Presentation of the book Memòries d’H 1991-2021. Trenta anys d’Arts Contemporànies:

H.Association for Contemporary Arts (H.AAC) is a non-profit organization whose goal is to promote and carry out activities aimed at fostering expressions of art and thought committed to contemporary ideas and aesthetics, as well as creation, research and studies in this field.

H.AAC collaborates with entities and associations to encourage and enable these areas of culture and thought to be incorporated in their activities.

Since its creation in 1991, it has carried out projects in a variety of areas. Together with other sponsoring entities, it has organized the Quinzena d’Art de Montesquiu (Montesquiu Art Fortnight, QUAM) and held exhibitions, talks and debates on aspects of contemporary art and thought. The association publishes the collection “Textos sobre les Arts Contemporànies” (Texts on Contemporary Arts), and Memòries d’H 1991-2021. Trenta anys d’Arts Contemporànies is its 50th publication.

Since 2009, the association’s activity has focused mainly on the management of ACVIC. Centre d’Arts Contemporànies, a result of the cooperation between H.AAC, Vic City Council and the Ministry of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia.

Francesc Ruiz is a visual artist. Recently he exhibited individually at the Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló (EACC) and at the CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Móstoles. He has alternated artistic practice with collective projects, such as the curatorial team Creatures (with Amanda Cuesta, Maribel López and Glòria Pou) and the Porn Studies Institute (with Lucía Egaña and Ona Bros)..

Rosa Pera is an independent curator of exhibitions and projects that combine contemporary art, design, architecture, collective learning and public space and experiment with specific formats. These include “Insideout: jardí del Cambalache” at the Fundació Tàpies in Barcelona; “Global Youth Culture Forum” in Cheju, Korea, and QUAM, a project in progress in Catalonia that broadened its geographic scope under her direction. Pera has explored the work of persons such as Buckminster Fuller, Muntadas, Miralda and Ai Weiwei. She was the founding director of the Bòlit Centre d’Art Contemporani in Girona and a member of the first Executive Culture Committee of the Culture Institute of Barcelona.

Víctor Sunyol is a writer and editor. He has been a member of H.Association for Contemporary Arts since its foundation and is co-director of the collection “Jardins de Samarcand” (Gardens of Samarcand). He has taught at the School of Art and Design in Vic. Together with Antoni Clapés, he has been responsible for the publications and initiatives of Cafè Central since it was founded in 1989. He publishes texts of literary criticism and essays on poetics and creation and aspects of culture. He collaborates with visual artists and composers, writing texts for their works or carrying out joint projects with them. He has been translated into French, German, Italian, English, Slovenian and Spanish, and anthologies of his work have been published in Catalonia, Quebec, Mexico, Germany and Spain. His latest poetry publications are NO ON (rèquiem) (2008), Quest (2013), de ser nomès (2014), 3a Андрей (Per a Andrei) (2014) and A poc a poc. Cançons de bressol, with illustrations by Olga Capdevila (2017). He has published the prose works Birnam (2014) and Amb Nausica (2019). In 2019 he published Des de quin on? Antologia 1976-2017, an anthology of his poetic work.

Manuel Guerrero Brullet is a critic and essayist. He holds a degree in Romance Philology from the University of Barcelona (1990), completed doctoral studies in Comparative Literature (1994-1996) at Pompeu Fabra University and holds a PhD in Humanities from the University of Girona (2022). He was the curator of the Joan Brossa Year (2019) and the Palau i Fabre Year (2017-2018), and head of the field of Arts (2009-2013) and deputy director (2013-2015) of Arts Santa Monica in Barcelona. He was also coordinator of the centre for new cultural trends KRTU (Cultura, Recerca, Tecnologia, Universals) (1990-2008). He was artistic director of the Teatre Invisible (1988-1996).