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TO)pot Festival: Sound walks festival

15–18 September 2022
Paths through the urban and green cultural landscape, Right Atrium in the City Hall, House of Dreaming Books and Cukrarna
Authors
Boštjan Perovšek,Alisa Oleva,Elena Biserna,OR poiesis,Elena Biserna,Alisa Oleva,Aldo Milohnić,Manja Ristić,Irena Pivka,Brane Zorman,Saška Rakef,Bojana Šaljić Podešva andTina Kozin

TO)pot is a festival of sound walks, sound events and reflections, which through walking as an artistic practice, thematises acoustic ecology. In a condensed timeframe, when the atmosphere clears and summer turns to autumn, the festival offers familiar and lesser-known spaces, places and trails that can be experienced in a completely new way with the help of chosen sound walking practices.

The TO)pot festival gathers artists, theorists and curious walkers to bring them closer to walking as a practice of creating, grounding and listening in/to the environment, as a spatial acting-out of the place and the body and as simply walking per se. Thus, we invite you to join us at various urban paths and venues for three days of art-walking-works, lectures, sound events and workshops prepared by selected artists.

With a new name and an enhanced production framework, the TO/pot festival builds upon the foundations of last year’s Sound Walk City festival and joins Sound Walk September, the yearly global festival celebrating sound walks as a creative practice, within the platform walk listen create.

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Vesna Bukovec

TO)pot is a festival of sound walks, sound events and reflections, which through walking as an artistic practice, thematises acoustic ecology. In a condensed timeframe, when the atmosphere clears and summer turns to autumn, the festival offers familiar and lesser-known spaces, places and trails that can be experienced in a completely new way with the help of chosen sound walking practices.

The TO)pot festival gathers artists, theorists and curious walkers to bring them closer to walking as a practice of creating, grounding and listening in/to the environment, as a spatial acting-out of the place and the body and as simply walking per se. Thus, we invite you to join us at various urban paths and venues for three days of art-walking-works, lectures, sound events and workshops prepared by selected artists.

With a new name and an enhanced production framework, the TO/pot festival builds upon the foundations of last year’s Sound Walk City festival and joins Sound Walk September, the yearly global festival celebrating sound walks as a creative practice, within the platform walk listen create.

COLOPHON

Curators: Irena Pivka, Elena Biserna, Brane Zorman
Organisation: Irena Pivka, Damjana Lavrič Golob
Public relations: Matej Tomažin
Translation and proofreading: Melita Silič, Jana Renée Wilcoxen
Design: Vesna Bukovec
Partners: Cukrarna Gallery, Sanje Publishing House
Production: Cona, institute for contemporary arts processing, 2022

Manja Ristić’s participation is part of the project Acoustic Commons.
Elena Biserna’s workshop is part of the project Vital.
The festival is supported by the Municipality of Ljubljana.
The programme of Cona Institute is co-financed by the Department for Culture of the Municipality of Ljubljana and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.

Programme

  • Prikaži vse
  • Soundwalk
  • Concert
  • Exhibition
  • Lecture
  • Workshop
Saška Rakef, Bojana Šaljić Podešva and Tina Kozin

The Voice of the Jackal

A performative sound walk based on a documentary radio play exploring relationships between human culture and non-human species.

Irena Pivka and Brane Zorman

Sandbox

A walk along the railway tracks, with the help of an app and headphones, leads a viewer, a wanderer and an eavesdropper into a performative space.

Elena Biserna

Walking from Scores

A workshop focused on sound walks, walking, listening in motion and an expanded notion of notation from a post-disciplinary perspective.

Manja Ristić

Sonic Ontology of Negligence

Continuous research evolving from listening to abandoned places and landscapes reshaped by extensive intervention of human presence and exploitation.

Aldo Milohnić

Walking the Walking Performances

A walking reflection on the meaning, purpose and sense of walking as an artistic practice.

Alisa Oleva

Listening In / Listening Out

An urban sound walk and sound mapping project exploring the relationship between inner perception and the external environment through different modes of listening.

OR poiesis

YAMAMAYU Night Wanderings

A night-time sound walk that explores deep listening, apparent silence and territory through nocturnal soundscapes.

Elena Biserna

Walking from Scores

Walking from Scores is a collection of scores exploring walking, listening and sound-making in urban space and the porous boundaries between artist and audience.

Alisa Oleva

Listening for Change

An urban sound walk that explores relationships with the city, disappearing nature and the role of the individual through listening and walking.

Boštjan Perovšek

Sounds from Ancient Place

Listening to everyday sounds of nature reveals an entanglement of place, culture, and contemporary living, situating us within an audible present.

COLOPHON

Curators: Irena Pivka, Elena Biserna, Brane Zorman
Organisation: Irena Pivka, Damjana Lavrič Golob
Public relations: Matej Tomažin
Translation and proofreading: Melita Silič, Jana Renée Wilcoxen
Design: Vesna Bukovec
Partners: Cukrarna Gallery, Sanje Publishing House
Production: Cona, institute for contemporary arts processing, 2022

Manja Ristić’s participation is part of the project Acoustic Commons.
Elena Biserna’s workshop is part of the project Vital.
The festival is supported by the Municipality of Ljubljana.
The programme of Cona Institute is co-financed by the Department for Culture of the Municipality of Ljubljana and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.