Extramural 2026. Opening program

How to connect two institutions, the Museu Tàpies and the Gran Teatre del Liceu, while simultaneously deconstructing them so that both become part of a programme titled Extramural, that is, outside the building, beyond the margins, past the edges? The project resucítame (Resurrect Me)—which includes performance, public debate, memory walks, posters, a programme of films and an art intervention on the façade of the museum—is unbounded yet firmly rooted in the intersection of borders, between life and death and back to life, through time and chronologies, crossing genres and inserting languages. The best way to begin such a project is with a fleeing female voice, a cappella, uttering lines by Mayakovsky that might encapsulate this project: “Resurrect me / if only / because I am a poet / and I longed for the future.”

The programme of activities for the 2026 edition of Extramural kicks off on 4 July at 7 pm at the Museu Tàpies (Carrer d’Aragó, 255) with a prologue by artist Erika Michi delivered in front of Dora García’s work resucítame (Resurrect Me), installed on the façade of the museum.

The audience will then be invited to follow Erika Michi, on foot, to the Foyer at the Gran Teatre del Liceu to attend performances of Corocuerpo (Chorus/Body) and El Bicho (The Bug), between 8 pm and 10 pm.

A performance of the second chapter of El Bicho—described as “a timeline with a parasite, an experimental seminar for the embodiment of a text”—will be held in the Foyer at the Liceu at the same time on the following day, 5 July.

Image:  Introducing El Bicho at the Centro Cultural Condeduque, Madrid, 2022, produced by El Amor. Photo by © Santiago Carrión   for Madrid Destino