Visiting professors: Slavs and Tatars – Transliterative Tease
The open lecture-performance by the artist collective Slavs and Tatars 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.
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-performancefocuses 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 Catholicism, 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.
The lecture-performance has been presented at Kunsthalle Zurich; Yale Art School; Dallas Museum of Art; MoMA, NY; Asian Culture Center Theater, Gwangju; Royal College of Art, London; OGR, Turin; and Pejman Foundation, Tehran amongst others.
About Slavs and Tatars
Slavs and Tatars is an art collective founded in 2006 as a collaboration between artists and designers Payam Sharifi and Kasia Korczak. The group’s work is centered on exhibitions, books and lecture performances. As the name suggests, their interests lie geographically in “east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia”. The collective’s activities have also expanded to a residency programme and a mentorship programme.
More information: https://slavsandtatars.com.
Visiting professors
In the Visiting professor programme, distinguished international artists and art experts are invited to teach and share their knowledge at the Academy of Fine Arts for a fixed period. The visit also includes a lecture that is open for the audience.
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-performancefocuses 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 Catholicism, 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.
The lecture-performance has been presented at Kunsthalle Zurich; Yale Art School; Dallas Museum of Art; MoMA, NY; Asian Culture Center Theater, Gwangju; Royal College of Art, London; OGR, Turin; and Pejman Foundation, Tehran amongst others.
About Slavs and Tatars
Slavs and Tatars is an art collective founded in 2006 as a collaboration between artists and designers Payam Sharifi and Kasia Korczak. The group’s work is centered on exhibitions, books and lecture performances. As the name suggests, their interests lie geographically in “east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia”. The collective’s activities have also expanded to a residency programme and a mentorship programme.
More information: https://slavsandtatars.com.
Visiting professors
In the Visiting professor programme, distinguished international artists and art experts are invited to teach and share their knowledge at the Academy of Fine Arts for a fixed period. The visit also includes a lecture that is open for the audience.