Igor Dobričić: To Stand Behind One’s Words

Monday, 30 November 2026, from 3.00 pm to 5.00 pm
ŠKUC Gallery
Public presentation of the author’s working methodologies and concepts
*The presentation will be held in English.

In my public intervention, I will focus on the critical yet ethically ambiguous function of highly truncated literary forms − (pagan) oracles, (religious) prophecies, (philosophical) aphorisms, (political) slogans, (poetic) invocations − and their capacity to reaffirm and/or reactivate the bond between the speaking body and disembodied speech acts.

Rather than offering definitive or categorical answers, I will pursue a set of open questions: under what conditions does the immediate entanglement of viscera and signification retain an emancipatory potential? And at what point does “standing behind one’s words” turn into a delusional operation or reactionary manipulation − one that reinstates subjugation through intensified forms of subjectification?

Organised by: Kino Šiška, NDA Slovenija and 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.