<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""> </font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""> <a href="http://comisario.net/propaganda/INVITACION_LCDB.jpg" class="">http://comisario.net/propaganda/INVITACION_LCDB.jpg</a></font></div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div>Dear friends,</span><br class=""><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto;"><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">The<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">Embassy of Spain in Australia</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Low Cost Diplomatic Bag</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>at the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">Immigration Museum<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>on Thursday 17 December.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">The suitcase is a symbol of every migrant, the beginning of the journey, the receptacle where each one of us puts what one considers most essential to bring when moving from one country to another. In a way you are what you put in your suitcase, your suitcase is a part of your identity that travels along with you.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br class=""></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">In this exhibition, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain asked 15 of its Embassies around the world to work with artists from those countries or who were migrants in those countries.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br class=""></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">The artists were asked to use suitcases that fit into the luggage compartment of a low cost airline as exhibition space. Each suitcase was manipulated in whatever way the artist thought suitable. They use different contemporary art tools to explore diverse issues as immigration, borders and policies of their own countries, but also the relationship between art and technology.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">The first exhibition was first held in Madrid and it will then travel to each of the sixteen countries where the suitcases originated.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br class=""></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span class="none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">The exhibition is curated by Nilo Casares, a writer and art critic devoted to the promotion of public and digital art.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">When</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">: Thursday 17 December 2015, 6.30pm<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Where</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">: Immigration Museum, Old Customs House, 400 Flinders St, Melbourne 3000 VIC.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">We look forward to seeing you.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">With kind regards</span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" class="">download the catalogue here </span><a href="https://www.digitalartarchive.at/fileadmin/user_upload/Virtualart/PDF/433_2015_VDLC.pdf" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" class="">https://www.digitalartarchive.at/fileadmin/user_upload/Virtualart/PDF/433_2015_VDLC.pdf</a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" class=""> here download the catalogue</span></div></div></div><br class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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