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.
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.
Free entry! Registration required: https://avarts.ionio.gr/ttt/2025/en/attend/
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 [Trg prekomorskih brigad 3, Ljubljana] / 9.00–21.00
Conference & Coining Utopias – exhibition, reels, performances
10 September 2025 @Cirkulacija 2 [Podhod Ajdovščina 2, Ljubljana] / 22.00–24.00
Marc Dusseiller: Mestna jaga – A Decade of Urban Hunting
10–12 September 2025 @Galerija Kapelica [Likozarjeva ulica 1, Ljubljana] / 21.00–24.00
Forensic Performativity – exhibition, performances
13 September 2025 @Ruska jama Cave [Kostanjevica na Krasu] / 19.00–21.00
19.00 / eliXir
20.00 / Margherita Pevere: Lament
The international conference Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science (TTT) is an interdisciplinary and nomadic event, where both practitioners as well 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.
Organization: Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University in collaboration with Kino Šiška and Project Atol
Supported by: Kapelica, Cirkulacija 2, Pixxelpoint, Intellect, InArts – Interactive Arts Lab, Xcenter, GO! 2025
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, Uroš Veber
Exhibition curator: Jasna Jernejšek
Performances curators: Dalila Honorato, Jasna Jernejšek, Peter Purg, Uroš Veber
Screenings curator: Maria Chalkou
Reels curators: Marc Dusseiller, Adam Zaretsky
Proofreading and translation: Daniel Sheppard
Design: Ioanna Logaki
