TO)pot Festival of radical soundwalks

25 – 29 Sep 2024
Cukrarna Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
 
TO)pot, a festival of soundwalks, concerts, and reflections, brings together artists, theorists, and curious walkers to connect with spaces and more-than-human entities, transforming walking and listening into a spatial realisation of location.

Featuring:
Augenmas • a l l j a • Colin Black • Maja Bjelica • beepblip • Nika van Berkel • Tetiana Khoroshun • Maria Magdalena Kozlowska • Rene Markovič • Spiro Mason • OR poiesis • Irena Pivka • plants • Karmen Ponikvar • Eduardo Raon • Urša Sekirnik • Jacek Smolicki • spaces • Sava šumi • urban animals • Tea Vidmar • Miloš Vojtěchovský • Brane Zorman • Tery Žeželj

Cona and Cukrarna invite you to the TO)pot festival of soundwalks, concerts, and reflections, that brings together artists, theorists, and curious walkers to connect with spaces and more-than-human entities, transforming walking and listening into a spatial realisation of location. As a practice of grounding and attuning to the environment, walking becomes a radical attempt to decelerate the everyday pace of life.

Held during a unique time of the year, when the atmosphere clears and migratory birds change territories, the noisy starlings – now common city dwellers – fall silent, and plants enter their mature period. Amidst this backdrop, the festival offers, through selected artworks, a tapping into urban spaces and paths, highlighting their multi-temporality and thus offering the possibility of embodying space. TO)pot encourages a deeper reflection of how to live-with-spaces, encompassing all beings and entities.

As part of a five-day programme and pre-festival events across various locations, this year’s festival edition presents works that explore the acoustic ecology and sonority of spaces and their multi-temporal dimensions. The main selection of artists, researchers, and spaces is interconnected by a related milieu. The featured works engage with the acoustics, history, ecology, social life, and multi-temporality of spaces, transforming the inaudible or forgotten into the audible and fostering a dialogue with more-than-human subjects … The festival’s guiding principle, Living-with-spaces, invites us to examine human relations with the environment and spaces in a (radically) different economic frameworks, through a rethinking of the concept of care and the potential benefits of slowing down.

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