The Labour of Panic Damir Gamulin

The design of the book The Labour of Panic by Goran Ferčec with illustrations by Siniša Ilić aims to emphasize the internal rhythm and spatiality, but even more the performability of the text. The Labour of Panic was written as part of a theatrical production of the BADco collective and as such was performed in the “erased space and suspended time” of Grobničko polje and the University Hospital in Blato, Zagreb. The text has a performative character, which was to be emphasized by the typographic design and layout of the book. The composition of the letters suggests walking, stopping, stumbling, pausing, emptiness and silence, while taking care not to interrupt the continuity of the book’s „performance“.

Damir Gamulin

Petar Milat, Miljenka Buljević (editors)

Multimedijalni institut, Kulturtreger, Zagreb

11/2020