TTT2025 / TABOO – TRANSGRESSION – TRANSCENDENCE in Art & Science
Kino Šiška, Trg prekomorskih brigad 3, 1000 Ljubljana
09 – 12 September 2025
Deeply engaged in the discourse on taboo, art takes center stage as a domain of transgression – provoking, sparking dialogue, and catalyzing transcendence. Who defines the borders of identity and ideology? Push boundaries and challenge the forbidden at TTT2025!
The TTT2025 programme of sessions and roundtables brings together around 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.
We kindly invite you to join us at the opening night, conference, and accompanying events.
Free entry! Registration is required for the conference – you can register at the Kino Šiška Info desk on 9 September (5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.) or between 10 and 12 September (8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.).
The international conference Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science (TTT) is an interdisciplinary and nomadic event, where both practitioners as wehttps://avarts.ionio.gr/ttt/2025/en/about/ll as theorists present and discuss the status of art-science and/or art & technology. The conference focuses (a) on questions about the nature of the forbidden and about the aesthetics of liminality, as expressed in art that uses or is inspired by technology and science, and (b) on the opening of spaces for creative transformation in the merging of science and art. Topics explored in the TTT Conferences include: Biopunk, hybridity, and aesthetics of mutation; Cyborg, augmentation, and bοdy modification; Chemistry of the mind, natural healers, and mind enhancement; Biotechnology, DIY&DIWO, and biohacking; Ethology, human, and nonhuman; Evolution, genetics, and plasticity; Post-gender, transgressive identities, and social models; Human sexual response, laws of attraction, and queer eroticism; Parasitology, symbiosis, and microbiome; Biopolitics, displacement, and resistance; Pandemic, bioterror, and scientific trust; Witchcraft, gender narrative, and history of science; Rewilding, degradation, and restoration.
The TTT2025 conference programme consists of 30 sessions running in parallel (Session A in Katedrala Hall and Session B in Komuna Hall) and six roundtables, along with showreels, performances, and an exhibition. Each session lasts 90 minutes and includes four presentations – a mix of academic papers and artist talks (15 minutes each). The first 15 minutes are reserved for the chairperson’s introduction, and the final 15 minutes are dedicated to a Q&A with all speakers. Roundtables, 45 minutes in length, are more structurally flexible and designed to encourage dialectics. TTT2025 Participants.
PROGRAMME:
9 September 2025 @ Kino Šiška, Trg prekomorskih brigad 3, Ljubljana | 18.00–22.00
Grand opening / Coining Utopias – exhibition, screenings, reels, performances
10–12 September 2025 @ Kino Šiška | 9.00–21.00
Conference & Coining Utopias – exhibition, reels, performances
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10 September 2025 @ Cirkulacija 2, Podhod Ajdovščina 2, Ljubljana | 22.00–24.00
Marc Dusseiller: Mestna jaga – A Decade of Urban Hunting
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10–12 September 2025 @ Galerija Kapelica, Likozarjeva ulica 1, Ljubljana | 21.00–24.00
Forensic Performativity – exhibition, performances
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13. september 2025 @ Museum of architecture and design | 11.30–12.30
FUTURE LEGACIES – exhibition
13 September 2025 @ Ruska jama Cave, Kostanjevica na Krasu | 18.00–22.00
18.00 / eliXir
20.30 / Margherita Pevere: Lament
Organised bus transportation to and from the event. Register here.
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Organization: Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University in collaboration with Kino Šiška and Projekt Atol.
Supported by: Kapelica Gallery, Cirkulacija 2, Pixxelpoint, Intellect, InArts – Interactive Arts Lab, Xcenter, GO! 2025, Museum of architecture and design (MAO)
Founder: Dalila Honorato
Organising committee: Dalila Honorato (Ionian University), Jasna Jernejšek (Kino Šiška), Uroš Veber & Lara Mejač (Project Atol), Peter Purg (University of Nova Gorica)
Producers: Lara Mejač and Uroš Veber
Exhibition curator: Jasna Jernejšek
Performances curators: Dalila Honorato, Jasna Jernejšek, Peter Purg and Uroš Veber
Screenings curator: Maria Chalkou
Reels curators: Marc Dusseiller and Adam Zaretsky
Proofreading and translation: Daniel Sheppard
Design: Ioanna Logaki