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In Croatia during the 1990s several hundreds of thousands of books were removed from schools, factories, public and specialized libraries, former Yugoslav People’s Army centres, socio-political organizations and private libraries due to ideologically inappropriate content, the Cyrillic letters they were written in, or ethnic or political background of the authors. They were thrown into rubbish bins, thrown out into the street, destroyed or recycled. 
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\nThe exhibition\/action Written-off, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Operation Storm<\/em> is based on the data collected from the extensive research on \u201clibrary purification\u201d, gathered in the book by Ante Le\u0161aja<\/strong> Libricide \u2013 the destruction of books in Croatia in the 1990s<\/em> (Zagreb: Profil & SNV, 2012). What Le\u0161aja<\/strong>\u2019s book clearly shows is that the destruction of books \u2013 as well as the destruction of monuments of People\u2019s Liberation War \u2013 was not a result of individual actions, as official accounts are trying to argue, but a deliberate and systemic activity which symbolically summarizes the dominant politics of the 1990s.
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\nWritten-off, <\/em>on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Operation Storm<\/em> initiates a CALL <\/strong>for collection and scanning of books that were brutally thrown out of libraries in the 1990s. People are invited to bring those written-off books to Gallery Nova so that they can be scanned – we will try to scan as many as possible to read and share them on www.otpisane.org<\/a>.
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\nThe exhibition\/action is called Written-off<\/em> because removal and destruction of books was often presented as a legitimate procedure, combined with statements about unwanted books, written in Cyrillic letters, ideologically unacceptable, dangerous, harmful, unnecessary… Written-off<\/em> unequivocally places \u201cbook destruction\u201d in the social context where destruction of \u201cunwanted\u201d monuments and books happened simultaneously with destruction of houses and killings of \u201cunwanted\u201d citizens, outside and prior to war operations. This is why the exhibition\/action is dedicated to the 20th<\/sup> anniversary of military-police operation Storm, the final military operation of what is officially called Homeland War. In memory of political logic which resulted in mass exodus and killings of civilians, the exhibition\/action Written-off, <\/em>on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Operation Storm <\/em>brings back thrown out books to public archive and makes them available to all.
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\nThe exhibition\/action is organised in collaboration with the project Public Library<\/em> <\/a>initiated by Tomislav Medak<\/strong> and Marcell Mars<\/strong>. The project thematizes the idea of public library as an institution supporting general right to knowledge, as an exception from the market and social solidarity which has been, like many other public and joint resources, subjected to concentrated commercialization and pressures which are destroying the space of the common. Apart from documentary materials, collected books that were written-off and scanners for their digitalization, the exhibition\/action includes the works and performances of the artists Antonio Grgi\u0107<\/strong><\/a>, Sini\u0161a Ili\u0107<\/strong><\/a>, Bo\u017eena Kon\u010di\u0107-Badurina<\/strong><\/a>, Sini\u0161a Labrovi\u0107<\/strong> <\/a>and Luiza Margan<\/strong><\/a>.
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\nIn his war diaries George Orwell<\/strong> argues that “evidently when a scandal passes a certain magnitude it becomes invisible”. It is however necessary to act against the normalization of scandal. Though it is clear that the art itself cannot overturn the consequences of political activities and military actions on the lives and destinies of individuals (those killed, murdered, the refugees, but also those who are perpetrators and witnesses), it can be effective within cultural field. Collection and digitalization of books, their archiving and dissemination are a symbolic act with which Croatian public takes its part of responsibility.
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\nWednesday, 08\/07\/2015
\n19 till 20:30 performative sculpture, Luiza Margan<\/strong> Listening<\/em>, Ban Jela\u010di\u0107 Square
\n21h performance, Sini\u0161a Labrovi\u0107<\/strong> The light of the book<\/em>, Gallery Nova
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\nThursday, 09\/07\/2015
\n18h presentation, Luiza Margan<\/strong> Public stories<\/em>, Gallery Nova
\n19h guided tour, Bo\u017eena Kon\u010di\u0107 Badurina<\/strong> The revision of family library<\/em>, Bogdan Ogrizovi\u0107 library, Preradovi\u0107eva 5 (working hours of performative installation: 14-20h)
\n20h performance, Antonio Grgi\u0107, Reading Karl Marx’s thoughts to the horse of Count Josip Jela\u010di\u0107 at the former Republic Square<\/em>
\n 
\nco-organizers: What How and for Whom\/WHW i Multimedia institute mi2<\/a> <\/p>\n

Working hours of Gallery Nova (closed on public holidays)
\nWednesday, Thursday, Friday
\n16 – 20h
\nSaturday
\n11 – 14h
\n 
\nProgram is supported by:
\nCity Office for Culture, Education and Sports
\nMinistry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia
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\nProgram of Gallery Nova and WHW and Multimedia Institute is supported by:
\nNational Foundation for Civil Society Development
\nKultura Nova Foundation
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