FESTIVAL August 7 - 8, 2025
PROGRAMME:
Every day:
16:00–23:00 Reciklart Art Colony: Electronic Waste (Alkatraz Gallery) [exhibition].
16:00–22:00 Reciklart Exchange Corner: bring something, take something! [communal event].
21:00–24:00 Sangara: Dreamspace (Night Window Display Pešak) [exhibition].
Thursday, August 7, 2025
16:00 Reusing old circuit boards to make lights and stands, Mentor: Maja Pahor [workshop].
17:00 Aerial acrobatics: Aerial silk, Mentor: Mia Miloševič Iglič (Zračni VzGib) [workshop].
17:00 Bicycle repair, Mentor: Jaka Kušar [workshop].
19:00 Group exhibition opening: Reciklart Art Colony: Electronic waste (SI, RS) [exhibition].
21:00 Tricycle Trauma: Bosa (HR) [performance, exhibition].
22:00 Exhibition opening Sangara: Dreamspace (Night Window Display Pešak) [exhibition].
22:00 Exhibition opening: Žoel Kastelic: New Home: (Ch0 Gallery) [exhibition].
Friday, August 8, 2025
16:00 Wire Art workshop by Rebead Upcycled, Mentor: Nata Nozadze [workshop].
17:00 Aerial acrobatics: Aerial silk, Mentor: Mia Miloševič Iglič (Zračni VzGib) [workshop].
17:30 Creating trinkets from electronic waste, Mentor: Ninuri [workshop].
19:00 Digital cleaning, Ecologists Without Borders. [interactive lecture].
20:00 Los Flacos (VE, HR) [performance].*
21:00 Marka San x Fraw Blanka (SI) [performative concert].
Saturday, August 9, 2025
16:00 Small electronic device repair, Mentor: Maja Pahor [workshop].
17:00 Zinkubator: creating zines [workshop].
19:30 Open stage. Apply here: https://forms.gle/ZLEfjSxVo3msujNfA [performance].
21:00 PUF BUF (RO) [performance].*
Sunday, 10. 8. 2025
16:00 Tea Party [relaxing performative musical programme].
16:00 CD sun catchers, Mentor: Jupiter [workshop].
17:00–21:00 Reciklart fair. Applications: https://forms.gle/Z7poou27k91SxzTv9 [fair].
17:00 Reciklart community picnic. [picnic].
19:00 Reciklart Art Colony: Electronic Waste - guided tour [exhibition].
20:50 Human 〜 x Standard Society (SK) [performance x concert].*
21:30 Danijela Zajc: Forest - Excerpt (SI) [performance].*
Sunday, 17. 8. 2025
20.00 Jaka Andrej Vojevec: In the Rhythm of the Algorithm (SI) [performance].
In the case of rain, the festival programme will take place in the Alkatraz Gallery and YHD space.
Production: Društvo Matafir
Coproduction: KUD Mreža
>> PROGRAMME DESCRIPTION
Thursday, August 7, 2025
16:00 Reusing old circuit boards to make lights and stands, Mentor: Maja Pahor [workshop].
We will be making lights and various stands (for phones, tablets, books, etc.) from old circuit boards. We will clean, prepare, and glue the circuit boards to create interesting light fixtures. The frames will be made from used metal hangers.
If you have any old, non-working lights, switches, plugs with cables, or metal hangers, please bring them along. Other equipment will be provided.
Duration of the workshop: up to two hours.
17:00 Aerial acrobatics: Aerial silk, Mentor: Mia Miloševič Iglič (Zračni VzGib) [workshop].
In this workshop, we will learn the basics of aerial acrobatics on silks and rope, including climbing, various warm-up exercises, and fundamental elements. We will also explore the basics of dynamic movement. The workshop is suitable for both beginners and more experienced participants.
17:00 Bicycle repair, Mentor: Jaka Kušar [workshop].
