Numb Nature is a durational transmedia performance by Jatun Risba and Xiola Yin (aka Aloïs Yang) developed during the art residency at Záhrada – Centrum nezávislej kultúry in summer 2021. The project takes into account the presence of mathematical proportions in matter and uses these matrices to explore the potentiality of formal deconstruction, with reference to the contemporary quest for new environmental, political, economic, educational, aesthetic and existential models. The starting point of this investigation was the Fibonacci sequence which is known also as the golden ratio, φ (Phi), that frequently occurs when observing the existence of regular patterns in nature (fractals) in the geometry of plants, flowers or fruits. The research process during the art residency gave birth to a multichannel spatial installation that investigates the fragility and the sublime character of selected biomatter: ice and different types of organic liquids and scents. (Source: Jatun Risba)
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...
Production: Jatun Risba, Franco G. Livera, 2024
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. Poppers is a work that embodies ecstatic mome...
Production: Be-coming Tree, 2024
The video depicts the Be-coming Tree team dancing in the Red Room at Milford House, the seat of LAI - Live Art Ireland, in preparation for the first in-person collective Be-coming Tree performance that occurred the day after. (Source: Jatun Risba)
Production: Jatun Risba, 2023
Shot in the vicinity of the coal-fired power plant Cerano in Puglia, Italy, the video enerRrgy depicts a somatic perturbation in vicinity of the clash between naturally available sources of power (sun, tides, movement) and extractive industries of energy....
Production: Jatun Risba, 2023
Live sound composition and improvisation in an old-fashioned ceramic studio. The use of ritual objects (mala, bell) and the androgynous Baron Samedi outfit are inspired by spirit possession rituals (voodoo & winti) connected with theTransatlantic Slav...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2023
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 o...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2023
The video essay "Worship in Spirit and Fire" was filmed during an independent field research about ancestral ceremonies, dances and Zār spirit possession rituals conducted by artist Jatun Risba in central Ethiopia in the beginning of 2015. The fieldwork...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2023
The video essay "Worship of Earth and Togetherness" is the outcome of an independent field research on work songs, folk troubadours (azmari) and traditional social customs, rituals and festive events conducted by artist Jatun Risba in central Ethiopia in...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2023
"Merkato" is the 3rd video essay filmed by artist Jatun Risba during a field research in central Ethiopia in the beginning of 2015. It offers an insight into the social choreographies and the material culture of the Merkato marketplace in Addis Ababa. Mer...
Production: Jatun Risba, Y: Events, 2023
"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, Franco G. Livera, 2023
The old world unravels—cracks in the earth, fractures in time,whispers of a dying paradigmdissolve into the winds of change. What crumbles is not the endbut a threshold,a clearing where new roots take hold,where we remember how to listen,how to tou...




















































