What does Hangar provide?

– Access to the workspace 24 hours a day, every day of the week.
– Work space, within a shared area, on the ground floor of Hangar’s Nave 1 and access to common spaces open to the use of the different collectives.
– Resident collectives can make use of the following common resources: digital imaging and video desktop publishing laboratory, small set, Ricson, multi-purpose room, for carrying out the activities of the group and prior agreement with the center.
– Free participation in other activities or workshops, provided there is availability and prior reservation.
– Free access to all Hangar activities, which take place in the center, as long as there is availability and capacity is not compromised.
– Support in the dissemination of projects and their activities, when they take place in the center or with close ties to the center, through a space on our website and regular communication via newsletter, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
– An open and transversal community, formed by artists, developers and other agents.

What do the resident collectives contribute to Hangar?

– Activities, theoretical knowledge through the creation, care and branching of learning communities and content in the environment of their specialization.
– Transdisciplinary work methodologies that incorporate other areas not directly related to the context of the visual arts.
– Research, creation and critical practices in the environment of production tools.

Commitments of collectives in residence

– Provide free advice from your practice to the center itself and to other residents.
– Participate in the Open Thursdays to facilitate its content and technologies to all the people who come to the center.
– Generate and take care of learning communities around their field of work.
– Provide new services that may be available to the inhabitants and residents of Hangar or increase the capacities of the Hangar environment and the artistic community in general.
– Cooperate in the dissemination of activities and the enrichment of Hangar’s programmatic lines.
– Responsibility in the use of the center’s resources for its activities.
– Contribute to the expenses derived from their presence (monthly costs).
– Include the collaboration of Hangar in all communication elements of the project.

Application

The application must be made by email, sending a single document in PDF format to miguel(at)hangar.org with the subject “Convocatoria abierta para colectivos en residencia 2022“. Deadline for receiving applications: June 15, 2022.

Selection process

The selection process is carried out every two years through an open call to any group, without restrictions on age, origin or legal form. In a first phase, a pre-selection is made among all the applications received and the final selection is decided through a personal interview with the pre-selected groups.
The selection process is carried out by Hangar’s stable Jury together with the center’s direction and an invited external professional.

Basic evaluation criteria

– Interest of the proposal and solidity of the trajectory, activity and profile of the collective
– Link with the practices and lines of research of Hangar as well as with its communities, users and audiences, and the way in which the relationship with them is imagined
– Generation of critical discourses around tools and technologies.
– Link to other local and international spaces, entities or projects
– Complementarity with the rest of the selected proposals will be taken into account, as well as with the artists residing in Hangar during the same period, attending to groups that may be underrepresented.
– It will be valued that the activity of the group includes the development of tools (conceptual, material, technological, etc.).
– The moment in which the collective would become part of Hangar and the way in which the center can contribute to consolidate it and develop new dimensions of its activity

Documentation to be submitted

Find it here.