Joya: flujo

Joya: flujo is an intensive residency program hosted by Joya: AiR, Spain, directed and curated by Annie Edwards and co-curated by Cameron Young-Lee and Felix Gumbsch. The residency is dedicated to exploring body-based performance and animatronics in the Spanish desert – an environment that challenges and contrasts body and machine. The project provides designated time and space for making, experimentation, and peer learning, encouraging participants to respond to the theme of embodiment, autonomy, and movement. Over this crucial period, artists develop hybrid performance and sculptural works that merge flesh, technology, humour and corporeality, culminating in a touring exhibition that shares the outcomes with broader audiences. Joya: flujo foregrounds collaboration, creative risk-taking, and the exchange of knowledge, offering a unique environment to test ideas, refine practice, and push the boundaries of animated bodies in landscape.

Works created during the residency will be on exhibit from the 3rd of December 2026.

Joya: flujo artists investigate the intersections of body, movement, and autonomy through experimental performance, animatronics and installation. Their practice blends humour, mechanisms, and sculptural interventions to interrogate the politics of power, control, and embodiment, challenging conventional perceptions of the human form. By foregrounding the body as both subject and medium, Flujo artists create work that is visceral, playful, and critical, inviting audiences to consider how autonomy is negotiated, constrained, and performed. Through a hybrid approach that combines technology, movement, and sculpture, the group generates immersive experiences that provoke reflection on the entanglement of corporeality, agency, and societal structures.

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