"Kidnapping Mountains and Love Me, Love Me Not: Changed Names" Slavs and Tatars

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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." 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. 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.

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February 25, 2010 from 17:00 to 19:00

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