NiANSA x SONICA x
live performance / artist talk
We’re thrilled to announce a unique collaboration during NiANSA 𝟐𝓴𝟐𝟓: a three-day residency in the luminous karst landscape of Rakov Škocjan, co-curated and initiated with SONICA Festival x SHAPE+ Platform.
Artists Clarice Calvo-Pinsolle aka Lamina, Ana Šćuka, and Maša Knapič will converge in this immersive valley to forge a site-specific, live performance/installation piece, deeply rooted in the environment.
Drawing from locally excavated clay deposits and the valley’s natural acoustics, their collaboration will manifest as a living sound ecosystem, with hydrophones capturing clay sculptures dissolving in water, liquid clay emitting viscous vibrations, and DIY kinetic mechanisms translating mechanical motion into rhythmic abstractions and structured noises. What begins as structured instrumentation will gradually unravel, somewhat mirroring the karst terrain’s own cycles of erosion and transformation.
Over three days in Rakov Škocjan’s karst landscape, the artists will develop a site-responsive sound work culminating in a Friday golden-hour performance right within Niansa’s main deep-listening zone.
Witness clay forms transform into living soundscapes - their dissolution captured by hydrophones - while mechanical rhythms and kinetic elements trace fractured temporalities. This real-time sonification of materials in flux will emerge directly from the environment itself.
LAMINA (SHAPE+)
Lamina is the musical project of Brussels-based French artist Clarice CalvoPinsolle. Her name echoes a creature from Basque mythology — half-human,
half-animal — who lives in forests, caves, and near streams. Much like this
mythical figure, Lamina evolves within a nocturnal, organic, and ever-shifting
sonic universe, shaped by inner landscapes where raw textures, liquid effects,
and field recordings intertwine.
Her work is rooted in a deeply ecofeminist approach, particularly inspired by hydrofeminism, a philosophy that regards water as a force of connection, memory, and transformation. Water, a recurring element in her compositions, becomes a carrier of emotional and sensorial resonance, a living material with which she engages in dialogue. Her pieces form imaginary sound ecosystems that are fluid and vulnerable, inviting sensitive and introspective experiences.
Lamina has released her music on labels such as Complex Holidays, Mus Joutra, Wabi-Sabi, Orila, and Mappa, and recently released her first vinyl record on Twin System.
Lamina is an artist of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union and Pro Helvetia.
Her work is rooted in a deeply ecofeminist approach, particularly inspired by hydrofeminism, a philosophy that regards water as a force of connection, memory, and transformation. Water, a recurring element in her compositions, becomes a carrier of emotional and sensorial resonance, a living material with which she engages in dialogue. Her pieces form imaginary sound ecosystems that are fluid and vulnerable, inviting sensitive and introspective experiences.
Lamina has released her music on labels such as Complex Holidays, Mus Joutra, Wabi-Sabi, Orila, and Mappa, and recently released her first vinyl record on Twin System.
Lamina is an artist of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union and Pro Helvetia.
ANA ŠČUKA
Ana Ščuka (1998) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana (2022). She is self-employed in culture and works as a craftswoman and creator in various fields. At the sustainable clothing brand Made in Anselma, the ceramics boutique Juha, the ceramics studio Foh and is an active user of the Garage on Metelkova in Ljubljana. She explores materials and their potential in design, artistic expression and the general reuse of discarded materials. In addition to her craft skills, she also focuses on performance art, sound and musical instrument design.
Her work was shown abrod as well as in Slovenia where she works and creates. She is the recipient of the Young Creator Award Vallauris and the Primavera Charter.
MAŠA KNAPIČ
Maša Knapič completed her studies in painting at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. Drawing from a fixation on images and the exhibition medium, she creates works referencing stage sets to highlight event/s absence. She explores the boundaries of control and autonomy. Her works spans site-specific installations, using different media as props to question the relationship between the part and the whole, the visible and the invisible, and the viewer as a witness of decentralized narratives. She’s part of 2orde, a curatorial collective with Carmen Santesmases, and co-founded of Das Garage, a nomadic exhibition space, with Neža Perovšek.
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This program of NiANSA2k25 is co-produced with MoTA - Museum of Transitory Art, Festival SONICA Institute in collaboration with SHAPE+ platform
for innovative music and interdisciplinary art.
*SHAPE+ is a European platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art co-funded by the European Union and Pro Helvetia. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.