Is your bike stranded due to a flat tire? Did you break your brake wire? Are the brakes on your bike begging to be set correctly? Yes, bikes need to be serviced constantly. Why not do it yourself or, rather, with the help of a professional? Tools and basic materials will be provided!
19:00 Group exhibition opening: Reciklart Art Colony: Electronic waste (SI, RS) [exhibition].
As part of this year's 11th Reciklart (International Art Festival of Recycling and DIY Culture), we are organising for the first time an art colony for female art students from universities in Slovenia and Serbia.
In the days leading up to the upcoming festival, we will be working on this year's theme, "Waste Electronics", under the guidance of tutors from Slovenia and Serbia. All participants will create a work that will be exhibited as part of the festival's group exhibition at the Alkatraz Gallery and later in an exhibition in Novi Sad at SKCNS*. We will also create a group work that will be donated to AKC Metelkova mesto.
The colony aims to bring together and enable (cross-border) networking of students of visual arts through collaboration and socialising in the context of exploring socially engaged themes that have long transcended the confines of countries and small communities and require a broader engagement, which can be addressed on a smaller scale through projects such as the art colony and exhibition.
21:00 Tricycle Trauma: Bosa (HR) [performance, exhibition].
New circus-mime-dance-music performance and exhibition
“There is a misery of the body and a misery of the mind, and if the stars, whenever we looked at them, poured nectar into our mouths, and the grass became bread, we would still be sad. We live in a system that manufactures sorrow, spilling it out of its mill, the waters of sorrow, ocean, storm, and we drown down, dead, too soon...uprising is the reversal of the system, and revolution is the turning of tides.” Julian Beck
"Barefoot, a contemporary circus-mime-dance piece tells a story about two realities, contradictory to each other as reality is to itself: to be barefoot, on one hand means to be in a carefree, timeless state - to be barefoot on the beach, on land, on grass; but, on the other hand, the flip side of the coin of life, it also signifies the social situation of poverty. The scene is completely white - a bakery, surreally filled with dough, hanging dough, small sheets on a row of ropes. The dough is alive, it disintegrates, breaks and, when dried, changes its texture and appearance. The doughy, sticky scent enslaves the audience. The scenes are played out with symbolically important objects from the culture of Bosnia: oklagija (a rolling pin), sofra (a dining and dough rolling table), shargija (a string instrument), and tapan (a double-sided drum). At one point, the triad of performers transforms the rolling pins into flag poles on which flag-dough flags are hung. Flags without insignia, without identity - like the three nations crammed into a collapsing state devoid of integrity. The flags end up hung on the performers’ heads: dough masks denote shapeless faces which can be shaped according to political requirements, and the rolling pins become blind man walking sticks. It is about inscribing state-building systems in the ideosphere, that is, how Foucault determines the organised power of institutions over life in general, by regulating knowledge as a form of state control (biopolitics). As for the soundtrack, in addition to the initial off sounds of the city, the bazaar, its street greetings, everyday life, the play dramaturgically transitions to the flip side of the coin of that community, escalating into the sound machinery of war, which increasingly obscures the sounds of oriental Bosnia - the solitary confinement sounds of shargija (performed by Maxim Weinmann) and tapan (performed by Jasmin Dasović). The horror-vision of war is shaped by the stage image when three performers climb a trapeze, forming a kind of aerial pyramid of human bodies; darkness, gloom, night, the only light coming from a pocket battery with the off sound of desolation of war. ”- Suzana Marjanić
Performing team: Ivana Pedljo, Jasmin Dasović, Maxime Weinmann
Music: Maxime Weinmann and Jasmin Dasović
Sound and Light Design: Jasmin Dasović
Author: Ivana Pedljo
Visuals: Lovro Škiljić / Biblical Violence Illustrations
Special thanks to: Damir Bartol Indoš and Tanja Puklek
Production: Tricycle Trauma
The project was supported by Pogon - Zagreb Centre for Independent Culture and Youth, Močvara Club,
Kultura Nova Foundation and the City Office for Culture of the City of Zagreb
22:00 Exhibition opening Sangara: Dreamspace (Night Window Display Pešak) [exhibition].
