COINING UTOPIAS | ArtShow Opening | TTT2025 Ljubljana

Coining Utopias launches the international conference Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science (TTT2025) with an evening of provocative artworks, experimental reels, performances, and screenings. In a time of ecological crisis and cultural unrest, this curated program explores how artists resist, reimagine, and reclaim the future through ritual, embodiment, speculative desire, and poetic disruption.

Presented as part of TTT2025, Coining Utopias is a collaboration between Kino Šiška, Projekt Atol, and the Ionian University.

EXHIBITION curated by: Jasna Jernejšek
Featured Works: Michael Valiquette – A Line in the Sand, Andrew Carnie – The River Running Through Us, Darya Warner – Amalgamated Landscapes, Angelina Almukhametova – Neon Biotope, Leena Saarinen – Etudes for Birds, Decoy, Birdsong, Jude Abu Zaineh – Studies in Colour & Flora, Stephanie Rothenberg – AQUADISIA Version 2.0: Lubricating the Public Sentient Machine, Špela Petrič – Operational Bodies: The Tomato Tasted Like Automation of Care, Adam W. Brown – [ir]reverent: Miracles on Demand, [ir]reverent: Proof of the Sacrament – In-Between Faith, Evidence and Fabrication, and Melisa Cano – SHIOPI.

PERFORMANCES curated by: Dalila Honorato, Jasna Jernejšek, Peter Purg, Uroš Veber
18:30 | Stephanie Rothenberg – AQUADISIA Version 2.0: Lubricating the Public Sentient Machine
20:00 | edna – Blots diffusion: what do you see?
21:00 | Dann Disciglio – Reflections Through the Pre-Individual Mirror
21:30 | Luka Prinčič – trans.fail perspectives

PROJECTIONS curated by: Maria Chalkou
Featured Works: Stanza – Entangled Cities, João Pedro Oliveira – Things I Have Seen in My Dreams, Laura Cinti – AI in the Sky, Beverley Hood – MOTHER, Müge Yildiz – Non/Living, Senem Pirler & Monica Duncan – Tears for Lost Frequencies, Yukang Tao – Annihilation, Ian Haig – Worm Pornography.

REELS curated by: Adam Zaretsky – BioFeral Acts, and Marc Dusseiller & Dominik Mahnic – Mestna Jaga: A Decade of Urban Hunting.

For details and more on Sept 10-13 please check https://avarts.ionio.gr/ttt/2025/en/artshow/
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poster photo by: Gina Rottweiler