Presentation

The Banc Sabadell Foundation’s goals include that of promoting dissemination, training and research activities, in the fields of science and culture, which are aimed at society as a whole. What is more, the Banc Sabadell Foundation has an established network of various research organisations, including universities and research foundations which represent not just the organisation’s commitment to innovative research but also considerable collaborator potential.

Hangar’s goals include that of maintaining (understood as generating, updating, revising, repairing and sustaining) the conditions needed to facilitate artistic production and research, understood as practices and forms of critical speculation capable of responding to contemporary debates and emergencies. Hangar understands art as a productive practice of knowledge and therefore champions artistic research as a fully fledged category of research, endowed with a specific method for discovering and producing knowledge.

The call for grant applications

Hangar, an artistic production and research centre, is opening a call for grant applications for a researcher who is a Spanish national or who resides in Spanish territory and is in the process of carrying out an artistic research project. Projects can be presented for grants, both if they are carried out in a doctoral-thesis format or outside an academic framework. The call will consider artistic-research projects at any of their stages that require Hangar’s context and/or services for their development and which, in addition, include initiatives for opening the process and sharing the knowledge generated. The project selected will be carried out in Hangar during a residency of eight consecutive months, to be decided between February and October 2023.

 

1. Goals

General:

– To create a unique research space where traditional academic methods, based more or less indirectly on scientific models, merge radically with methods typical of artistic contexts. The confluence, adaptation, versioning or hybridisation of ways of performing traditionally segregated research fields should give rise to methodological innovations and ways of generating, conveying and validating different and complementary knowledge to the academic apparatus.

Specifics:

– To promote experimentation in the field of artistic research and the critical exploration of its research habits and methods, while maintaining the commitment to rigour.

– To facilitate the resources needed for carrying out artistic research projects.

– To contribute to the characterisation of the notion of artistic knowledge.

– To promote the documentation, publication and dissemination of artistic research.

2. Projects’ targets and requirements

– Researchers in any field (whether or not artistic), of any age, gender, who are Spanish nationals or resident in Spanish territory and in the process of carrying out an artistic-research project.

– The call will consider artistic research projects at any of their stages that require Hangar’s context and/or services for their development and which, in addition, include initiatives for opening the process and sharing the knowledge generated.

 

3. Duration

The grant is for eight consecutive months, between February and October 2023. Specific dates are to be established by mutual agreement between Hangar and the selected project.

 

4. Terms and conditions

1– The application must be submitted through a single PDF sent to the email address <antonio(at)hangar.org>

2– Each candidate can enter the call with a single project.

3– Collective projects can be submitted, provided one of their members is appointed representative.

4– Having Spanish nationality or residing in Spanish territory.

5– The call’s organisers will provide beneficiaries with:

– Fees:  €9,750 gross,

– A production grant of up to €2,500 gross,

– Subsidised travel costs to and from Barcelona of up to €250,

– Accommodation and work spaces in Hangar,

– Technical support for developing and producing the project.

 

5. Selected project’s commitments to Hangar:

– To incorporate initiatives during the process which support the transfer of the knowledge generated.

– To carry out a final presentation of the project during the residency period in Hangar.

– To deliver a final report on the project and an assessment of the residency within two months after its completion.

– To include a mention and/or logo of the Banc Sabadell Foundation and Hangar in the project's communication.

 

6. Selection process

Applications must be made through a single PDF (entitled: Beca_investigación_artistica_NAME_SURNAME) emailed to the following address: <antonio(at)hangar.org>

The document must include the following information:

1- Personal details:

– Name and Surname,

– Full address (including city and country),

– Telephone number,

– Email address,

– Date of Birth,

- Nationality.

2- Brief biography stating the applicant’s main work and research lines (up to 500 characters including spaces)

3- Curriculum vitae (up to 1500 characters including spaces)

4- Description of the project, including:

– Summary of the project (up to 2000 characters including spaces),

– Goals (up to 1000 characters including spaces),

– Expected outcomes (up to 1500 characters including spaces),

– Methods (up to 1500 characters including spaces),

– How the project will be documented and shared (up to 1000 characters including spaces),

– Calendar and work plan,

– Technical requirements,

5– Stating why the project needs to be carried out in the context of Hangar (up to 1000 characters including spaces).

6– For projects not originating from artistic areas, state how the implementation of methods typical of art in research is being proposed (up to 1000 characters including spaces).

7– A letter of recommendation and assessment of the project.

8– A maximum of 5 images of the project.

* IMPORTANT:

– Applications will not be accepted where they fail to include the information required and/or they exceed the maximum length.

– The applications’ content can be submitted in Catalan or Spanish.

– The selection committee may contact pre-selected artists for an interview.

– The selection committee reserves the right not to award any grants for the call.

 

7. Selection committee

The selection committee will be made up of:

– Hangar’s management,

– Two members of Hangar's Stable Jury,

– A member of Hangar’s Research and Knowledge Transfer Area (in an advisory, non-voting capacity),

– A member of CAiRE – Experimental Art and Research Cluster.

 

8. Assessment criteria

The selection committee will assess projects according to:

– How the research fits in with Hangar’s work lines,

– The feasibility and potential of carrying out the project in Hangar,

– The relevance, importance and interest of the project and its adaptation to the grant's goals,

– The artistic career or research experience.

 

9. Calendar

Deadline for submitting applications: Deadline extended to Tuesday, 15 November 2022, 11.59 pm (GMT +1).

Results of the selection process: start of December 2022.

Residency: eight consecutive months between February and October 2023 (to be agreed with Hangar).

 

10. Responsibilities

1- You are hereby informed, under the data protection regulations, that personal data will be processed by Hangar for the purposes of managing the participation of artistic projects within the framework of this call. Unless legally required, your personal data will not be given to third parties. You are entitled to access the data you contributed, correct and delete them, as well as exercise any other rights established under the data protection regulations currently in force.

2- Submitting artistic research projects within the framework of this call shall not imply any presumption regarding their authorship, and any possible liability that may arise shall fall to whoever submitted the project.

3- Hangar will be responsible for ensuring all grant applications are in proper order, but shall be exempt from any liability whatsoever for any possible material harm or loss that the selected project may incur.

 

Information and application submissions:

Antonio Gagliano

antonio(at)hangar.org

Tel: 93 308 40 41 ext. 22