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PADÍN (Clemente). POR LA VIDA Y por la Paz: Performance. Montevideu (Uruguai). 1987. - PADÍN (Clemente) POR LA VIDA Y por la Paz: Performance . Realização: Clemente Padín. Assistência: Antonio Ladra. Vídeo: Jorge Vidart. Fotografias: Jorge Caraballo. Auspício: Asociación Uruguaya de Artistas Correo / Comisión Pro Referéndum de los Sindicatos de la Construcción (SUNCA) y de Empleados Bancarios (AEBU), afiliados ao PIT-CNT. Realizada na Galería de la Asociación Cristiana de Jóvenes, Montevideu, 17 de Agosto de 1987; e na Feria de Tristán Narvaja, Montevideu, 30 de Agosto de 1987 («Día Mundial del Detenido Político Desaparecido»). Montevideu (Uruguai): Asociación Uruguaya de Artistas Correo, 1987. 5 ff.: il.; 300 mm. Documentation of the performance ”Por la Vida y por la Paz” (”For Life and for Peace”) by Clemente Padín (Lascano, Uruguay, 1939), one of the most important performance and mail art artists in Latin America and a central figure in the international mail art network. The performance, with bilingual text (Spanish and English) on the documentation sheets, was presented on two occasions: at the Galería de la Asociación Cristiana de Jóvenes in Montevideo on August 17, 1987, in the context of the exhibition organized by the ”Movimiento por la Vida y por la Paz: contra el horror nuclear”; and at the Feria de Tristán Narvaja on August 30, 1987, World Day of the Disappeared Political Prisoner, as part of the campaign to collect signatures for the popular referendum against the impunity law decreed by the Uruguayan government after the dictatorship (1973-1985). The performance, in three phases, denounced the 170 political disappearances that occurred in Uruguay during the dictatorship: the delimitation of an ”Art Zone”; a central phase in which the performer struck a mannequin 170 times, counting aloud after writing ”POLITICAL DISAPPEARANCES IN URUGUAY”; and an epilogue in which the silhouette of the disappeared person was distributed in pieces to the public as an act of ”communion and commitment to non-forgetting and non-resignation, ” ending with the inscription ”NEVER AGAIN FASCISM.” The documentation includes a newspaper clipping from ”La Hora” dated August 28, 1987, and photographs by Jorge Caraballo, which record the Latin American mail art exhibition ”Solidarity” at the National Library of Uruguay and moments from the performance. An exceptionally important political and artistic archival document. Very rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate