Mail art: video production

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The recording of this first action in the video, this series, was intended for postal art at the XVI Bienal de São Paulo and should have been recorded at a post office. The small post office that we looked for on the first day, it was not possible to support this work because the director was afraid and called the general director of the Instituto dos Correios in Jaguaré, the colonel (name) asking for permission for the recording and for the collaboration of an employee in the engraving and stamping of my face, my forehead with the postmark. We tried to talk to the colonel, director of the general post office, all day long. At the end of the morning, his secretary told us that there was an authorization to make this recording at the São João post office and that there we should look for Mr. Aloísio. On the day on which the aforementioned recording was to be made, as Mr. Aloísio wasn't there, they sent us back to the general director and the bureaucracy process would start from square one. We therefore refuse to serve as a bureaucratic shuttlecock and conclude, sadly, that the post office did not want to participate as one of the channels of communication, of transmission between the production of the message and those who will hear and see it. Sadly, he's branding himself a mere mail carrier. The next process could be done in the mail, addressing the paper that would bring the video that recorded this action of addressing my face and stamping my forehead. On the forehead of this image should fit the postmark and the shot would fit this other thought, this paper, which will lead the video cassette to the mail art session of the XVI Bienal de São Paulo. Unfortunately, the mail refused to be an instrument of cultural diffusion to be a mere carrier of cargo.