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Boris Bakal is theatre/film director, actor, intermedia artist, curator and writer. Throughout 40 years of his career, he authored multiple projects, performances, lectures, installations and multimedia creations which have been presented at the festivals, exhibitions and events all over the world, including ZagrebDox, Bologna Cultural Capital of Europe 2000, Steirischer Herbst, Bollwerk Beluard International, Eurokaz, BITEF, Interferences, Thealter, Hunting Season, Prague Quadrennial and MESS. He is visiting scholar, researcher and lecturer at: NYU, Stony Brook University, Columbia University and many others. He is a co-founder of several artistic and activist platforms and associations, e.g. Shadow Casters, Flying University, Orchestra Stolpnik, Croatian Antiwar Campaign and Theatre of Obvious Phenomena.