TROPIC 08°N: Arts & Ecology Research Residency

CAPURGANA**·** Chocó, Colombia ### creative practice in dialogue with land, ecologies & planetary change. * ## Open Call At the meeting point of South and Central America, dense rainforests merge with coastal mangroves and the Caribbean Sea. This transitional region — shaped by complex ecologies, cultural histories, and ongoing global pressures — holds both immense biodiversity and a layered human presence. Amidst these vibrant landscapes, our residency offers space for reflective creative practice connected to the surrounding ecologies and contemporary challenges of the region. As participants spend time immersed in these living environments, they are invited to reflect on broader questions of coexistence, interdependence, and how global environmental shifts are entangled with local realities. Rather than proposing solutions, the residency offers time and space to listen, observe, and respond through artistic practice — situated within the living complexity of the territory. * ## Residency Program Our site-responsive residencies offer a carefully balanced structure combining guided experiences and self-directed time. Participants are invited to engage with place through field visits, reflective practice, and scheduled sessions with long-term local collaborators who share perspectives and practices connected to the land. Each program offers time for artistic inquiry within distinct ecological and cultural contexts, supporting reflective processes that consider our relationships with land, ecologies, and one another. Rather than offering prescriptive outcomes, our approach emphasizes time, listening, and situated inquiry—allowing artists to explore how their work may respond to the complexities of each environment. * ## Location Nestled between the Caribbean coastline and the tropical rainforest of the Chocó region, Tropic 08°N offers artists a place-based residency within one of the world’s most biodiverse and ecologically complex regions. Accessible only by air or sea, the area is sustained by subsistence farming, fishing, and small-scale tourism, with communities long connected to these coastal and rainforest ecosystems. La Wayaka Current has been working within this territory for nearly a decade, forming long-term relationships that allow us to host artists in respectful proximity to both rainforest and ocean environments, in connection with nearby villages and our long-term team of local collaborators. This program provides space for reflective artistic practice grounded in time spent within the region’s distinct ecologies, landscapes, and living contexts. * ## DATES Applications are currently open to join for 3 weeks minimum during the following time periods: 2025 * 17 October - 7 November 2025