We are invited to unpack the dreamscape, the space between nature and a box. Between looking out of the window and opening something that already has an instruction manual. As part of this year's Reciklart Festival, Sangara Perhaj will present the exhibition Dreamscape. It offers a view that is both a scene and a product. Folded over glass, the landscape crosses the boundary between dreams and packaging. Cardboard edges, glittering details, silent creatures among alpine overhangs - is this looking outwards, or inwards? Is it landscape or packaging?
22:00 Exhibition opening: Žoel Kastelic: New Home: (Ch0 Gallery) [exhibition].
Different seaside creatures use the waste found on the shore, each in their own way, giving discarded objects a second chance and a new home. The exhibition presents characters from animated shorts and photographs of garbage washed up on the shore, brought to life with the help of AR technology. The exhibition will also be presented from 15 August until the anniversary of Metelkova in September. More information at: https://www.ch0.org/zoel-kastelic-nov-dom/
Friday, August 8, 2025
16:00 Wire Art workshop by Rebead Upcycled, Mentor: Nata Nozadze [workshop].
In the workshop, participants will create plant pots, key pendants or small vases from used electric wires. Since these materials are made to last and are perfectly flexible for bending into functional shapes, we will create everyday objects from them. Materials we will be using: old phone wires, broken USB cables,
thin electricity wires, copper wires, and internet cables. Duration of the workshop: 2 hours.
17:00 Aerial acrobatics: Aerial silk, Mentor: Mia Miloševič Iglič (Zračni VzGib) [workshop].
In this workshop, we will learn the basics of aerial acrobatics on silks and rope, including climbing, various warm-up exercises, and fundamental elements. We will also explore the basics of dynamic movement. The workshop is suitable for both beginners and more experienced participants.
17:30 Creating trinkets from electronic waste, Mentor: Ninuri [workshop].
In the workshop, we will discover how discarded electronic parts can be turned into original trinkets. Even materials originally meant for entirely different purposes can hold the potential to become jewellery. Materials will be provided at the workshop, but you are welcome to bring along any electronic parts you would like to use. Workshop duration: up to two hours.
19:00 Digital cleaning, Ecologists Without Borders. [interactive lecture].
The digital cleaning service offers assistance in cleaning devices directly on location. After a short theoretical introduction to the importance of digital cleaning, we will help you remove unnecessary files and applications, thereby ensuring greater security and efficiency of devices. Interactive lecture will be held in the English language. We invite you to bring your phones and laptops to put learnt in practice.
The service will be presented by members of the Ekologi brez meja association (Ecologists Without Borders), which this year carried out the campaign Let's Clean Slovenia of Digital Waste. You can read more about the campaign and the association here: https://digital.ocistimo.si/ (in Slovene).
20:00 Los Flacos (VE, HR) [performance].*
After 15 years of independent work, they finally found each other. He is from Venezuela, and she is from Croatia. They followed a completely different path until the moment they met. He was a traveller, and she was dreaming of becoming a traveller. ‘Los Flacos’ are Flaca (Nives Soldičić) and Flaco (Emilio Alcantara), a clown duo that will cheer the audience up with humorous moments and impressive skills. They were united by their passion and love for circus art, and are happiest when they put it all on stage and share their feelings with the audience. In the circus performance ‘Los Flacos’, they combine various circus skills: juggling, rolla-bolla and clowning. Comically and endearingly, they introduce the audience to the world of the circus, possible and impossible, dangerous and harmless, serious and silly. The love story of a local girl and an immigrant.
https://trikocirkusteatar.com/cirkus-express-los-flacos/
21:00 Marka San x Fraw Blanka (SI) [performative concert].
