Opening of the Astrotop_X Main Exhibition

On Tuesday, 5 November 2024, at 19:00, the opening of the main exhibition of the Astrotop_X project will take place at the Xcentre in Nova Gorica.

Astrotop_X is part of the official ECoC GO! 2025 programme and is based on the interplay of PostMobility and xMobil projects. After a well-attended multidisciplinary and hyper-artistic event on 12 July at Ruska jama in the Karst, where a mixture of botany, astronomy and art only began to understand the local damaged but rebellious ecosystem, as well as its-our lust to travel to the exoplanets, Astrotop_X presents a capsule in the main exhibition, which aims to enable the Karst vegetation to autonomously search for a second home among the stars. 

After this premiere, the capsule will travel in the xMobil art and science laboratory, a solar-powered caravan which, in this project, forms part of the closed-circuit system typical of spacecraft. The capsule will thus be inhabited by various other affected ecosystems, while the telescopes will discover a possible Planet B every day - which, of course, will always be too far away for humans to actually visit. But maybe at least plants will make it there one day?

Planned course of the evening:

• 19:00: opening greeting by Mojca Stubelj Ars (and interim announcements by each speaker), address by Marko Rusjan, State Secretary at the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, address by Stojan Pelko, Programme Manager of the European Capital of Culture (ECOC) 2025 Nova Gorica - Gorica, short presentations about Astrotop_X from different aspects of science and art (Doroteja Dolinšek, Andreja Gomboc, Nejc Trampuž, Jože Bavcon, pETER Purg),
• 19:45: exhibition tour and banquet,
• 20:30: stargazing on the staircase platform of the Ed Centre, as this is the time of Jupiter's ascension.