In its research-based installations, lecture performances, public interventions and artist's books, the collective Slavs and Tatars—founded in 2006 by a Polish-Iranian duo—explores anthropology, religion, language and politics with polemical humor. Slavs and Tatars describe themselves as "a faction of polemics and intimacies devoted to an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China, known as Eurasia."
Based on their theory that languages, gestures, rituals and goods have always traveled across the perceived borders between the Orient and the Occident, they research into literary and historical sources, exploring interpretative authority and the performative and political nature of language and identity. This book surveys all of their projects to date.
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
Art Asia Pacific
Ophelia Lai
Hopping across geographical, cultural, and historical reference points, Wripped Scripped unpacks the collective's recent projects, and the complex linguistic power plays that inspired them.
FORMAT: Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 152 pgs / 200 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $45.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $60 ISBN: 9783775744720 PUBLISHER: Hatje Cantz AVAILABLE: 8/28/2018 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA LA
Published by Hatje Cantz. Text by Slavs and Tatars.
In its research-based installations, lecture performances, public interventions and artist's books, the collective Slavs and Tatars—founded in 2006 by a Polish-Iranian duo—explores anthropology, religion, language and politics with polemical humor. Slavs and Tatars describe themselves as "a faction of polemics and intimacies devoted to an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China, known as Eurasia."
Based on their theory that languages, gestures, rituals and goods have always traveled across the perceived borders between the Orient and the Occident, they research into literary and historical sources, exploring interpretative authority and the performative and political nature of language and identity. This book surveys all of their projects to date.
