Irena Pivka Takes Part in the Round Table Soteska Tells Stories: How Do We Listen to Spaces?

Irena Pivka from Zavod Cona will take part in the round table Soteska Tells Stories: How Do We Listen to Spaces?, taking place on Tuesday, 2 June 2026, at 16.00 at Galerija Soteska, Soteska 8, Ljubljana.

The event opens up the question of how to develop artistic practices today that emerge from space, research and community. The discussion will focus on methodologies of working in public space, on space as a carrier of memory, atmosphere, ideologies and imagined landscapes, and on ways in which artistic projects can establish an actual relationship with space, rather than using it merely as a setting or backdrop.

Irena Pivka will contribute to the discussion from the perspective of Zavod Cona and its long-standing artistic practices, which understand space through listening, sonic sensitivity, community and the layered nature of the urban environment. Her work often explores how space does not speak only through architecture or historical data, but also through sonic traces, uses, movements, absences, rhythms of everyday life and relations between people, environment and other living presences.

The round table will bring together artists and researchers working at the intersection of contemporary art, sound practices, site-specific projects, storytelling and community-based work. The discussion will address, among other topics, working with archives and testimonies, involving local residents, reading the needs of a place, and the ethical questions raised by contemporary artistic practices in the city.

Participants: Ana Čavić, Irena Pivka, Maja Čehovin Korsika, Maša Cvetko and Nika Grabar. The discussion will be moderated by Paulina Pia Rogač, coordinator of the SoteskaOpen Festival.

The event will be followed by an informal gathering and the first collection of memories, anecdotes and testimonies connected to the Soteska area. In this way, the project Soteska Tells Stories creates a space of encounter between art, urban history, local community and personal memories, which together shape a living and multilayered narrative of the neighbourhood.

You are invited to join the conversation on how we can listen to the spaces we inhabit, pass through and co-create.