Sa\u0161a Karali\u0107\u00a0studied language and literature at the Faculty of Philosophy,\u00a0University of Novi Sad,\u00a0Serbia,\u00a0and graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, where he now teaches Fine Arts.\u00a0In his work, Karali\u0107 is primarily interested in the relation between public discourse and ideology and the way they reinforce a certain belief system.<\/p>\n
The research: <\/strong>The \u2018Public speech\u2019 project<\/strong><\/p>\n In today\u2019s struggle for (political) dominance in the public sphere, opinions are constantly being confounded with scientific facts and ideological directives with analytical reasoning. In this process, which slowly starts to define our age, the language seems to be the most afflicted. The state of the public discourse is no longer measured by humanist merits of knowledge and credibility but by external, often irrational, forces. Those forces that seem \u2018incidental\u2019 and \u2018uncontrollable\u2019, often presented as the \u2018voice of the people\u2019 or the \u2018struggle for equality\u2019, confirm in fact the old and lay the foundation for the new power structures. Therefore, I find it important to point out that the argument of Pierre Bourdieu\u2019s is still relevant today, as a reminder to those engaged in the contemporary power struggle \u2013 \u2018public opinion is the opinion of those worthy of having an opinion\u2019.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Public speech\u00a0<\/em>project will try to imagine space beyond the deteriorating public discourse and research possibilities of (artistic) action and gesture replacing the outworn forms of language. I’m particularly interested in political potentials and consequences of activating the public space through the presence of the \u2018collective body\u2019.\u00a0Assemblies of physical bodies, according to Judith Butler, have an expressive dimension that cannot be reduced to speech, for the very fact of people gathering \u201csays\u201d something. This implies a new understanding of the public space of appearance essential to politics.<\/p>\n