Igor Dobričić: To Stand Behind One’s Words – Workshop
Monday, 30 November 2026, from 12.00 pm to 3.00 pm
ŠKUC Gallery
Tuesday, 1 December – Friday, 4 December 2026, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
MSUM Seminar room
seminar
* The seminar will be held in English.
Free admission. Registration required.
Additional information and registration at info@cofestival.si
Igor Dobričić, dance educator, dramaturg, and essayist, will use the workshop to explore the relationship between language and body − more precisely, the body’s commitment to its statements. He will investigate proto-performativity, which ties the currency of statements directly to physicality, to life. In a world of fake news, this is an extremely relevant field of inquiry.
To Stand Behind One’s Words seeks to examine the signifying and performative force implicit in this seemingly self-evident formulation. In the “time of the now” where speech acts are getting fabricated to exist and circulate without the speaker − detached from bodies, contexts, and consequences − the ethical bond that once entangled the speaking body with the spoken word appears to be rapidly dissolving.
What role can artistic practice play in addressing this condition? Should it contribute toward, adapt to, or resist such a dissolution? What might an artist’s visceral responsibility toward speaking truth − and nothing but the truth − look like today, and crucially, in whose name is that truth spoken? Through collective inquiry and practical experimentation, the seminar invites participants to reflect on writing as an (dis)embodied act that generate effects, obligations, and risks.
Organised by Kino Šiška and NDA Slovenija, with the support of the EU programme LLB.
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Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
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