During events in Croatia hosted by PROSTOR, Domino Association, and the University of Split, Rebekah Modrak will introduce audiences to the work of artist Arijana Lekić-Fridrih as a model of protest against coordinated strikes against women’s rights. Join us for readings of the newly published Arijana Lekić-Fridrih: All Art is a Political Statement (Disobedience Press, 2024):

— May 5, 2025 (7pm): Rebekah Modrak and Arijana Lekić-Fridrih, “Christian Nationalism and Public Protest,” Culture Hub Croatia/PROSTOR, Split, Croatia.

— May 9, 2025 (8pm) Rebekah Modrak and Arijana Lekić-Fridrih, “Political Art and Public Protest,” Domino Association, Zagreb, Croatia.

— May 15, 2025 (12pm): Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Split, Croatia.

The essay introduces audiences to the work of Lekić-Fridrih and, in particular, to her Silent Mass, a performance resisting the “Be Manly” movement, a series of mass prayer events held in Croatian public squares by a battalion of men who pray for the abolition of women’s rights, for women’s “chastity,” and for men’s “masculine authority.” Arijana Lekić-Fridrih: All Art is a Political Statement links the erosion of women’s rights across intercontinental boundaries.

Purchase the book in the U.S. at Disobedience Press, and in Europe at Domino Project.