Interdisciplinary Conference

TABOO - TRANSGRESSION - TRANSCENDENCE

in Art & Science

9-13 September 2025, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana

PROGRAM

The 2nd preliminary program of sessions and roundtables of TTT2025 Ljubljana has just been published. Approximately 170 speakers from more than 30 countries focusing (a) on questions about the nature of the forbidden and about the aesthetics of liminality, and (b) on the opening of spaces for creative transformation in the merging of science and art.

Starting on 10 September, TTT2025 Ljubljana conference program is structured into 30 sessions, presenting as well six roundtables, plus showreels, screenings, performances and an exhibition. Two sessions run in parallel (A at Katedrala Hall  & B at Komuna Hall). Each session lasts 90 minutes and is composed of 4 presentations, a mix of papers and artist talks (15 minutes each), the initial 15 minutes are for introductions by the chairperson and the 15 minutes at the end of the presentations are for Q&A to all speakers. With a 45 minutes length Roundtables are structurally more flexible and inciting dialectics. 

TTT2025 Ljubljana is proud to present an exciting program of art events opening on 9 September, "Coining Utopias", at 6 pm, running throughout the conference at the Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, Trg prekomorskih brigad 3, 1000 Ljubljana. Besides this artshow, TTT2025 Ljubljana program presents on 10-12 September, in the evening, "Forensic Performativity", organized by Kapelica Gallery, Likozarjeva 1, 1000 Ljubljana, on 10 September, in the evening, "Mestna Jaga: A Decade of Urban Hunting", organized by Cirkulacija 2, Podhod Ajdovščina 2, 1000 Ljubljana,  and on 13 September, in the morning, a guided tour to the exhibition "Future Legacies", organized by the Museum of Architecture and Design, Rusjanov trg 7, 1000 Ljubljana, and, in the evening, "eliXir" and "Lament", co-organized with Projekt Atol, Ljubljana, and Pixxelpoint 2025 festival in the context of GO!2025 European Capital of Culture Nova Gorica - Gorizia, at the Karst region.

Updated: 25-07-2025
Tuesday, September 9th 2025
18:00
Grand Opening

MC: Lara Mejač

Mrs. Dalila Honorato, Head of Organizing Committee, Ionian University
Mrs. Asta Vrečko, Minister of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
Mr. Argyrios Makris, Greek Ambassador in Ljubljana
Mr. Tibor Mihelič Syed, Director Kino Šiška, host institution
Mr. Uroš Veber, Head of Production, Zavod Projekt Atol
Mr. Peter Purg, Curator, University of Nova Gorica
Mrs. Jasna Jernejšek, Curator, Kino Šiška

Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture
18:00-22:00
Exhibition
Coining Utopias Artshow
Curator: Jasna Jernejšek
Kamera - Kino Šiška
18:00-22:00
Reels
BioFeral Acts
Adam Zaretsky
Mestna Jaga - A decade of Urban Hunting
Marc Dusseiller, Dominik Mahnic
Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
18:30 Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
19:00-22:00
Projections
Coining Utopias Artshow
Curator: Maria Chalkou
Things I Have Seen in My dreams
João Pedro Oliveira
AI in the Sky
Laura Cinti
MOTHER
Beverley Hood
Non/Living
Müge Yildiz
Tears for Lost Frequencies
Senem Pirler, Monica Duncan
Annihilation
Yukang Tao
Katedrala - Kino Šiška
20:30 Komuna - Kino Šiška
21:00
Performances
Feral Navel
Dann Disciglio
Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
21:30
Performances
trans.fail/combodagen
Luka Prinčič
Komuna - Kino Šiška
Wednesday, September 10th 2025
08:00-09:00
Registration

Infopoint -Kino Šiška
09:00
Conference welcome greetings

Members of organizing committee: Dalila Honorato, Uroš Veber, Peter Purg
Representants of hosting institution: Jasna Jernejšek

Katedrala - Kino Šiška
09:00-21:00
Exhibition
Coining Utopias Artshow
Curator: Jasna Jernejšek
Kamera - Kino Šiška
09:00-21:00
Reels
BioFeral Acts
Adam Zaretsky
Mestna Jaga - A decade of Urban Hunting
Marc Dusseiller, Dominik Mahnic
Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
09:15-10:00
Roundtable 1: Slovenian Contingency

