Open Call

Syntropy/Entropy - a land based inquiry into creating, dreaming, and relating otherwise.

union de los rios

No Funding
Free / No Costs
Orgiva, Spain

Eligibility

This residency is for folks with a personal or relational practice they would like to explore in dialogue with land, who are ready to co-hold space for complexity, complicity and collapse, who understand land-work as a way of being in relationship rather than a form of exchange, who do not need or expect therapeutic holding or retreat-style comforts, and who are ready to participate in the co-creation of a living relational field that everyone involved is responsible to, and no one is responsible for.

Number of Participants

The minimum number of participants is 4. The maximum number of participants is 10. We are happy to host partners and children if there is space available.

Deadline

Selection Results (Announcement Dates)

Duration

April 25, 2026 - May 24, 2026

Facilities

Ceramic Facility, Desk Space, Library, Piano, Shared Studio, Sound Studio, Wood Shop

Housing

Guest House, Kitchen, Private Room, Shared Bathroom, Shared Room

Meals

Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch

Disciplines

Activists, Animation, Book Arts, Ceramics, Collective, Composers, Conceptual Art, Crafts & Trades, Dance, Documentary, Drawing, Dreamers, Fiber Arts, Fiction, Film, Illustration, Immersive Experiences, Installation, Interdiscplinary Arts, Intervention, Jewelry, Land Art, Literature, Makers, Moving Image, Multimedia, Music, Music Composition, Nonfiction, Painting, Pedagogy, Performance Art, Photography, Playwriting, Poetry, Printmaking, Public Art, Puppeteers, Research, Scholar, Scientists, Screenwriting, Sculpture, Singing, Social Practice, Sound Art, Thinkers

Languages

English, Spanish

Program Description

This experimental land-based residency will weave together practices and provocations from Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF), the evolved pedagogy and holding structures of Banana Mountain (our democratic unschool), and unfolding rhythms of reciprocity with this land; a sprawling, semi-feral farm in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada where the Trevélez and Guadalfeo rivers meet on their way from the mountains to the sea. The residency has no pressure to produce, and no pre-specified outcomes. It offers 4 - 10 participants an invitation into open-ended inquiry, a space to be with and feel the weight of complexity, complicity, and collapse, and to experiment with the tender possibilities of relating, responding, and hoping otherwise, in the company of others, with no guarantees.

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