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The „Osmiza“ is a temporary institution traditionally found in the Karst region, where agricultural producers serve and sell their products directly at the site of cultivation.

The name derives from the Slovenian word osem (“eight”), referring to an imperial decree of 1784 that permitted winegrowers and farmers to sell their goods for eight consecutive days directly from their premises.

Clanz is a place of production.
It approaches the osmiza not only as a historical format of distribution and hospitality, but also as a cultural model. Sound, discourse, artistic production, and social exchange emerge through resonances with the local context and are periodically opened to the public through situated forms of presentation. In this sense, Sonic Osmizas function as figurative tastings: temporary moments in which freshly developed artistic processes, sonic materials, and collective constellations become publicly accessible.

The Sonic Osmizas are nomadic and context-dependent. When hosted directly at Clanz, they are often accompanied by classic osmiza elements such as homegrown wine and simple food served at cost-covering prices — reactivating, if only temporarily, the original social function of the site.