Coexisting between- aimed to be a mechanism that would collect and respond to the emergence of new ways of doing and rethinking institutions, and that understood artistic practices and collective processes as essential instruments with which to activate transformative strategies that would impact both the cultural ecosystem and the social context on which they act.
It was a proposal that involved collectively inhabiting a space, staging the transition between the factory’s past and the current model of art center, and that also tended towards a future cultural institution with a more complex or systemic structure.
The program critically questioned, from ways of doing that combined research processes with production, archiving, mediation, participation or debate, and at the same time proposed to amplify them through the activation of networks and the socialization of content and experiences.
The first phase of the project, articulated in four programs (Antenna, Telar, Overflowing Culture and Spaces in Transition), was developed through exhibitions, research, workshops, long-term collaborative projects, activities, conferences and connections with various entities both from the context closest to the center and from all over the city. These practices involved a first contact and cultivation of other ways of inhabiting and circulating culture with various initiatives. Based on this background, in this second phase the program was conceived as an investigation to delve into how contemporary cultural practices can function as a tool to weave the city. From this perspective, the urban is understood as something diverse, in movement, organic, in transit and in permanent mutation. The city is presented to us as the plot on which to weave other ways of building citizenship, of claiming rights, of interweaving new alliances between culture, society and territories; in short, to situate, inhabit and build a city among all.
At a methodological level, this phase was articulated in two moments. Firstly, from an intersectoral table, called L’Ordit (The Warp), with the entities and initiatives with which we were already working and with other new ones that could be added. The table generated alliances, complicities and promoted networking from specific problems and situated practices. Secondly, from dynamic exhibition and socialization spaces of the processes and results, which collected the complexities of the themes raised as catalysts. From Cohabitar entre- it was proposed to experiment with ways of designing and generating other cultural policies of proximity articulated with contemporary artistic practice, expanding the notion of cultural practices and exploring diverse forms of institutionality from where to build culture and citizenship.
