Ivčo Ružić ~ Keywords: diy, t4t, afa, irl, xoxo, wtf, nsfw, tbh, hmu, gtg

Ivčo is all over the place in form, aesthetics, content and the physicality of their presence. Alas, it all connects rhizomatically through their exploration of the art of living and art as an impulse, as a thought process, as communication. They mostly dwell in autonomous spaces and work across collapsed time and simultaneity, spending their time on political and social organizing and facilitating workshops mostly through spontaneous collectivity. They started off toying with art through animation and the making of miniatures and puppets, but quickly shifted into life-size irl space creation, gathering hosting, connecting. They are currently working through some frictions with film and video, crafting paintings and sculptures and inbetweens, and again playing more intensely with performance, curious about anarchist and self-organized approaches to production. The artisting, activisting, and researching are bleeding and overlapping, and their writing practice is one of collective reflection, resistance, and call for action.

In their work and life they are kneading through, mostly human, interactions with space, trying to break the dichotomies of public and private, inside and outside, natural and built, as well as collective organization of life, creation of differing communities and relations, and everything that comes along - bodies, queer, food, and domesticity. In their aesthetic they usually succumb to maximalism, kitsch and camp, which they construct from found and recycled materials. They live by DIY and their art is most easily accessible in the gallery of the street – on a lamppost, abandoned wall, trashcan, etc.

*Learn more about Ivčo Ružić's 20 minute performance roughhousing for CHOREIA ~ DAI's Aeroponic Acts 2025 at Centrale Fies in Italy. 

*Learn more about Ivčo Ružić's written MA thesis (DAI, 2025): prints – imprints – fingerprints: towards an anarchist phenomenology of the self

*During their journey with DAI, Ivčo Ružić made significant contributions to: COOP Summit 2024 ~ PRU-DONCE: Cinema on the Radio as well as COOP Summit 2025 ~ to live by ear, and the eye will follow

*Follow Ivčo's 'Life after DAI' via instagram