ZOOM + IGRALKE FESTIVAL 2026
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✺ Friday, 2 October 2026, 19:30 @ Filodrammatica

A conversation on censorship, institutions and spaces of resistance
Oliver Frljić & Ana Miljanić

– in the framework of the Refleks program

* in Croatian / Serbian

How far apart are Croatia and Serbia today, and how dangerously close are they when it comes to restricting artistic freedom? Are we witnessing the same process in two different forms, or local manifestations of a much broader, global assault on the autonomy of art? Behind the rhetoric of “protecting national values,” “responsibility,” “the public interest,” and “acceptable content,” how often do we find carefully constructed mechanisms for silencing critical art?

Photo: Borut Brozović / Drugo more (Flickr gallery)

What are the most effective ways of disciplining art today? Censorship? Political and institutional pressure? State-sponsored campaigns to discredit artists? Cutting off access to funding and venues? Interfering with artistic programmes and personnel decisions? Or, perhaps most effectively, creating an atmosphere in which artists know in advance what they are allowed to say and what they are expected to leave unsaid?

Oliver Frljić will discuss all this and much more with Ana Miljanić of Belgrade’s Centre for Cultural Decontamination, one of the most important spaces of resistance to nationalism and war in Serbia during the 1990s.

 

* FREE ADMISSION

 

The event is held as part of Drugo More’s year-round program Refleks