Anđelković Džambo Ljubica: Tijelo otpora Satana Panonskog

Ljubica Anđelković Džambic: Satan of Panonski's body of resistance: Self-destructive body art in Croatian performance art and performance practice

Who was Satan Panonski? 'The madman' who cut himself, punk legend of the alternative scene of the former state, multimedia artist prone to extremes, man from the existential edge, forerunner of queer, GG Allin imitator, charming manipulator, brutal warrior or uncompromising fighter for ideals?

No one has left behind so many urban legends, speculations, controversies, different interpretations and polarized feelings from adoration to loathing. The mythologizing of his character has long since crossed the boundaries of a subculture, and even today fierce debates about his life and guardianship are taking place on social networks.

Poet, body art performer, fine and textile artist, leader of the Punk Prisna Porodica, which gathered a team of like-minded people 'from Vardar to Triglav', he identified himself as follows: "By nationality, a friend, by profession a punk".

With this research, for the first time, review, analysis and classification of the creativity of multimedia punk artists Ivica Čuljko/Satan Panonski. The genre diversity of this work is accompanied by the marginal and controversial artistic status and the exceptional influence of life circumstances on the creation of works of art, therefore the main topic is approached in an interdisciplinary and dual way: in the first part of the book, the entire creation is classified into literary creativity, performance types self-destructive body art, musical performance and anti-fashion performance, and other types and genres (art works and mail art, audio-docudrama), and the interpretation is focused on finding the characteristics of the poetics of resistance based on on the aesthetics of shock and the characteristic artistic processes that can prove Čuljko's conscious approach to creativity.
In the second part, the research approach starts from defining Ivica Čuljko's creativity as the art of personal trauma and communication of one's own truth, and looking at his artistic position through the position of a socially stigmatized person. After establishing the terminology of applied performance, Čuljko's artistic work is analyzed through belonging to five socially marginalized groups: mentally maladjusted artists, convict status, queer status, belonging to a subcultural movement and the stigma of a warrior.
Final research deals with the issue of mythologizing this artist, Pannonian Satan as an inspiration to other artists, and gives a historical overview of the performance of self-destructive body art in Croatian performance art.