☺︎ Facing Art and Design #2 / Slavs and Tatars ☺︎

Slavs and Tatars: Transliterative Tease Wednesday, March 4, from 4:30 PM Auditorium No. 537

In the upcoming lecture of the Facing Art and Design series, we are pleased to welcome Slavs and Tatars, an internationally renowned art collective whose work focuses on the region East of the former Berlin Wall and West of the Great Wall of China—the area known as Eurasia.

In their lecture-performance, Transliterative Tease, they explore phonetic, semantic, and theological shifts, using transliteration as a tool for resistance and as a means to research questions of identity, colonialism, and faith. The performance focuses on the Turkic languages of the former Soviet Union and the boundaries of the Turkic world and their historical transformations. It draws, among other things, on Lenin's idea that the "Revolution of the East" begins with the Latinization of the alphabets of the USSR's Muslim nations. The spread of scripts has always been closely linked to the expansion of empires—Arabic script with the rise of Islam, Latin with Roman Catholicism, and Cyrillic with the Orthodox Church (and later, Communist ideology). Transliterative Tease does not seek the emancipation of nations or states, but rather the liberation of sounds themselves.

This lecture-performance has been presented at venues such as Kunsthalle Zürich, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, and the Royal College of Art in London.

And this Wednesday, it arrives here at FUD!

Graphic Design: Adéla Bierbaumer (@adheze) & Jakub Klimeš (@_jakub.jpeg)