Jatun Risba

Jatun Risba is a transmedia performance-centred artist whose practice cultivates reciprocity between species by altering & awakening sensory awareness through wisdom practices and deviant uses of contemporary technologies, in order to re-pair Nature and Culture. Jatun regularly collaborates with other human, non-human and more-than-human entities so as to create art projects that expand the view and add flash, weight and layers of complexity to the atomized experiences of the real. Art becomes a tool to spark creative strategies and mind-opening conversations about ethics and ecosocial justice that impact the way of inhabiting our inner & outer territories.

ARTIST STATEMENT: My art research is inspired by the world’s wisdom traditions, such as Vajrayana Tibetan Buddhism and Slovene pre-Christian religion, and explores unconventional uses of contemporary technologies, such as mobile phones, WiFi internet, sensors and microcomputers. Performative ritualism is used as a vehicle for unveiling the poetry and magic within everyday reality, in order to re-pair modernist divisions between Body and Mind, Nature and Culture, etc. Collaboration with other beings is central to my art. It allows me to challenge and transcend personal echo-chambers for the sake of creating works that expand the view and add flash, weight and layers of complexity to the atomized experiences of the real. Another important characteristic of my practice is the cultivation of reciprocity and kinship with all forms of life. This is done by altering & awakening human sensory awareness, through physical and mental training and/or use of technology, based on the realization of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all phenomena.