We Are Before

For the past seven years of her life, Vanhee was an intruder. Unasked and uninvited, she walked into meeting-rooms, and started to speak about how we live together as human beings, about society as a co-creation by every-one. One could see her intervention as a bomb or as a gift. People were surprised, shocked, moved, angry. With her guerilla-speech, she tried to transform any meeting into a political moment. She surprised more than 10.000 people this way, interrupting their daily routines by asking big and small questions about life. She always said the same words, and called it Lecture For Every One. It spread over twelve different countries but remained largely invisible. Like a virus. This is not fiction, this really happened.

Now she wants to share this story about words, love, violence and connection. About people alone and together. It’s a story about what it means to speak up, today. About the (im)possibility to address every-one. And about how we are always before. Before the war starts, before you kiss, before you really decide. How today also, we are before.

Vanhee made a book about this project, which is for sale here.