(Friday, 4th July at 12AM)
eliXir is an art-sci-tech research project that combines local foraging, artistic practice, ancient wisdom, and modern technological innovation, connecting communities through the exchange of food and knowledge about it. Hosted on the xMobil platform, it invites you to a triple helix of workshops at Sajeta 2025 – which will take place simultaneously, and at the end we will share the accumulated knowledge and other goodies …
Jatun Risba – After reconnecting with the collective wind-mind of the world through the Nine Breaths purification practice from Tibetan Yoga, we will reconcile with the first and most fundamental eliXir that sustains life on Earth: fresh air. Then, through a series of participatory performances, we will dive into the ecology of perception to rewild, awaken, and expand our senses and awareness.
Jatun Risba (they) is a transmedia artist who weaves ecofeminist and posthumanist discourses through performance, conceptual and relational art. Their practice fosters reciprocity between species by awakening sensory awareness through Vajrayana Buddhist practices and unconventional uses of technology. It evolves along two paths: Arts for Health and Art as Nourishment for the Bodymind.
Uroš Brezavšček – n our daily lives, we are using limited natural resources for heating, cooking, clothing and transportation. But do we know how to efficiently use them? We will take a closer look at the rocket stove and how it allows us to harness all the energy that is stored stored in the wood, and think about the potential of solar energy and how we could use it beyond solar cells.
Uroš Brezavšček is a mechanical engineer passionate about growing his own food and living in harmony with nature and loves to design and build devices that support his vision of self-sufficiency.
Vita Matjac (FloraVita) – On a walk in nature, we will find, observe, pick wild edible plants, immerse ourselves in their scents, tastes, textures, colors and thus get to know them in their fullness.Because they without human influence, they are of much higher quality compared to cultivated ones, and therefore invaluable for humans today, because in addition to their medicinal properties, their collection and learning about them has a beneficial effect on the individual.
Vita Matjac, MA in Sociology, passionate forager, certified herbalist, farmer, has been studying the use of edible wild plants, herbs and mushrooms in everyday nutrition and medicine for many years, and explores the diversity of their use and storage. Through her practice, she explores the process of “domestication” of wild plants, herbs and mushrooms as part of the modern eco-movement and rediscovery of nature’s hidden potential.