with Slavs and Tatars
Azbuka Strikes Back: an Anti-Colonial ABCs is a mordant look at the constantly changing alphabets of 25 million people in the time of the Soviet Union. This interactive book created in collaboration with Slavs and Tatars offers a whirlwind tour of ABCs and anticolonialism in the former Soviet sphere. Azbuka Strikes Back is an artist book for children and adults alike, which takes the universal idea of an alphabet and unpacks it in fun, incisive, and informative ways. This is done to help us better understand where letters come from, why they make certain sounds not to mention their baggage when it comes to gender, race, labor, and empire. With interactive buttons for unusual sounds, the book will help explore areas of pronunciation not commonly found in English. The book is available in two languages: English and Kazakh.
Video by Chris Strong