La Wayaka Current

@lwcurrent

Itinerant artist-led projects, research & residencies | land, ecologies & creative practice Created by @sofie.iversen @keta.lenis 🌱Register 2026↓
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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 (limited places)⁠ ⁠ 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
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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.
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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: ⁠ ⁠ .⁠ ⁠ 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:
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Sharing works-in-progress from artists currently in residence, as they engage with the Atacama territory through our programme.⁠ ⁠ This Friday, April 24, we open a space to encounter their processes, reflections, and ongoing research developed during their time here.⁠ ⁠ If you’re in San Pedro, you’re warmly invited to join. More details below.⁠ ⁠ -⁠ ⁠ Compartiendo procesos en desarrollo de artistas actualmente en residencia, en diálogo con el territorio de Atacama a través de nuestro programa.⁠ ⁠ Este viernes 24 de abril abrimos un espacio para acercarse a sus procesos, reflexiones e investigaciones en curso desarrolladas durante su tiempo aquí.⁠ ⁠ Si estás en San Pedro, estás muy invitadx a acompañarnos.⁠ ⁠ 📍 La Yareta Casa Cultural, San Pedro de Atacama⁠ 📅 Friday 24 April / Viernes 24 de abril⁠ 🕕 18:00–18:30 Apertura / Opening (18:30–20:30 Presentaciones / Presentations)⁠ ⁠ Entrada liberada / Free entry⁠ ⁠ Artists in residence / Artistas en residencia:⁠ Paul Costello @pthepaul (1)⁠ Yipei Lee @suaveart_ltd (2)⁠ Marie-Claire Blais @marieclaireblais , Denise Medico, Zolan Vergriete-Medico (3–5)⁠ Kyulim Kim @qlim_ (6)⁠ Jocelyn Brett @jocelyn_brett_art ⁠ ⁠ #artistresidency #residenciaartistica #atacama #lawayakacurrent
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The Atacama Desert is a living territory, shaped by environmental, social, and cultural processes. ⁠ ⁠ Within this context the La Wayaka Current programme unfolds through site-responsive research and process-led practice, bringing together artists working in close relation to the land. ⁠ ⁠ ⁠Through field visits to key cultural and ecological sites, dialogue with local collaborators, and independent work, the programme invites space for reflection and inquiry, as participants develop practices in relation to the territory.⁠ ⁠ -⁠ ⁠ El desierto de Atacama es un territorio vivo, moldeado por procesos ambientales, sociales y culturales. ⁠ ⁠ En este contexto, el programa se despliega a través de investigación situada y prácticas orientadas al proceso, reuniendo a artistas que trabajan en estrecha relación con el territorio.⁠ ⁠ A través de recorridos por sitios culturales y ecológicos clave, el diálogo con colaboradores locales y el trabajo independiente, lxs participantes desarrollan prácticas en relación con el territorio.⁠ ⁠ RESIDENTS (currently on site April 2026):⁠ ⁠ Jocelyn Brett @jocelyn_brett_art ⁠ Yipei Lee @suaveart_ltd ⁠ Paul Costello @pthepaul ⁠ Kyulim Kim @qlim_ ⁠ Marie-Claire Blais @marieclaireblais ⁠ Denise Medico ⁠ Zolan Vergriete-Medico⁠ ⁠ Documentation: @ornitorrinko for La Wayaka Current⁠ Member of @resartis network of artists residencies ⁠ ⁠ #artistresidency #atacamadesert #artandecology
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SKIN IS A TERRITORY A project I started during a field study trip to the Atacama Desert, together with the @lwcurrent artist residency ❤️
