Jatun Risba is a transdisciplinary performance artist who uses art as a vehicle to transform fear, ignorance and secrecy to alchemize healing, growth and self-empowerment. Their practice cultivates reciprocity between species, awakening sensory awareness, in dialogue with wisdom traditions and the subversive use of contemporary technologies, creating life-affirming artworks that challenge and expand perception. https://jatunrisba.com/
Jatun Risba (they/them) is a migrant transmedia artist from Slovenia. Their work engages with ecofeminist and posthumanist discourses through performance art, conceptual art, relational art, and practices of abjection, détournement, and art intervention.
Their practice cultivates interspecies reciprocity by altering and awakening sensory awareness through Vajrayana Buddhist practices and deviant uses of contemporary technologies. Their research explores the essential role and artistic potential of six “life matters” on Earth: air, water, carbon, soil, chlorophyll, and (menstrual) blood and devises experiences and tactics for overcoming the Anthropocene.
Their practice evolves along two main trajectories: Arts for Health and Art as Nourishment for the bodymind. Risba’s art is profoundly informed by their lived experience of radical self-healing from Multiple Sclerosis (2012–2019). They are the founder and co-facilitator of the global Live Art project Be-coming Tree.
As an artist, Jatun has exhibited and performed widely, including at Galerija O.K. in Rijeka; Crow's Nest in Baltimore (USA); Gigi Rigliaco Gallery in Italy, Studio Alta in Prague; Opens platform in Singapore, Prague Biennale Re-connect festival (2023-25); the Meta.morf 2022 Trondheim Biennale in Norway; the Cloud 9 pavilion at the Bangkok Biennial in 2020; Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan; Y Gallery, Kersnikova Institute and Cirkulacija2 in Ljubljana; and Pixxelpoint festival (2008, 2019, 2025).
Risba delivered artist talks, lectures and workshops internationally: at DRHA 2024: Banal devices at the University of Music and Theatre Munich; the Akademia Sztuk Pięknych in Wroclaw; the University of the Underground; the Goethe UNI Frankfurt; the Moving Image Research Lab in Montreal; the Strasbourg UNI; the Taboo, Transgression & Transcendence in Art and Science conference (2020, 2023, 2025). Their research papers and interviews have been published in various online and print publications, including Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, the Body, Space & Technology (BST) Journal, Utsanga.it online magazine, and ecoartspace.org.
They received the a-n Artist Bursary in 2019, a fellowship from the ERSTE Foundation in 2020 and the Social Art Award in 2021.
Risba holds a BA (Hons) degree from NABA–Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan (2009), and a PG Cert in Art & Science from Central Saint Martins–University of the Arts London (2020).
