Algo-Rhythmic Ideation Assembly (ARIA) was a summer school held in Ljubljana in 2023 and 2024. Adopting a role-play format, it sought to break free from entrenched ways of being and thinking amid political and ecological upheaval. Drawing on mystical techniques, contemporary cultural theory, speculative thought, occult traditions, and digital technologies, ARIA aimed to prototype alternative selves, collectivities, and worlds—allowing new forms of subjectivity to emerge and bleed into consensus reality. The presentation will outline the project’s core ideas and consider what they might offer for creative and institutional practices.
Tjaša Pogačar is an independent curator of contemporary art and co-founder and editor-in-chief of Šum, a Ljubljana-based magazine and platform for art and theory-fiction. She worked with the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Škuc Gallery and Aksioma Project Space, among others, curating solo and group shows and collaborating mostly with the younger generation of artists. In 2019/20 she curated two editions of IFCA – International Festival of Computer Arts in Maribor titled Automated Ecologies and Infrastructure Complex: Altered Earth that focused on questions arising from the intertwining of technology and planetary ecologies. She works also as a curator and producer of intermedia art at the Projekt Atol Institute in Ljubljana. With Šum and Projekt Atol she launched an offsite/online exhibition project Plaza Protocol that is developing new formats and plots for and from an unfinished construction site of an underground shopping mall on the outskirts of the city. She is also the curator of ISKRA DELTA – 34th Ljubljana Graphic Biennale. (https://linktr.ee/tjasa.p)
(@skeptic_mystic) is a chimeric cultural engineer currently operating out of Ljubljana.
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