AZBUKA STRIKES BACK
Slavs and Tatars’ Pickle Bar, Berlin
Pickle Bar is happy to announce its spring and summer 2022 program AZBUKA STRIKES BACK: a public program of lectures, performances, and podcasts about new tools for decolonizing and queering children’s books of former socialist nations.
Children’s books and curricula have often been a hot-button, polemical issue: an ideal platform to elaborate and instill ideological positions, be they from the left and/or the right. Former socialist nations in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia have a particularly rich tradition of children’s literature, as part of an effort to create solidarity amongst different peoples and cultures. However, we know how that story ended. Today, a critical 21st-century look at this legacy reveals several shortcomings concerning race, sexuality, and gender. Azbuka Strikes Back, the spring and summer 2022 public program at Pickle Bar, examines the visual, rhetorical, and ideological tools underlying children’s publications with an aim to decolonize, revise, and queer the heritage of avant-garde education with a series of lectures, performances, workshops, and podcasts by international artists, researchers, and poets.
Dates: 5th May, 14th May, 28th May, 2nd June, 10th June, 29th June, 8th July
Additional dates forthcoming.
Participants: Nika Dubrovsky, Leah Feldman, Uladzimir Hramovich, Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, Serguei A. Oushakine, Roman Osminkin, Artiom Slota, Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon, and Madina Zholdybekova
Curators: Slavs and Tatars / Patricia Couvet, Anastasia Marukhina
Pickle Bar is Slavs and Tatars’ latest initiative to extend their Eurasian platform to the greater public outside the confines of the traditional institution. Situated steps away from the collective’s studio and location of their recently-launched mentorship & residency program in Berlin’s Moabit district, Pickle Bar invites other artists, thinkers, writers, and researchers to explore the limits of ideologies and the edges of belief systems within a Slavic take on the apéritivo bar.
Slavs and Tatars’ Pickle Bar
Stephanstr. 11, 10559 Berlin
