On Vital Materiality ...

Jatun Risba's new peer-reviewed article, "Vital Materiality in the Art Film Series A Tree Doesn't Fall Far From the Mountain", has been published in the latest issue of Amfiteater: Journal of Performing Arts Theory (Vol. 14, No. 1, 2026), dedicated to Ecology and the Performing Arts.

The paper examines the four-part art film series A Tree Doesn't Fall Far From the Mountain (2022–2023), co-created with Franco G. Livera, alongside its accompanying Live Art screening events, Poetics of Relation. Drawing on performance studies, new materialism, eco-aesthetics, and Édouard Glissant's philosophy of Relation, the article explores how performance-based filmmaking can cultivate embodied ecological awareness, foster more-than-human collaborations, and propose new participatory models of artistic production and collective world-making.

The publication originates from the international symposium Ecology and the Performing Arts, held in the autumn of 2025 at the Slovenian Theatre Institute in Ljubljana (SLOGI).  This special issue, edited by Dr. Maja Murnik, brings together thirteen contributions by international scholars and artists and is dedicated to the memory of philosopher and new media theorist Janez Strehovec.