We kindly invite you to our upcoming event “Introspekcija”, an audiovisual performance by Bass Jansson,
on Thursday, November 13th at 20.00.
Come experience the hidden corners of a mind under pressure, the quiet panic, the irrational fears, the
obsessive thoughts that loop and the moments of regret that remain long after the event is gone. The private
punishments we give ourselves when no one is looking. The things we keep silent because they just feel too
heavy to share.
Introspekcija is an audiovisual performance that reveals the inner world; especially the darker, more negative
experiences we tend to keep to ourselves, likely out of shame, guilt or fear. This work wants to confront the
silence behind these emotions directly: to show it, share it, and break it open.
By creating a spatial portrait of the protagonist’s inner landscape, the performance places the audience inside
a triangle of imagery; as if inside the head of an anxious person. Live performed music moves through
multiple speakers and amplifiers, forming an immersive audiovisual environment that brings this inner world
to the surface.
Bass Jansson is an artist, musician and performer who loves to connect different mediums together to explore
new forms of immersive experiences. He combines hardware electronics, custom software and audiovisual
media to create interactive art installations and live performances. He holds a BSc in Audio Design from the
Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU, 2017). After exhibiting work in the Netherlands, including at Big Art in
Amsterdam, he relocated to Slovenia, where he became a member of Cirkulacija 2 in 2024 to continue his
practice there.
This project is supported by the City of Ljubljana, Department of Culture.
Still fresh:
Author and performer: Benjamin Zajc
Artistic advisor and MC: Ajda Schmidt
Photographer: Voranc Vogel
3 November 2025
20.00
Reservations are required to attend the event. Please send an email to: benjamin.zajc@gmail.com
Intimacy is an uncertain negotiation between spectacle and sincerity, between aggression and care, between public performance and private gesture. It happens somewhere between a party and a nervous breakdown, between celebration and catastrophe. It is elegant, possessing all the qualities of expected refinement. But things have a way of not staying elegant for long. What do we really share when the usual codes of comfort and politeness break down? Perhaps only some sparkling wine, the décor, and a few questionable life choices wrapped in performative art.
Benjamin Zajc’s latest performance, too, unfolds as an artistic moment, but also as evidence that he still hasn’t started going to therapy. It’s driven by a desire to isolate emotion, to search for that primary something that must remain hidden in society so it doesn’t scare people. The result is an attempt to understand what happens when that emotion nonetheless escapes; Intimacy is a neatly arranged nervous breakdown, a mix of self-reflection, performance, and a somewhat suspicious way of spending one’s free time. It plays with the boundaries between empathy and embarrassment, between the need for connection and the horror of actually achieving it.
There’s a chance you’ll find yourself in a situation where you feel compassionate, confused, and slightly tempted to run away. But that’s a normal response to intimacy.
Benjamin Zajc (1997) is a practical dramaturg, critic, and performer. Since 2020, he has been employed as a dramaturge at the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre. He publishes his thoughts on the performing arts in various professional magazines, anthologies and playbills, and has also published reviews on various online portals. His reviews are currently published in the daily newspaper Delo. He is a member of the selection committee for the international biennial festival of contemporary puppetry arts LUTKE and an external advisor for the international program of the Czech festival Spectaculo Interesse.
