SONICA - Festival of Transitory Arts

SONICA is conceived as a showcase of the yearly program of MoTA - Museum of Transitory Art. It is an experimental festival that questions the ways of representation, exhibition formats, crossing borders between digital and analog, object and performance. In its third edition SONICA brings us a display of audio-visual performances, interactive installations, lectures, digital workshops, projections, clubbing nights and public urban installations.

SONICA will begin in Ljubljana in Kino Šiška with the audio-visual performance Dust from an extraordinary Canadian artist Herman Kolgen. Besides, there will be an exhibition of audio-visual and interactive works too.
The main part of the festival will take place in MoTA Point (the info point of the Museum of Transitory Art), a new art space in the old part of Ljubljana on Mestni trg 15 (in front of Gallery Fotografija). Workshops, lectures and video projections will find place and space in it. Before the festival, MoTA Point will function as a studio for residential artists who create new artwork within the framework of SONICA.

Instead of being only a standard exhibition, the festival tries to find ways to explore how can become a laboratory where residential artists create new works and activities during the festival. This year we will have the opportunity to see a new interactive production, Dark Star. Media artist Carolien Teunisse will keep the area in the MoTA Point full of life with the help of architectural video mapping, while André Gonçalves and the duo Macular will be developing new artworks based on the dynamics of the Ljubljana sites. This year, there is also a strong presence of Dutch young generation artists as well.

Since SONICA's visual image seemed depersonalized in these years, the work of Wolfgang Bittner was chosen for this year’s festival identity. His work – Saccades – are portraits drawn by our own eyes. A similar artwork of the artist - Lines - will be installed at the MoTA-Point. It is a modified photo booth, in which the visitor is invited to interact and intervene in the process of photographic portraiture. In that way, every visitor will be able to create his own portrait and thus become a part of the festival too.