Performance of Resistance in Croatia: A Chronotopic Review from the 1990s Onwards

I follow the performance of resistance in performance art in Croatia from the 1990s – i.e. from the disintegration of Yugoslavia – in correlation with the visibility of the performance of resistance in public spaces, with an emphasis on the individual guerrilla action by Igor Grubić (1998), which is considered the first action and provocation in Croatia of the 1990s that was triggered by civic self-initiative. Due to socialist legacy and the war, it was only in 1998 that an action could occur in Croatia that would be as powerful action in terms of media influence as had been the case in the revolutionary year of 1968 in Yugoslavia with the action Red Peristyle, upon the aura of which Grubić’s Black Peristyle was built. I conclude this review of the performance of resistance in Croatia from the 1990s onwards with the story of Black Nylon Peristyle as the civic performative reaction on the occasion of the accession of Croatia to the EU.