Sonica International Festival of Transitory Art

Sonica is a festival of (electronic) music as well as sound and experimental art. In a way, it is conceived as a showcase of the annual programme produced by the hyperactive MoTA Museum of Transitory Art. Its experimental nature questions exhibition and staging formats, crossing borders between art and theory, object and performance. Sonica was launched in the year 2009.

In the past, Sonica has presented artists like Tim Hecker, Rashad Becker, Emptyset, Marina Rosenfeld, Herman Kolgen, Ryoichi Kurokawa and Random Logic.

Festival format, venues and residents

Sonica is an attempt to transform a classical exhibition space into a field of events, performances, workshops, and lectures. It is a temporary laboratory established on the crossing of visual art, media and sound art and research, consisting of production and research residencies, exhibitions, performances, and public interventions, with a special focus on public presentations and talks.

The festival traditionally utilises different Ljubljana venues like for example Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, the Museum of Modern Art, Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre, the MoTA Point/LAB, the Slovenian Cinematheque, Tovarna Rog, and Klub K4.

External links

Gallery

Martin Bricelj at Cukrarna Palace, Sonica International Festival of Transitory Art, 2017.

Gregor Zemljič (of Random Logic) and Rashad Becker conversing during the Sonica Festival in 2015

The visual duo Izland, aka Gašper Milkovič Biloslav and Marko Vivoda, ran a workshop on analogue visuals at Sonica, 2015

MoTA LAB first opened its doors during the Sonica Festival in 2016. The place then exhibited site-specific installations by Staš Vrenko, Nonotak (FR), Nikola Uzunovski (MK), Anne Katrine Senstad (US) and others.

For the Sonica International Festival of Transitory Art's closing night, MoTA opened its new space to the public with the Sonic Pavillion exhibition, 2016.

Open-air event produced by Pritličje, Sonica International Festival of Transitory Art , 2018.

Luka Zagoričnik at Slovenian Cinematheque, SONIC.ARCHITECTURES Symposium, 2016.

The Sonica International Festival of Transitory Art concluded in the peaceful surroundings of the Tivoli park with soundwalk Walking the Aphelion by Irena Pivka and Brane Zorman, 2016.

A light installation, set up by the duo Nonotak at MoTA Lab during the 2016 edition of the Sonica Festival

Franck Vigroux and Kurt d'Haeseleer performing at Slovenian Cinematheque, Sonica International Festival of Transitory Art 2017.

Moderator Luka Zagoričnik and the three speakers were joined onstage for a discussion by Matt Spendlove aka Spatial, SONIC.ARCHITECTURES Symposium at Slovenian Cinematheque organised by MoTA Museum of Transitory Art, 2016.