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Slavs and Tatars: Mouth to Mouth

Contributed by Florian Hardwig on Oct 29th, 2017. Artwork published in
August 2017
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Slavs and Tatars: Mouth to Mouth 1
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Mouth to Mouth is the first monograph of art collective Slavs and Tatars. The catalog was edited by Pablo Larios, designed by Heimann + Schwantes, Berlin and published by Slavs and Tatars, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw and Koenig Books, London:

Defining an area “east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China” as their remit, Slavs and Tatars repeatedly creolize, craft and collide a political and imagined geography to topple our brittle notions of identity, language, and beliefs. Throughout their ten-year practice, the artists have turned to Turkic language politics, medieval advice literature, the relationship between Iran and Poland, and transliteration, to name but a few of their areas of research. A region sandwiched between empires (Russian, Byzantine, Persian, to name a few), ideologies (Communism and political Islam), not to mention the Abrahamic faiths, Eurasia becomes a foil to an understanding of ourselves as multiple subjectivities. The artists’ work — from sculptures to lecture performances, installations to publications — similarly overturn the traditional hierarchies of understanding, seeing, and listening. Slavs and Tatars are keen to free knowledge from the Enlightenment confines of the mind. Their “Kitab Kebab” series offers a digestive approach to reading as opposed to the strictly analytical. A sculpture often leads to a book to be read on a carpet that drops us off at the feet of an old man riding backwards on his donkey.

Dinamo’s Prophet is used throughout the publication, in several styles.

Slavs and Tatars: Mouth to Mouth 2
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Slavs and Tatars: Mouth to Mouth 3
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