Hangar Texts Collection Platform Now Available

The Hangar Texts Collection is a new program that creates a repository of monographic texts about resident artists. This editorial platform allows artists to produce comprehensive and essential texts that holistically reflect their ways of working and thinking, weaving together various projects to build an overarching vision of their practices. The Texts Collection offers artists the opportunity to establish a writing relationship with an external perspective as a starting point, rather than as the outcome of a project or exhibition.

Each resident artist has the chance to commission a text about their work from an author of their choice, with editorial support from Hangar. These authors are nationally or internationally recognized professionals with distinguished reputations. The Collection aims to support artistic careers by providing a resource for the presentation and dissemination of practices. The goal is to produce publications that are agile in circulation, have a long lifespan, and help expand the networks and frameworks of appearance, inscription, and legitimization of artistic practices.

The Collection is founded on the belief that the potential to activate political imagination and dare to envision other worlds depends on mobilizing new modes of expression and naming. We emphasize writing as an epistemic environment to illuminate and articulate new forms of sensitivity, actively contributing to understanding artistic production in relation to other disciplines as a space for enunciation and self-reaction.

The Texts Collection is hosted on an open and multilingual platform (in Spanish, English, and Catalan). The preference for the online space is not merely a technical solution (online vs. paper). It is, in fact, an ecologically sustainable principle on multiple levels: the writing situations prompted by the collection are processes of sedimentation. Writing is akin to composting. It places artistic production among other layers of knowledge and creation to achieve branching connections. Additionally, the platform continues Hangar’s historical commitment to free culture, knowledge, and sustainable development. By existing online and linked to servers and proximity systems installed at Hangar, we avoid not only the material footprint of transport and printing (the paper production cycle, even recycled paper, is highly polluting) but also the digital footprint that would come from working with distant servers under conditions of technological delegation and data transfer.

The program is supported by the Ministry of Culture and the Institut Ramon Llull.