ETAC is a project lead by Bòlit, Centre d’Art Contemporani. Girona and funded by the Pyrenees–Mediterranean Euroregion since 2012. It aims to forge ongoing cooperative ties between contemporary art centers within a programme of residencies designed to allow artists from this Euroregion and further afield to get to know and carry out work at these crossborder spaces:
Catalonia:
Girona City Council: Bòlit, Contemporary Art Centre. Girona
Figueres City Council: Museu de l’Empordà
Midi-Pyrénées:
Le LAIT Art Centre, Tarn International Art Laboratory. Albi
Languedoc-Roussillon:
Montpellier City Council: La Panacée Contemporary Art Centre
Balearic Islands:
Addaya Contemporary Art Centre. Alaró, Mallorca
Artists:
ETAC 2015:
Mireia Saladrigues, Raphaël Emine, Jennis Li Cheng Tien, Edith Medina and Javier Chozas.
ETAC 2016:
Amanda Gutiérrez, Maria Tsagkari, Daniel Gasol, Francesca Gattello & Zeno Franchini, Delfina Margulis & Martín Heredia.
Artists’ selection jury:
ETAC 2015
Franck Bauchard, La Panacée’s – Centre de Culture Contemporaine (Montpellier) artistic director, Anna Capella, Museu de l’Empordà’s (Figueres) director, Delphine Goutes, assistant director of La Panacée – Centre de Culture Contemporaine (Montpellier), Jackie-Ruth Meyer, Centre d’Art Le Lait’s – Laboratoire Artistique International du Tarn (Albi) director, Carme Sais, Bòlit, Centre d’Art Contemporani. Girona director and Tomeu Simonet, Addaya’s, Centre d’Art Contemporani (Alaró) director.
ETAC 2016
Delphine Goutes, assistant director of La Panacée – Centre de Culture Contemporaine (Montpellier), Teresa Miquel from Museu de l’Empordà (Figueres), Jackie-Ruth Meyer, Centre d’Art Le Lait’s – Laboratoire Artisitique International du Tarn (Albi) director, Carme Sais, Bòlit’s, Centre d’Art Contemporani. Girona director and Tomeu Simonet, Addaya’s, Centre d’Art Contemporani (Alaró) director.
Direction of the project:
Bòlit, Centre d’Art Contemporani. Girona: Carme Sais, director
La Panacée – Centre de Culture Contemporaine (Montpellier): Franck Bauchard, artistic director (2015) / Nicolas Bourriaud (2016)
Museu de l’Empordà: Anna Capella, director (2015) / Pep Torner, chief of the culture department in Figueres city council (2016)
Centre d’Art Le Lait – Laboratoire Artistique International du Tarn: Jackie-Ruth Meyer, director
Addaya, Centre d’Art Contemporani: Tomeu Simonet and Nadège You, directors
Communication and production: Diana Sans and Farners Cabra (Bòlit), Tomeu Simonet and Nadège You (Addaya), Murielle Edet (Le Lait), Delphine Goutes (La Panacée), Teresa Miquel (Museu Empordà). Collaborator: Mireia Galià and Saray Espinosa (Bòlit).
Management: Albert Xargay and Rosa Carles (Bòlit), Claire Bachellerie (Le Lait), Nadège You (Addaya), Pauline Faure (La Panacée) and Teresa Miquel (Museu Empordà).
Catalogue design and production: Gemma Reixach, GtR cultural
Developers: Gemma Reixach and Enric Mas
Video and photography: Rita Andreu, audiovisual producer
Translations: Traduaction S.A. and La correccional
Photographs: by the authors and the participating centres
Texts:
Adonay Bermúdez, art critic and curator
Franck Bouchard, artistic director of La Panacée, Centre de Culture Contemporaine
Cristina Masanés, writer
Imma Merino, professor of philosophy at Universitat de Girona and journalist
Jackie-Ruth Meyer, Centre d’Art Le Lait’s – Laboratoire Artisitique International du Tarn director
Carme Sais, Bòlit’s, Centre d’Art Contemporani. Girona director
Biographies 2015: Sol Riera, art critic and art historian
Biographies 2016: Saray Espinosa, Victòria Morales, Mabel Fernàndez i Mireia Galià
Acknowledgments 2015: Enric Ansesa, Adela Caamaño, Eudald Camps, Cristina Jutge and Miquel Vich S.A.
Acknowledgments 206: Olga Taravilla, Manel Bielsa, Dolors Vidal-Caselles, Xavier Carmaniu, Pep Admetlla, Alexandre Nunes, Miquel Oller, Gloria Salamanca, Rita Andreu, pierre d. la, Marta Solano, Alexandre Nunes, Coral Ríos, Ramon Bartrina, Byron Abadía, Tuomo Tiisala, Sara Suñe, La Volta, Marta Sureda, Joanot Cortès, Carmen Pardo, Albert García i Luis Izquierdo-Mosso

Funded by the Pyrenees–Mediterranean Euroregion
within the framework of the CULTURE 2014 call for projects