TO)pot, a festival of soundwalks, concerts, and reflections, brings together artists, theorists, and curious walkers to connect with spaces and more-than-human entities, transforming walking and listening into a spatial realisation of location. As a practice of grounding and attuning to the environment, walking becomes a radical attempt to decelerate the everyday pace of life.

Held during a unique time of the year, when the atmosphere clears and migratory birds change territories, the noisy starlings – now common city dwellers – fall silent, and plants enter their mature period. Amidst this backdrop, the festival offers, through selected artworks, a tapping into urban spaces and paths, highlighting their multi-temporality and thus offering the possibility of embodying space. TO)pot encourages a deeper reflection of how to live-with-spaces, encompassing all beings and entities.

Participants:

Augenmas • a l l j a • Colin Black • Maja Bjelica • beepblip • Nika van Berkel • Tetiana Khoroshun • Maria Magdalena Kozlowska • Rene Markovič • Spiro Mason • OR poiesis • Irena Pivka • plants • Karmen Ponikvar • Eduardo Raon • Urša Sekirnik • Jacek Smolicki • spaces • Sava šumi • urban animals • Tea Vidmar • Miloš Vojtěchovský/zvukac • Brane Zorman • Tery Žeželj.

TO)pot was organized by Brane Zorman and Irena Pivka and Matej Tomažin from Cona.

Selection and introductory text: Irena Pivka Translation into Slovene, English and proofreading of festival texts: Melita Silič Cover image and design: Matej Tomažin Production: Brane Zorman, Irena Pivka, Matej Tomažin Coordination for Cukrarna: Alenka Trebušak Technical support: Brane Zorman, Andraš Šenica Pavletič, Martin Lovšin and the Cukrarna techical team, and the Cona support team Public relations: Matej Tomažin (Cona), Mojca Podlesek (Cukrarna ) Festival organised by: Cona, for the Steklenik Gallery Coproduction: Cukrarna Gallery / MGML

The pre-festival project’s Fent cua / While waiting partner is Emanat. The festival project’s If trees would cry, we would cry too and I walked for too long and I became a landscape partner is Bunker. The work gardenGOround is a part of the VITAL project. The co-producer of the premiere event Green Atrium of the City is the Museum of Architecture and Design Ljubljana. Research and paper presentation by Maja Bjelica is funded by ARIS through the research programme “Liminal Spaces” (P6-0279) and the research project “Grain of Salt, Crystallising Cohabitation” (J6-50196). The partner of the Festival Diary workshop is Radio Študent.

The programme of CONA is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the City of Ljubljana, Department for Culture.

Miloš Vojtěchovský’s lecture was supported by The Arts Institute (AI) in Prague.

Images courtesy of Cona - Matej Tomažin

There was a meeting about the future of CENSE and the symposium planned in Ljubljana, September 2025 (Jacek Smolicki, Zvukac, Ida Hirsenfelder, Irena Pivka, Brane Zorman, Csaba Hajnoczy and Joanna Wyrva participated).

More info:

www.steklenik.si

and

www.cona.si