Opportunity to develop engaging site-responsive projects in one of the richest biomes on earth.
Deadline: Rolling Deadlines 2018 - 25 March, 17 April and more TBA
Application fee: No application fee
La Wayaka Current artist-led initiative offers artists and researchers the chance to develop site-responsive projects at the gateway between South and Central America, in one of the richest biomes on earth, in collaboration with the first politically autonomous indigenous group in Latin America. Here community and respect for mother earth remains at the heart of this place, despite increased connections to the globalised world.
This program offers participants a unique chance to reconnect with nature and share with indigenous + rural communities who live from the land and sea with ancient knowledge still carried through their culture.
Live this transformative experience with an international group of participants, in a supportive and creative environment that seeks to experiment and push boundaries of researching and developing progressive interdisciplinary works, in relation to relevant socio-political and environmental subjects of our time.
Tropic 08°N is a self-directed program over 21 - 42 days offering the space, time, and inspiration to develop new projects in order to promote necessary dialogues and understanding between remote areas of this planet and cities worldwide.
About
La Wayaka Current is an artist-led initiative developing site-responsive projects at remote natural environments across our planet.
Itinerant in our nature we lead expeditions for artists + other creative participants to develop projects in vast Tropic, Arctic and Desert environments at co-ordinates 08°N, 78°N + 23°S. Here we develop programs with local communities, connecting to indigenous + ecological knowledge.
We offer financial aid to artists / full funded places and support to find funding from artists country of origin. Contact us for more information.
