Island School of Social Autonomy

Island School of Social Autonomy (ISSA) is a place for imagining, experimenting with and cultivating forms of knowledge-production and knowledge-sharing for the “age of extinction”.

“Community (…) is not the outcome of an act of authoritative foundation, nor a gift from nature or its gods, nor the result of management, planning and design, but the consequence of a conspiracy, a deliberate, mutual, somatic and gratuitous gift to each other. “

Ivan Illich, “The Cultivation of Conspiracy”, 1998

Conspirators of ISSA

Srećko Horvat
Franco “Bifo” Berardi
Pamela Anderson
Goran Bogdan
Jelena Ostojić
Bobby Gillespie
Gael García Bernal
Dorotea Held
Robert Perišić
Hito Steyerl
Vedran Velagić
!Mediengruppe Bitnik
Nadežda Čačinovič
!Mediengruppe Bitnik
Saša Savanović
Predrag Kolaković
Hana Jušić 
Marko Pogačar
Renata Ávila
Marko Aksentijević
Martina Horvat
Valerio Baćak
Stipan Tadić
Selena Savić portrait
Selena Savić
Gordan Savičić portrait
Gordan Savičić
Marina
Marina Andrijašević
Luka
Luka Vlahović

“I found myself in the deep heart of the deep sea. It was the fairies themselves who brought me here, on an unkown date when the globe fell asleep and no one could see me. I am in the empire of adventures, in the miracle of events. I finally experienced what the world has forgotten. And I became the owner of a mystery.

Tin Ujević, Nit u srcu mora: Komiža na Visu, 1930

Read ISSA – School of Autonomy Activity Report 2024 [in Croatian]