During the Truth Serum performance the performer sits on a chair in a half-darkened room, and truth serum is injected into him. Visitors enter one after another and have the right to one question, to which the subject will give a truthful answer.
One of the accepted definitions of truth is the condition of being in accordance with facts, or reality. But all individuals have their own truths, which are different from those of others. We are not talking about simple, ordinary and accepted truths, like those of maths, rather of more complex, philosophical and ethical, truths, which directly relate to a person’s purposefulness, existence, ethical behaviour and morality. The phenomenon of accepting lies as truth (like political and media s...read more
Božidar Katić is a multimedia artist, born in Zagreb in 1983. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2008. In his work he takes up social and political issues. He has had performances and exhibited at solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad. He has produced several public sculptures, a number of interventions in public spaces, and has won several prizes. His works are to be found in the Deutsche Telekom Art Collection. He lives and works in both Zagreb and Berlin.