David Bestué – Marc Vives. Interventions and actions in the town of Mataró.
Presentation of the project Decorate your town at the Espai taller in carrer Concepció, Mataró.
Latest activity: Canapé per l’olla de grills. Presentation of the book Bones Accions 1991-2001 by Joan Casellas.

(November – December 2002)
8th Series of conferences headed by Xavier Riu, 13, 20, 27 November, and 4 and 11 December 2002, Fundació Caixa Laietana conference hall, Mataró.
With Enric Casasses, Perejaume, Arnau Pons, Carles Hac Mor and Manuel Guerrero.
An initiative promoted by Omnium Cultural Mataró and ACM

(June 2002 – January 2003)

Exhibitions in the window of the AKA hairdresser’s in carrer Escudellers, Barcelona. Partnership between ACM and La Cosa.

EUROPE’S LIVING. Quim Tarrida (June-July 2002)
RES PERSONAL. Rafel G.Bianchi (September-October 2002)
BARRICADES. Xavier Arenós (November 2002-January 2003)

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.

Exhibition in the streets of Mataró from 5/3/2002 to 2/4/2002. On the opening day, a municipal bus in Mataró travelled through the town to show all these billboards. Over eighty people joined the visit.

A coproduction of ACM y Patronat Municipal de Cultura de Mataro

(March-April 2002)

Presentation of the catalogue Domestic at sala H in Vic, on 1 March 2002. Taking part: Manuel Guerrero, Pep Fernández and Domènec.

Presentation of the catalogues Domestic by Domènec and Milutown by Josep M. Martín in RAS, Barcelona on 25 April 2002. Taking part Manuel Guerrero and Martí Peran.

(January- June 2002)

Series directed by Manuel Guerrero and Jordi Carrión, held from January 2002 to May 2003 at the Robafaves Bookshop in Mataró.
An initiative by ACM and Robafaves, in partnership with the Patronat Municipal de Cultura in Mataró and the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes.
The narrators were presented by renowned critics in the Robafaves bookshop once a month. The dynamics of these events were as follows: a) an introduction by a literary critic; b) reading a brief text by the author (story, etc.) c) conversation between the author and critic; d) debate among the public attending.

CONTEMPORARY NARRATORS:
Juan Villoro / Mihály Dés (24 January 2002)
Miquel de Palol / Julià Guillamon (22 February 2002)
Jordi Coca / Jordi Malé (15 March 2002)
Javier Cercas / Jordi Gràcia (12 April 2002)
J. M. Fonalleras / Ponç Puigdevall (10 May 2002)
Rodrigo Fresan / Ignacio Echevarria (14 June 2002)

Presentation of the anthology entitled “Sense contemplacions, nou poetes per el nou segle” (Without Contemplations, Nine Poets For The New Century) By Manuel Guerrero. Featuring Joan Tarrida, Carles Hac Mor, Enric Cassases, Albert Roig, Xavier Lloveras, David castillo and Jordi Cornudella.
Robafaves Bookshop, Mataró.

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Following the line that begun with Opera Aperta and 2×2 = 5 (7 artists/7 books), the partnership with ACM continues with the Robafaves bookshop, with an intervention by an artist in the bookshop window and presentation of a book.

Sergi Aguilar. Intervention displayed in the Robafaves bookshop window in Mataró.
Presentation of the book written by Sergi Aguilar entitled Escala y estancias, published by the Faculty of Fine Arts and University of Barcelona as part of the Les Arts i els Artistes collection, by Pilar Bonet and Martí Peran.

Exchange between ACM and the La Xina association in Barcelona.
Exhibition entitled One Million Artists at La Xina gallery in Barcelona. Collective exhibition featuring seventy artists, proposed by ACM.