PLAZA PRO­TO­COL: ATMOSPHERING

Appearing at a site suspended between troubled industrial histories and futures of urban development, Plaza Protocol communes with the winds and the Sun. Movements of air and natural light act here as both physical effects and symbolic triggers or suggestions. Atmosphere forms, emerging from the threshold between physical reality and imagination, linking the external and internal.

Objects, instruments, apparitions and other artifacts encountered in the building and its surrounding area conjure atmospheric influences and modulations, form micro-climates and psycho-vortexes, seek patterns or mark and make the places where the atmosphere shifts and spirals. Together, they generate a liminal area, suggesting a new protocol of perception—between fact and fiction, function and meaning, physics and magic, reason and superstition, environment and psyche—warping and weirding reality beyond these divisions.

Plaza Protocol has been developing exhibition situations and opening »portals« in various transitional sites since 2020. It has been exploring ways to “reimagineer” the plots and protocols that shape the way we relate to shifting, volatile environments, conjuring different visions of reality and future.

12 – 22 November 2025 @ Cesta IX. Korpusa 106, Solkan / Nova Gorica

Artists: Živa Božičnik Rebec, Ištvan Išt Huzjan, Staš Kleindienst, Andrej Škufca, Tom Winkler, Neja Zorzut

Curated by: Tjaša Pogačar in collaboration with Neja Zorzut and Andrej Škufca

Organiser: Festival Pixxelpoint (Kulturni dom Nova Gorica)

Production: Šum / Co-production: Zavod Projekt Atol