Series of exhibitions curated by Joasia Krysa for Kunsthal Aarhus: Stongue, by Slavs and Tatars (09.Dec.2015 – 06.Mar.2016); DO IT (02.Oct.2015 – 29.Nov.2015), conceived by Hans Ulrik Obrist, ANTS by artist Jaroslaw Czarnecki (02.Oct.2015 – 29.Nov.2015), DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking, guest curated from open call; Extreme Sharing by artist group N55 (07.Feb.2015 – 22.Mar.2015).

The exhibition looks at language politics as a form of etiquette in its written, oral, and visual registers. From medieval advice literature to the Russian avant-garde, Stongue examines language as a source of political, metaphysical, and even sexual emancipation.

Including new works produced especially for Kunsthal Aarhus, Slavs and Tatars’ Stongue highlights the COLLECTIVE MAKING 2015-2016 programme, which was developed by former Artistic Director Joasia Krysa, by showing an important aspect of collective thinking and making: language.

For one year, Slavs and Tatars’ work PrayWay has been permanently on display at Kunsthal Aarhus and is a symbol of the COLLECTIVE MAKING series.

Using the rear windshield of a Polski Fiat 126, a legendary car manufactured in Communist Poland, Weeping Window sets the tone for the exhibition with an anti-modernist trope, facing backwards to history, but moving forward towards the future, a recurring idea in Slavs and Tatars’ practice.