Postsocialist Time Slips

edited by Krёlex zentre. Contributions by Dilda Ramazan, Ulrike Gerhardt & Krёlex zentre

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The Almaty-and-Vienna-based Krёlex zentre is an imaginary para-institution blending queer cosmopolitics, speculative world-building, inclusive diasporic aesthetics, and translocal cultural practices. Through the dialog “KRЁLEX ZENTRE DOES NOT EXIST!: Two Parallel Monologues between Krёlex zentre and Ulrike Gerhardt,” the conversation explores the para-institution’s postsocialist and decolonial strategies, touching on creolization, queer temporality, and the complicated politics of friendship within art collectives. Krëlex zentre’s practice challenges capitalist-liberal notions of geography and subjecthood, encouraging experimental, transdisciplinary approaches that merge art with life. The para-institution acts on behalf of communities that exist only partially in the borderlands between the real and the imaginary. Krёlex zentre’s video art chapter Postsocialist Time Slips explores translocal queer imaginaries from Central Asia and asks how experiences of loss, silence, terror, resistance, compassion and love can lead to temporal and political slippages.

D’EST cycle #2 Zines

As a result from the D’EST cycle #2 Postsocialism as a Method. Anti-Geographies of Collective Desires, the curatorial teams Fehras Publishing Practices, Nhà Sàn Collective,

Krёlex zentre as well as the D’EST organizers have produces six zines that reflect on post-migrant, queer*feminist, post-socialist and anti–colonial intertwinings between geographies, metaphors and communalities. All zines have been designed by Aziza Ahmad and Suza Husse on the basis of Elsa Westreicher’s design for wild recuperations. material from below and thereby form a visual, textual and haptic documentation, manifestation and testament of this cycle and its surrounding post-socialist and anti-colonial battles and communal desires. Riso-printed by AK Knol, Printeretto Berlin, and Nino Bulling, Flutgraben 2023-25.