Interdisciplinary Conference

TABOO - TRANSGRESSION - TRANSCENDENCE

in Art & Science

9-13 September 2025, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana

PROGRAM
The 1st 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 September 10, TTT2025 Ljubljana conference program is structured into 30 sessions, presenting as well six roundtables, plus showreels, 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. The final schedule will include all details connected with the art events starting on September 9, 2025. 
 
All events of the TTT2025 Ljubljana program days 9-12 September, 2025 take place at the Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, Trg prekomorskih brigad 3, 1000 Ljubljana. Besides these events, TTT2025 Ljubljana presents on 13 September, 2025, a special artshow at the Karst region.
Updated: 08-03-2025
Wednesday, September 10th 2025
08:00-09:00
Registration

Infopoint -Kino Šiška
09:00-09:15
Conference welcome greetings

Katedrala - Kino Šiška
09:15-10:00
Roundtable 1: Slovenian Contingency

Opening, chairperson Uroš Veber 

Katedrala - Kino Šiška
10:00
Session 1A: Karst

Welcome, chair TBC
Q&A: 11:15

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

Welcome, Chair TBC
Q&A
12:45

Komuna - Kino Šiška
13:00
Lunch break

Café Kino Šiška
14:00 Katedrala - Kino Šiška
14:00
Session 3B: Troglophobes

Welcome, Chair TBC
Q&A
15:15

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

Café Kino Šiška
17:30
Session 5A: Endogeon

Welcome, Chair TBC
Q&A 
18:45

17:45 ExUtero technologies and Feminised Protein
Ionat Zurr, Cristin Millett, Cynthia White
18:15 A Chat with Hystera
Irini Athanassakis
Katedrala - Kino Šiška
17:30 Komuna - Kino Šiška
19:00
Roundtable 2: DIY Garage GMO Baby Production
Katedrala - Kino Šiška
Thursday, September 11th 2025
08:00-09:00
Registration

Infopoint -Kino Šiška
09:00 Katedrala - Kino Šiška
09:00 Komuna - Kino Šiška
10:30
Session 7A: Magmatic

Welcome, Chair TBC
Q&A 
11:45

Katedrala - Kino Šiška
10:30 Komuna - Kino Šiška
12:00
Roundtable 3: Conversations Amongst Odd Kin: Science Fiction, BioArt, and Disability

Opening, chairperson TBC

12:15 Conversations Amongst Odd Kin: Science Fiction, BioArt, and Disability
Marta de Menezes, Efrat Gold, Cosima Herter, Kathy High
Katedrala - Kino Šiška
12:45
Lunch break

Café 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
17:00-17:30
Coffee break

Café Kino Šiška
17:30 Katedrala - Kino Šiška
17:30
Session 10B: Homologs
Komuna - Kino Šiška
19:00
Roundtable 4: เหลู้าบ แลบ - Laab Lu Lao CoLaboratory

Opening, chairperson TBC

19:15 เหลู้าบ แลบ - Laab Lu Lao CoLaboratory
Marc Dusseiller, Jirapat "Bos" Thaweechuen, Bora Hong, Helmi Hardian, Weeratouch "Wave" Pongruengkiat, Wei Chieh Shih
Katedrala - Kino Šiška
Friday, September 12th 2025
08:00-09:00
Registration

Infopoint -Kino Šiška
09:00
Session 11A: Moffetes
Katedrala - Kino Šiška
09:00 Komuna - Kino Šiška
10:30 Katedrala - Kino Šiška
10:30 Komuna - Kino Šiška
12:00
Roundtable 5: The Sweetest Taboo

Opening, chairperson TBC

12:15 'The Sweetest Taboo' - Roundtable Discussion
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
14:00 Katedrala - Kino Šiška
14:00
Session 13B: Isostasy

Welcome, Chair TBC
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
Komuna - Kino Šiška
17:00-17:30
Coffee break

Café Kino Šiška
17:30
Session 15A: Syntopy

Welcome, Chair TBC
Q&A 
18:45

Katedrala - Kino Šiška
17:30 Komuna - Kino Šiška
19:00
Roundtable 6: Humming to Myself

Opening, chairperson TBC

19:15 Exoplanetary Poetry: experimental chemistry as a universal language for alien communication
Julie-Michèle Morin, Daniela Brill Estrada, Bart Kuipers
19:30 Of Peas and People
Verena Friedrich
Katedrala - Kino Šiška
20:00
Farewell

Katedrala - Kino Šiška

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