Slavs & Tatars – Internationaler Lehrauftrag
Wir freuen uns sehr, das international renommierte Künstler*innenkollektiv Slavs & Tatars im Wintersemester für einen Vortrag und ein Seminar begrüßen zu können! Im Rahmen des Semesterthemas „Open Encounters – Arts & Research“ werden Slavs & Tatars im Dezember und Januar am Department zu Gast sein.
Anmeldungen für das Seminar sind ab sofort bis einschließlich 30. Oktober 2023 per Mail an Soma Ahmad möglich.
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Slavs & Taters beschreiben sich selbst als „Fraktion der Polemik und Intimität, die sich mit dem als Eurasien benannten Gebiet östlich der Berliner Mauer und westlich der Chinesischen Mauer beschäftigt“. Ihre recherchebasierten Arbeiten, die um die Themenfelder Wissensproduktion, Tradition, Sprache, Übersetzung, Anthropologie und Politik kreisen, wurden in zahlreichen internationalen Ausstellungen gezeigt, u.v.a. in der Wiener Secession, im MoMA New York, Hayward Gallery, London und dem Westfälischen Kunstverein, Münster. 2019 nahmen Slavs&Taters an der 58. Venedig Biennale teil.
Ihr Vortrag „Transliterative Tease (2013–present)“ findet am 18.01.2024 um 16 Uhr statt (.theater 2.212).
Die Blockveranstaltung „Language Arts“ beginnt am 8.12.2023 um 11 Uhr mit einem Online-Treffen und wird am 19. und 20.01.2024 in Präsenz fortgeführt – Details siehe unten.
Die Veranstaltungen finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Vortrag
Slavs and Tatars
Transliterative Tease (2013–present)
Donnerstag, 18. Januar, 16:00 Uhr (.theater 2.212)
Through the lens of phonetic, semantic, and theological slippage, Transliterative Tease explores the potential for transliteration – the conversion of scripts – as a strategy equally of resistance and research into notions such as identity politics, colonialism, and faith. The lecture-performance focuses on the Turkic languages of the former Soviet Union, as well as the eastern and western frontiers of the Turkic sphere, namely Anatolia and Xinjiang/Uighuristan. Lenin believed that the revolution of the east begins with the Latinization of the alphabets of all Muslim subjects of the USSR. The march of alphabets has always accompanied that of empires – Arabic with the rise of Islam, Latin with that of Roman Caholicism, and Cyrillic with the Orthodox Church and subsequently communism. This lecture-performance attempts not to emancipate peoples or nations but rather the sounds rolling off our tongues.
Workshop
Slavs and Tatars
Language Arts
Freitag, 8. Dezember 2023, 11 Uhr (online)
Freitag, 19. Januar 2024, 14:00 – 19:00 Uhr (Malerei 0.119)
Samstag, 20. Januar 2024, 10:00 – 15:00 Uhr (Malerei 0.119)
Slavs and Tatars believe that it is at the edges of ideologies, the limits of belief systems, the border of rituals where the most interesting things happen, namely the syncretism which makes the world the heterogeneous place it is. This workshop will examine various practices which are situated at the edge of translation: namely, the politics of alphabets via transliteration, the performativity of reading via homophonic translation, as well as certain embodied, morphologically indulgent exercises with language. We’ll be looking at high and low culture, nursery rhymes and Greek epics, to better understand these epiphenomena which have thus far escaped the purview of artists and scholars alike.
Slavs and Tatars 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. Since its inception in 2006, the collective has 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, as well as scholarly research. Their work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institution across the globe, including the Vienna Secession; MoMA, New York; Salt, Istanbul; Albertinum Dresden, amongst others. The collective’s practice is based on three activities: exhibitions, publications, and lecture-performances. The collective has published more than twelve books to date, including most recently Лук Бук (Look Book) with Distanz Verlag. In 2020, Slavs and Tatars opened Pickle Bar, a slavic aperitivo bar-cum-project space a few doors down from their studio in the Moabit district of Berlin.
http://slavsandtatars.com
Bildcredits: Slavs & Tatars, Transliterative, Tease, 2013–present, lecture-performance