One of the main concerns in regards to non-object art in Mexico is that in the process of having genres such as performance and installation become more institutional, they have limited themselves more to conventional spaces, directed only towards specialized audiences. 

In the response to this, in 1996 we organized El ultimo encuentro nacional R.I.P., an applied conceptual art piece in complicity with other sister institutions such as: La araña de peluche (Maris Bustamante), COTAVLE (Hilda Campillo and Carlos-Blas Galindo) Pelos en la cola (Esteban Eroski and David Coronilla) and Polvo de gallina negra (Bustamante and Mayer).

El ultimo encuentro nacional R.I.P. consisted in organizing an open competition in the following areas:

• a) Street light performance
• b) sit-ins and demonstrations design
• c) design of erotic mail stamps
• d) performance and conceptual art texts.

We began by the “last” one because to many competitions seek continuity and never even get to see the second one. If we ever decided to do another one, it will be the one before last.

The award ceremony of this singular competition which received over 70 entries, took place at the Sala Manuel M. Ponce at the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City on Friday, December 6, 1996.