Joya:Flujo is a four-week residency at Joya:AiR for artists, performers, engineers and makers to develop work at the intersection of body-based practice and animatronics. It offers time, space, and a collaborative environment to experiment, share skills, and build ambitious hybrid works.

curated and directed by ANNIE EDWARDS and CO-CURATED BY FELIX GUMBSCH

*Flujo - translation: to flow

CONTEXT (why it matters): As digital mediation increasingly distances us from physical experience, somatic practices return us to sensation, presence, and care — restoring attentiveness to the body as a site of knowledge. They offer essential tools for exploring autonomy, identity, and interdependence.

Engaging with machines and animatronics within this context becomes both subversive and necessary. Rather than accepting technology as something that distances or controls us, Joya: Flujo invites artists to work with it on their own terms — questioning authorship, agency, and the boundaries between human and non-human bodies. Technology, here, is not a given condition but something we can shape, inhabit, and think critically through.

WHO IS IT FOR: Flujo is open to performers, sculptors, roboticists, fabricators, and interdisciplinary artists — and to anyone who doesn't fit neatly into those categories. What matters is curiosity, a willingness to work across disciplines, and genuine openness to learning from others.

CURATORIAL VISION: Flujo brings together makers from across disciplines in a rural, immersive environment — sharing knowledge, developing practice, and producing new work at the intersection of landscape, body, and animatronics. The residency is structured around peer learning: hikes, clay-processing workshops, collective making, presentations, group crits, and open studios, culminating in a live-streamed panel discussion and a touring exhibition.

PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS:

• Peer presentations and critical feedback sessions

• Two open studio events

• Orientation talk and contextual sessions

• Group hikes responding to landscape

• Clay processing workshop

• Collective cooking and shared meals

What makes it different: The main Joya: AiR residency offers solitude, self-directed time, and individual practice. Flujo inverts that model. It is cohort-based, thematically focused, and built around the productive friction of working collectively — with structured critique, public engagement, and outcomes designed to extend beyond the residency itself, through touring and ongoing discourse.

The Flujo Residency:

Dates: 18/07/26 - 15/08/26

DEADLINE for APPLICATIONS 18th MAY 2026

PARTICIPATION FEE:

There are two fees associated with participation in the joya: Flujo residency:

1. Joya: Flujo curator fee payable to Annie Edwards (80 GBP per participant)

2. Joya: AiR accommodation fee payable to Joya: AiR. (42.85€ per night per person TOTAL 330€ per person per week (inc. 10% tax)

(AVAILABLE FOR 4 WEEKS IN TOTAL)

6 ROOMS AVAILABLE (WITH MULTIPLE OCCUPANCY) AND 6 STUDIOS

MAX CAPACITY: 12

INCLUDED: SELF CATERED

ACCOMMODATION

STUDIO

NATURAL POOL*

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TERMS & CONDITIONS:

1) CONFIRMATION: Residencies are confirmed only upon receipt of a deposit.

2) DEPOSITS: If you have paid your deposit and or completed fee but are unable to attend on the agreed-upon dates, please note that payments are non-refundable. In the event of not being able to attend on agreed residency dates you must confirm that you have taken travel insurance or agree to take full responsibility.

3) CHANGING DATES: If you wish to change the dates of your residency after paying the confirmation deposit, you can do so under the following circumstances:

• Up to fourteen days after the specific deadline date of the call-out you have applied for.

• If there is space available to move your dates within the call-out period.

Note(1): If you wish to change your dates but cannot meet the criteria above, your deposit is non-refundable, and you will need to pay another deposit to secure new dates.

Note(2): We advise successful applicants to take out travel insurance to cover their expenses in the event of them not being able to attend the residency on the dates confirmed.

4) FRIENDS and FAMILY: Accompanying friends and family are welcome, subject to the same fees and conditions as the resident artist.

5) RESIDENCY FEES: The residency fee is per person, not per room, and covers the cost of your accommodation.

*At Joya: AiR, our aim is to carefully select and invite artists and writers, building specific and dynamic groups. This enhances the creative experience during the residency. Additionally, building such groups allows us to host the residency at the price point we offer. Our term and condition policy (3) is intended to secure these aims.