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Itinerant artist-led projects, research & residencies | land, ecologies & creative practice
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🔈️OPEN CALL⁠ ⁠ Artist Residency Atacama Desert, Chile⁠ 2nd half of 2026 (September–December)⁠ ⁠ 🌋 Join us in northern Chile to research and create at the intersection of culture, ecology, and territory within a multidisciplinary, international programme.⁠ ⁠ Through field visits, local encounters, and shared sessions, the residency offers time and space to reconnect with your practice within a territory where local ecological relations intersect with broader planetary processes.⁠ ⁠ We welcome artists working through experimental, site-responsive approaches, including those engaging outdoor practice and working in relation to land. ⁠ ⁠ 📆 Dates⁠ Sep 27 – Oct 18⁠ Oct 24 – Nov 14⁠ Nov 20 – Dec 11⁠ ⁠ 📌 Deadlines ⁠ Apr 30⁠ May 31 Jun 30 (limited) ⁠ Financial support will be available (including a limited amount of partial and fully funded places) for this season.⁠ ⁠ La Wayaka Current is an independent, artist-run initiative⁠ Member of @resartis worldwide network of artist residencies ⁠ ⁠ 🔗 More Info & Apply via link in bio⁠ ⁠ #opencall #artresidency #atacamadesert⁠ ⁠ —⁠ ⁠ 🔈️ CONVOCATORIA ABIERTA⁠ ⁠ Residencia Artística Desierto de Atacama, Chile⁠ 2do semestre 2026 (Septiembre–Diciembre)⁠ ⁠ 🌋 Unete a nosotrxs en el norte de Chile para investigar y crear en la intersección entre cultura, ecología y territorio, dentro de un programa multidisciplinario e internacional.⁠ ⁠ A través de salidas a terreno, encuentros locales y sesiones compartidas, la residencia ofrece tiempo y espacio para reconectar con tu práctica en un territorio donde las relaciones ecológicas locales se entrelazan con procesos más amplios. ⁠ ⁠ Buscamos artistas con enfoques experimentales y site-responsive, incluyendo prácticas al aire libre y en relación con el territorio.⁠ ⁠ 📆 Fechas⁠ 27 sep – 18 oct⁠ 24 oct – 14 nov⁠ 20 nov – 11 dic⁠ ⁠ 📌 Cierres⁠ 30 abril⁠ 31 mayo (cupos limitados)⁠ ⁠ Apoyo financiero disponible (incluyendo un número limitado de cupos con financiamiento parcial y total) para esta temporada⁠ ⁠ La Wayaka Current es una iniciativa independiente dirigida por artistas.⁠ Miembro de @resartis red mundial de residencias artísticas⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Mas Info & Postulación en link en bio⁠ by @lwcurrent
Respiraciones Residuales (Salar de Atacama) — nuestra nueva obra sonora — se exhibe ahora en el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Santiago, con inauguración hoy / 20:00 hrs 🔊 Esta meditación sobre la memoria ecológica, las atmósferas postnaturales y la violencia lenta de la extracción está compuesta por grabaciones de campo, frecuencias electromagnéticas, respiración procesada, emulaciones y síntesis de la respiración microbiana de cianobacterias milenarias, y las vibraciones de la sal. Escuchando desde el suelo hacia arriba a mundos que desaparecen, invita a escuchar como un acto político y poético. Sofie Iversen (@sofie.iversen) y Víctor Fernández Lenis (@keta.lenis), cofundadores de la plataforma dirigida por artistas La Wayaka Current (@lwcurrent), desarrollaron esta obra a partir de un compromiso a largo plazo con el territorio del Salar de Atacama. La pieza fue seleccionada para VAIVÉN Vol. 1, un ciclo colectivo dentro del programa de arte sonoro del museo. Escúchalo del 08.08.25 al 25.01.26 en el Rincón de Escucha del MAC y en línea a través de Frecuencia MAC. 