Kidnapping Mountains is a playful and informative, exploration of the muscular stories, wills, and defeat inhabiting the Caucasus region. Comprising two parts: an eponymous section addressing the complexity of languages and identities on the fault line of Eurasia, and ‘Steppe by Steppe’, a restoration of the regions seemingly reactionary approaches to romance.
Slavs and Tatars are a collective devoted to an area East of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia, who redeem an oft-forgotten, romantic sphere of influence between Slavs, Caucasians and Central Asians.
Kidnapping Mountains is the seventh in a series of co-publishing partnerships initiated by Book Works, entitled Fabrications. A total of eight publications appeared in the series, commissioned by me. With texts by Victoria Camblin, Payam Sharifi, and Slavs and Tatars. Designed by Kasia Korczak and Boy Vereecken.
Gerrie van Noord 