PACA_ Proyectos Artisticos Casa Antonino was established as an artist run space, managed by Virginia Lopez, in an old country farmhouse in the rural area of Gijón, Spain. Casa Antonino is the true heart of the project, which uses it to maintain a domestic and familial dimension. PACA_ is a project focussed on contemporary art, environmental practices and artistic education, with international artist residency programmes. The objectives of PACA_Proyectos Artisticos Casa Antonino are to promote environmental and ecological practices and sensibilities in contemporary art; to carry out activities related to training, profusion, distribution and education; to create collaborative networks between local bodies, national and international institutions, universities, cultural foundations and institutions through interdisciplinary projects; to enhance local cultural organisations, fostering a dialogue between artistic communities and other members of society.

The basis and common thread running through the diverse artist residencies organised at PACA is the activation of artistic experiences that promote relations with the local community, the region and its history. Site specific/site oriented interventions are planned for the various spaces of the farmhouse and its surroundings, so that the artistic practice, research and experimentation not only has a poetic and aesthetic value, but can also generate new ways of interpreting the territory with which it dialogues, through cultural, social and environmental values.

PACA residency offers a workspace, housing, and include support, information and feedback from staff, other resident artists and PACA community: artists, curators, researchers. They always try to offer ideal conditions and artistic support for artist research and take specially care about connections between artist and local cultural agents. The house (traditional farm house called "Casa Antonino") has three bedrooms (one single and two double rooms), bathrooms, kitchen with firewood stove (kitchen), a living room, garden with water well and washing site. Residents can also use the common library of PACA and all the open space to work or produce site specific projects.