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Más cosas que lamentar…

Magazine

02 October 2009

Más cosas que lamentar…

Más cambios. Tras la destitución de Pilar Mur de su cargo como directora de la sala rekalde de Bilbao el pasado mes de abril, y el reciente despido de Leire Vergara, responsable de su programa hasta la fecha, la Diputación de Vizcaya acaba de anunciar la designación, a dedo, de una nueva responsable para la sala. Se hace así oídos sordos a las recomendaciones de varios colectivos, entre los que se encuentra un nutrido grupo de representantes de la cultura en Euskadi, reunidos en torno al foro www.rekaldeadhesiones.com, o el Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo (IAC), que exigían la puesta en marcha de un proceso de elección público y la continuación de la acreditada actividad que la sala ha llevado en los últimos años.

Además, en la misma carta de apoyo el IAC confirmaba el cese repentino de Kepa Landa como coordinador general de Artekeu, nombramiento que fue resultado de una convocatoria pública y que ahora la Diputación de Gipuzkoa revoca argumentando razones presupuestarias.

Dos ejemplos más de la fragilidad de las estructuras culturales públicas y el caracter incosistente de las políticas culturales…

Aimar Arriola works in art as a curator, editor and researcher. For some time now he has been thinking ‘about’ surfaces, in a double sense: paying attention to the presence of concrete surfaces, such as documents, bodies, or art objects; and reflecting on the differential status that the realm of surfaces has in relation to the deep. He holds a PhD in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths, University of London and is currently a research associate at AZ Alhóndiga Bilbao. In August 2021 he was happy and bought a black cap.

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