Through the Erotic Gaze: Healing and Power

Art screening event and open discussion with Jatun Risba exploring the superpowers of the erotic: a source of connection, transformation, and aliveness. A deep dive into desire, trauma, and ecosexuality, for a shared reflection on pleasure, consent, and vulnerability.

Bio(s):

Jatun Risba is a migrant transdisciplinary artist from Slovenia whose work engages ecofeminist and posthumanist discourses through performance and transmedia art and practices of abjection, détournement and art intervention. Their practice cultivates reciprocity between species by altering & awakening sensory awareness through Vajrayana Buddhist practices and deviant uses of technology. It is profoundly informed by their lived experience of radical self-healing from Multiple Sclerosis (2012–2019). They hold a BA (Hons) from NABA, Milan, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Art & Science from Central Saint Martins – UAL. Risba’s work has been presented internationally across Europe, as well as in Singapore, South Korea, Iran, and the USA. Their texts have appeared in numerous online and print publications, including Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture and Body, Space & Technology Journal.

Franco G. Livera is an artist from Italy who has been using photography and video as his preferred media since the 1990s. He explores the dynamics of disease in all its forms: mental, physical and spiritual. Risba and Livera have been collaborating regularly since summer 2019.