Slavs and Tatars / EVROVIZION.CROSSING STORIES AND SPACES

Slavs and Tatars were keen to participate in the ifa exhibition project “EVROVIZION.CROSSING STORIES AND SPACES” as it offers the opportunity to engage with audiences across Eastern Europe. Their aim is to both create and exhibit artistic content in the places where it originates. Slavs and Tatars are an art collective devoted to an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia. The collective’s practice is based on three activities: exhibitions, publications and lecture-performances, including popular culture, spiritual and esoteric traditions, oral histories, modern myths and scholarly research.
The kickoff of the ifa exhibition project “EVROVIZION.CROSSING STORIES AND SPACES” was originally planned to take place as a physical get-together in Sarajevo in June 2020, but this was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ifa therefore asked everyone involved in the project to send a video statement about their work, their motivation for participating, and their well-being during the lockdown.
“EVROVIZION.CROSSING STORIES AND SPACES” is the new co-creative exhibition project by ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen). It critically explores the current sociopolitical situation in Europe through the prism of a variety of views and opinions, focusing its research on topics such as borders, nationalism, autocracy, minorities, neocolonialism and the environment. “EVROVIZION” will constantly change while touring through Southeastern and Eastern Europe.
Artists: Nevin Aladağ, Igor Bošnjak, Vajiko Chachkhiani, Lana Čmajčanin, Johanna Diehl, Petrit Halilaj, Janine Jembere, Henrike Naumann, Selma Selman, Emilija Škarnulytė, Slavs and Tatars, Adnan Softić
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