TTT2025 Ljubljana | Day 1 – September 10, 2025

Join us for the opening day of Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science 2025, hosted in Ljubljana! Day 1 brings together groundbreaking talks, roundtables, exhibitions, and performances exploring the liminal zones between art, science, and society.

🌟 Highlights of Day 1

Morning

Welcome & Greetings – with Dalila Honorato, Uroš Veber, Peter Purg, and Jasna Jernejšek.

Roundtable 1: Slovenian Contingency with Miha Turšič, Tatiana Kocmur, Jurij Krpan, Bojan Jablanovec.

Parallel Sessions (1A & 1B) – From awkward intimacies of greenhouse automation to queering digital heritage and trans-corporeality of rivers.

Midday

Parallel Sessions (2A & 2B) – Topics range from politics of striptease to radical hospitality, AI pleasure ethics, and temporal cycles in eco/bioart.

Special Event (Foyer): Alba viridi pythonissan – The Cyborg Woman-Plant-Machine Experiment (Translucida Bruta, 40’).

Afternoon

Parallel Sessions (3A & 3B) – Sacrificial holes, death, grief, noise, necro-aesthetics, and microbial forensics.

Parallel Sessions (4A & 4B) – Improper entanglements, ecstatic decay, scientific fraud, computational spells, cyborg attunements.

Special Event (Foyer): Stamping Genes: Mobile Lab (Kristin Lucas, Nathalie Dubois Calero, 15’).

Evening

Parallel Sessions (5A & 5B) – More-than-human co-creation, tattoo/tissue engineering, Hystera chats, AI sense of agency, censorship, trans.fail perspectives.

Roundtable 2: DIY Garage GMO Baby Production chaired by Adam Zaretsky with Lyndsey Walsh, Aisen Chacin, Clarissa Ribeiro, Praba Pilar, Marko Markovic, WhiteFeather Hunter.

Performance (Komuna): The Intimacy of Otherness by Jatun Risba (45’).

Exhibitions & Screenings (09:00–21:00)

Works by Michael Valiquette, Andrew Carnie, Darya Warner, Angelina Almukhametova, Leena Saarinen, Jude Abu Zaineh, Stephanie Rothenberg, Špela Petrič, Melisa Cano, Adam W. Brown, and more.

Reels curated by Adam Zaretsky (BioFeral Acts) and Marc Dusseiller (Mestna jaga: A decade of Urban Hunting).

Late Night Performances (21:00–23:59)

Kapelica Gallery: Forensic Performativity (Betina Habjanič, Dorotea Dolinšek, Maja Smrekar).

Cirkulacija 2: Mestna jaga: A decade of Urban Hunting (Marc Dusseiller, + Dominik Mahnic).