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The PAC 2010 is complemented by a seminar Cendeac, galleries and program grants to local artists abroad

The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, today announced the PAC Murcia 2010 (Contemporary Art Project), together with his curator Cuauhtémoc Medina, who, under the title 'Domino cannibal', is a new exhibition format in which be a single venue, the Exhibition Hall of Verona and in which, for a period of 12 months the artists have to start from the work done by the previous to create your own.

The project, which starts on January 22 with the intervention of the sculptor, essayist and poet Jimmie Durham, "will be a major contemporary art events not only nationally but on the international scene."

Cruz also said that "next year, the Region will be the epicenter of contemporary culture in Spain, as 2010 begins with the Contemporary Art Project, will continue the programming of The Canned, Manifesta, SOS 4.8 ...."

PAC 2010 "will have absolutely revolutionary character," said Cruz, "first, because here we are no longer a closed format on which arises from any thought that this could be revolutionary, but it is the own format that begins to give cause for reflection and it becomes, in itself a revolution. "

There is also "a total subversion of the biennial model," he continued, "because it is a biennial that extends in time over 12 months within a spatial unit."

Under this concept of production and presentation as a relay, the Commissioner proposes to conduct a series of exhibitions in the Hall of Murcia Veronicas, former eighteenth-century convent church used as an exhibition hall, where each artist will work from the proposal Previous artist.

The selected artists' names flagship of national and international scene, "said Cruz, will participate in the following order: Jimmie Durham (22 January) Cristina Lucas (March 26), Bruce High Quality Foundation (May 21), Kendell Geers (July 9 ) Tania Bruguera (24 September), Rivane Neuenschwander (12 November) and Francis Alÿs (17 December), always taking into account the artist's work before but with complete freedom to interact with it.

It is, in short, said the regional head of Culture, a "metaphor for the cultural condition of man, the artist, while humans can not escape in any of the above, what precedes it determined, so that its principle is not a source. "

The CAP 2010 also has the characteristics "of unpredictability, chance and we know when and how it starts but how it will end, and even less how it will develop."

In addition, the biennial "will lead to a new viewing experience to the extent that it will not be sufficient for a person to go to the Board Veronicas once, as it would have a very limited view of the overall project, you must go on and not only in the change of one artist to another but also in the development of the project. "

Parallel activities and training

The PAC 2010 is complemented by a seminar in collaboration with the Centre for Documentation and Advanced Studies of Contemporary Art (Cendeac), where artists will draw up discussion with the curator of the project or a commissioner of the Region on the work exhibited.

Moreover, as in the 2008 edition, the Galleries Association of Murcia has submitted a project with a structure similar to PAC Murcia 2008 with the need to develop a parallel program of exhibitions in commercial galleries in the region.

On the occasion of the celebration of the PAC, the Ministry re-established agreements with various artist residencies Murcia in Europe and America, with the aim of creating a platform for production and exhibition in the international context while promoting more exchange of art Region to the outside.

In this issue centers on the agenda of an artist residency grants are GlogauAIR (Berlin), Casa Vecina (Mexico City).

Also, the scholarship has a cash prize of 4,000 euros per artist for travel and subsistence.

At the end of the sample was collected publish a catalog of artists' interventions in the space of the Sala Veronicas.

Moreover, during the duration of exposure, the images of the room will be available on the website of PAC Murcia (www.pacmurcia.es) through a real-time continuous shooting.

The Contemporary Arts Project's budget is of 570,000 euros, representing a "fairly significant decline over the previous edition with much improved quality," said Cruz.

Source: CARM