La Escocesa has set up a resident accompaniment programme (RAP) which, together with Studio Visits and other initiatives of the creation factory, aims to improve the conditions for the production and dissemination of the work of resident artists. During the first months of 2024, we have held a series of meetings with the residents to define how the accompaniment will be developed. As a result of this dialogue, the RAP will take shape through three branches:
The Accompanists are artists, curators, thinkers, philosophers, academics, or activists whose knowledge and approaches engage in dialogue with the research and practices of the artist-in-residence. These individuals’ involvement with La Escocesa is not a one-time event but unfolds over time, fostering sustained relationships and shared working processes. Together with a group of residents, they form points of convergence based on common interests, methodological affinities, or shared questions that open up new lines of research and ways of working.
Mentoring is understood as a space for horizontal exchange in which listening, conversation, and experimentation take center stage. Rather than merely transmitting knowledge or validating processes, it aims to create the conditions for different forms of knowledge to interact and generate shifts—both in individual research and in the building of a community of practice.
Memory of the Accompanists:
2024 — Mireia Sallarés and Patricia Dauder.
2025 — Carolina Jimenez and Lara Brown.
2026 - Jorge Blasco Gallardo and Carolina Campos.
Cómplices is a collective workspace driven by the interests of the resident artists. Through a shared decision-making process, a guest—an artist, thinker, researcher, academic, activist, or cultural agent—is invited to lead a series of meetings centered on a common field of research. The program aims to set aside a specific time to share methodologies, references, questions, and ways of working, creating a context where learning emerges from the exchange among all participants.
The sessions are designed as intensive immersions, typically taking place over a continuous weekend. Travel, shared living, and the temporary suspension of usual routines are integral to the format itself, based on the understanding that knowledge is also produced through shared experience, attention to context, and the development of alternative work rhythms.
Cómplices does not seek to offer definitive answers or predefined results, but rather to facilitate a space for experimentation where practices can influence one another, transform, and open up new possibilities. This shared time thus becomes a tool for sustaining research, strengthening bonds among residents, and experimenting with forms of knowledge production based on reciprocity, care, and trust.
Memory of the Cómplices:
2026 - Lara Brown and Marta Echaves.
In line with La Escocesa’s model of governance and work, both Acompañantes and Cómplices view artistic research as a practice that is inherently relational. For this reason, the aim is to foster the emergence of partnerships that can extend beyond the residency itself, opening up possibilities for new collaborations, imagining alternative forms of institutionality, and expanding the ways in which artistic knowledge is shared and produced.
Asking to the Moon is a pool of resources for artistic practice, managed by the resident artists through collective sessions, with the support of La Escocesa's production staff. In order to accompany the variable needs of creative processes, the fund will be extended at three different times during the year, following the lunar calendar. The resident artists can allocate the resources for purchasing materials or tools for the community, although it is also possible to obtain immaterial goods (such as training, guidance, advice). What is asked to the Moon has to meet three requirements: it must be collectively approved; it must be useful or necessary for the practices of the resident artists; and, if there are any goods left over, they will become part of La Escocesa's collective resources.
The feminist philosopher Silvia Federici has carried out a genealogical recovery of the concept of "gossip", showing that in its origins it did not have the negative connotations that patriarchy now ascribes to it. Rather, it was an expression of solidarity, of sisterhood, of the power of women united through words and collective actions.
The comadreo is conceived as an organic space in which the collective thinking-doing of the resident artists is set in motion. It is intended to encourage spaces of encounter not only through processes of hyper-socialisation and exchange through speech in front of a group, since these forms of encounter can lead to the exclusion of some people who, due to certain circumstances, find it difficult to constantly develop within the framework of direct sociability. Relationships based on being together are created by doing a concrete activity, by putting the body into action together with other bodies.