PARIS-BERLIN

Performance 48 hours of awakness

Exhibition On the road

About WakEUp
WakEUp underlines the issue of refugees and their uncertain fate and tries to shed the light on it
from different angles. WakEUp is a call. A call for solidarity and humanity. A call for European
citizens to take part in raising collective awareness and self-awareness about the life conditions of
those who are running away from death and destruction, and with whom we share our collective
space.
.The nine-day WakEUp Festival first took place in decembre 2015 in Belgrade and gathered
hundreds of citizens. It implements different interactive platforms that enable citizens to actively
participate in the development of social awareness about the problems of refugees.
This year, WakEUp transcends borders. Two platforms from WakEUp, the performance 48
hours of awakeness and the exhibition On the road recieved a call from the Cultural
Center of Serbia in Paris, and the Holzmarkt Gallery in Berlin, to take place in their spaces
in september 2016.
WakEUp is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia.

Program
Performance 48 hours of awakeness
Authors of the concept: Sran ei, Andrej Nosov
Associate author of materials: Vuk Bokovi
Artists and co-authors of the program : Janko Dimitrijevi, Nevena Negojevi, Jelena Graovac
Microphone.Chair.Gallery.48 hours of alertness.48 hours of continuous public reading hundreds of
pages of text: personal testimonies of refugees and records that speak about fate of those who were
forced to leave their homes.
The chair in front of a microphone and camera is designed for everyone who wants to publicly read
part of ones personal stories; intimate confession occurred as the need to share the part of everyday
life of those on desperate journeys.
This is a call for solidarity. Wake up. Wake up the others.

Exhibition On the road

Author of the exhibition : Marko Drobnjakovi
Curators: Sran ei, Nevena Negojevi
A photography exhibition of Marko Drobnjakovi, a photographer originally from Belgrade, who
has been recording intensively in the past months a black and white everyday lives of refugees
from the Middle East on their way towards the Old Continent.
Some 15 of his works, which precisely and more than emotionally evoke the life in refuge
underlining the difference between the soothed life and life infused with fear and uncertainty on
the path towards better tomorrow.

Remember the Future

One view into the probable future in front of us, the future in which long lines of refugees are
walking, into a map of the world that is full of war zones, local wars that never end, just grow,
until they blend in one big war. A view into world economy and consequences of the crisis
which no one can measure or perceive, not only in those countries we used to consider as
stable and more developed, but in every part of the world where crisis spread like water. A
view into numbers which describe world climate or demography, altogether, for every single
one on us, every human being that is thinking about the period that is coming, creates
insecurity that is stronger than ever. One decade, or a little bit more than that, for everything
we believed to be an axiom, there is a big threatening question mark drawn over it, and more
and more often it seems to us as if we are alone on this planet, without precise signs that
would tell us where to go, what is good, and what is evil, which answers are correct, or at
least, which questions are correct to ask, and solutions that seemed right yesterday, are
denied today and everything is put on crosscheck.
In spite of all this what we live today, and we will live in the future that is awaiting, in the world
that would look like a nightmare to a spectator ten or twenty years ago, just like the problems
that are awaiting in the future in one decade or two seem to us now, and they are the real
reason for us to remember the values we believe in, and what is it that makes the world today
better than it was earlier, what is it today that is making peace, what is giving us that life that
generations before us couldnt have had, and freedom they couldnt have dreamed of.
This period of time, that is trying to wake up the worst things in our souls, has to be the last
and the strongest motif for us to stay loyal to what is valuable in us. The fear we feel in front
of the horror that deletes one by one of the values we used to take for granted, has to be the
main reason why we dont want to be scared. The people, who try to wake up the hatred
among us, have to be the reason for us, to save the empathy for those in trouble and
understanding for those who are different. The temptation to put ourselves behind the wires,
metal fences and walls, may that be the last and most convincing proof on the urgency of the
world with no borders. Every death, in the sea of pointless deaths is a reminder of that every
life is important, and every life has a name.
Today, seemingly unsolvable problems will find their solutions. We will beat the fears we
have, and the fears awaiting. We will understand what seams incomprehensible. The world
will again be a place where we will be able to live like people deserve to, and how they should
live. When that time comes, it will be important to remember that we did not give up. When
that time comes, it will be important that you listened to the voice that was telling you to fight
for what You believe in. The voice that told you to wake up the best in yourself. To wake up
others. Imagine what you can do. Remember the future.

About Heartefact
Heartefact (HF) is a strong Balkan regional foundation dedicated to the creation of open and
free societies through creative exchange on important social and political issues related to the
culture of memory, social and political accountability, protection and promotion of thuman
rights and freedom of speech. HF gathers a strong network of associates and partners, both
organizations and individuals, which carry out their initiatives in cooperation with or with the
support of HF.
Through our activities and programs we aim to establish and maintain social and political
atmosphere in which forces that are able to critically re-think and re-question the society they
are part of are able to develop and progress.
Thus, through using various methods such as artistic and cultural production in different fields,
grant making, public debates, research, educational trainings, publishing and public advocacy
we support: overcoming of consequences of armed conflicts, responsible dealing with the past,
promotion of intercultural and inter-ethnic dialogue, rebuilding of regional connections between
individuals and institutions, encourage greater cooperation between civil society and public
sectors, participation of marginalized groups in public life and advancement of their status.
We realize these activities and programs in responsible manner, cherishing the individuals
approach at most. Taking this into account, the HF is a socially responsible institution open to
diversity and pluralism of opinion, committed, above all to the promotion of intercultural
communication, dialogue and cooperation.

Contact
marina@heartefact.org
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Heartefact Fund
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11000 Belgrade Serbia
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