Festival of radical soundwalks
28 Sep – 1 Oct 2023
Cukrarna and public spaces
TO)pot is a festival of sound walks, events and workshops exploring listening and walking as relational practices.
With its three-day programme and several pre-festival events in different locations, TO)pot 2023 presents soundwalk by artists, researchers and thinkers. Their projects engage with sites – their materialities, acoustics, history, ecologies, their social and political life – by bringing the body on the move, displacing our attention, inviting us to join collective actions, making unheard phenomena audible, challenging the politics of the body in public space, listening to or voicing with more-than-human subjects… An invitation to explore our relationships with the environment through different approaches, frameworks and perspectives, as well as a variety of forms, tools, spaces and times.
Participating artists: a l l j a , Elena Biserna, Catherine Clover, Amanda Gutiérrez, Ida Hiršenfelder, Jata C, katrinem, Aldo Milohnić, Boštjan Perovšek, Irena Pivka, Anna Raimondo, OR poiesis, Tim Shaw, Jacek Smolicki, Marko Pogačnik, Neja Tomšič and Brane Zorman.
COLOPHON
Curators and introductory text: Elena Biserna, Irena Pivka
Translation into Slovene and proofreading: Melita Silič
English proofreading of the main festival text: Ana Čavić
Main visual: Ajdin Bašić, Matej Tomažin
Design: Matej Tomažin
Technical support: Brane Zorman, Martin Lovšin and the Cukrarna techical team
Coordination for Cukrarna: Eva Bolha, Alenka Trebušak
Production: Irena Pivka, Matej Tomažin, Brane Zorman
Coproduction: Cukrarna Gallery / MGML
Amanda Gutierrez’s project partner: the City of Women Festival
Coproduction of pre-festival event Jata C – Chronolith: Ljubljana Castle
Production of the work Globoka Hiša: Cankarjev Dom
The artist walk by Marko Pogačnik links the TO)pot festival with Now is here, Maska. The work Garden GOround is a part of the VITAL project. Special thanks to Concordia University, Marmor Hotavlje, Abandoned Plants Sanctuary, Javni sklad republike Slovenije za kulturne dejavnosti, Društvo za opazovanje in proučevanje ptic Slovenije, Gledališče Ane Monro, the City of Ljubljana, Department for Protection, Rescue and Civil Defense.
