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Slavs and Tatars Mouth to Mouth (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artists + Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
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Slavs and Tatars Mouth to Mouth (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artists + Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
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Slavs and Tatars Mouth to Mouth (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artists + Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
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Slavs and Tatars Mouth to Mouth (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artists + Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
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Slavs and Tatars Mouth to Mouth (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artists + Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
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Slavs and Tatars Mouth to Mouth (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artists + Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius

Slavs and Tatars + the transmission of knowledge through stories, prayers, whispers, jokes or rumours in Mouth to Mouth at CAC

, 13 October 2017
Slavs and Tatars presented exhibition Mouth to Mouth at Vilnius’ CAC (Contemporary Art Centre), which opened September 8 and is running to October 18.
Slavs and Tatars Mouth to Mouth (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artists + CAC, Vilnius.
 
Curated by Monika Lipšic, the artist collective look at ‘heuristic hierarchy’ for their first exhibition in the Baltic area. The title plays with various forms of traditional oral passage and the transmission of knowledge through “stories, prayers, whispers, jokes or rumours.” It is also a site for survival in the sense of food, love, rescue and bite. 
 
What other forms of exchange can be looked at to understand knowledge and the accumulation of knowledge, and identity? The new installation touches on a recent series of works called Pickle Politics, in which the collective have been researching “a 19th century literary movement in Vilnius University circles.”**