the standards of living for our people.

We are simply unable to exist as we do, struggling to improve our living conditions, unless our lives are valued according to basic human principles. "Others" also live and suffer as we do under a system that wields powers often unwanted by them. Our human nature, our human essence, enables us to recognize that their "otherness" is ours, even if they fail to think like us.

The bloodless revolution in Chiapas launched by the people and their representatives and modified by world public opinion, through revolutionary announcements in all media, above all through the Internet, have made the humanitarian principles of The First Social Revolution of the III Millennium a model to follow.

Mediums: no restrictions, including street mail, e-mail, and fax.
Forms and types: no restrictions, but all submissions must be in two dimensions (no cartons or boxes, no artists' books, no sculptures, etc.)

All submissions will be exhibited and every artist will receive written acknowledgment of his participation in the exhibit.

The exhibition will be located at AEBU, the Uruguayan Employee Bankers Association, Montevideo, Uruguay, and later in other cities of the interior. After the exhibition, all the works of art received will be turned over to the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, Chiapas, Mexico.

Deadline: July 30, 1998
(No indication of when the exhibit will take place.)

Please send all submissions to:

Clemente Padin
C. Correos Central 1211
11,000 Montevideo
URUGUAY