TO)pot Festival / Beyond Listening Symposium 2025
3–27 Sept 2025, Ljublana, Slovenia
Locations: Cukrarna Gallery, Sečovlje Salina Nature Park, City Museum of Ljubljana and public spaces.
The Festival of radical soundwalks TO)pot, features soundwalks, concerts and critical reflection, and brings together artists, theorists and curious walkers in dialogue with spaces, their temporalities and more-than-human entities. The festival’s subtitle, Walking-with Changes, points to the potential of walking and listening as practices that foster a deeper understanding of place and its shifting constant.
Through attentive listening, walkers are invited to adopt a critical approach to the environments they inhabit – or, in the context of migration, are still learning to inhabit – and to attune themselves to both local and global landscapes.
The 6th CENSE international Symposium - Beyond Listening 2025 is embedded within the broader framework of the TO)pot festival. The CENSE Symposium is produced by Cona Institute, co-organised by the Science and Research Centre Koper, Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies, and facilitated by the Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies.
FESTIVAL CO-CREATORS
Piotr Armianovski ● Jaka Bombač ● Nikola Drole ● Lina Eržen ● Anna Friz ● Tadej Grum ● Tetiana Khoroshun ● Anna Khvyl ● Neža Knez ● Felisa Ko ● Zala Kramperšek ● Maša Milčinski ● Eva Mulej Vrabič (Oka) ● Boštjan Perovšek ● Ajda Pirtovšek ● Martyna Poznanska ● Brane Zorman
SYMPOSIUM CO-CREATORS
Sara Anjo ● Maria Balabas ● Maja Bjelica ● Pia Brezavšček ● Cha Caillat ● Ádám Darázs ● Kristine Diekman ● George Edmondson ● Mary Edwards ● Arthur Enguehard ● Darko Fritz ● John Grzinich ● Csaba Hajnóczy ● Ida Hiršenfelder (beepblip) ● Bálint János Kiss ● Eric Leonardson ● Hugo Lioret ● Kevin Logan ● Juan José López Díez ● Ben Pagac ● Ivan Penov ● Carina Pesch ● Karmen Ponikvar ● Saška Rakef ● Mersid Ramičević ● Ján Solč̌áni ● Rok Šturm ● Mike Thompson ● Madina Tlostanova ● Georgios Varoutsos ● Eva Vozárová ● Joanna Patrycja Wyrwa
Friday 26 September
9 a.m. Meeting of the Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies, members & friends, 120 min.
2 p.m. "Listening ahead" - Meeting of the Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies members & friends, 120 min
in projection hall of City Museum of Ljubljana,
As part of the TO)pot festival, Cona, in collaboration with the Science and Research Centre Koper (ZRS Koper), is co-organising this year’s CENSE (Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies) symposium: Beyond Listening 2025: Walking-with Changes. The event brings together more than 30 scientists, theorists, artists and authors, selected through an open call. The programme committee has curated the symposium into three distinct formats: panel discussions, peripatetic lectures and listening posters. The symposium forms a core part of the festival’s theoretical strand, highlighting the significance of acoustic ecology and walking as a method of inquiry and engagement. Continuing its tradition, Cona is also organising field trips for in-situ listening and sound recording. This year, these excursions are enriched by a full-day visit to the Se.ovlje Salina Nature Park, which will also host part of the symposium programme.
This year’s TO)pot festival presents three premieres of soundwalks produced by Cona in 2025 Bodies of Water by Eva Mulej Vrabi (Oka) and Jaka Bomba., Following by Neža Knez and VRTATYS’ by Tetiana Khoroshun and Felisa Ko – as well as tremolo, a sound event by Brane Zorman and Boštjan Perovšek.
Symposium’s programme board: Scientific committee: Elena Biserna, Jacek Smolicki, Maja Bjelica Organising committee: Irena Pivka, Ida Hiršenfelder (beepblip), Maja Bjelica Symposium’s advisory board: Csaba Hajnóczy, Miloš Vojtěchovský, Brane Zorman, Petra Kapš
Symposium in the Field: Walking and Listening in the Sečovlje Salina Nature Park, the whole-day experiential happening of the symposium is supported and implemented by the company SOLINE, d.o.o. / the Sečovlje Salina Nature Park, Maritime Museum “Sergej Mašera” Piran and Muzofil Association.
The CENSE Symposium is produced by Cona Institute, co-organised by the Science and Research Centre Koper, Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies, and facilitated by the Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies (CENSE)
The CENSE Symposium Beyond Listening 2025: Walking-with Changes is financially supported by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS) through the research project “Grain of Salt, Crystallising Cohabitation: Salt-Making as Experiential Environmental Wisdom” (J6-50196), implemented at the Science and Research Centre Koper.
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