Jatun Risba - Worship in Spirit and Fire (trailer) (10:37 (trailer 01:12))
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...
Jatun Risba (they/them) is a migrant transmedia artist from Slovenia. Their work engages with ecofeminist and posthumanist discourses through performance art, conceptual art, relational art and practices of abjection, détournement and art intervention. Their practice cultivates reciprocity between species by altering and awakening sensory awareness through Vajrayana Buddhist practices and deviant uses of technology. Their work evolves along two main trajectories: Arts for Health and Art as Nutrition. Their art is informed by their lived experience of radical self-healing from Multiple Sclerosis (2012-2019).
Portrait photos:
- photo: Sašo Batič
- photo: Janko Lipovšek
- photo: personal archive
Jatun Risba - Possibility of a Relation (06:00)
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
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...
Jatun Risba - payasi-winti (05:20)
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
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...
Jatun Risba - enerRrgy (09:07)
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
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....
Jatun Risba - Be-coming Space (05:05)
Production: Jatun Risba, 2022
Be-coming Space is a transpersonal and transmundane initiative with no beginning and no end, facilitated by Jatun Risba (Rikzang Lhamo). During a 38-days long self-isolation period, from the 10th of January until the full moon on the 16th of February 2022,...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2022
Be-coming Space is a transpersonal and transmundane initiative with no beginning and no end, facilitated by Jatun Risba (Rikzang Lhamo). During a 38-days long self-isolation period, from the 10th of January until the full moon on the 16th of February 2022,...
Jatun Risba - Blitzangriff (trailer) (04:20 (trailer 00:30))
Production: Jatun Risba, 2022
A lightning, hit and run incursion into the most intimate space of an operating hospital: the restroom. A dancing rapture that overturns the medical gaze inside modern health institutions which marked the artist’s sexual and personal upbringing in i...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2022
A lightning, hit and run incursion into the most intimate space of an operating hospital: the restroom. A dancing rapture that overturns the medical gaze inside modern health institutions which marked the artist’s sexual and personal upbringing in i...
Jatun Risba - Be-coming Tree in Winter (trailer) (12:22 (trailer 3:30))
Production: Jatun Risba, 2020/21
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...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2020/21
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...
Jatun Risba - Be-coming Tree in Autumn (trailer) (10:27 (trailer 03:14))
Production: Jatun Risba, 2020/21
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...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2020/21
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...
Jatun Risba - Be-coming Tree in Summertime (trailer) (17:13 (trailer 02:57))
Production: Jatun Risba, 2020/21
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...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2020/21
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...
Jatun Risba - Be-coming Tree Polyptych (Spring) (03:01)
Production: Jatun Risba, 2020/21
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...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2020/21
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...
Jatun Risba - In My Sweetie's Arms (trailer) (06:53 (trailer 02:28))
Production: Jatun Risba & Franco G. Livera, 2020
A still dance in the comfort of nonconceptualityis putting trust in the hands of my sweetie.Turkish delight, honey, greed ...You, Beloved spider, are swallowing downknots of sugar in abandonment.An unruly tongue teases suspicion.Can you taste the bitterne...
Production: Jatun Risba & Franco G. Livera, 2020
A still dance in the comfort of nonconceptualityis putting trust in the hands of my sweetie.Turkish delight, honey, greed ...You, Beloved spider, are swallowing downknots of sugar in abandonment.An unruly tongue teases suspicion.Can you taste the bitterne...