🎧️ Gracias a @museo_mac, @anilla_mac por la invitación. - Respiraciones Residuales (Salar de Atacama) — our new sound work — is now showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), Santiago, opening today / 20:00 hrs 🔊 This meditation on ecological memory, postnatural atmospheres, and the slow violence of extraction is composed from field recordings, electromagnetic frequencies, processed breath, emulations and synthesis of the microbial respiration of ancient cyanobacteria, and the vibrations of salt. Listening from the ground up to worlds that are disappearing, it invites listening as a political and poetic act. Sofie Iversen (@sofie.iversen) + Víctor Fernández Lenis (@keta.lenis), co-founders of the artist-led platform La Wayaka Current (@lwcurrent) have developed the work through a long-term engagement with the Salar de Atacama territory. The piece was selected for VAIVÉN Vol. 1, a collective cycle within the museum’s sound art program. Listen from 8.08.25 - 25.01.26 at MAC’s Listening Corner and online via Frecuencia MAC. 🎧️ Thanks to @museo_mac, @anilla_mac for the invitation. by @lwcurrent
Curated, site-responsive residencies in the Atacama Desert — one of the most extraordinary environments on Earth.⁠ ⁠ La Wayaka Current invites international artists and researchers to engage with pressing ecological and social questions through place-based practice.⁠ ⁠ Through collective learning, field-based research, and curated programming, our residencies offer space to reflect, reimagine, and relate beyond the frame of dominant systems.⁠ ⁠ Now welcoming applicants for 2025/2026.⁠ 🔗 More info: www.lawayakacurrent.com⁠ ⁠ .⁠ ⁠ Residencias curadas y situadas en el Desierto de Atacama — uno de los entornos más extraordinarios del planeta.⁠ ⁠ La Wayaka Current invita a artistas e investigadores internacionales a explorar cuestiones ecológicas y sociales urgentes a través de prácticas basadas en el territorio.⁠ ⁠ A través del aprendizaje colectivo, la investigación en campo y una programación especialmente diseñada, nuestras residencias ofrecen un espacio para reflexionar, reimaginar y relacionarse más allá de los marcos de los sistemas dominantes.⁠ ⁠ Convocatoria abierta para 2025/2026.⁠ 🔗 Más info: www.lawayakacurrent.com by @lwcurrent
Meet Daniel Bourne (@gingerandtheghost⁠)⁠, one of the residents joining the LWC residency programme taking place between Chocó, Colombia, and Guna Yala, Panama (Oct/Nov 2026)⁠ ⁠ Daniel Bourne is an Australian multidisciplinary artist, experimental musician, composer and sound designer, and co-founder and Director of @thenestcreativespace one of Australia’s largest independent grassroots creative communities, established in Sydney in 2013.⁠ ⁠ As one half of the internationally recognised experimental electronic duo Ginger and the Ghost, alongside Melissa Gilbert, Daniel has toured extensively across Europe, the UK and the United States, performing at major international festivals including SXSW, The Great Escape, CMJ and Sinsal. The duo have achieved over 10 million combined streams, multiple No. 1 placements on Hype Machine and international critical recognition for their immersive fusion of music, visual art and performance.⁠ ⁠ Daniel’s evolving sonic practice explores organic electronic music, weaving field recordings gathered through his travels, sounds from nature, found objects, percussion and layered electronic textures into atmospheric, experimental compositions. His work investigates the relationship between sound, landscape, memory and the natural world, creating immersive sonic environments that blur the boundaries between music, ecology and sensory experience.⁠ ⁠ Through his artistic practice and leadership at The Nest Creative Space, Daniel continues to champion experimentation, interdisciplinary collaboration and the development of independent creative culture. by @lwcurrent
Meet Laura Rodriguez (@delasoulsart⁠)⁠, one of the residents joining La Wayaka Current’s residency programme taking place between Chocó, Colombia, and Guna Yala, Panama (Oct/Nov 2026)⁠ ⁠ Laura Rodriguez is a Panamanian-born, California-based multidisciplinary artist working across painting, collage, sculptural relief with an expanding practice moving toward installation and sound. Born in Chiriqui, Panama and raised in the U.S., her work is shaped by migration, cultural memory, ancestry, and relationships to land. With a background in Interior Architecture and Museum Studies, Rodriguez has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Her evolving practice explores the ways memory is carried through the body and the living landscape, creating work that moves between personal history, ancestral connection, and our relationship to the natural world. by @lwcurrent