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FIELDNOTES 1 from the Atacama: This collection of images (I call SALTBATH) depicts Laguna Chaxa, a protected salt flat in the Atacama Desert, situated within the “Lithium Triangle” the lithium triangle spreads over Argentina, Bolivia and Chile and makes up 50-70% of the worlds lithium resources. While this resource has been depicted as a pathway towards “green energy”, the darkness of this extraction on ancestral homeland is of course experienced by the communities who have safeguarded these lands for centuries, are now are forced to deal with the contamination of water + soil from the mining sites these images hold a tension between regimes of conservation and extraction, fixed in a salt bath sourced from a lithium mining site therefore the materiality of these images is owed to salt, the mineral that structures the landscape’s ecology while simultaneously driving the extractive processes that threaten its persistence (lithium is extracted from deep salt-lake brines) I developed these images with a simple developer recipe using matico, a plant endemic to the south of Chile, combined with vitamin c + soda ash in my little makeshift developing lab @lwcurrent 🍃
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Open Call: La Wayaka Current Artist Residency 2026 | Atacama Desert, Chile Application Deadlines • April 30, 2026 • May 31, 2026 (limited places) La Wayaka Current invites international artists and researchers to apply for its 2026 residency programme in the Atacama Desert, Chile. This multidisciplinary residency brings together practitioners interested in exploring the intersections of culture, ecology, and territory within one of the world’s most unique landscapes. Through field visits, group sessions, and shared encounters, participants engage deeply with local environments while reflecting on broader planetary questions and ecological systems. Residency Overview • Location. Atacama Desert, Chile • Residency period. September . December 2026 • Duration. 3 weeks per session • Open internationally Programme Dates • September 27 . October 18, 2026 • October 24 . November 14, 2026 • November 20 . December 11, 2026 Who Can Apply Artists and researchers across disciplines interested in ecology, territory, and socially engaged or research-based practices. What to Expect • Curated programme with field visits and site-based research • Collaborative sessions and group dialogue • Time and space for independent and collective practice • Engagement with local ecological and cultural contexts This residency offers an immersive experience in a remote landscape, encouraging reflection, exchange, and new ways of thinking through art and research. Apply and learn more: #OpenCall #ArtistResidency #AtacamaDesert #LaWayakaCurrent #ArtAndEcology ArtOpportunities
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Que alegría se siente al ver ideas transformándose en proyectos y finalmente en obra. El año pasado colaboré con fotografías para este hermoso libro de Sonnet y Giulia, a quienes conocí en #LaWayakaCurrent, después de meses de trabajo de ellas y su equipo hoy veo la obra en mis manos con mucha satisfacción ❤️
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Este sábado 28 les invitamos a un encuentro abierto de nuestra residencia de Arte y Ecología en el Desierto de Atacama (ciclo Marzo 2026).⁠ ⁠ Un espacio para compartir procesos en desarrollo, ideas y prácticas que han ido tomando forma en diálogo con el territorio durante estas semanas.⁠ ⁠ 📍 La Yareta Casa Cultural, San Pedro de Atacama⁠ 🕕 18:00–18:30 Apertura | 18:30–20:30 Presentaciones⁠ ⁠ Entrada liberada⁠ ⁠ -⁠ ⁠ This Saturday the 28th, we invite you to an open gathering from our Art and Ecology residency in the Atacama Desert (March 2026 cycle).⁠ ⁠ A space to share works in progress, ideas, and practices that have been taking shape in dialogue with the territory over these past weeks.