La Wayaka Current invites artists, researchers and interdisciplinary practitioners to a site-specific residency in the Atacama Desert in North Chile, near San Pedro de Atacama. The residency provides time and space to develop your own artistic and reflective processes in encounter with the desert's ecosystems, geology and local cultures, through a combination of independent work, guided field visits and conversations with local collaborators.

Participants stay in simple, shared accommodation in a rural oasis environment and have access to shared kitchen, outdoor work areas and local transportation to scheduled field visits. Approximately half of the program is structured group activity, the rest is independent working time. The program operates as an independent, artist-led non-profit organization without fixed institutional funding, and is financed through a participant fee with a sliding-scale model as well as partial or full scholarships for some applicants, including reduced rates and fully funded places for Latin American and BIPOC artists.

Applications are made via an online application form with personal information, desired period, a brief statement of intent and scenario-based questions. There is no application fee, but participation in the residency itself requires a program fee, the amount of which is not specified in the public text (only available in a PDF with fee levels and financial support).

• Who can apply: Artists, researchers and interdisciplinary practitioners from diverse backgrounds and career stages, internationally, including applicants residing in Norway
• Field of culture: Visual art, cultural heritage, interdisciplinary
• Covered / paid out: Nothing is covered beyond what is included in the participant fee (simple accommodation, shared kitchen, local transportation to scheduled field visits, national park fees); partial or full scholarships can be applied for for some places
• You pay yourself: Participant fee (program fee) with sliding-scale model, exact amount not specified in the text (see separate PDF); application fee is zero
• Application deadline: 31.10.2026
• Place: Atacama Desert, Northern Chile (near San Pedro de Atacama)
• Organizer: The Wayaka Current