Projects 98: Slavs and Tatars
dal 14/8/2012 al 9/12/2012
Segnalato da
14/8/2012
Projects 98: Slavs and Tatars
The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York
For Projects 98, the collective will build upon their recent cycle The Faculty of Substitution, creating a new installation titled Beyonsence, which takes its name from a translation of zaum - the Futurist experiments with transrational language and poetry.
Projects Gallery, second floor
Founded in 2005, Slavs and Tatars is an international collective of artists, designers and writers active in Eastern Europe, Russia, Central Asia and the Middle East, dealing directly with history and geopolitics in the post-Cold War, globally connected moment. Self-described “archaeologists of the everyday,” the group, working in a variety of formats, pin their practice to a defined geographic region—that of Eurasia and, more precisely, the vast expanse stretching from the former Berlin Wall to the Great Wall of China. In this place where West physically meets East and a tangle of traditions and languages has converged, intersected and clashed for centuries, Slavs and Tatars center their inquiry. Traversing cultural and emotional registers, their installations, performances, public interventions, artists’ books, and editions often draw from archival sources, such as ancient Zoroastrian calendars, Persian road maps, and Azerbaijani cartoons from the early twentieth century, as much as they do contemporary pop songs and slang phrases. Dissatisfied by the limitations set by any one discipline, the group adopts a hybrid approach for their research and engagement.
For Projects 98, Slavs and Tatars will build upon their recent cycle The Faculty of Substitution, creating a new installation titled Beyonsence, which takes its name from a translation of zaum—the Futurist experiments with transrational language and poetry. The collective’s first solo museum presentation in the United States, Beyonsence explores the potentiality of reversals and replacements as a means to retrieve histories and geographies from inherited ideologies. At The Museum of Modern Art, the concept of the antimodern will be examined through objects, text, and image. Deploying wit and unexpected juxtapositions to get at these issues, Slavs and Tatars make visible modernism’s rich complexities and varied manifestations in both the eastern and western hemispheres. Organized by Gretchen L. Wagner, Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr., Assistant Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art.
The Elaine Dannheisser Projects Series is made possible in part by The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art. Additional generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Sharjah Art Foundation.
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