In the work ‘Possibility of a Relation’, the artist Jatun Risba traces in the air and in the space an alchemic matrix for the webs of conviviality to come. A transparent one square meter film – symbolizing the burden of the rising cost of living, including real estate – is attached to the gallery floor with blue tape. This blue-edged square is both a sanctuary of hopes for the future and the threatening abyss of the ocean with its rising sea-levels and the memories of many who died trying to cross it. The artist enacts a poetic performative action with a white wooden board and a spirit bottle containing the artist’s menstrual blood. A poetic spell is written on the piece of wood, representing the body of a ship traversing the Atlantic ocean in a staged minimundus, a world in miniature. Its echo – “possibility of a relation” – is underlined with the artist’s menstrual blood, which is the blood of life and inner cleansing. Through a nonagressive offering of inner substances, the performance creates a portal where time is suspended. In ritual time, past, present and future coexist, so that magic and trans-generational healing can occur. The material traces of the performance become part of the installation. The artwork is informed by and deals with the Transatlantic Slave Trade past in the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands. By devising a life-enhancing rite of passage with the use of cruelty-free menstrual blood, the artist detours Zeeland’s past of violence against humanity on one hand and the magical use of blood in Voodoo rituals, gained through animal sacrifice, on the other. This is a recording of the prototype performance 'Possibility of a Relation' that occured on th 8th of June 2023 at the CBK Zeeland in Middelburg, NL. (Source: Jatun Risba)
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...