Extima

Living being in a living world

Extima is a performance cycle that has its conceptual beginnings in the performance Naked Life ( 2019) and continues with its projects to slide through the questioning of what it means to be a living being in a living world today. Answers to this question in contemporary times slide incredibly fast through different emphases. Extima detects them in situations of our intimate involvement in the social sphere that inevitably marks us as individuals. Sometimes we perceive it very directly, but more often the dominant ideology is quietly and imperceptibly nested in the reflection of our existence in society.

Extima observes how this internalised ideological dogma is gradually becoming our intimate need in the formation of our own identity and the basic notions of social concern at the level of family and interpersonal relations – whether it is the question of women’s autonomy or the socially loosened norms of all forms of violence. This loop enables the establishment of increasingly rigid ideological patterns and autocratic political systems, and the regression of society towards extremely dogmatic answers to the question of what it means to live and how to be alive. 

The normality established by the dominant political system is increasingly “vaccinating” our brains, our perception of the world we live in and our projections of a “better” future, a “better” life, a “better” person, a “better” society. Extima wonders whether in these generic projections and in our intimate perception of life there is still space for a living being in a living world.

Conceived by
Olja Grubić

Devised and performed by
Anita Wach • Andrej Fon • Barbara Kukovec • Eduardo Raon • Kristina Aleksova • Lana Zdravković • Loup Abramovici • Nina Goropečnik • Nohemi Barriuso • Olja Grubić • Rok Kravanja • Špela Škulj • Vid Drašler

Photo and video documentation
Marcandrea Bragalini • Vid Hajnšek • Vid Uršič

Producer
Špela Trošt

Venues and partners
+MSUM Ljubljana • International Centre of Graphic Art, Ljubljana • Španski borci Cultural Centre, Ljubljana