For nearly fifteen years, the collective Slavs and Tatars have been producing installations, sculptures, performative talks, and publications that address the relationship between language and the ever-shifting landscape of identity politics. Having started in 2006 as an informal reading group, Slavs and Tatars’ remit of research is, as their name suggests, the not-so-small region “east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China.” The artists’ practice unearths the ways in which power dynamics, domination, cultural erasure, and colonization use language to do their dirty work: