Gotta Be God is a condensed poetic trilogy that explores the dialectics of yearning toward a fractal Absolute. The work asks where the human resides amid chaotic nature, unstable histories, and an uncertain mind.
The video component follows transformations of the author’s meditative body within natural landscapes. Through the multiplication of the image, these bodily figures become totemic – at once mesmerising and unsettling.
The musical layer, composed by Ivan Pravdić, oscillates between outward and inward movement, combining pompous structures with syncopated dissonances. Together, image, sound, and text form a meditative yet disruptive inquiry into transcendence, fragmentation, and human presence.
The project is part of the subthemes Writing After – Catastrophe, Memory, and the Archive of Loss, Symbiotic Futures – Ecopoetics in the Age of Extinction, Disrupted Realities – Poetry and the Politics of Truth, Hybrid Selves – Gender, Identity, and Posthuman Intimacies.
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.
