Narradors contemporanis

ACM 05

ACM
Editors: Manuel Guerrero y Jordi Carrión

ISBN: 84-95127-92-X

texts:
Javier Cercas, Jordi Coca, Julià de Jòdar, Miquel de Palol, Mihaly Dés, Ignacio Echevarría, Eloy Fernández-Porta, Josep Maria Fonalleras, Rodrigo Fresán, Jordi Gracia, Manuel Guerrero, Julià Guillamon, Carles Hac Mor, Josep Maria Lluró, Jordi Malé, Biel Mesquida, Dolors Miquel, Quim Monzó, Manel Ollé, Núria Perpinyà, Ponç Puigdevall, Enrique Vila-Matas, Juan Villoro.

Presentation of the first issue of the Roulotte magazine

VISIBLE / INVISIBLE: CONTEMPORARY ART AND THE MEDIA. Can Xalant, Mataró.
(June 2006)

The meeting held by artists known as Visible/Invisible. Contemporary Art and the Media aimed to reflect on the various relations of creativity, dialogue and conflicts existing between art, society and the media. This meeting brought together artists and creators with various styles of art, and also art critics, journalists and representatives from several cultural, art and political institutions.

Presentation of the first issue of the Roulotte magazine (published by ACM), by Domènec and Xavier Arenós

A project by de KRTU i Can Xalant.

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Roulotte:01
Nowadays it is no longer effective to differentiate between places where teaching, production, exhibitions and documentation can be carried out. All these possibilities are no longer different moments in the sequence of contemporary culture but, rather, overlap into just one complex situation where the circulation of data and the joining of agents and materials prevail. Roulotte is a space where this type of exercise can be carried out. It compiles information on specific projects, reformats it to make it more understandable and expansive, combines it with other materials which to date have been associated with it and, above all, allows one to begin an experience with dialogues among those taking part in each issue.

Roulotte is not so much a magazine but rather a project which turns the traditional concept of exhibition into a mobile experience. In the same publication diverse works come together which, since they are made portable, become material for a permanent ungovernable circulation.

Each issue of Roulotte includes material concerning initiatives, works or projects regardless of their real degree of execution. Nowadays it is not only effective that which has been sanctioned by a conventional circuit, but that which actively participates in a reflection on the present. So as to promote access to a range of contributions of this nature and in contrast to the constant invitation to immediate consumption, Roulotte gives priority to its interest in works committed to the contexts where they have been made and provides detailed information.

This first issue contains projects with very different registers by Osservatorio Nomade, Dennis Adams, Josep M. Martín, Michal Heiman and Boris Mitic. On the other hand, Jens Haaning has salvaged a work from the first issue of Baggage Roulotte, the supplement which will accompany each issue of this travelling artifact.

Advertising, Interventions In Public Space (Manresa)

(May 2004)

Exhibition to the streets of Manresa 18/5/2004 31/5/2004. Organization and Coordination: ACM, Museu Comarcal de Manresa, Patronat Municipal de Cultura de Mataró.

Art interventions on twenty-one billboards and bus shelters distributed around the town. Twenty artists from various places –Mataró, Seville, Barcelona, Malaga, Madrid, Mexico, Colombia, France, Germany, Belgium, Thailand, Japan– took part in this project in an attempt to change the unidirectional messages of advertising and recoup these areas as places for reflection, doubt, critique, paradoxes a simple free beauty.

A project by Delícia Burset
Artists taking part: Carlos Amorales, Akané Asaoka, Kai-Annett Becker, Betty Bui, Minerva Cuevas, Santiago Cirugeda, Domènec, Fuera de Registro, Harald Fernagu, Vincent Emmanuel Guitter, Toni Giró, Rogelio Lopez-Cuenca, Josep M. Martín, Dani Montlleó, Nadín Ospina, Javier Peñafiel/Ludger Knepper, El Perro, Glòria Safont-Tria, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Erich Weiss.