⁠ ⁠ 📍 La Yareta Casa Cultural, San Pedro de Atacama⁠ 🕕 6:00–6:30 pm Opening | 6:30–8:30 pm Presentations⁠ ⁠ Free entry⁠ ⁠ -⁠ ⁠ Artistas en residencia (Marzo 2026):⁠ ⁠ Christopher Thompson (New Zealand) @nice_one_chris ⁠ Hannah van Seventer (New Zealand)⁠ Kateryna Slenzak (Ukraine) @malibukaty ⁠ Lily Angelone (USA) @lilybecks_ ⁠ Logan MacDonald (Canada)⁠ Mark Walker (United Kingdom)⁠ @markwalkermark ⁠ Maximus Fuller (United Kingdom)⁠ @maximusfullerstudio ⁠ Paola Dávila Pineda (Mexico) @paoladavilap ⁠ Patricia van Dijkhuizen (Netherlands)⁠ ⁠ Pri Perera (United Kingdom)⁠ ⁠ Rose Rutledge (USA) @roserutledge ⁠ ⁠ Organiza / Organised by: @lwcurrent ⁠ ⁠ Parte de la red / Member of @resartis network⁠ En colaboración con / In collaboration with: @layareta.sanpedrodeatacama ⁠ Equipo residencia / Residency Team: @sofie.iversen @keta.lenis @paloma.palomitay @orinitorinko
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Sharing moments from our March 2026 residency in the Atacama Desert.⁠ ⁠ 🌕️ This cycle brings together artists working across visual arts, moving image, writing, photography and material practices, each spending time with the territory through their own questions and processes.⁠ ⁠ 🔎 These images follow a recent group visit to Laguna Chaxa, in the Salar de Atacama. A day spent learning through the desert’s ecosystems and encountering forms of life that exist under conditions of extreme scarcity.⁠ ⁠ Artists in residence (March 2026):⁠ ⁠ Christopher Thompson (New Zealand) @nice_one_chris ⁠ Hannah van Seventer (New Zealand)⁠ Kateryna Slenzak (Ukraine) @malibukaty ⁠ Lily Angelone (USA) @lilybecks_ ⁠ Logan MacDonald (Canada)⁠ Mark Walker (United Kingdom)⁠ @markwalkermark ⁠ Maximus Fuller (United Kingdom)⁠ @maximusfullerstudio ⁠ Paola Dávila Pineda (Mexico) @paoladavilap ⁠ Patricia van Dijkhuizen (Netherlands)⁠ ⁠ Pri Perera (United Kingdom)⁠ ⁠ Rose Rutledge (USA) @roserutledge ⁠ ⁠ ⁠With thanks to Elías Soza (Likan Antay educator, Toconao), who shared perspectives and knowledge of the territory during our visit.⁠ ⁠ 📷️ @kra.nut
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Este jueves 29 estaremos realizando un encuentro en el que lxs artistas en residencia compartirán aspectos de sus procesos creativos y trabajos en desarrollo del ciclo de residencias de Enero.⁠ ⁠ Es un espacio abierto para quienes quieran sumarse, escuchar y compartir, reuniendo prácticas creativas y proyectos desarrollados en diálogo con el territorio.⁠ ⁠ 📍 La Yareta Casa Cultural, San Pedro de Atacama�⁠ 🕕 18:00–18:30 Recorrido abierto�⁠ 🕖 18:30–20:45 Presentaciones⁠ ⁠ Entrada liberada⁠ ⁠ -⁠ ⁠ This Thursday the 29th, we’re hosting an event where our artists in residence will share aspects of their creative processes and works in progress from our January residency cycle.⁠ ⁠ It’s an open space for anyone who’d like to join, listen, and share. Bringing together creative practices and projects developed in dialogue with the territory.⁠ ⁠ 📍 La Yareta Casa Cultural, San Pedro de Atacama⁠ 🕕 6:00–6:30 pm Open walk-through⁠ 🕖 6:30–8:45 pm Presentations⁠ ⁠ Free entry⁠ ⁠ -⁠ ⁠ Artists / Artistas (Edition 57 · 09.01 – 31.01 2026):⁠ ⁠ Sofie Engstrom @hyperkitsch ⁠ Melanie Ganino @melanie.ganino ⁠ Ines Mendes Leal @inesmendesleal ⁠ April Wen @echofaunalang ⁠ Mireille Schermer @mireilleschermernatureworks ⁠ Cor Nelis @cobofoto ⁠ Claus Arthur Breda-Gulbrandsen @electromuskel ⁠ Maria Kaoutzani @m.kaoutzani ⁠ Paula Faraco @paula__faraco ⁠ Therese Lynch @thereseartist ⁠ Vita Cepic @vitacepic ⁠ Elizabeth Daley ⁠ ⁠ Organiza / Organised by: @lwcurrent ⁠ Parte de la red / Member of the @resartis network⁠ En colaboración con / In collaboration with: @layareta.sanpedrodeatacama ⁠ Residency Team / Equipo residencia: @sofie.iversen @keta.lenis @paloma.palomitay @ornitorrinko @magosolar
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