On the Reciklart stage, the duo, Marka San x Fraw Blanka, will present two fresh alternative hip hop projects: The Lost Loft EP (NO KLAN recordings) and Medetaža (Mezzanine) EP (Munje Records).
Fraw Blanka began working in music and on the microphone in 2015. She was part of the band Šlagwerk and, in 2022, released her solo album Stranski učinki (Side Effects) through the independent label Munje Records. You can also hear her on producer albums such as Reperska posla (Rapper Business) (SunnySun), Mise En Place (Shporky), and Morilne Veščine (Murder Arts) (Mirko Grozny). In 2021, she started collaborating with Marka San, and the following year they released their first track, Migrena (Migraine), featured on SEMI BEAT TAPE VOL. 1, a producer compilation by Marka San.
Marka San (Mark Divjak), a talented producer, began paving his creative path with vinyl releases that quickly caught the attention of music critics and audiences alike. His recent achievements include the RX:TX vinyl Axel Holy X Marka San – Chess EP (2023), Fraw Blanka X Marka San – Gloomy Days (official music video, 2023), and the DNO vinyl Axel Holy X Marka San – Hidden Knowledge EP (2024).
Alongside their freshly released EP, the duo will also present remixes of older tracks from Blanka’s solo album Side Effects. Expect a dark and melancholic musical treat.
https://noklanrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-lost-loft-ep
https://frawblanka.bandcamp.com/album/medeta-a-ep
https://markasan.bandcamp.com/track/migraines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8xIasLSOYc
Saturday, August 9, 2025
16:00 Small electronic device repair, Mentor: Maja Pahor [workshop].
A practical workshop where you can learn the basics of diagnosing faults and safely repairing common gadgets such as phones, headphones, small kitchen appliances, etc. Under the guidance of an experienced technician, you will practise soldering, replacing components, and troubleshooting power issues, gaining skills to extend the life of your electronic devices. Bring along any malfunctioning devices and leave with practical know‑how, confidence, and a functional gadget.
17:00 Zinkubator: creating zines [workshop].
You're invited to a drawing jam session and zine-making. Materials will be provided.
19:30 Open stage [performance].
The 11th edition of the Reciklart Festival, in collaboration with the Zračni vzgib project, offers space for 11 performative acts. We invite young as well as established artists to apply. We welcome unfinished acts that need an audience to perfect them, as well as older acts that deserve another showing. We offer a stage, technical support, an appreciative audience, available technical equipment, live musical accompaniment by arrangement, a hot vegan meal and good company. The stage is available for various performative expressions (circus, theatre, music, dance, etc.) of up to 5 min. All presenting performers must come to the technical rehearsal from 16:00-18:00 on the day of the Open stage.
Applications: https://forms.gle/1sZzfYMbPN6APpQF9
21:00 PUF BUF (RO) [performance].*
Puf Buf is an inclusive theatre performance; it is part of the Basca Theatre's programme to make culture accessible to people with different disabilities. Its protagonists are 12 children with hearing impairments. The show premiered in Timișoara at the Basca Theatre in Traian Square on 25 February 2022. Two more performances followed in Timisoara, and in March the young actors took their story on tour to three other cities: Arad, Oradea and Cluj-Napoca. Puf Buf is a theatre performance for children and adults alike, introducing the audience to a journey of wonder, play, and discovery through sounds and colours. Puf Buf is an inclusive theatre performance, created with children from the School Centre for Inclusive Education "Constantin Pufan" in Timișoara, under the artistic direction of actors Costa Tovarnisky, Ana Maria Ursu and Vadim Rusu.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnZA2LdJOv4&ab_channel=AsociatiaSolidart
Concept by Costa Tovarnisky
With: Bălan Alexandru, Borcănescu Angelo, Borchescu Darius, Boți Alessio, Boți Sara, Mic Mihaela, Sârbu Andrei, Serb Larisa
Directed by Costa Tovarnisky, Ana Maria Ursu, Vadim Rusu
Set design: Lia Pfeiffer
Costume design: Elena Mazăre
Music: Gabi Almași
Video projections: Dan Ungureanu
Lights: Cristian Popescu
Counselling, sign language interpreter: Angela Mate
Produced by Basca Theatre.
