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KRISTIAN:6 October 2009, Ljubljana. This is Kristian, performer aged 31. This is Boris, performer, aged 29. Game with knives.
BORIS: Interlude title: HOLLOW THUMPING. “It is hard to say what was more ghastly: to watch these two stabbing each other without as much as a sound or a twitch, or to hear the rhythm of the hollow thumping of the knife-point against the wooden table. Once the hands of the performers became covered in blood, the audience started shouting “enough”, and one girl fainted… The director of the festival, Kristijan Mičić, had to take one of the performers, Kristian Al-Drouby, to the Emergency after the performance where his hand was stitched up in two places. Kadin, on the other hand, was missing a lump of flesh from his middle finger, but sought help only the day after and was not given stitches.” Reports Ivica Nevešćanin in Slobodna Dalmacija, 16 August 2007.
BORIS: 18 August 2007, in the London Independent the columnist John Walsh makes the following observations: “Just because the civil war is over, don’t assume everything’s hunky-dory in former Yugoslavia.”
BORIS:Here is a typical commentary found on our blog sites: “Only a Slovene could get a Serb and Croat to stab at each other. They should have thrown in a Bosnian, and let it be a real competition. One more example of Balkan art!”
BORIS: A commentary of certain Vaso at the Swedish Malmo-Cafe website ran: “He should have chopped his entire hand off, but this one isn’t even one of us. A Serb — Al Drouby? No way.”