Meeting the Social Self
A dialogical theatrical intervention performed by actresses Alma Prica and Jadranka Đokić explores how we are shaped by social relations — and how, through our actions, we in turn shape them.
Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, October 2025.
In an authorial collaboration with curator Katharina Schlieben, with dramaturgical text by Vedrana Klepica.
The work Meeting the Social Self, created specifically for the exhibition To Make the World a Better Place (MSU Zagreb, 15 May – 12 October 2025), is conceived as a series of dialogical fragments within a reflection on self-organisation and self-education. The work responds to Andreja’s invitation to immerse oneself in the complex fabric of social relations.
Through the work, different levels of understanding the social are explored: from the compelled observation and recognition of how the social is constituted, through learning about its configuration, to a deeper awareness that we are all an inescapable part of the social fabric. This fabric shapes us, just as we shape it through our actions.
The dialogical fragments are performed by two actresses, Jadranka Đokić and Alma Prica, at five different stations/points within the exhibition space, guiding visitors through an introspective journey across the exhibition’s main thematic sections.
The intervention employs the medium of theatre not as a tool of representation, but rather as an instrument of active thought and feeling.
The text spoken by the actresses was created partly in response to the exhibited works themselves, and partly as a reflection on the broader context of social relations, theoretical insights, and personal introspective impulses. In this sense, the work also functions as a “live radio drama,” in which voice, space, and audience resonate in constant interplay.
Project production:
Curator: Katharina Schlieben / Dramaturgical text by: Vedrana Klepica / Performed by: Jadranka Đokić, Alma Prica / Production: Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, 2025.