[Syndicate] visual/ experimental poetry call for submissions

[Anna Balint <epistolaris@freemail.hu>]

SOUTH/NORTH MEXICO XXIth 
VII INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF VIRTUAL VISUAL/ EXPERIMENTAL 
POETRY 

(on-line and/or in situ) 
In homage to Philadelpho Menezes (1960-2000) 

1. The VII Biennial will take place on October-November of 
2001 and it will have as main headquarters Mexico City. 

2. There will be able to participate artworks of poetic 
nature carried out in non objectuals supports: in/for 
Internet, computer art, virtual poetry, videopoetry and 
experimental video (American system), etc., which will be 
exhibited during the VII Biennial inaugural season and 
uploaded for their on-line circulation as virtual 
exhibition (except video), through the web site of the 
Biennial ones: www.exmadrid.com/~poexperiment and of 
concurrent links. 

Also, during the inaugural period live artworks will be 
presented: action-poetry, poetic performance and 
polypoetry, poetry and sound objects, visual music, 
ephemeral devices (installation, atmosphere), etc. 
Productions of experimental literature will also be 
accepted: impossible writings, generative-interactive 
texts, intercode and intersigns, digital creation, object-
books and books of artist, mediatic and multimedia 
palimpsests etc. 

3. There for, a selection of the works will be shown, as 
well as samples of historiographical and commemorative 
character about the main movements of the experimental 
poetry in the XX century, which will be proposed and 
programmed with an advance of six months to the Biennial 
inauguration. 

4. The artworks of virtual-digital character (e-art) will 
be received through electronic mail, links to pages, or 
recorded in compact disc (CD ROM), ZIP or diskette, 
compress in Internet resolution (JPG). The reception of the 
works will be made through the following e-mail: 
poexperimental@exmadrid.com 

5. With regard to the poetical actions and performances, 
their authors will present the respective projects and 
escenographical requirements with date limit of August 20 
2001; those from another country will have to cover their 
transport expenses by they own ways.

6. The proposals and artworks that are sent by traditional 
roads (snail mail) will have a date limit of September of 
2001 and they will have to be sent to: 

CESAR ESPINOSA/ARACELI Z?IGA 
Curators-coordinators 
P.O. Box 45-615 06020 
Mexico, D.F. MEXICO 

7. It will be established a Selection Committee that will 
approve, in their case, the artworks on-line, live or 
experimental written projects that will be presented in the 
VII Biennial. 

8. For the first time in the Biennial one there will be 
given the experimental poetry prizes "Germ? List 
Arzubide"and "Edgardo-Antonio Vigo", united with the 
existent one in Mexico "Ra?l Ren?", to the most relevants 
on-line, live and experimental written works , as well as 
honorary mentions. 

9. During the inaugural season it will take place a 
colloquy-course on experimental poetry whose interventions 
will circulate through the Internet and they will be picked 
up in a memory. Also, there will be made the presentation 
by some of its authors of the anthology-
encyclopedia "Experimental Poetry; Autonomous Wrintings for 
the New Millennium ", in printed versions and in CD ROM. 

10. This VII Biennial assuming in the basic the objectives 
of the South Cultural Project, in continuity with the 
position made in previous Biennials of the topic: "Sud-Aca/ 
South-here: the south in the north, the south here", in 
rejection of the racism, of the etnocide and the ecocide, 
as well as to exalt the 
resistance/transformation/regurgitation against/toward the 
political/cultural enslavement on the part of the global 
capital. 

11. The collaborations received for mail won't be returned 
and they will be incorporated to the archive of Poetry 
Vixual - Mexico / International, A.C. Mexico City, November 
of 2000 Mexican committee and international co-organizers 
POES? VIXUAL - MEXICO / INTERNACIONAL, A.C. 
poexperimental@exmadrid.com 
www.exmadrid.com/~poexperiment 






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