Founded in 2006, Slavs and Tatars is a collective whose installations, performance lectures, publications, and artist’s multiples reflect upon intercultural relations and the perceived differences between Western cultures and the Eastern world, according to MOMA.
Pursuing an unconventional research-based practice, the group identifies the “area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia†as their point of reference, and with much wit and wordplay, their projects address the transmission and hybridization of traditions, politics, and language within in the region.
For Projects 98, Slavs and Tatars builds upon a recent cycle of works which examines the concept of the anti-modern.
The exhibit runs through Dec. 10, 2012.
Another view of Pasargad rugs used as a backdrop
for the MOMA Slavs and Tatars exhibit.