Slavs and Tatars
Double Book Presentation
Love Me, Love Me Not: Changed Names,
Kidnapping Mountains
Thursday, February 25, 5-7PM
Printed Matter is please to announce a double-book presentation for Kidnapping Mountains and Love Me, Love Me Not: Changed Names, two titles by the collective Slavs and Tatars. Please join us and the members of Slavs and Tatars for a reception with a vodka tasting on Thursday, February 25, from 5-7PM. Printed Matter is located at 195 Tenth Avenue between 21st and 22nd streets in New York City.
Recently published by Onestar Press as part of their ongoing artists' book series, Love Me, Love Me Not: Changed Names uses textual diagrams to investigate the nominal tug-of-wars enacted over cities throughout the Eurasian region. As different political entities exercised control over the cities, naming enacts dominion in a way that the artists describe as "entire metropolises caught like children in the spiteful back and forth of a custody battle." Printed in a numbered edition, Love Me, Love Me Not: Changed Names is a black-and-white softcover books and retails for $55. It is available in store and online here.
Published last year by Book Works, Kidnapping Mountains presents a multi-facted exploration of the riches of the Eurasian cultural crossroads, plunging into the fables and myths of the mountainous Caucasus region. The majority of Kidnapping Mountains is devoted to addressing the complex history of cultural identity, religion, and language on the fault line of this region. The second part part of the book, slyly titled "Steppe by Steppe Romantics", explores the region’s seemingly reactionary approaches to love and romance. Kidnapping Mountains is a 96-page, color softcover book and retails for $32. It is available in store and online here.
Slavs and Tatars are a collective devoted to an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia, who redeem an oft-forgotten, romantic sphere of influence between Slavs, Caucasians and Central Asians. More of their projects may be viewed online at www.slavsandtatars.com
Signed copies may be arranged for web orders by mentioning the launch in the comments section of the order page.
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