Published alongside the exhibition 'Kidnapping Mountains' at Netwerk / Center for Contemporary Art, Aalst, Belgium (26 April – 13 June 2009) and the 032c Museum Store, Berlin (11 September – 29 October 2009).
Slavs and Tatars is an art collective and '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'. The group addresses a shared sphere of influence between Slavs, Caucasians and Central Asians. Kidnapping Mountains is a playful and informative exploration of the muscular stories, wills, and defeat inhabiting the Caucasus region. The book is comprised of two parts: an eponymous section addressing the complexity of languages and identities on the fault line of Eurasia, and Steppe by Steppe Romantics, a restoration of the region’s seemingly reactionary approaches to romance. This book acts as a further, more discursive repository of brutal ideas and romantic polemics (and vice versa) as examined in the exhibition.
Onsite
English
2009
96
9781906012199
2
artist book,
artist monograph,
catalogue
Kidnapping Mountains
Prologue
The Roublards and the Restless
Romancing the Peaks of Polyglots
The Broken Men
It's Up to You, Baku
Changed Names
The Delicacy of Nano-Nationalism
On Pan-Caucasianism
Tbilisi: Mountain of Languages and Blood
When You Try Thrice, You Lose Thrice
Alphabet in the Boiling Pot of Politics
The Lowlands of Highland Politics: Nagorno-Karabagh
Yerevan: A Neck or Nothing Man
Caucasian Albania
The Caucasus is a Man, Its Body is without Only Curves
She's Armenian
NATO: Nanny Approach to Others
Resist Resisting God
Steppe by Steppe Romantics
The Traditional. The Material. The Immaterial
Slavs and Tatars: Kidnapping Mountains
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