Padin's Archive Casilla C. Central 1211 Montevideo Uruguay Founder Clemente Padin Date founded 1971-late (1979, when I was released) Approximate number of works Thousands and more... Approximate yearly additions I don't knows many... Focus Mail art and experimental poetry. I do mail art, video, performances poetry, pictures. Organization/display methods In files: catalogs, postcards, envelopes, countries, etc. Public access Yes, I advertise public access with previous advertisement. I have no website. Approximate yearly cost Yearly $200 U.S. Relation to larger institutions I organize exhibitions but not with artworks from my archives What is your motive for maintaining the archive? Because I love mail art and communication technology. Mail art emphasizes the importance of communication, rather than a mercantile product subject to the laws of the marketplace. In whatever product of communication that I choose to transmit there are the characteristics of relationships between society and me. Of course this presents the antagonisms and contradictions that these relationships present. Mail art, intended as a full expression of humanity, is distorted to the point that it can only be spoken as a historical or autonomous discourse, like an entity floating in space.