{"id":7868,"date":"2013-06-15T02:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/2013\/06\/15\/cutres-y-mangantes2184\/"},"modified":"2013-06-15T02:35:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T02:35:00","slug":"cutres-y-mangantes2184","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/cutres-y-mangantes2184\/","title":{"rendered":"“Cutres y mangantes”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDespite fleeing headlong forward, well not quite, in any direction that we do in an apparently disorganised or impulsive manner, there are certain areas of life in society where one can\u2019t just let things go by without saying anything. <\/p>\n

Last 30 May a communication from the councillor for culture of the Tarragona\u2019s city council, Carme Crespo, finally announced what some had heard and all had resisted believing possible. The council\u2019s proposal for the Centro de Arte in Tarragona (CA) bypassed all bridges of dialogue or exchange offered by the management and the sector to head in an alternative direction that is nothing if not surprising. <\/p>\n

We can share the fragility of the situation that has led to the withdrawal of economic \u2013and political- support that the Generalitat of Catalonia gave to the \u201cXarxa p\u00fablica de centres i espais d\u2019arts visuals de Catalunya\u201d (public network of centres and spaces for visual arts in Catalonia), comprehended by many as being an interesting guarantee of territorial counterbalance in the diffusion and pedagogy of contemporary art practices. The budgetary disregard of the cultural and symbolic values of this network has led some centres to situations that are at times dramatic: B\u00f2lit-Centre d\u2019Art Contemporani in Girona has passed to the technical management of the city council itself; ACVic. Centre d\u2019Arts Contempor\u00e0nies (a model of participatory management); Centre d\u2019Art La Panera in Lleida (the only example with evident municipal support); Can Xalant-Centre de Creaci\u00f3 i Pensament Contemporani in Matar\u00f3 (change of technical direction); Centre d\u2019Art de Tarragona (recently announced a change of management); Centre d\u2019Art de les Terres de l\u2019Ebre \u2013 Lo Pati (active); Tecla Sala-Art Centre in Hospitalet (active), and Can\u00f2drom-Centre d\u2019Art Contemporani in Barcelona (in stand-by<\/em>).<\/p>\n

An open letter written to the Mayor of the city <\/a> signed by various local, national and state entities, established four basic requisites, given the whiff of uncertainty that had been hanging over the CA for months. In it a call was made; to insure the continuity of the CA Project, that the driving Committee had battled <\/em> for since 2003; that the city council safeguard the centre\u2019s continuity as part of the Network of Art Centres in Catalonia; to respect the project of the centre as presented in the Documento 0, of January 2008, elaborated by the driving Committee of the CA; and finally, to guarantee that any possible changes in the management model would be carried out following established codes of good practice (that is to say a public open call for the direction of the centre in the event of the current contract not being renewed). <\/p>\n

In response to these requisites, that could easily be considered representative, Crespo\u2019s communication, on behalf of the institution, bordered on insulting. In it, the person in charge of culture indicated that faced with the need for a change in management, \u201cthe City Council will commission the \u201cFoundation F\u00f3rum for Photography\u201d to make a proposal for the continuity of the Art Centre\u201d, or in other words: the assignation without a public open call of a Project that has nothing to do with the Management Plan nor with the line of the CA, toppling more than ten years of work directed at establishing quality contemporary art facilities within the territory. <\/p>\n

For the time being there has been no official response to this proposal from the Foundation (its director, Chantal Grande, was a founding member of CONCA and participated in the tribunal selecting the project to set up the CA) confirmed that the proposal had been received and that it is in the process of being assessed by its board of trustees. <\/p>\n

For what reason has the City Council failed to carry out even one single session assessing the activities of the CA with the current team? Why all these evasions to accept any dialogue or meetings, with the current management as much as with the sector itself? Why the lack of respect for a project that stems so far back (ten years) and has been acknowledged by the sector, as well as being in accord with the cultural policies of the PSC (the mayor\u2019s party)?<\/p>\n

The perplexity we are left with is tremendous, and not just from an artistic point of view, but also politically. And if this deficiency can be extrapolated on many levels in this country, it\u2019s maybe the proximity of the affront that makes it just that bit more cutre<\/em> (squalid).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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