Extramural 2026. Opening program

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 7.30 pm at the Foyer at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, with performances of Corocuerpo (Chorus/Body) and El Bicho (The Bug), and the participation of Erika Michi.

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.

On July 6 the opening program will conclude with a dialogue between Frau Diamanda and Diego Marchante, in collaboration with social producer Mescladís, at 6.30 pm at the Foyer del Teatre Lliure de Montjuïc and the second performance of Corocuerpo at 8 pm at plaça Margarida Xirgu.

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