artist residency — atacama desert, chile

This residency and research programme in the Atacama Desert, Chile invites artists and researchers to develop their work within a landscape shaped by climate, geological time, living ecosystems, culture, and knowledge. Through field visits, collaborative activities, shared sessions, and time for individual practice, the programme creates an immersive context for inquiry.

It offers space to learn with the territory, build relationships, and think critically within complex and fragile desert ecologies. This environment offers perspectives on both local dynamics and broader planetary processes, opening questions about how creative practice can reconfigure our relationships with the natural world.

The programme aims to support the development of artistic work and research that engage with specific territories while reflecting on wider planetary questions. It seeks to cultivate a shared space for living, exchange, and collective reflection between artists, researchers, and local contexts, while encouraging site-responsive and environmentally attentive practices that honour and respect local knowledge, ecologies, and cultural patrimony.