La Merda: On what you might need to do to be permitted to sit at the “winners’ table”. In Conversation with Cristian Ceresoli and Silvia Gallerano

Vanja Baltić completed her PhD research in Visual, Performing and Media Arts, Department of the Arts, University of Bologna and in Theatre Science and Intermediality, Faculty of Arts, Department of Literature, University of Antwerp (joint PhD degree). Her PhD research proposes a retracing of the concept of the tragic through the adoption of excess in the poetics of contemporary theatre direction. During her academic studies, she has focused her main interest on twentieth-century and contemporary theatre direction and dramaturgy. She currently works as a teaching tutor at the Department of the Arts at the University of Bologna.