Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15378/1848-9540.2025.48.03
On the Zadar Performance Scene, the City, and (Auto)Ethnographic Insights
Juraj Šantorić
orcid.org/0009-0004-7786-8737
; Indipendent Researcher
Abstract
The paper maps acts of resistance within the Zadar performance scene and, through their analysis, reads the atmosphere of the city’s everyday life. The research was conceived as a complement to existing studies and documentation of the history of performance art in Croatia, tracing both the synchronic and diachronic development of Zadar’s performance scene from the post-war 1990s to the present. Finally, the paper offers critical interpretations of the genealogy of Cynic performance art, the paradox of non-integrative benevolence in reflecting on the common good, and the issue of social engagement, which emerges as an extension of the neoliberal politics of sentimentality.
Keywords
performance art, Zadar scene, engagement, politics of sentimentality
Hrčak ID:
342176
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Publication date:
23.12.2025.
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