Meet Peyton Thomas (@ptcruisin22)⁠, one of the residents joining La Wayaka Current’s residency programme taking place between Chocó, Colombia, and Guna Yala, Panama (Oct/Nov 2026)⁠ ⁠ Peyton Thomas is an environmental scientist, movement practitioner, and emerging interdisciplinary artist working at the intersections of ecology, sound, movement, and collective memory. Her practice explores how land- and waterscapes are experienced through the body, how ecological change is heard and remembered, and how relationships with place are expressed through music, dance, and storytelling.⁠ ⁠ With a background in fish physiology and aquatic ecology, she brings Western scientific environmental observation and analysis into dialogue with embodied and community-held knowledge. Her work incorporates field recordings, movement-based exploration, oral histories, and participatory mapping to investigate the connections between human and more-than-human worlds.⁠ ⁠ Through collaborative and experimental approaches, she seeks to create sonic, visual, and spatial representations of environmental relationships that move beyond conventional scientific documentation, making room for multiple ways of knowing, sensing, and interpreting ecological change. by @lwcurrent
The first days of our 2026 LWC AIR programme in Chocó / Guna Yala, invited residents to attune to the rhythms of the forest, to walk, listen and engage with the materials and forms of life that inhabit this region. ⁠ ⁠ Through encounters, shared practices and collective moments, new relations begin to take shape between bodies, territory and more-than-human worlds.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ A beginning shaped collectively by our residents, collaborators and invited guests and by the many forms of knowledge and experience brought into dialogue.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ -⁠ ⁠ Los primeros días de nuestro programa LWC AIR 2026 en Chocó / Guna Yala han invitado a lxs residentes a sintonizar con los ritmos de la selva, recorrer sus senderos, escuchar y relacionarse con los materiales y las formas de vida que habitan este territorio.⁠ ⁠ A través de encuentros, prácticas compartidas y momentos colectivos, comienzan a tomar forma nuevas relaciones entre los cuerpos, el territorio y los mundos más-que-humanos.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ Un comienzo construido colectivamente por lxs residentes, colaboradores e invitados, y por las múltiples formas de conocimiento y experiencia que entran en diálogo.⁠ ⁠ 📸 Reu Martinez⁠ ⁠ @i_am_offerings ⁠ @uniteplayplatform⁠ @gingerandtheghost⁠ @ptcruisin22⁠ @lillistoryteller⁠ @delasoulsart⁠ @florence_penry_jones⁠ @pepitalapistoleraa_⁠ @idra______⁠ @virginia.negro⁠ @joha.capurgalove⁠ @draw.reu⁠ @willberto_jungleandsea⁠ @reservanaturalcoquerita by @lwcurrent
Meet Yasmin Antún (@pepitalapistoleraa_)⁠, one of the residents joining La Wayaka Current’s residency programme taking place between Chocó, Colombia, and Guna Yala, Panama (Oct/Nov 2026)⁠ ⁠ Yasmin Antún (Córdoba, Argentina, 1997) is a transdisciplinary artist working across performance, installation, sculpture, cinema, and photography. Her current practice is part of an ongoing exploration of the taxonomy of animals and plants, intertwining it with human taxonomy. She develops forms and sensitive devices in which plants are placed on the same level as human beings, as well as others in which humans inhabit the skin of animals. Through these operations, she seeks to explore possibilities for more-than-human coexistence and to bridge the distances we have constructed between species.