TO)pot Festival: Walking-with Silences
At Cukrarna Gallery and other public spaces, the TO)pot Festival: Walking-with Silences will take place from 23 to 27 September 2026.
The festival will open on 23 September at 19.00 with the sound exhibition Boštjan Perovšek: Inaudible – Audible, Among the Bats, the lecture Salomé Voegelin: no signal, and the concert Bojana Šaljić Podešva, Matjaž Porovne, Tilen Udovič, Alja Mandič Faganel: Blood is Water (flavoured).
The sixth edition of the festival connects artists, theorists and walkers and invites them to share their listening experiences of spaces, voices and silences. The subtitle of the festival Walking-with Silences, inspired by the title of the lecture series, offers an insight into the potential of walking as a way of listening – a practice that deepens the understanding of different registers of silence: the silence of a place, the silence of society, listening to art. This broad and layered field forms the focus of this year’s festivalt.
Check the festival program --here.
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Production team: Irena Pivka, Allja Petric, Karmen Ponikvar, Matej Tomažin, Brane Zorman, Maja Bjelica (ZRS Koper)
Coordinator for Cukrarna Gallery: Alenka Trebušak
Technical support: Brane Zorman and Cona’s team, Martin Lovšin and Cukrarna’s team
Public relations: Matej Tomažin (Cona), Mojca Podlesek (Cukrarna Gallery)
Soundwalk partners: AGRFT, Cukrarna Gallery, Cona, Društvo UHO, MGML, ŠKUC, Skladišče 172, KUD NUM
Festival co-producer: Cukrarna Gallery
Organiser of the lecture series: Science and Research Centre Koper, Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies
Co-producer of the accompanying programme and concert presentation: City of Women
Partner of the accompanying programme and sound walk presentation: BAZA, Ljubljana Youth Centre
Festival producer: Cona
The programme of the Cona Institute is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana, Department of Culture.
The lecture series Thinking-with Silences, prepared by dr. Maja Bjelica, is part of the activities of the research programme Philosophy and the Arts (P6-0279), implemented at ZRS Koper and financially supported by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS).