Opening, Chair Uroš Veber 
10:00 Closing

This roundtable brings together key figures from Slovenia's contemporary art and cultural landscape to examine local practices within global contexts. Our panelists represent diverse institutional and artistic approaches that challenge conventional boundaries between performance, technology, and social engagement. Together, these practitioners will discuss how Slovenian cultural contingency operates within broader European and international networks, examining questions of locality, collaboration, and critical artistic practice in contemporary contexts.
Via Negativa
Bojan Jablanovec
Kapelica
Jurij Krpan
Cirkulacija 2
Tatiana Kocmur
Katedrala - Kino Šiška
10:00
Session 1A: Karst

Welcome, chair Andrew Paterson
Q&A: 11:15

10:30 GROUNDSWELL
Andrew Carnie
10:45 Soil Stations
Audrey Rangel Aguirre
Katedrala - Kino Šiška
10:00
Session 1B: Speleothem
Komuna - Kino Šiška
11:30 Katedrala - Kino Šiška
11:30
Session 2B: Alveolate

Welcome, Chair Jessica Ullrich
Q&A
12:45

Komuna - Kino Šiška
13:00
Lunch break

Café Kino Šiška
13:00
Performances
A.v.p. Alba viridi pythonissan - the Cyborg Woman-Plant-Machine Experiment
Carolina Sudati, Leonardo Javier Ceolin, Jose Augusto Zagatto Barrichello, Sergio Eduardo de Souza Moraes Filho
Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
14:00
Session 3A: Troglophiles

Welcome, Chair Olga Majcen Linn
Q&A
15:15

14:15 sacrificial holes of devolution
Cynthia Blanchette
14:45 Algo-Rhythmic Ideation Assembly
Tjaša Pogačar, Brandon Rosenbluth
14:45 Octet
Demi Hu, Colin Nations, Nhu Phung, Jiabao Li
Katedrala - Kino Šiška
14:00
Session 3B: Troglophobes

Welcome, Chair Anna Kedziora
Q&A
15:15

Komuna - Kino Šiška
15:30 Katedrala - Kino Šiška
15:30 Komuna - Kino Šiška
17:00
Coffee break

Café Kino Šiška
17:00
Performances
Stamping Genes: Mobile Lab
Kristin Lucas, Nathalie Dubois Calero
Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
17:30
Session 5A: Endogeon

Welcome, Chair Marietta Radomska
Q&A 
18:45

Katedrala - Kino Šiška
17:30 Komuna - Kino Šiška
19:00
Roundtable 2: DIY Garage GMO Baby Production

Opening, Chair: Adam Zaretsky
19:45 Closing

How do ferality and rewilding inform reproductive processes—from ovum/sperm collection through germline editing to cryogenic banking and mutant embryo studies? This roundtable gathers participants from the three TTTlabs BioFeral.BeachCamps, a series of ART Camps hands-on IVF approach integrating audiovisual art, novel apparatus prototyping, and bio-feral performance experiments. Our "Do it With Others" ART Camps developed in 2023-2024 entitled Repro-Rebirthing Retreat, Repro-Zombie Studies, and Repro-FlaOctomingopus, merged artistic practice with reproductive technologies. Today's roundtable examines how these experimental approaches challenge conventional bioethics, democratize reproductive technologies, and open new possibilities for creative intervention outside traditional institutional frameworks.
 

Lyndsey Walsh, Aisen Chacin, Clarissa Ribeiro, Praba Pilar, Marko Markovic, WhiteFeather Hunter

Katedrala - Kino Šiška
20:00
Performances
Komuna - Kino Šiška
21:00-23:59 Kapelica Gallery
21:00-23:59
Performances
Mestna jaga [Urban Hunting]
Marc Dusseiller, Dominik Mahnic
Cirkulacija 2
Thursday, September 11th 2025
08:00-09:00
Registration

Infopoint -Kino Šiška
09:00 Katedrala - Kino Šiška
09:00 Komuna - Kino Šiška
09:00-21:00
Exhibition
Coining Utopias Artshow
Curator: Jasna Jernejšek
Kamera - Kino Šiška
09:00-21:00
Reels
BioFeral Acts
Adam Zaretsky
Mestna Jaga - A decade of Urban Hunting
Marc Dusseiller, Dominik Mahnic
Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
10:30
Session 7B: Magmatic

Welcome, Chair WhiteFeather Hunter
Q&A 
11:45

10:45 Transcendental
Elizabeth Littlejohn, Daniela Brill Estrada, Monica C. LoCascio
11:15 Of Peas and People
Verena Friedrich
Komuna - Kino Šiška
10:30
Session 7A: Metamorphic
Katedrala - Kino Šiška
12:00
Roundtable 3: Art as Target: Context, Consent, and Control

Opening, Chair 
12:45 Closing

 

Across Europe and beyond, artists face growing threats as their works are stripped of context and weaponized for ideological purposes. This roundtable addresses the political misuse of artistic expression, the risks of decontextualization, and the urgency of defending narrative agency and artistic freedom in increasingly hostile environments. Maja Smrekar’s internationally exhibited K-9 Topology project—praised in artistic and scientific circles alike—was recently misused in a far-right campaign in Slovenia, escalating into an unprecedented assault on her personhood and professional integrity. Together, the speakers will explore the complex entanglements between contemporary art, media ecologies, and propaganda, asking: How can artists reclaim control of their narratives? What forms of collective infrastructure and solidarity are needed? And what does it mean to protect artistic freedom in the age of weaponized aesthetics?


