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Dragonfly Dream
PAZ PARA VIEQUES
May 09, 2001 06:38PM
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In May 2000, AUMA + Gom@ made a mail art call to support the fight
against the use of the Vieques Island in Puerto Rico
as a firing range by the US army. The action wanted to be a "virtual
bombing" of electronic and snail mail postcards to the
government of the United States. For that, we asked to contributors to
send a postcard to the US president Bill Clinton and
send a copy to Elmas Adasme, member of AUMA, to make a virtual
exhibition of the works received.

Some time later, there was an artistic action where a few Puerto Rican
artists, among them Elmas Adasme, from AUMA,
"invaded" the military part of the island as a new way to protest. The
military zone have restricted the access, so the artists
were arrested and judged.

Then, a great exhibition was opened in Puerto Rico with the title Creo
en Vieques (I believe in Vieques) and AUMA was there
as invited collective. All the postcards received in the action were
showed there. The exhibition was in the Museum of
Contemporary Art and was opened the 10th of November till the 9th of
December.

CALL

Now, in the face of the recent events in Vieques, we want to call the
mail art community again to send your postcards to

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
White House - 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington DC 20500
USA

or by e-mail to

president@whitehouse.gov

with the motto PAZ PARA VIEQUES. Please send a copy of your postcard to

Elmas Adasme
Calle Georgetown 1009
Urb. University Gardens
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00927-4822

or by e-mail to

adasme@caribe.net

for the virtual exhibition,

ADRESSES

To know more about the situation in Vieques

[www.viequeslibre.addr.com]

To see the virtual exhibition

[www.geocities.com]

AUMA + Gom@ website

[www.geocities.com];
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