Naked Life

World premiere 11^th October 2019, Modern Gallery Auditorium, Ljubljana 
Running time 50 minutes. No intermission. 

Concept Olja Grubić
Composer and music selection Eduardo Raon
Music excerpts from Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde – Der Abschied (Pesem o Zemlji – Slovo), Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Solfeggietto
Visual design Olja Grubić
Artistic direction Bojan Jablanovec
Producer Špela Trošt
Public relations Sara Horžen

Performers 
Olja Grubić, Anita Wach, Kristina Aleksova, Sara Horžen, Anja Novak, Ena Kurtalić, Lana Zdravković

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, and possibility of life, individual and collective conditions for development, the power to change them, while visualising through poetic language the intimacy of a human (female) body’s living presence and the dynamics between its physical, psychological and emotional identity. The performance of a "transhumanistic vision of humanism," as the critic Anja Radaljac defined it, in a single continuous and graduated swipe of physical effort, concentrated in a trichotomous (real-symbolic-imaginary) gesture of grating, places the female subject into a physical and symbolic corner of sexual objectification as a consequence of patriarchy and millennia of male domination, which is represented by the starting position of women behind the flowers.With their nudity, with the humorous-and-painful grating of everything phallic that is on display – carrots, courgettes, cucumbers – and with the recordings of fragmented monologues – the performers display multi-dimensional allusions to their own marginality, precarity, impossible conditions for work and creativity, the unimagined fears born from the new eco- bio- and transhumanistic ideologies and finally also to the value relationship to themselves and others (women), with whom they share their space. It is as if this performance opens only the question that must necessarily lead to a collectivist political action: "How to permanently overcome the existing situation of female Sisyphism?"