Original scientific paper
Bloody Performance and the Body of Resistance: Satan Panonski
Ljubica Anđelković Džambić
orcid.org/0000-0003-3818-6552
Abstract
This work is about the artistic work of Ivica Čuljak, better known as Satan Panonski, who is considered to be the pioneer of autodestructive body art in the history of Croatian performance art. Taking into account the controversial status of his creation, the work analyses the artistic characteristics of his stage performance and other forms of artistic activity in an attempt to incorporate them into the historical context of Croatian and world performance from the beginnings of dada in Vinkovci to body art of the 1990s. The key notions and genre determinants of his creation are music performance, body art, lesionism, the body of resistance, performative poetry, shock aesthetics, ritual aesthetics of the victim, behaviour art, mail art, anti-fashion performance and total art. The work questions the artistic and personal reasons for creation, the communication with the audience and media, the manipulation of the facts as a possible artistic means as well as the general perception of the artist’s creation through the mythological comprehension of him and his work. The purpose of this research is to re-evaluate the artistic personality and work of Satan Panonskig as well as to position him more clearly within the history of Croatian performance by connecting the basic types and characteristics of performance art, using the methods of analysing various available sources from the original works (texts and recordings) to secondary records by Čuljak’s associates about his artistic work.
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151997
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Publication date:
1.11.2015.
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