Performative work You Hear Me was an ad-hoc action with 15 performers at Ban Jelacic Square

in Zagreb, initiated by the curatorial team WHW from Zagreb, within the framework of  “Written-off”

project of actions in public space on the occasion

of the 20th anniversary of the military Operation "Storm", in croatian "Oluja".

The military Operation "Storm" marked the liberation of Croatia from the serbo-croatian war. The “Written-off” was organized as an artistic statement and protest against the 20st anniversary celebration of the Operation "Storm" in which many civilians lost lives, as well as for raising awareness about book destruction - a cultural genocide that happened in that time on both sides.

The performance was a public reading of texts of  the two of the most accomplished writers of the 20st century, Miroslav Krleza from Croatia and Danilo Kis, a Serbian writer living in Paris. What they had in common were their views against nationalism and active expression of resistance to fascism through culture.

15 performers / readers occupy various

strategic positions on the main square of Zagreb, the Square of Ban Josip Jelacic. For several hours, each starts reading a different chapter of the assign books "Banket u blitvi" by Krleza and Grobnica za Borisa Davidovica by Kis, both of the works refract Yugoslavia's politics and culture and what has inherited it.

The performers read loud, but loud enough so that only the closest passers-biers can hear them, louring them to stop by an listen. In this way, an intimate space between passers-biers and readers is created within the public space, whereby these different readers act as one body occupying the space.