Sunday, 10. 8. 2025
16:00 Tea Party [relaxing performative musical programme].
On the last day of the 11th Reciklart Festival, we will relax body and mind in a mix of the Reciklart Fair, Reciklart picnic and the Tea Party, which otherwise traditionally takes place at PLAC. We will turn the Square with No Historical Memory at ACC Metelkova mesto into a magical oasis. You can look forward to Psy Chill and progressive trance music. The pot will be bubbling with masala tea DJs: KhorsFm and Vasilij will be rocking you from 4-7 pm and 10-11 pm.
16:00 CD sun catchers, Mentor: Jupiter [workshop].
Do you have old CDs lying around and nowhere to even play them?
We are turning them from dust catchers into sun catchers - a beautiful decoration that will add whimsy and magic to any room!
Bring your old CDs with you :)
The duration of the workshop is up to 2 hours.
17:00–21:00 Reciklart fair [fair].
Traditionally, on the last day of the festival, the Reciklart fair takes place from 5 pm on. Anyone can apply to offer their work - individuals or groups who create any kind of products with by recycling or DIY.
Applications: https://forms.gle/Z7poou27k91SxzTv9
17:00 Reciklart community picnic. [picnic].
Bring some (vegan and/or gluten free) food so we can enjoy a meal together!
19:00 Reciklart Art Colony: Electronic Waste - guided tour [exhibition].
20:50 Human 〜 x Standard Society (SK) [performance x concert].*
HUMAN 〜 is curiosity and wonder. HUMAN 〜 is fun and dance. HUMAN 〜 is the urge to solve problems that cannot be ignored. HUMAN 〜 comes to help because help is needed.
A street sci-fi performance about a dancing alien invasion as a metaphor for historical and contemporary forms of colonialism and cultural assimilation. Innocent sci-fi fun ending with a disturbing reflection on when unsolicited help becomes oppression and how only we can protect ourselves from ourselves, and only consciously and voluntarily.
Author and Director: Zuzana Psotková
Mask production and idea: Michaela Králiková, Jana Ryšlavá
Performers: Michaela Králiková, Jana Ryšlavá, František Psotka, Zuzana Psotková
Music: f/error
Production support: Katarína Jakubovie
Production: PORT o.z.
More info: https://www.humanwave.sk/
21:30 Danijela Zajc: Forest - Excerpt (SI) [performance].*
The Forest project is the third and last part of Danijela’s the personal trilogy entitled Niti PraGozd (eng. it is a play of words: Threads/Neither Treshold/Primeval - Forest). The trilogy was developed by the author’s first performance Threads, in 2019, continued with the performance Treshold, in 2021, and concludes with performance Forest. The author deals with the "engine" of social change i.e. non violent radicalization, and the position of individuum within society, focusing on the position of women. She questions the relationship between individualization and collectivization of society, deals with the
dynamics between social and personal crises and look for parallels between the individuum and society. Performance takes one of the eco-feminist aspects, mainly from one's own position and placement in the social context. The Forest will deal with one's own position in a majority still patriarchal, neo-capitalist consumer society. The purpose and goal will be to show today's social functioning, i.e. a systemic capitalist system doomed to self-destruction. And the absurdity of this situation, in which the major part of society is aware of it, nevertheless does not require radical change (movie Don’t look up is a good synonym for this situation). In addition to the author, 5 performing dancers/performers and two life musicians are part of the performancet. The title of the project “Forest” seeks symbolic parallels with the importance of preserving trees and forests. According to some data, this is even more important than reducing fossil fuels. Author started developing the project in 2022 in Timisoara (Romania) where she worked with 7 local women performers and dancers and presented Forest - work in progress. In august/september 2023 Danijela worked on solo parts of the project in Circus Residential Network in Rijeka. Research was focused on how waste materials – waste PVC plastic could be used combined in aerial acrobatics. Residence and work in progres peresentation was part of Periskop festival organised by Prostor Plus Assosiation. Show was presented to public in November 2024, Ljubljana, Španski Borci.
