Extra.Collective
was born in a context of dispersion—geographical, emotional, and temporal—and has been shaped by the curatorial practices of Vanessa Cimorelli and Tara Ulmann, whose shared attention to affects, relational processes, and alternative modes of organization informs its foundations. Over the years, their collaboration took form through discontinuous exchanges and mediated presences, where communication became a site of experimentation rather than a mere tool—echoing Cimorelli’s research into sustainable curatorial temporalities, care, and collective narratives, and Ulmann’s commitment to radical curatorial freedom grounded in autofiction, critical sentimentality, and resistance to institutional norms. This unstable yet intimate dynamic shaped a way of thinking and creating in layers, interruptions, and sudden emergences. Extra.Collective puts this mode of functioning to the test of a physical places, within a fragmented temporality and with bodies, approaching the exhibition not as a simple act of display, but as an environment in which visual, performative, and discursive practices contaminate, circulate, and transform through contact with one another.