⁠ ⁠ Antún combines a sense of wonder toward the everyday with the intense curiosity of an artist who comes from elsewhere and searches for her path as part of a pack. She uses humor as a tool in her performances, pushing the idea of justice almost to the point of absurdity in a world that seems to be heading toward extinction. Her constant concern for the environment—at times turning into IMPOTENCE—acts as a driving force behind a practice that, far from being apocalyptic, questions our relationships with what surrounds us and the finite nature of those relationships.⁠ ⁠ Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Córdoba, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, and Barcelona. Highlights include Estadio Inicial at the Centro Cultural Borges in Buenos Aires (2026); Sanatorio de árboles (Tree Sanatorium), presented in the special invited artists section of MAC – Mercado de Arte Contemporáneo de Córdoba; and her solo exhibition La ironía de los halos (The Irony of Halos) at Bastón del Moro (2024). In 2025, she took part in the R.A.R.O. Colombia residency, and in 2026, in the Galpón de Aluminé residency in Argentine Patagonia.⁠ ⁠ She lives and works in Córdoba, Argentina. Her studio practice is divided between Hotel Inminente in the city of Córdoba and Polvora 720 in Buenos Aires. by @lwcurrent
Meet @florence_penry_jones, one of the residents joining La Wayaka Current’s residency programme taking place between Chocó, Colombia, and Guna Yala, Panama (Oct/Nov 2026)⁠ ⁠ Florence Penry Jones (Ireland/UK) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice investigates social and inter-social relationships, often beginning with stories and experiences rooted in familial history, particularly those connected to her mother. Working across a range of media, she explores the transience of memory and the materiality of the emotions and associations these stories evoke.⁠ ⁠ Growing up surrounded by wildlife in the countryside, she often disappeared into her own world, wandering through the woods and imagining stories about the unseen beings and worlds that might inhabit them. This early solitude fostered an enduring fascination with the uncanny, the natural environment and the dark fantasy of the 1980s. Drawn to imagined worlds such as Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal, and more recently to podcasts such as the BBC's Uncanny, she continues to explore the mysterious and the inexplicable through her work.⁠ ⁠ Her practice spans a variety of materials and disciplines, including glass, bronze, installation and printmaking, tracing the strange and often intangible threads that connect them. by @lwcurrent
Meet Melissa Gilbert (@i_am_offerings)⁠, one of the residents joining La Wayaka Current’s residency programme taking place between Chocó, Colombia, and Guna Yala, Panama (Oct/Nov 2026)⁠ ⁠ Melissa Gilbert (ØFFERINGS) is a First Nations multidisciplinary artist and descendant of the Mununjali Clan of the Yugambeh Nation, with ties to Quandamooka. Founder of @uniteplayplatform and co-founder of @thenestcreativespace, her practice spans sculpture, installation, performance, sound and experience design.⁠ ⁠ Through immersive environments, reclaimed materials, colour, movement and ritual, she explores how art can transform relationships between people, place and planet. Her work draws on embodied research, ancestral storytelling and pedagogical play as a catalyst for connection and collective transformation.⁠ ⁠ Her work has been presented at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, MONA, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Carriageworks, Museum of Brisbane and Rockhampton Museum of Art. Recent projects include Reclaim to Transform at Melbourne Design Week and Hyper Temples and Repatterning the Future at HOTA for BLEACH* Festival. by @lwcurrent