Maja Smrekar, Jens Hauser, Mojca Kumerdej, Ewen Chardronnet

Katedrala - Kino Šiška
12:45
Lunch break

Café Kino Šiška
13:00 Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
14:00 Katedrala - Kino Šiška
14:00 Komuna - Kino Šiška
15:30 Katedrala - Kino Šiška
15:30
Session 9B: Pumice
Komuna - Kino Šiška
17:00
Coffee break

Café Kino Šiška
17:30 Katedrala - Kino Šiška
17:30
Session 10B: Homologs

Welcome, Chair Alizée Armet
Q&A 
18:45

Komuna - Kino Šiška
19:00
Roundtable 4: เหลู้าบ แลบ - Laab Lu Lao CoLaboratory

Opening, Chair Marc Dusseiller
19:45 Closing

This panel broadens Art & Science concepts through global, cross-cultural perspectives within the hackteria network's Asian activities across Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand. Following the January 2024 "do-it-with-others" open laboratory in Chiang Mai, the core team discusses how diverse cultures, religions, and artistic disciplines contribute to transcendent art/science practices. Projects ranged from alternative genetic engineering and traditional fermentation to collaborative graffiti and urban interventions. LLL refers to Laab (Thai spiced minced meat), Lu (meat with raw blood), and Lao (alcohol), representing cultural fusion in scientific exploration. Panelists from Switzerland, South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, and Indonesia examine how differing worldviews and historic traditions can create truly global approaches to interdisciplinary practice, fostering dialogue between local audiences and international art-science communities.
 
Jirapat "Bos" Thaweechuen, Bora Hong, Helmi Hardian, Weeratouch "Wave" Pongruengkiat, Wei Chieh Shih
Katedrala - Kino Šiška
20:00
Performances
Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
20:30
Performances
ReVerie
Pinyao Liu
Komuna - Kino Šiška
21:00-23:59 Kapelica Gallery
Friday, September 12th 2025
08:00-09:00
Registration

Infopoint -Kino Šiška
09:00
Session 11A: Moffetes

Welcome, Chair Laura Rodriguez
Q&A 
10:15

09:15 The Futurity of Transglothing
Tatjana Petzer
09:30 SHIOPI
Melisa Cano
Katedrala - Kino Šiška
09:00
Session 11B: Fumaroles

Welcome, Chair Tuçe Erel
Q&A 
10:15

Komuna - Kino Šiška
09:00-21:00
Exhibition
Coining Utopias Artshow
Curator: Jasna Jernejšek
Kamera - Kino Šiška
09:00-21:00
Reels
BioFeral Acts
Adam Zaretsky
Mestna Jaga - A decade of Urban Hunting
Marc Dusseiller, Dominik Mahnic
Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
10:30 Katedrala - Kino Šiška
10:30 Komuna - Kino Šiška
12:00
Roundtable 5: The Sweetest Taboo

Opening
12:45 Closing

This interdisciplinary roundtable explores sugar as material substance, cultural metaphor, and hyperobject flowing through bodies, behaviors, economies, and ecosystems. Participants examine molecular bonds, colonial histories, metabolic pathways, supply chains, personal cravings, and global consequences. Topics include sugar's dual nature in edible sculptures and military rations (Alyagon Darr), cultural connections between sex, food, and sweets addressing masculinity and queerness taboos (Markovic), sweetness as linguistic power exploring "sugarcoating" and food racism (Koniordou), sugar addiction and fermented food alternatives (Páez Vélez), collapsology through Maillard reactions and a "sugarcoating" app (Mirza), sensory pleasure in collaborative video work (Vincent), and sugar's historical slavery ties with sustainable material potential (Tóth). Through diverse perspectives, the discussion examines sweet contradictions in pleasure, destruction, addiction, exploitation, and innovation.
 
