Now I can get the fuck out of here, now I can go

A musico-performative undertaking that permits the concert form to be experienced in a manner at once unburdened and yet captivating—an ambulatory passage through the sensations of contemporary quotidian life, delicately unfurling from the interlacing of Primož Čučnik’s poetry, the finely attuned vocal renderings of Nataša Živković, and the layered sonic landscapes conjured by the ensemble under the direction of Tomaž Grom. No single element—be it the interposed video projections or the fragments of performative gesture—claims primacy; rather, they coalesce as shards of a shared presence, converging into a cohesive totality that both speaks and resonates across a multiplicity of registers. Even when the stage is strewn with objects and the hall suffused with human bodies, space and intimacy persist between them. This concert is a performance above all in the sense that it plays—not as exhibition or display, but as playfulness itself: exploring shifting meanings in words, oscillations between sound and image, and objects freed from their original purpose and set into new motion.

Duration: 70 min.
English friendly

The Sploh Institute, which produced the project “Now I can get the fuck out of here, now I can go”, operates in Ljubljana and is engaged in publishing and education in the fields of music, theatre, and intermedia arts. Additionally, it serves as a platform for artists, curators, researchers, and dreamers alike. The Institute’s main focus lies in developing, presenting, and reflecting on musical practices that touch upon improvisation, unconventional contemporary composition, and experimentation with sound and technology.

“Now I can get the fuck out of here, now I can go” exemplifies a subtle hybridity that makes no effort to transcend genres, emerging instead from the idea that in today’s world everything already exists as a form of “hybridity,” a “confusion of objects and words” to be perceived, engaged with, and playfully manipulated—turning the game back upon oneself, and in doing so, finding strength.

— Jaka Bombač: Z mehko hibridnostjo nad borzo besed, Aplavz.art, 18. 3. 2024

The project brings together prominent figures from contemporary art, including theatre, dance, and music: bassist and composer Tomaž Grom, performer and choreographer Nataša Živković, pianist and composer Polona Janežič, harpist Eduardo Raon, and brothers Jošt and Vid Drašler, who work at the intersection of jazz, improvisation, and noise music.