SONICA - Festival of Transitory Art
SONICA 2021 EXHIBITION: TUOMAS A. LAITINEN: HAEMOCYANIN
26.09.2021 - MSUMLjubljana
Tuomas A. Laitinen is an artist who works with moving image, sound, light, glass, chemical and microbial processes, as well as algorithms to explore the entanglements of multispecies coexistence. Laitinen composes situations and installations that...
SONICA 2021 Exhibition: Boundless Bodyminds
01.09.2021 - GalerijaEqurna
Labyrinth gives way to skin opens with the exhibition Boundless BodyMinds, featuring metaphysical artworks grounded in a common understanding of embodied cognition, which rhizomatically draw from a synthesis of ancient and contemporary spiritual, technological and...
SONICA 2021: Labyrinth Gives Way To Skin
26.09.2021 - Ljubljana
Sonica’s 2021 theme Labyrinth gives way to skin is taken from the title of a composition by Maryanne Amacher for Merce Cunningham Dance Company, serves as a launching point for an exploration of the invisible...
Sonica 2020 Exhibition: Jenna Sutela, Holobiont
22.09.2020 - MSUM
Finnish artist Jenna Sutela seeks to identify and react to precarious social and material moments, often in relation to technology. Her work Holobiont (2018) considers the idea of embodied cognition on a planetary scale, featuring...
Sonica Exhibition 2020: Paradise Haunted Garden
08.09.2020 - Ljubljana
SONICA 2020 EXHIBITION: PARADISE HAUNTED GARDEN Group Exhibition, Equrna Gallery 8.-27.9.2020 Exhibiting artists: Clara de Asis, Peter Kutin, Alois Yang, Svetlana Maraš, Simina Oprescu The exhibition presented new works by five international artists working at...
Sonica 2020: Paradise Haunted Garden
22.09.2020 - Ljubljana
The 12th edition of the Sonica festival, under the theme Paradise Haunted Garden, evolved around 19 events that took place at eight venues in Ljubljana between 22 and 26 September 2020, featuring 16 artists from...
SHAPE platform & XLR8R announce two-week collaboration
11.11.2020 - online
A sort of a two week online festival will present live video streams or exclusive audio/video material from a different artist each night. Tune in every day at 19:00 CEST.
Sonica Sound Garden Koper
15.09.2020 - Koper
The all-day Sonica Sound Garden event in Koper featured: the ambient sound installation Sound Garden by Svetlana Maraš, the light-sound installation Wave by Martin Bricelj Barag and the concert Širom. Baraga – Wave modular light...
SONICA & Level Up: Lucrecia Dalt, beepblip
29.08.2020
SONICA x LEVEL UP: LUCRECIA DALT BEEPBLIP Odprti oder na Muzejski ploščadi Sobota, 29. avgust 2020 www.sonica.si SONICA s preddogodkom festivala VRT, KI GA PREGANJA RAJ združuje moči z organizatorji koncertne serije Level Up. Tudi...
SONICA 2019: SENTINELS
23.09.2019 - VariousLocations
This year we are looking forward to five days of music: live sets, AV live concerts, DJ sets, electro-acoustic avant-garde, ambiental expeditions, a sound walk, workshops, talks, and also an exhibition and a film. We...
SONICA Festival 2019
23.09.2019 - VariousLocations
SONICA Festival 23 – 29 September 2019 We are announcing a new edition of festival SONICA: Sentinels which is going to happen at the last week of September 2019! FESTIVAL TICKETS: Early-bird limited: 25€ –...
SONICA 2018: PRE/OBČUTLJIVOST
20.09.2018
SONICA 2018 – 10th Anniversary: Over / Sensitivity 24-29 September 2018 In the last week of September Sonica Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary. To celebrate properly we’re going to have a birthday party /...
Sonica x Pritličje: CATNAPP
16.08.2018 - Pritlicje
SONICA Festival’s tenth anniversary edition pre-event at Pritličje! SELEKCIJA #5: CATNAPP Catnapp combines R&B, rap, breakbeat, pop, drum and bass and other genres resulting in an intense and sometimes nostalgic atmosphere with fat beats. Songs...
SONICA Festival 2017: SCAPES
25.09.2017 - razlicnelokacije
SONICA Festival 2017: SCAPES 25 – 30 September 2017
Sonica Festival | 25-30 September 2017
25.09.2017 - Ljubljana
The 9th edition of Ljubljana’s Sonica festival brings a week of concerts, audiovisual performances, artist talks and walks through natures of various kinds. The festival exhibition evolves around the theme Scapes meaning spaces of escape,...
Sonica x Digital Dish: Yuri Landman
07.10.2016 - MoTALab
We’re announcing a last minute presentation / workshop by the last year’s Sonica and Ljudmila artist in residence Yuri Landman. During his resiadency, he not only led three workshops (we built Malevich’s strings, the Hacked...
Tim Hecker: Love Streams & Christian Kroupa
27.09.2016 - KinoSiska
Tim Hecker returns to SONICA within his Love Streams tour! Christian Kroupa will open the night with a preview of his upcoming release at ASONIC.
SONICA pre-event: Takami Nakamoto & Sebastien Benoits: REFLECTIONS
10.09.2016 - KrizevniskaCerkev
A parisian duo that embraces the idea of Bauhaus of the future. Highly innovative work with sound / light / structures brings a powerful electrified performance to the scenic Krizevniska church!
Sonica Festival 2016: First confirmed artists
10.01.2016
We’re happy to announce our first confirmed artists for this year’s Sonica Festival, which will take place from 27 September to 1 October 2016 in Ljubljana! The 2016 edition, titled SONIC.ARCHITECTURES, will be dedicated to...
SONICA’16 – OPEN CALL
20.08.2016 - MoTA
SONICA festival is looking for proposals for sound and light interventions onto one of Ljubljana's hidden modernist architectural buildings!
Ljubljana in June: Clark
19.06.2015
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Sonica 2014
Sonica festival 2014 is again focusing on diverse artistic practices which all involve transitoriness in the medium of image, sound, object, space and concept. The main theme of the festival is the thin line of...
Sonica 2013
SONICA Festival of Transtitory Art 15–30 November 2013; Various venues, Ljubljana, Slovenia The fifth edition of SONICA FESTIVAL brings a bunch of fresh urban interventions, sound and intermedia installations, performances, workshops, audiovisual concerts and...
Sonica 2012: Third Culture
Sonica 2012 theme was »third culture«, which raised an investigative question about a new culture, the lifestyle of which reflects a junction of technology, science and popular culture. In 2012, Sonica Festival is more...
Sonica 2011: Transitions
Instead of being only a standard exhibition, the festival tries to find ways to explore how can become a laboratory where residential artists create new works and activities during the festival. In 2011 we had...
Sonica 2010: Real Virtuality
In Sonica 2010 edition we researched and presented projects which deal with the paradigm of real virtuality. Among other, we researched the type of subject, space and time generated by social networks as well as...
Sonica 2009: POST
The main theme of the first edition of the festival was POST – indicating an exploration of sonic future and artistic purification. Selected artworks had a common search for their own meaning, surpassing hyper media...
SONICA – Festival of Transitory Art
SONICA is conceived as a showcase of MoTA’s yearly program. It is an experimental festival that questions the ways of representation, exhibition formats, crossing borders between digital and analog, object and performance. Each edition of...