For the Under the Bridge event in Belgrade between 10-15 December - http://217.160.178.83/~biro/program.html - I would like to continue the mail art exhibition of the Italian artist Livia Cases. Livia arrived to Belgrade in 1991 with a walking exhibition consisting of 82 mail art works from approximatively 15 countries that she displayed on her shoes. Participants at that time included Marcel Stüssi, TAM, Arturo G. Fallico, March Bloch, Jürgen Olbrich - the No Institute, Private World, Mr. K, Vittore Baroni, Ruggero Maggi, Emilio Morandi, Balint Szombathy, and many others.

I expect cartoon works of 55 mm x 47 mm that I can display on my shoes, or .jpg's that I can print and also display on the internet. I have black shoes with a window in the middle upper part. Please specify whether you want that I display your work on my left or right shoe. You can take advantage by a special symmetry by sending two works.

For the sake of the poetical realism of my walk I mention that it happens often that we are surprised by the media and forms of representation. For instance if we go to China we could be shocked to see that the landscape looks exactly as a Chinese paintings. This is how it happened with me in .yu that suddenly I recognized the mountain in Mostar where Winetou came down on his horse. This spring when 10 countries joined the Eu, I went to the Transeuropean Picnic at Novi Sad. While sitting along a huge table in the former hunting-seat of Tito, I could swear that the wall-papers of the '80s representing a wood landscape were shot there. If someone does not know anything about Belgrade, Deep Europe is just a click away at http://mail.v2.nl/v2east/

Of course I could name many references of art walking and shoes, from William Blake to Walter Benjamin, from the Fluxshoe of David Mayor - who adhered with this exhibition to George Brecht's Fluxus definition as a movement of 'individuals with something unnameable in common' - to Guy Debord and the social fiction.org. I could also mention the 'Put the Right Leg' movement in the Serbia in the 90's... But I dedicate my walk to one of the greatest walkers of all times, Miroslav Mandic.

Please send your works to abalint@merz.hu or if you send it very quickly, to Anna Balint, 1051 Budapest, Sas u. 9 III/4.