'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 10 year practice, the artist collective has 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 aim to free knowledge from the Enlightenment confines of the mind.' - from the publisher

Accompanies the mid-career touring exhibition, 'Slavs and Tatars: Mouth to Mouth' at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; Pejman Foundation, Tehran; Salt Galata, Istanbul; CAC Vilnius; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; and Albertinum, Dresden.