Eva Garibaldi

about


projects


  1. The Stones Only Appear To Be Non-Living
  2. Fantastic Glitch Swamp
  3. Salinarum
  4. To Be Like Water
  5. Shifting Ecologies
  6. The Unstable Ground
  7. Pillnitz Chronotopes Tour


publications

  1. Muddy Signals, Radio Worm
  2. The Unstable Ground, Soapbox Journal
  3. Vračanja (Returning), Robida 10
  4. Girlhood is a Spectrum













I mainly work in duo Swamp_Matter! (website under construction)
Fantastic Glitch Swamp, 2025Swamp_Matter, 3-channel audio-visual installation, AR sound walk (Meadow, Echoes)

Wetlands, as liminal zones between land and water, defy simple definitions.

        These vast areas of perpetual slow decay and uncontrollable growth play a crucial role in regulating climate and terrestrial processes in deep time. They have long evoked both eerie and magical visions of worlds beyond reality on one hand and the desire for control, exploitation, and transformation of this resistant terrain on the other.


photos by Tina Stariha


        In Fantastic Glitch Swamp, elements of the marsh reclaim the urban landscape of present-day Ljubljana. The swamp seeps back with full force into what was once a diverse and fluid environment, devastated over centuries of the human colonisation of wetlands. This multimedia composition unfolds as a sound walk with augmented reality stations along the banks of the Ljubljanica River, while parts of the project are also presented as a video and AR installations in the Kamera exhibition space.

        By entangling diverse media and elements – from field recordings of the bog’s unheard sounds to chimeric virtual beings – the work evokes a multitude of cultural, disciplinary, and technological attempts to contain the swamp, revealing their intrinsic gaps. Through glitch, it dismantles the limiting ideas and imaginaries of human exceptionalism, opening up a fantastically unstable zone beyond the ossified fantasy of the swamp, fluidly passing between multiple bodies and dimensions.  






Authors: Swamp_Matter
Sound artist: Karmen Ponikvar 
Programming: Jernej Koprivnikar
Curatorial support: Maja Burja
Photos by Tina Stariha, Eva Bevec

Co-financed by: Department of Culture of the City of Ljubljana
The project was selected through a public call and realized as part of the Cultural Euro 2024 program.