Petra Kapš,Martin Eccles,Jata C andLuka Prinčič

Steklenik: Sound works 2019/2020

Sound booklet

The publication brings together sound works from four exhibitions of the Steklenik gallery and documents its second year of operation in the 2019/2020 season. It highlights diverse artistic approaches to sound, ranging from field-based research to composition and sound-spatial practices.

The selection forms a sound archive of the 2019/2020 season and continues to document the curatorial directions of the Steklenik gallery, with a focus on listening, acoustic ecologies, and spatial sonic thinking.

The publication brings together sound works from four exhibitions of the Steklenik gallery and documents its second year of operation in the 2019/2020 season. It highlights diverse artistic approaches to sound, ranging from field-based research to composition and sound-spatial practices.

The selection forms a sound archive of the 2019/2020 season and continues to document the curatorial directions of the Steklenik gallery, with a focus on listening, acoustic ecologies, and spatial sonic thinking.

Petra Kapš [OR poiesis]

An artist and researcher of sound, sound perception and poetic performance. She extends the word in sonic spheres of time-space poetry. Along with the digital dimensions, her focus is nevertheless the physical presence of the body.

Martin Eccles

A walking sound artist and poet. His practice aims to reflect the experience of his presence in, and walking through, natural environments. He uses a range of methods, predominantly sound and text, to respond to time, distance, and place in the landscape. His sound works explore time through methods such as replicated walks, durational walks, “Cagean” walks, and walks that challenge his senses. His poems are presented as text but are also spoken and presented within sound recordings.

Jata C

An artistic group whose members share an interest in field recordings, bioacoustics, and sound ecology. Their research combines auditory perception with ecological and social issues, developed through scientific discourse and original sonic representations of environments. In their works, recordings from immediate surroundings are transformed into speculative projections of the future and attentive perceptions of the present.

Luka Prinčič

A musician, sound designer, and media artist. He has been writing music, creating sound art, performing, and manipulating new media in various ways since the mid-1990s. He specialises in computer music, elaborated funk beats, immersive soundscapes, incidental music for live arts and video, and digital media experiments. He performed at festivals such as Ars Electronica (Linz), EMAF (Osnabrück), Netmage (Bologna) and Trouble (Brussels), worked at Ljubljana Digital Media Lab (Ljudmila) and local hackerspace CyberPipe (Ljubljana), exhibited at Kapelica Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art and MSUM Ljubljana, and travelled with his work across Europe and further, including New York and New Zealand.

  • Petra Kapš [OR poiesis]: Kamnolom KISETSU
  • Martin Eccles: No. 2: ‘no trace’
  • Jata C: Bibaret JC210120
  • Luka Prinčič: Rizosfera

Concept, management and curation: Irena Pivka, Brane Zorman
Representatives of the University Botanic Gardens Ljubljana: Jože Bavcon, PhD, Blanka Ravnjak, PhD
Organisation and editorial work: Katarina Radaljac, Irena Pivka
Design: Irena Pivka
Texts: artists and artist collectives
Translation: Urban Belina, Katja Kosi
Proofreading: Sunčan Stone, Melita Silič
Production: Cona, 2020

In collaboration with the University Botanic Gardens Ljubljana.

The Cona programme is supported by the City of Ljubljana, Department of Culture. The Steklenik project is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.