“Single Acts” is the second workshop of the “Showing up” project, which explores performativity through a series of intervention in public sphere. Developed on the intersection between philosophy and visual art and co-created by artist Saša Karalić, philosopher Željko Radinković and architect Snežana Vesnić, this transdisciplinary project will result in a performance, conference and film. “Single Acts” introduces interventions by participants of the workshop as well as lectures by Snežana Vesnić, Željko Radinković and Zoran Erić.

Location: IFDT, Kraljice Natalije 45, Belgrade

Program:

10 –11 may 2023 – Interventions in public space

12 may 2023:

13.00 – 13.20 – Introduction by Saša Karalić i Željko Radinović

13.20 – 13.50 – Lecture by Snežana Vesnić “From Act to Appearance: Disjunctions of the Real”

13.50 – 14.20 – Lecture by Željko Radinković “Understanding and Performativity“

14.20 – 14.30 – Break

14.30 – 15.00 – Lecture by Zoran Erić “ Dérive: Theory and Practice of the Situationist International“

15.00 – 16.00 – Presentation of scenarios and performances by the workshop’s participants

16.00 – 16.10 – Break

16.10 – 17.30 – Discussion

Biographies:

Zoran Erić is an art historian, curator, and lecturer. He holds a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Media, Bauhaus University in Weimar. His focus is on theoretical research, workshops, and international projects which deal with issues derived from the meeting points of human geography, spatial-cultural discourse, theory of radical democracy, and political ecology.

Snežana Vesnić, Ph.D., is an architect and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade. Her theoretical and practical work focuses on architectural philosophy and aesthetics, especially on the production of “architectural concepts.” She is author of the book Arhitektonski koncept: objekt stvarnosti i subjekt iluzije (2020).

Saša Karalić is a visual artist and writer. The reoccurring subject in his work is the relationship between public discourse and the prevalent ideology. His first novel “Three signs of a circle” is published in 2020 by Belgrade’s Geopoetika. Karalić is a regular lecturer at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and a guest lecturer at the University of Arts in Bern.

Željko Radinković is a senior research fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade. He studied and received his doctorate at the University of Stuttgart in Germany. He mainly deals with phenomenology, hermeneutics, philosophy of technique, philosophy of culture, biopolitics. He translated numerous philosophical texts from the German language.

The event will be photographed and recorded due to publishing on social networks, the website and other information channels for the purpose of promoting the event and activities of the Institute.