Zhillar Siri, “Heavenly Circassia, Former Yugoslavia and Slavic Tartary: A Poem in 5 Languages”, lecture-performance
20 June 2025, 19:30
If Luis Corvalan is standing on Red Square, then who is standing on Nevsky caddesi? Was wollen wir trinken auf diesen sieg? Have we really won anything—anywhere, at any time—in History? In the lecture-performance, a member of a collective of Uyghur artists, through an act of auto-research: a search for how different parts of the world—different geographies (which are destiny, no matter who first claimed it)—are reflected in one another through language or mirrors. The contribution attempts to give an insight on how to write a poem in 5 languages, in which at least 3 more are implied.
Free admission
Language: English
Duration: 30 mins.
Language: English
Duration: 30 mins.
Zhillar Siri is a collective of Uyghur artists based between Inner and Eastern Turkestan, between the lost Circassia and the never-realized Republic of Sale. They study the remnants left behind by revolutionaries shot in the 1930s, alongside Asian rebels buried in concrete, “unreliable” peoples, and steppe aristocrats exiled to distant lands — as well as poetry.