Slavs and Tatars

Slavs and Tatars (founded 2006) is an internationally-renowned art collective devoted to an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China, known as Eurasia. The collective’s practice is based on three activities: exhibitions, publications and lecture-performances. In addition to their translation of the legendary Azerbaijani satirical periodical Molla Nasreddin, Slavs and Tatars have published ten books to date, most recently Wripped Scripped (Hatje Cantz, 2018) on the politics of alphabets and transliteration. For a little more than a decade, Slavs and Tatars have shown a keen grasp of polemical issues in society, clearing new paths for contemporary discourse via a wholly idiosyncratic form of knowledge production, including popular culture, spiritual and esoteric traditions, oral histories, modern myths and scholarly research. In this talk, the artists reveal how extended periods of research give life to an eco-system of installations, sculptures, lectures, and printed matter that question our understanding of language, ritual and identity. Slavs and Tatars live and work in Berlin.

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