In his '366 Liberation Rituals' – an entire series of staged interventions and performances in public areas – the artist works through the experiences of his childhood and youth in the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia. He plays with the insignia of proletarian revolution, the red flag and the red neckerchief worn by countless Communist youth organisations. Grubić’s staged rituals of liberation, no doubt, include the liberation from his own past, the liberation from the restrictions of his youth, but also from those imposed by the transformation of society.
The '366 Liberation Rituals' are also an hommage to the action Red Peristyle, which took place in January 1968 at the Roman Peristyle in Split, when the ancient courtyard of the Diocletian Palace from the fourth century A.D. was painted in red by an anonymous group of artists and activists. 30 years later, in January 1998, Igor Grubić painted over night a black circle in the courtyard, 'Black Peristyle'. In a corner the artist left a message, that the black circle reflected "like a magic mirror the state of social consciousness". Ten years later, and 40 years after the 'revolutionary' 1968, Igor Grubić decided to dedicate each day of the year 2008 to a certain 'revolutionary' activity.
The acts of civil disobedience and political artistic activism are documented in several hundred photographs and arranged on 33 individual boards. Each board carries a text written by the artist, which gives a short explanation of the liberation ritual.