Poetry Expo 26
/ 10 February 2026
Love and Things
Live performing of two poems in Serbian and English
Poetry Expo 2026
Ivan Pravdić has been performing poetry for 30 years. An expressive and complex style is now documented in front of a large club audience during a slam competition. The first poem (in the Serbian language) presents shy-shifting courting in a witty and funny way. The other poem (in the English language) speaks about how materialism gravitates all meaning and aesthetisations into a rigid cumulative cramp of devouring even the most baroque language.
The project is part of the subthemes Writing After – Catastrophe, Memory, and the Archive of Loss, Disrupted Realities – Poetry and the Politics of Truth, Unruly Forms – Experiments in the Poetic Wild, The Poetics of Care – Intimacy, Tenderness, Repair.
Author
Ivan Pravdić
Ivan Pravdić, DoA, full professor
Born in 1975. in Belgrade, Serbia.
Poet and performer. Author of artistic books: "Collected Pravdić - pentateuch" (poetry, 2003, SKC Novi Sad and BuyBook Sarajevo), "Wahrheit macht frei" (poetry, 2005, Library Žarko Zrenjanin), "Two Distinclively Different Novels" (prose, 2023, BKC, Novo Miloševo) and few expert books and editions on Arts, Technology, Media...
Holds second (2022) and third (2022) place at Slam Poetry State Competition of Serbia.
Head of Doctoral Studies, Chairman of the Council at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia. Head of Polymedia study group at Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies at the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia. Associated member of Center for Interdisciplinary Performative Arts at Birmingham City University, UK.
With performances, drama, audience participation and texts he has participated at festivals and symposiums in Germany, Canada, the UK, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Portugal, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Turkey and the whole ex-Yugoslavia.
Creates and develops Time Design.
