The Intimacy of Otherness (2023-) is a 45-minute transmedia, multisensory performance lecture on Risba’s radical lived experience of self-healing from Multiple Sclerosis (2012–2019). This transformative process unfolded through guerrilla art interventions, dances of urgency, and various bliss-inducing techniques, including clubbing, (self-)hypnosis, and erotic expression.
In Act 1: Composting in the More-than-Human World. Finding Stillness on the Refuge Tree, the lecture’s script is voiced by different AI-generated narrators while the artist lies motionless on vertical tree logs or performance props. By re-enacting their remarkable one year long performance Be-coming Tree (2020-21), they embody and reveal the qualities necessary to turn the seemingly “impossible” (healing, transformation, etc.) into an I’m possible reality. Alongside the narration, cinematic-scale projections showcase selected videos from Risba’s past art interventions, performances, and video works, providing context for the story. Act 2: A piercing touch of gentleness is narrated by the artist’s cloned voice, addressing the impact of absent fathers on children and the destructive effects of patriarchy on all beings. This act also explores the materiality and performative uses of hypodermic needles.
Act 1 was produced and premiered at the Y: Survive! event at Divadlo X10 in Prague (November 2023) and later presented at the Opens: Ganachakra event in Singapore (March 2024) and in Špitalska kapela in Celje, Slovenia (June 2024). Act 2 was developed during the House of Research 2024 artist residency at Studio Alta and premiered as a proof-of-concept performance at the Festival Kvír Vědomostí in Prague in June 2024.
Jatun Risba (they) is a transmedia artist from Slovenia whose work engages with ecofeminist and posthumanist discourses through performance art, ecoart, relational practices, and acts of détournement, abjection, and intervention. Bridging ritual and disobedience, their practice cultivates reciprocity between species by awakening sensory awareness through the application of Vajrayana Buddhist principles and subversive uses of technology. At its core, their work reimagines Art as a site for healing, transformation, and expanded modes of being. Their research unfolds along two primary trajectories: Arts for Health and Art as Nourishment for the Bodymind.
Jatun’s work has been presented internationally at Galerija O.K. (Rijeka), Crow’s Nest (Baltimore), Studio Alta (Prague), Opens (Singapore), the Prague Biennale Re-connect Art festival (2023-25), Meta.morf Trondheim Biennale (2022), Bangkok Biennial (2020), Fabbrica del Vapore (Milan), and Y Gallery, Kersnikova Institute, and Cirkulacija2 (Ljubljana). They have delivered talks and workshops at DRHA 2024 (Munich), Akademia Sztuk Pięknych (Wroclaw), the University of the Underground, Goethe University Frankfurt, Strasbourg University, and the Moving Image Research Lab (Montreal).
They are the founder and co-facilitator of Be-coming Tree, a global Live Art platform fostering ecological connection through collective performance (becomingtree.live). Risba has received the a-n Artist Bursary (2019), an ERSTE Foundation Fellowship (2020), and the Social Art Award (2021). Their writings and interviews have appeared in Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, Body, Space & Technology (BST), ecoartspace.org, and other publications.
Jatun holds a BA (Hons) from NABA (Milan) and a PG Cert in Art & Science from UAL, London. More at: jatunrisba.com.
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