Participants
Olja Grubic
Olja Grubić, is a visual artist and performer whose practice is mainly focused on the basic conditions of existence. By staging her own body, she explores the possibilities of freedom within the patriarchal and capitalist oriented society. She puts herself into an engaged position and often uses elements of humour and satire to cut into the structure of everyday life.
Via Negativa
VN is a platform for research, development and production of contemporary performing arts. We focus on researching and designing various stage performance...
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Anita Wach
Anita Wach is a Polish artist who started her career at the Kielce Dance Theater and also danced at the...
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Kristina Aleksova
Kristina Aleksova (1984, Ljubljana) finished her ballet training at the Ljubljana Ballet and Music Conservatory and went on to become...
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Nina Goropečnik
Nina Goropečnik (1993) graduated in 2017 from Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of...
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Barbara Kukovec
Barbara Kukovec - an actress, a performer and a dancer who has recently diversified into visual media and especially photography....
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Ena Kurtalić
Ena Kurtalić graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, Department of Acting, through her master's degree from the...
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Eduardo Raon
Eduardo Raon has a classical musical education, but is nevertheless a versatile musician. It was perhaps due to his interest...
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Naked Life - Performance by Olja Grubic (Via Negativa)
Naked female figures are looking for a place in the audience, on stage, along the walls of the venue. The show is dominated by grinding vegetables; performers grate carrots, zucchini and cucumbers in sexually marked positions. Woman as a housewife and sexual object in a single act. At the same time, fragments of the performer’s mental stream unfold on the soundtrack.
‘Naked Life’ invites us to rethink what it means to be a living species in a living world, to have a body, conditions of existence, possibility of life? Ideology is not the answer. Life is beyond that. Through poetic language, “Naked Life” visualizes the intimacy of the living presence of the human body and the dynamic between its physical, mental and emotional existence.
After each performance, the performers write their own stream of thoughts that arise during the scene of grating vegetables.
NAKED MONOLOGUES
CREDITS
Idea and concept: Olja Grubić
Performers: Olja Grubić, Anita Wach, Kristina Aleksova, Sara Horžen, Anja Novak, Ena Kurtalić, Lana Zdravković
Music: Eduardo Raon; contains also fragments from works by Gustav Mahler: Das Lied Von Der Were – Der Abschied and C. P. E. Bach: Solfeggietto
Visual design: Olja Grubić
Artistic direction: Bojan Jablanovec
Producer: Špela Trošt
Public relations: Sara Horžen
The performance was conceived by Olja Grubić in the Via Negativa laboratory for contemporary performance art – VN Lab 2019.
