Dalmatian Vinko Barić (1980) is a trained painter by education and profession, as well as a comics artist (six comic album), a musician and the father of one of the rare Croatian superheroes, Lavanderman. In the underground scene, he is better known as an ardent fan of the period in which he was born – during the rise of punk and new wave music, which so fatefully marked the transition between two social systems, socialism and capitalism.
In 2016, on the same stage as part of Stripolis, he presented his then brand-new comic album Adventures of a Baroque Man. This time, the words and sounds will be dedicated to his recently released encyclopedia, an alphabetical overview of musical performers who were active in the area of the former Yugoslavia in the period from 1977 to 1987.
There were quite a few: on 240 pages, the author captured 440 of them in his visual-factographic memory. More famous and some still alive in god-knows-what kind of reincarnation, some long extinct, and some of which you have never heard of. Of all those listed, 87 of them were active in the territory of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia. The author’s self-published book (300 copies) will sell out again, similar to what happened with his first project, the monograph Hrvatski punk i novi val 1976-1987 (2011), and might be reprinted years from now. It was released at the end of November 2023, and the author has already presented it on a regional tour in Zagreb, Belgrade, Split, Makarska, Osijek, Pula and Rijeka. The last stop will be Kino Šiška.
After a conversation with Vinko Barić, which will be moderated by the former director of Kino Šiška Simon Kardum and Slovenian encyclopedist Igor Bašin, the author will take to the stage for half an hour as part of the electro-punk tandem Naporno Suicid. Then it’s time to sell out.
Organisation: Kino Šiška
Free admission.
