The Contest of the Fruits is a nineteenth-century allegorical text, written in Uighur, that captures the possibilities of boundary crossings to cultivate understanding, tolerance, and identity in a pluralistic world. The Contest of the Fruits project will consist of an array of activities with Slavs and Tatars through fall 2021 that will bend borders, tickle tongues, and fracture fixed identities through an extended artist residency, animated film, an exhibition at Haverford’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, public programs, and a publication. 

Slavs and Tatars is an internationally-renowned art collective devoted to an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia. The collective’s practice is based on three activities: exhibitions, publications and lecture-performances. 

The Contest of the Fruits is supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and brought to you in collaboration with Haverford College’s Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities, Twelve Gates Arts, and the Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Philadelphia).

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