The Contest of the Fruits
September 10—December 12, 2021
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery
370 Lancaster Avenue
Haverford, PA 19041
Opening Reception, Friday, September 10, 5:00-8:00 p.m.
Whitehead Campus Center Rm. 313, 5:00 p.m.: Conversation with Assistant Professor of Religion Guangtian Ha and Slavs and Tatars.
Exhibition open in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery and Reception to follow outdoors in front of the Whitehead Campus Center.
Past Events
Lecture-Performance with Slavs and Tatars
On February 5, 2020, Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities, Twelve Gates Arts, and CAIR-Philadelphia presented an evening program with Slavs and Tatars.
The Contest in Context: Studio Visit & The Origins of The Contest of The Fruits
On June 29, 2020, Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities, Twelve Gates Arts, and CAIR-Philadelphia hosted The Contest in Context: Slavs and Tatars Studio Visit & The…
The Contest in Context: Uyghur and Urdu Poetry Reading and Discussion
On September 24, 2020, Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities, Twelve Gates Arts, and CAIR-Philadelphia hosted The Contest in Context: Uyghur and Urdu Poetry Reading and Discussion…
The Contest in Context: EYE TO TIP
At the height of a global pandemic when the virtual displaces the corporeal, how do we discover emotional or physical embrace? When words choke, the body orates; when…
The Contest in Context: Laughlines and Lifelines
Comedy is in the air, comedy has issues. We laugh often, and think we know why we laugh. For a very special April Fool’s Day, we were joined…
The Contest in Context: Noodlin’ Around
Laghman, Uyghur hand-pulled noodles, is one of the most beloved dishes in the region. Crossing into multiple worlds, it combines cultured delicacy with a bold attack on the…
The Contest in Context: From Chaghatay to Rhythm and Rhyme
A roundtable discussion on Uyghur language preservation with rapper Nashtarr and linguistic anthropologist Gülnar Eziz, moderated by social historian Eric Schluessel and Project Liaison Pia Chakraverti-Wuerthwein. In this…
Bacteria Bar
The Bacteria Bar was a pop-up exhibition by Slavs and Tatars at Twelve Gates Arts. It ran from October 15th through December 18th, 2021. A multimedia visual arts…
The Contest in Context: Red-Black Thread lecture-performance with Slavs and Tatars AND ZAIN ABDULLAH
Red-Black Thread is the lecture-performance that explores the construction of black identity not from the traditional Anglophone and Francophone worlds of the Atlantic but rather from the Russophone…
The Contest in Context: Storytelling, Self-ethnography, and Solidarity: Uyghur Film in Focus
Virtual screening program and discussion on contemporary Uyghur film culture with directors Suli Kurban and Memetjan Semet, moderated by Anthropologist Darren Byler and Project Liaison Pia Chakraverti-Wuerthwein. FRAGMENTS…