Tadeja Pungerčar,Boštjan Perovšek

Exploring Sounds: Guided Tour of Boštjan Perovšek’s Exhibition

Cultural education

Exploring Sounds is a children’s guided format focused on curiosity, active listening, and shared investigation of natural sound environments. Through guided questions and observation, participants become more attentive to sonic details that often go unnoticed.

The programme continues with a guided visit to Boštjan Perovšek’s sound exhibition Sound Intertwinings, combining experiential learning with contemporary sound art in a gallery context.

Exploring Sounds is a children’s guided format focused on curiosity, active listening, and shared investigation of natural sound environments. Through guided questions and observation, participants become more attentive to sonic details that often go unnoticed.

The programme continues with a guided visit to Boštjan Perovšek’s sound exhibition Sound Intertwinings, combining experiential learning with contemporary sound art in a gallery context.

Tadeja Pungerčar

Author and facilitator of children’s guided programmes at Steklenik and programme lead of the Bobri festival. Her practice connects cultural-art education, performative approaches, and work with young audiences.

Boštjan Perovšek

An artist, composer, and sound designer working in experimental electroacoustic and bioacoustic music. He creates work for film, theatre, installations, and sound-based exhibition formats.

Guided programme concept and facilitation: Tadeja Pungerčar
Exhibition: Boštjan Perovšek, Sound Intertwinings
Photography: Miha Godec

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