They support the candidacy of the current director of MoCo, who has reached the end of his term and who is not a favorite to succeed himself.
The candidates for the new direction of the EPCC Montpellier Contemporain (MoCo) which brings together the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ESBA), the Center d’art La Panacea and the Hôtel des collections, submitted their project this week. .
The selection will take place at the beginning of March, by the board of directors after opinion of a jury made up of a member of the Ministry of Culture (DGCA), the DRAC and local elected officials, including Agnès Robin, in charge of Culture, and Éric Penso, president of MoCo.
If the current director, whose term ends in April, is a candidate for his succession, we obviously know nothing about the profiles, except that they will have to have at least six years of cultural management experience. .
Summarizing the MoCo at its Hôtel des Collections would be reductive. It would be ignoring, for example, these students of the School of Fine Arts, very anxious at the idea of the departure of their bridgehead, Nicolas Bourriaud. The emotion is strong among these some 200 young people from the four corners of France and 14 European countries, for the MoCo, but first for Bourriaud.
“Let us carry out our project!”
Marie Féménias, a 4th year student, sits on the board of directors and has only been in office. The concept and the budget having been strongly questioned by the municipality, she predicts “ a real endangerment ” of the institution. “ We are ready to be attentive to the city’s proposals and to consider common projects as has been the case with the ZAT. But let us carry out this project which is so dear to us ! “, she implores.
They co-wrote a letter that aims to support “span” of this three-headed structure: “We are here to say that our school is part of this ecosystem, that we are part of it and that we have a say in the changes that are happening. Quite simply because our future is at stake!” . In the opinion of all, it is because it has a resonance nationally and internationally, although recent, “that we have chosen to come and study there, attracted by the possibilities offered and by Nicolas Bourriaud’s point of view”.
If we are aware that the project will not end with the departure of its founder, we fear the disappearance of all these links forged with professionals in the art world, carriers of perspectives, “several of us who have chosen to come to Montpellier are reconsidering their decision”. Nicolas Bourriaud is therefore the one who allows them to imagine a future. It’s a lot for one man, but on the student side, we are sure that these decisions “purely political” will have an impact on the lives and perspectives of the hundreds of individuals who work there, students and teachers, curators and artists. Not necessarily positive. Verdict, early March.
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