Reunimos a lxs residentes de nuestra residencia de Septiembre–Octubre de La Wayaka Current con @fundaciontanti, parte de la Alianza por los Humedales Andinos, en un espacio de conversación e intercambio.⁠ ⁠ El encuentro nos permitió conocer más sobre el trabajo de Fundación Tantí y poner en diálogo prácticas e investigaciones artísticas con temas como la educación ambiental, los saberes comunitarios y las relaciones socioecológicas, reflexionando también sobre las realidades del extractivismo y sus impactos en las comunidades y los ecosistemas, incluidos los salares.⁠ ⁠ Valoramos estos encuentros como oportunidades para conectar distintas experiencias y formas de conocimiento, fortalecer vínculos y abrir posibilidades de colaboración entre artistas internacionales y organizaciones locales.⁠ ⁠ Agradecemos a Fundación Tantí, a nuestros residentes y a todas las personas que fueron parte de este encuentro, reafirmando el valor de la conversación como punto de partida para imaginar otras formas de relacionarnos con los territorios que habitamos.⁠ ⁠ -⁠ ⁠ We brought together the artists participating in La Wayaka Current’s September–October residency with @fundaciontanti, part of the Andean Wetlands Alliance, for a space of conversation and exchange.⁠ ⁠ The gathering offered an opportunity to learn more about Fundación Tantí’s work and bring artistic practices and research into dialogue with environmental education, community knowledge, and socioecological relationships. Together, we reflected on the realities of extractivism and its impacts on communities and ecosystems, including salt flats.⁠ ⁠ We value these encounters as opportunities to connect diverse experiences and forms of knowledge, strengthen relationships, and open up possibilities for collaboration between international artists and local organisations.⁠ ⁠ We are grateful to Fundación Tantí, our residents, and everyone who took part in this gathering, reaffirming the importance of conversation as a starting point for imagining other ways of relating to the territories we inhabit. by @lwcurrent
WELCOME, RESIDENTS⁠ BIENVENIDXS, RESIDENTES⁠ ⁠ ⁠We’re very happy to welcome our residents joining us this season for the La Wayaka Current programme, taking place in the Atacama Desert, Chile (Oct/Nov 2026)⁠ ⁠ Valentina Berthelon — Chile @valentina_berthelon⁠ Anne Ardouin — Canada (Wendat Nation) @anneardouin⁠ Camilo Nuñez Guthmann — Argentina @camiidae⁠ Leah Cupino, USA @lcupino⁠ Jimena Schlaepfer, Mexico @jimenaschlaepfer⁠ Emily Peters, USA @atelier.eiy @eiy.sounds⁠ Schessa Garbut, Belize / USA @the_schessa⁠ Lisa Germany, Australia @lisagermanyphotography⁠ Zonia Zena, Peru @zoniazena⁠ Zoe Sua Kay, Portugal @zoesuakay⁠ Jourdan Lucente, France @jourdan.lucente⁠ Bárbara Salinas, Chile @barbarayjourdan⁠ Jade Steltzner, France @jayyyyydeee⁠ ⁠ We look forward to sharing more about the residents, their processes and exchanges taking place throughout the residency. ⁠ ⁠ Welcome to La Wayaka Current!⁠ ⁠ —⁠ ⁠ BIENVENIDXS, RESIDENTES⁠ WELCOME, RESIDENTS⁠ ⁠ Nos alegra dar la bienvenida a lxs residentes que se unen esta temporada al programa de La Wayaka Current, que tendrá lugar en el desierto de Atacama, Chile (Octubre/Noviembre 2026)⁠ ⁠ Valentina Berthelon — Chile @valentina_berthelon⁠ Anne Ardouin — Canadá (Nación Wendat) @anneardouin⁠ Camilo Nuñez Guthmann — Argentina @camiidae⁠ Leah Cupino — Estados Unidos @lcupino⁠ Jimena Schlaepfer — México @jimenaschlaepfer⁠ Emily Peters — Estados Unidos @atelier.eiy @eiy.sounds⁠ Schessa Garbut — Belice / Estados Unidos @the_schessa⁠ Lisa Germany — Australia @lisagermanyphotography⁠ Zonia Zena — Perú @zoniazena⁠ Zoe Sua Kay — Portugal @zoesuakay⁠ Jourdan Lucente — Francia @jourdan.lucente⁠ Bárbara Salinas — Chile @barbarayjourdan⁠ Jade Steltzner — Francia @jayyyyydeee⁠ Esperamos compartir más sobre lxs residentes, sus procesos y los intercambios que tendrán lugar a lo largo de la residencia.⁠ ⁠ ¡Bienvenidxs a La Wayaka Current!⁠ ⁠ #artistresidency #residenciadearte #artandecology #arteyecología #atacamadesert by @lwcurrent

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