Pisci u centru ili tko nam brani lijepo/dobro/sveto u umjetnosti?
Writers in the center or who defends the beautiful/good/holy in art?

Summary/Abstract: I was happy when, in 2022, I was invited to be a member of the committee in the Competition for a Drama Text organized by the Croatian National Theater in Mostar. Firstly, because the program of the Mostar theater has become very canonical (which means plays that say that the world has no meaning), so I hoped that they wanted to ease the canonical pressure a little and find some good texts, and that's why they call me to help them with that. Namely, I am known as a person who advocates our right to the beautiful/good/holy in art, and as a serious professor I can explain my arguments. I can defend what was banished from the canon and explain how and why it happened to us. I did that in my book Truth and lies about the canon or how we lost the right to the beautiful/good/holy in art due to our worldview (Citadela Libri, Zagreb, 2021), and I can also do it for an individual drama. All the more so since it was publicly written in the competition that it "establishes HNK Mostar as an institution that wants to provide continuous support to the development of contemporary dramatic text as an essential component of Croatian cultural and national identity". Canonical blackness has neither space nor identity, only trendy darkness with wearable themes, so it's no wonder it alienates the audience. I really hoped that they gathered the strength to resist the all-powerful blackness.

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