With support from ArtPower Belarus, Belarusian artist and researcher Sviatlana Talatai took part in the international conference Explorations on Sound and New Media Art: Urgencies, held in Porto, Portugal, on 5–7 November 2025.
Selected as one of the speakers, she presented In Search of Belonging: Sound, Identity, and Exile in Artistic Practice, a performance-based research presentation exploring sound, exile and the search for identity in artistic practice. Her contribution combined a live narrative, video excerpts and personal artistic reflection.
The conference brought together researchers, artists and new-media practitioners from different countries working at the intersection of sound art, politics, ecology and contemporary technology. It was Talatai’s first appearance as a speaker at an international academic event.
Participating enabled her to bring a Belarusian cultural perspective to an international professional audience, establish new contacts and expand opportunities for developing her artistic and research practice.
