Rudolf Arnold, Alma de Bruixes (Cristina Dezi, Giulia Tomasello), Dann Disciglio, Anya Koehne & Annan Zuo & Jiabao Li, Max Lester, Pinyao Liu, Praba Pilar, Luka Prinčič (Prince Lucija), Jatun Risba, Translúcida Bruta, Victoria Vesna
Tuesday, 9 September @Kino Šiška
18.30 / Upper Foyer
Stephanie Rothenberg: AQUADISIA 2.0: Lubricating the Public Sentient Machine, 30’
20.00 / Komuna Hall
Théa de Seauve / edna: Blots diffusion: what do you see?, 60’
An interactive DJ performance uses an uncensored AI model to reshape an artistic trans body based on audience prompts, opening questions about agency, exclusion, and self-representation. It explores how the projection of social taboos and fears reinforces control over marginalised bodies, and how biased generative AI entrenches normativity and exclusion.
21.00 / Upper Foyer
Dann Disciglio: Reflections Through the Pre-Individual Mirror, 15’
An audiovisual performance in which the artist enters a co-piloted state of glossolalia – the phenomenon of speaking in unknown languages – through a neural network.
21.30 / Komuna Hall
Luka Prinčič (Prince Lucija): trans.fail/combodagen, 60’
A hybrid live-coding audiovisual performance weaves together pre-recorded and real-time audiovisual elements with text into a wild, chaotic network of data, images, and sound. It draws data and transfiguration from various sources, including media oversaturation, homemade software, sonic experiments, visual algorithms, hacks, glitches, and thematic frameworks such as Slavic-Romani mythofuturisms, gender fluidity, imperialism, media theory, praxis, and artistic critiques of digital capitalism.
Wednesday, 10 September @Kino Šiška
12.30 / Katedrala Hall
Rudolf Arnold: Cassiopeia’s Secret – The Future of Intimacy in Space, 20’
The lecture-performance explores the intersection of science fiction, space travel, and gender identity. Despite a male biology, the performer aspires to become Cassiopeia, a multi-gender space girl who transforms her sexual arousal into art and music through medical sensors and computer processing. The tactile stimulators of the pleasure spacesuit respond both to the performed music and to data drawn from human physiology, environmental sensors, and cosmic phenomena.
13.00 / Upper Foyer
Translúcida Bruta: A.v.p. Alba viridi pythonissan – the Cyborg Woman-Plant-Machine Experiment, 25’
The performance combines dance, hybrid prosthetics, and live sound interventions to explore mutations between body, plant, and machine. Conceived as a biopoetic lecture, it invites the audience to experience a shift between species in a multisensory environment.
17.00 / Upper Foyer
Kristin Lucas & Nathalie Dubois Calero: Stamping Genes: Mobile Lab, 15’
The DIWO (Do-It-With-Others) collaborative mobile laboratory and speculative biohacking experiment invites the audience to explore species hybridisation as a creative response to the environmental challenges faced by local ecosystems. Participants wear agar patches infused with microbiota representing the hybridisation of two local species, and through the experience of microbial merging reflect on notions of consent, agency, resistance, and co-evolution.
20.00 / Komuna Hall
Jatun Risba: The Intimacy of Otherness, 45’
A transmedia and multisensory lecture-performance about the artist’s radical self-healing journey during recovery from multiple sclerosis. The transformative process unfolded through guerrilla art interventions, dances of urgency, and diverse techniques of bliss, such as clubbing, (self-)hypnosis, and erotic expression.
Thursday, 11 September @Kino Šiška
17.00 / Upper Foyer
Max Lester: The Inconsumable Power of Showing Hole, 25’
The lecture-performance explores the intertwined paradoxes of the power of secrecy and the secrecy of power. Through speech acts, movement, animation, silence, and sound, the artist circles around an invisible void, tracing connections between Dutch water infrastructure, the rise of modern cities, the transition from feudalism to capitalism, and the theological foundations of imperial power.
20.00 / Upper Foyer
Praba Pilar: La Inteligencia Artifecal, 20’
In this performance, a defiant cyborg explores “artifecal” intelligence, which drives hyperreality and our taboo, transgressive, and transcendent preconceptions of AI. Through a biohazardous body, she critiques the erotic fetishisation of a resurrected death drive and the claims of AI’s demonic destructive power, questioning whether our fear of AI means renouncing ourselves or merely serving necropolitical billionaires and their vision of death.
20.30 / Komuna Hall
Pinyao Liu: ReVerie, 20’
The AI performance explores the scientific concept of dream re-living, using a 3D generative diffusion model to translate whispered dream memories into real-time visualisations of dream objects. In doing so, it allows participants to explore a shared “dreamscape”, turning dreams into a public, collective experience.
Friday, 12 September @Kino Šiška
13.00 / Upper Foyer
Anya Koehne, Annan Zuo & Jiabao Li: Consume Our Consumption, 30’
The performance envisions a deliciously dystopian future where plastic waste is recycled not only through bins but also through stomachs. Plascetamol™ is a speculative probiotic made from the excrement of a superworm; through the isolation, identification, and amplification of bacteria that break down plastic waste, it enables digestible miracles, helping the human digestive tract process plastic.
The number of participants for this event is limited, available upon registration (link).
13.30 / Katedrala Hall
Alma de Bruixes (Cristina Dezi, Isabel Farina): on/scenity, 20’
A provocative ritual intertwining sex, technology, magic, and biology, delving into the depths of occult pleasures and synthetic desires. Together with the audience, cybernetic witches cast erotic spells linked to sensors and digital bodies, challenging established norms. Inspired by queer, feminist, and posthumanist mythologies, the performance transforms eroticism into a political act of liberation and a ritual of technological hybridisation.
19.30 / Katedrala Hall
Victoria Vesna: SUNFlower Plasma & the Solar MAXIMUM, 50’
The immersive audiovisual performance invites the audience to meditate on interconnection, vulnerability, and the invisible waves that shape our world. It highlights the impact of solar activity on Earth, ecosystems, and the collective psyche. Solar flares, bees, sunflowers, and breathing are interwoven, which is why disruptions in the magnetic field affect everything, manifesting as fires, floods, wars, and unrest.
Cover image: Luka Prinčič, trans.fail/combodagen
