TABOO - TRANSGRESSION - TRANSCENDENCE

Vita Matjac, MA in Sociology, passionate forager, certified herbalist, farmer, artist has been studying the use of edible wild plants, herbs and mushrooms in everyday nutrition and medicine for many years, and explores the diversity of their use and storage. Through her practice, she explores the process of "domestication" of wild plants, herbs and mushrooms as part of the modern eco-movement and rediscovery of nature's hidden potential. She is also a director of institute Floravita and through that also a leader of Laboratory of future of food.

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.

Uroš Brezavšček is a mechanical engineer, consultant, and speaker with a passion for growing his own food and living in harmony with nature. He enjoys designing and building devices that support his vision of self-sufficiency and help others on their path to a more fulfilling and sustainable life.