Resa

Over its twenty-seven years of trajectory, Hangar has consolidated its work through residency programs and has been one of the fundamental pillars of its institutional structure. During this time, the artistic residency has been conceived not simply as a logistical resource or a production space, but as a device for mediation and support that enables and sustains artistic practice in all its complexity.

This conception is based on a relational understanding of artistic practice, viewed as a process that develops through exchange, reciprocity, and mutual care within contexts that often present structural conditions that complicate cultural production. Within this framework, the task of programming with artists goes beyond planning activities or meeting timelines: it involves generating material, symbolic, and affective conditions that make artistic work viable in a national context marked by precariousness and institutional neglect toward the cultural sector.

From this perspective, Hangar positions itself not only as a space for residency and research but also as a platform for critical support that recognizes artistic practice as a situated field of knowledge, requiring accompaniment, sustenance, and strengthening from an ethical and political standpoint.

Resa emerges as a program built from a set of actions specifically designed to improve artistic practice at Hangar.

Although Resa’s actions are direct and not associated with large productions, they require a significant economic and/or structural effort from the center, forcing a rethinking of the program’s financial structure and the pursuit of new alliances throughout the territory.

Selection of the first scheduled actions:

Act 1. Waive the monthly payment for resident artists. Implemented.

Act 2. Update the specialized sound equipment to improve sound practice. Implemented.

Act 3. Involve resident and former resident artists in updating the center’s governance. Implemented.

Act 4. Involve resident artists in designing the programming of their activities. Implemented.

Act 5. Increase the impact of residents in the national and international context, through a new dissemination program and specific exchanges. Implemented.

Act 6. Transfer the weight of the residency juries to a stable and external jury. Implemented.

Act 7. Relocation of four artists and Hamaca to Nau Bostik to ensure the continuity of their work during the renovation period of Nau 1. Implemented.

Act 8. Provide long- and medium-term residencies with a non-competitive production grant.

Graphic identity: Miquel Hervás Gómez