Orbitants

The “orbitant” projects are conceived in contrast to the “resident” projects. Unlike Hangar’s residents, who are a constituent part of its daily ecosystem, the Orbitant projects are organizations, collectives or people from the nearby context that maintain a less intensive relationship with the center in terms of presence and dependence, but of great complicity in terms of the mission, the lines of research-action of the center and its programs. With the orbitant projects Hangar establishes forms of collaboration based on this complicity and designed according to each project.

We distinguish two types of Orbitants: on the one hand, the durational Orbitants, who articulate a critical mass that orients and is oriented by everything that the center mobilizes, and, on the other hand, the occasional Orbitants, who participate in the life of the center in shorter periods of time, generally linked to the realization of a specific activity. In both cases, Hangar establishes criteria that are circularly updated, and that seek to attract, arrange and gravitate intellectually related initiatives that are committed to the capillarity of the neighborhood’s life, that mobilize life-giving collective processes and that resonate and amplify, in general terms, Hangar’s programs and mission.

The selection criteria of the durational Orbitants prioritize practices:

1- That contain a clear research dimension.
2- That they have passed through Hangar and that there is a common learning history with them.
3- That they mobilize collective processes and are interested in the engineering of collectivity.
4- That they reverberate with the network of interests of the artists and collectives that inhabit and orbit the center.
5- That they reverberate with the research lines of Hangar.

The selection criteria for the occasional Orbitants prioritize practices:

1- That overflow the event format, engaging in the long term with the center’s communities under a principle of co-responsibility.
2- That they deploy synergies based on empathy and good practices.
3- That they mobilize collective processes and are interested in the engineering of collectivity.
4- That they reverberate with the research threads of Hangar.
5- That they fit in the availability of spaces and agendas of the center.