Joya: AiR / Neus Crous Costa / ESP

“I came to Joya: AiR with a plan to make significant progress on a manuscript about intimate experiences, otherness, and relation to the world. This was part of my doctoral research on tourism as a transformative experience, which is growing into a managerial-political perspective focusing on well-being for all. Artistic practices such as visual arts, textile art, needlework, and woodcarving are ways of materialising thoughts, further developing ideas, and linking multidisciplinary research together.

The plan during my stay was to work on my studio and to take short strolls. Consequently, I mindfully did not pack any walking shoes. The terrain around the house is rather easy to walk on. Donna and Simon sustain a home that is perfectly embedded in its place and their management allows you to fall in love with the place; not in a platonic way, but in a truly embodied one. Somehow the place found its way to the structure of my

manuscript and natural materials were incorporated into my painting and sketching. Shortly after I regretted not having packed my walking shoes”.

Neus Crous Costa

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Bio

I am a researcher in tourism as a personal transformation and public management for

the wellbeing of all. My career as a scholar and cultural manager goes hand in hand

with artistic practice.

A couple of years ago I began using carnet de voyages (travel diaries) to plan and

concerns. This helps me staying on a slow pace. Stopping to sketch, instead of taking

photos. Write down bus and train schedules, instead of checking them repreatedly on

the internet.

I have modestly participated in collective exhibitions in Barcelona and Madrid (2022-

2024): Utopía / Distopía (organised by Extinction Rebellion Art Milan) and Mujeres

Artistas (La Botànica).

Instagram: @gemedet

Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/neus-crous-costa-954b4144/

Simon Beckmann29 January 2025