leahfeldman
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Azbuka Strikes Back
A collaboration with Slavs and Tatars
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Feeling Collapse: A book manuscript in process
Book manuscript in process
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Anticolonial Thought: An Anthology of Manifestos and Other Primary Documents, forthcoming 2026
edited with Peter Kalliney and Harris Feinsod An anthology of primary documents from anticolonial artistic and political movements – manifestos, declarations, essays, speeches, communiques, open letters, occasional pieces, and other nonfictional protests against cultural, economic, and political imperialism. The volume focuses on manifestos and related genres rather than poetry and fiction from a variety of linguistic and cultural traditions, moving beyond the anglophone and…
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Costumes and Collapse: Transnational collaborative research project
with Slavs and Tatars and Hoda El Shakry Costumes and Collapse is a transnational collaborative research project between academics and artists exploring performance and wearable art practices that reimagine embodied forms of gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity through a comparative approach to empire. Wearable art—from the moment of imperial collapse to the present—frequently indexes how…
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Embodying Transition: Performing the 1990s Today
with Vija Skanjale This event featured film Screenings, a roundtable discussion, and performances by Mamuka Japharidze, Nino Chubika and Gio Sumbadze, Vardzia Art Group. The collapse of the Soviet Union profoundly impacted everyday life in the national republics, and underground performance art provided a space for imagining alternative socio-political movements amid the transition. This project…
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Revolutionary Frequencies: Exhibition, Roundtable, Performance, and Dance Party
with Dato Koridze and Uta Bekaia | The Gray Center at UChicago, March 2025
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About
Contact: feldmanl@uchicago.edu
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“After Post-: Performance at the End of History,” Post.MoMA, 2024
from Keywords for Postcolonial Thought
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Mobilizing through Improvisation: A Global South and Southside Chicago Collaboration
The Gray Center at UChicago, November 2018
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On the Threshold of Eurasia: Revolutionary Poetics in the Caucasus
Cornell University Press, 2018 (282 pages)
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“Red Jihad: Translating Communism in the Muslim Caucasus,” boundary 2 43.3 (2016): 221-249.
boundary 2 (2016) 43 (3): 221–249.
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“Reading Gogol in Azeri: Parodic Genealogies and the Revolutionary Geopoetics of 1905,” Slavic Review 75.2 (2016): 256-278
Slavic Review 75.2 (2016): 256-278.