Markela Koniordou, Rimon Alyagon Darr, Dejan Markovic, Carolina Páez Vélez, Zahra Mirza, Ethan Vincent, Márton Emil Tóth
Katedrala - Kino Šiška
12:45
Lunch break

Café Kino Šiška
13:00 Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
13:30
Event with Performance
on/scenity
Cristina Dezi, Giulia Tomasello
Katedrala - Kino Šiška
14:00 Katedrala - Kino Šiška
14:00
Session 13B: Isostasy

Welcome, Chair Gjino Šutić
Q&A 
15:15

14:15 Slime Machine
matilde sartori
14:30 Unhuman: an essay on the monstrosity of the future body
María Nonantzin (MAGENTA) Martínez Bautista
15:00 Plantoverse: Rethinking Perception Through Plant Optics
Alexandra Burnusuz, Mariia Moshchenskaia, Veronika Prizova
Komuna - Kino Šiška
15:30 Katedrala - Kino Šiška
15:30
Session 14B: Resonance

Welcome, Chair Ingrid Cogne
Q&A 
16:45

Komuna - Kino Šiška
17:00
Coffee break

Café Kino Šiška
17:30
Session 15A: Syntopy

Welcome, Chair Jasna Jernejšek
Q&A 
18:45

17:45 Stamping Genes: A Speculative Union of Flamingo, Urchin, and Rice
Kristin Lucas, Nathalie Dubois Calero
18:00 B.O.B.
Michele Marchetti, David Genchi
18:30 Exoplanetary Poetry: experimental chemistry as a universal language for alien communication
Julie-Michèle Morin, Bart Kuipers, Daniela Brill Estrada
Katedrala - Kino Šiška
17:30 Komuna - Kino Šiška
19:00
Roundtable 6: Humming to Myself

19:45 Closing

This roundtable engages temporal perspectives —past, present, and future— through artistic and theoretical explorations as ways of practically shaping alternative trajectories. Honorato reflects on the past decade of the TTT initiative (2015–2025). Šebjanič presents Echoes of the Abyss, a series exploring the ecological and legal implications of discarded chemical weapons on the ocean floor, revealing their hidden impact on marine life and more-than-human ecologies. Vesna discusses SUNFlower Plasma & the Solar MAXIMUM, an immersive performance connecting solar flares to human breath, exploring how magnetic disturbances ripple through ecosystems and collective psyche.
Katedrala - Kino Šiška
19:45 Katedrala - Kino Šiška
20:30
Conference sessions closure

Members of organizing committee: Dalila Honorato, Uroš Veber, Peter Purg
Representants of hosting institution: Jasna Jernejšek

Katedrala - Kino Šiška
21:00-23:59 Kapelica Gallery
Saturday, September 13th 2025
11:30-12:30
Exhibition Future Legacies

Guided tour
Cvetka Požar & Robertina Šebjanič

The exhibition brings together the results of three years collaboration between designers, artists, craftspeople, scientist and other experts, facilitated by ten organizations as part of the MADE IN Platform for Contemporary Crafts & Design. The Future Legacies is a space where heritage meets innovation, place-based knowledge intersects with speculative futures, and craft stands at the heart of both cultural continuity and ecological transformation. This exhibition is built on an exploration of the ways in which traditional skills, local materials and scientific methods can enrich each other.
The Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO) is Slovenia’s central institution for architecture and design – preserving national heritage, fostering critical reflection and future oriented dialogue. As both museum and a platform for contemporary creativity, it connects cultural and creative sector with business, science and education, shaping the role of architecture and design in society and everyday life.

Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO)
12:00-18:00
Exhibition
Coining Utopias Artshow
Exhibition @Kamera - Kino Šiška
Curator: Jasna Jernejšek
Kamera - Kino Šiška
12:00-18:00
Reels
BioFeral Acts
Adam Zaretsky
Mestna Jaga - A decade of Urban Hunting
Marc Dusseiller, Dominik Mahnic
Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
18:00-19:30
Performance
Organized as part of the GO!2025 official programme "Xmobil" and of the conference "Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art and Science " (TTT2025 Ljubljana) program, the event is curated by pETER Purg and co-organized with Projekt Atol and "Pixxelpoint" 2025 Festival of Contemporary Art in the context of GO!2025 European Capital of Culture Nova Gorica - Gorizia.
eliXir
Vita Matjac, Jatun Risba, Uroš Brezavšček
Karst
20:30-22:00
Performance

Organized as part of the GO!2025 official programme "Xmobil" and of the conference "Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art and Science " (TTT2025 Ljubljana) program, the event is curated by pETER Purg and co-organized with Projekt Atol and "Pixxelpoint" 2025 Festival of Contemporary Art in the context of GO!2025 European Capital of Culture Nova Gorica - Gorizia.

Lament
Margherita Pevere, Ivan Penov
Karst

Hosting Institution

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