Be-coming Tree is collection of four videos documenting the seasonal durational live-streamed performative acts by Jatun Risba in Panovec forest in Nova Gorica, Slovenia during the pandemic year 2020/21. The artwork enacts an encounter between the stream of the human World Wide Web with the kingdom of the Wood Wide Web. The artist forms an embryonic entanglement with woods in order to re-member the invaluable beauty, vigour and generosity of wild landscapes, within and without.
Be-coming Tree started as a personal live-streamed, durational performance which took place on the 30th of April 2020. The 1hr communion with an uprooted beech tree was healing and meaningful: it provided the artist with an insight into the coexistence of life and death in daily existence. The tree trunk on which Risba was laying in stillness, was a site teeming with life while undergoing the process of self-composting. Inspired by this vision of interdependence and vitality of cessation, the project gained a collective, inclusive and self-empowering direction. Be-coming Tree branched out into a co-creation of 3 female/non-binary artists with ages ranging from 34 to 73: Jatun Risba, Danielle Imara and O. Pen Be and is producing seasonal live-streamed collective Live Art events that have so far included 71 artists from 32 countries, 6 continents. More about the project at https://becomingtree.live/. (Source: author)
Production: Jatun Risba, Franco G. Livera, 2025
Feel the rush that dispels your sorrow,makes the heart beat as one with the moving leveldown and above you, just for an instant ...A moment of eternity aiming to dilute your breath and your self ad infinitum. Poppers2 is a work that embodies ecstatic mo...
Production: Jatun Risba, Franco G. Livera, 2025
The video Europa is an evolution of a photographic project of the same name, created by authors Risba & Livera in early 2023. By incorporating the re-enactment practices of Photo-Therapy (Martin 2009; Spence 1986) into the video-making process, the mo...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2024
This video extract documents the Be-coming Tree: Tipperary performance for camera by Jatun Risba during their research Artist in Residence period at Instant Dissidence in Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Ireland in January 2024. The performance is a re-inaction o...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2024
‘Poetics of Colour nu.1’ is an art intervention by Jatun Risba inspired by an ongoing research about the Atlantic Slave Trade History and Vodou & Winti rituals connected to the region of Zeeland, NL. The track in the video is a poetic inte...
Production: OPENS para-academic forum, Jatun Risba, Jireh Koh, 2024
Ganachakra was a transmedia performance and esoteric ritual - a gathering of human and nonhuman kin for healing, revelry, and transcendence. The audience was invited to drink libations, make merry, and enjoy performances by Jatun Risba (SVN) and Jireh Koh...
Production: Jatun Risba, Simon Macuh, 2024
"Ultimately, there is no other. The other is part of us and I will engulf it fully and tenderly." The Intimacy of Otherness is a durational transmedia multisensory performance lecture in progress about radical self-healing from Multiple Sclerosis (2012-19)...
Production: Jatun Risba, Studio Alta, 2024
"Ultimately, there is no other. The other is part of us and I will engulf it fully and tenderly." The Intimacy of Otherness is a durational transmedia multisensory performance lecture in progress about radical self-healing from Multiple Sclerosis (2012-19)...
Production: Jatun Risba, Galerija O.K, 2024
Casting Sun and Oxygen for a Collective Rebirth is a body casting performance by Jatun Risba that was premiered at the opening of the exhibition Terra incognita: Jatun Risba, Ivana Filip and Nikolina Butorac, curated by Marta Sirotich at Galerija O.K. in Ri...
Production: Jatun Risba, Franco G. Livera, 2024
When a tree falls, the motion disturbs the air, causing ripples that radiate far away. The event gets incorporated into the wheel of life (bhavachakra). Beautiful idea depicts a surreal resurrection from a tree tomb of the mythical “forest woman&rdq...
Production: Be-coming Tree, 2024
A recording of the first Be-coming Tree live improvisation, featuring 19 international artists in the collective performative action Together As One Woodland, which took place on February 4th, 2024, at Live Art Ireland in Ireland. The event coincided with...