Through the lecture performance "Desirable Difficulties: In Self-Sabotage as a Generative Artistic Practice", Ivar Roban Križić explores the notion of self-sabotage – a concept situated at the intersection of artistic practice, historical gesture, and philosophical reflection.

Starting from the idea that artists sometimes intentionally introduce an error, rupture, or pause into their own process, the lecture examines how such acts can be understood not as destructive, but as openings: towards new ways of listening, creating, and existing within the normative systems of artistic production.

Through personal performative examples, historical references, and theoretical reflections, the lecture maps possible forms of artistic sabotage. against form, against expectation, against one’s own skill. What happens when a performer consciously destabilises their own work?