Shadows above my window
An online gathering around the hydro/terra/atmo_spheres with Robertina Šebjanič & guests

Online on ocean comm/uni/ty HERE.

Part I: Shadows Above My Window

Online screening of Shadows Above My Window_Mislinja 238 km2 Hydro/Terra/Atmo_Sphere(s) 

Part II: Around the hydro/terra/atmo_sphere
Round table and Q&A with Robertina Šebjanič and guests Sabina Oroshi, Irena Plešivičnik, Dr. Lučka Kajfež Bogataj, moderated by Petra Linhartová.

Part III: Echoes of Sound Ecologies with Diffractive Ensembles

Looking back on the residency project and the activation series Sound Ecologies.

Presentation of the ongoing project Diffractive Ensembles for Oceanic Listening by Nina Blume, Raquel Ledo Doval, Denisa Půbalová, and Pablo Torres Gómez, the Sound Ecologies stipend recipients, followed by a Q&A.

Robertina Šebjanič, based in Ljubljana, is an artist and researcher whose practice moves through the thresholds of ecology, (geo)politics, and art, attuned to aquatic worlds. Her award-winning works navigate the intertidal zones between species and bring the submerged voices of oceans and rivers to the surface. She uses the term “aquatocene” for human impact on aquatic environments. Recognized by Prix Ars Electronica, the STARTS Prize, and Falling Walls, she has lectured at Stanford, TBA21-Academy’s Ocean Space (Venice), and the UN Ocean Conference (Nice), and exhibited at Ars Electronica (Linz), Tribeca Immersive (New York), and Kunstgewerbemuseum (Berlin), among others.

Dr. Lučka Kajfež Bogataj is one of Slovenia’s pioneers in climate change research. She is a full professor and teaches at the Biotechnical Faculty in Ljubljana, while also lecturing at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics and at the Faculty of Architecture. Since 1996, she has headed the Center for Biometrology at the Biotechnical Faculty. For 16 years now, she has been a member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In 2007, for its efforts to raise public awareness of the fatal consequences of atmospheric warming, the IPCC received the Nobel Peace Prize, and thus Lučka Kajfež Bogataj, as part of the IPCC team, became a joint recipient of the Prize. Her research focuses on climate change and applied meteorology, especially the impact of weather and climate change on plant production and humans.

Sabina Oroshi is a Croatian curator, art historian, and writer based in Novigrad, where she works at Museum-Museo Lapidarium. Her curatorial practice spans independent and institutional contexts, with a focus on experimental exhibition formats, institutional critique, and working from cultural peripheries. Her projects and writing engage with ecological relationships, embodied knowledge, and the ways artistic practices challenge conventions of representation. Selected projects include SúnPoíēsis: From Ego- to Eco-Centrism through Art (Kunsthalle Trier and Museum of Contemporary Art of Istria, 2024), Nourishment Ties (Culture Hub Croatia, 2025), and Sediments of Time – Microtemporal Ecologies (Art Centre, Zagreb, 2026). She is also co-curator of Vlasta Delimar: Check if you are alive (2026–2027), a multi-venue anti-retrospective.

Irena Plesivcnik works at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška (Slovenia), where she is responsible for cultural project management and public relations. She has nearly 20 years of experience across various fields of culture, including contemporary visual art, ethnography, art-house cinema, literature and music. Her professional background includes work in international, national and municipal public institutions, as well as in Ljubljana’s independent cultural sector. After 25 years in Ljubljana, she has recently returned to the Koroška region, bringing with her first-hand experience of both central and regional cultural environments.
 

Diffractive Ensembles for Oceanic Listening by Raquel Ledo Doval, Denisa Půbalová, Pablo Torres Gómez, and Nina Blume is a multisite artistic research process and live radio experiment that listens with the ocean’s turbulent heterogeneity. It unfolds across Amsterdam, the North Sea, the Wadden Sea, and the Pacific coast of Colombia, each anchored in a specific oceanic relation, from data infrastructures to toxic contamination. A decentralized broadcast brings these sites into contact through diffraction and reverse forensics. Selected for the OCEAN / UNI Spring 2026 Activation series, the project was praised by the jury for its conceptual rigor and its potential to grow into an open sound archive on slow environmental violence.

Shadows Above My Window_Mislinja 238 km2 Hydro/Terra/Atmo_Sphere(s) is an ongoing artistic research project exploring rivers, forests, oceans, clouds, and data as interconnected ecological systems. Moving across different geographies, the project investigates how water, atmosphere, and more-than-human life shape one another through environmental change, memory, mythology, and listening. Water and air currents, and ferns growing from soil and forest floors, function as parallel systems of sensing and awareness. In Slavic mythology, ferns are linked to invisibility, hidden knowledge, and moments of transition in midsummer. In this work, they act as land-based witnesses to slow violence and resource extraction. Attuned to flows, signals, and transformations, Shadows Above My Window invites a shift in perception, where rivers, forests, and atmospheric currents emerge as active agents of sensing and memory.

Shadows Above My Window is co-produced by TBA21–Academy, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška (KGLU), Slovenj Gradec (SI), and Institute oN Rizom, Ljubljana (SI).

The Ocean-Archive.org Digital Residency is a digital fellowship opportunity that investigates the potential of storytelling and transdisciplinary collaboration within and beyond community and/or archival practices. The 2025/26 edition ran alongside OCEAN / UNI as an opportunity to develop a participatory project centered on sonic investigations and on concepts, understandings, and interpretations of biodiversity, as part of the Activations titled Sound Ecologies. 

OCEAN / UNI: Spring 2026 Plural Seas, Porous Futures, and the concept of Digital Residency and Activations are developed within the broader framework of the MEDiverSEAty project and supported by Ars Biologica (Budweis 2028, CZ).