Idea, coreography, direction, performer: Danijela Zajc
Adviser for direction: Jaka Andrej Vojevec
Live music: Maja Pahor in Pia Skušek
Light design: Hotimir Knific
Program flyer design: Nevena Aleksovski
Costumography: Katarina Zalar
Video recording and editing: Petra Hrovatin
Technical asistance during the show: Jaka Andrej Vojevec, Gala Jarc
PR: Gala Jarc
Production: Danijela Zajc
Coproduction/coorganisation/partners: Asociatia Solidart (Temišvar, Romunija), Cirkuška rezidencialna mreža, Prostor Plus (Reka, Hrvaška), Društvo Matafir, Društvo Mismo Nismo
Thanks to: Branko Potočan, Broline, PLAC – Participativna Ljubljanska Avtonomna Cona
Support: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, 2022-23
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOR01QigBuI
Sunday, 17. 8. 2025
20.00 Jaka Andrej Vojevec: In the Rhythm of the Algorithm (SI) [performance].
Comedy of (Artificial) Intelligence
Ever since ChatGPT took over the world, we are increasingly raising questions in our everyday lives that were until recently only the stuff of science fiction films and novels. Examples of AI-generated paintings and photographs beating human creations and winning competitions demonstrate that algorithms are already, to an extent, competing with humans, even in areas that used to be considered exclusively human domains. But where does this leave us? Will machines one day overtake us and even displace us? Will we use artificial intelligence to upgrade ourselves into superhumans, so that the difference between man and machine will virtually disappear? Or will artificial intelligence merely wipe out millions of jobs and deepen the economic divide? The performance In the Rhythm of the Algorithm tests the boundaries between machine and artist, between computational reason and human creativity, and attempts to integrate different forms of artificial intelligence into a direct, live theatrical experience. Can artificial intelligence perform on stage without having a body? Can it feel, inspire and move? And above all, can AI be entertaining?
Conceived and directed by Jaka Andrej Vojevec
Text: creative team and artificial intelligence
Performers: Gal Oblak, Sara Šoukal, Jaka Andrej Vojevec, artificial intelligence
Music: artificial intelligence
Visual design: artificial intelligence
Technical support: Jurij Podgoršek
Produced by Matafir Association
Premiere: November 11, 2024
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𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮 𝘴𝘰 𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘨𝘰𝘤̌𝘪𝘭𝘪: 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦, 𝘔𝘖𝘓 - 𝘰𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘬 𝘻𝘢 𝘬𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘰, 𝘔𝘖𝘓 - 𝘰𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘬 𝘻𝘢 𝘮𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘰 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘷𝘰 𝘙𝘚 𝘻𝘢 𝘬𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘰
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺: 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦; 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘫𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘫𝘢𝘯𝘢, 𝘋𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦; 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘫𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘫𝘢𝘯𝘢, 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘖𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦; 𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦
*This presentation is happening with the support of Perform Europe as part of the Spreading the Roots project.
Perform Europe, supported by the European Union, is a funding scheme for the European performing arts sector. It facilitates international networking and supports inclusive, diverse, and eco-friendly touring projects across the 40 Creative Europe countries. Perform Europe emphasises practices rooted in sustainability and inclusivity, aiming to transform the performing arts sector and ensure a balanced distribution across the continent.
Perform Europe is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and implemented by a consortium of six organisations: IETM – International network for contemporary performing arts, European Festivals Association (EFA), Circostrada, European Dance Development Network, Pearle * - Live Performance Europe and IDEA Consult.
