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@pustotalitarism & @allapopp
New 👽 Tatar Culture ✨🦋✨🦋💥
13.9.26 Dinner Performance “AŞ” @ecommemoration • RSVP only • link in bio

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For this edition of our Dinner-Ceremony AŞ at silent green, the dinner unfolded inside an installation of our computer game AŞ.

Around one table, its physical and virtual forms met: handmade food, family recipes, Tatar language, music, images and stories carried through different generations and technologies.

The project began with a question: why is Tatar culture so rarely imagined as part of a technological future?

Rather than treating tradition as something that belongs only to the past, AŞ asks what happens when a ritual continues through new media, new bodies and new forms of gathering.

For one evening, the game became a room, the room became a table, and the table became a shared ritual.

Photos @phantomorb

AŞ — TATAR KYZ:LAR
Transgressive Memories Festival
silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin
13.09.2026

https://tatar-ash.space taken in silent green by @tatarkyzlar

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Four days of making AŞ.

Planing, schopping, kneading, rolling, frying, boiling, plating, carrying, washing and lots of improvising.

For this edition of AŞ, we prepared a vegan Tatar dinner for 30+ people: bäleş, AŞ & tokmaç, öçpoçmag & ğöbädiya, qıstibiy, qoş tele, çäk-çäk, talqış käläwä, halva, and more.

AŞ has always been as much about collective labour as about the moment of gathering itself. Recipes and knowledge move between people, hands and generations. The dinner is made through all of these small acts long before the guests arrive.

Grateful to everyone who cooked, chopped, carried, plated, washed, watched babies, solved problems and kept the kitchen moving with us. 🖤

AŞ — TATAR KYZ:LAR
Transgressive Memories Festival
silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin
13.09.2026

Photos private & @phantomorb 🤍✨ taken in Eden Studios***** by @tatarkyzlar

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The best part of setting a table is eventually seeing people around it.

Some moments from our AŞ dinner at silent green: eating, talking, laughing, passing plates, taking pictures of food, drinking tea and spending an evening together.

Thank you to everyone who came and shared the table with us. 🤍

Photos by @phantomorb 🤍🤍🤍 taken in silent green by @tatarkyzlar

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A table for 32, an ancestral Tatar ritual, a computer game & lots of food 🌷

After days of cooking, carrying, setting tables, worrying, improvising and getting everything ready, we finally sat down together for AŞ.

Around one table, with food, stories, music and the world of our game surrounding us.

AŞ has always been about gathering. About the strange and beautiful ways rituals travel, change, disappear and return. And yesterday, for a few hours, it became something very physical again: people passing food to each other, talking, listening, laughing, eating together.

Thank you so much to everyone who came and shared this table with us. Thank you @ecommemoration for inviting us and giving AŞ a space to exist in this form, and to our friends, family, helpers, supporters and collaborators for making it possible. It really took a village. 🤍

AŞ, Dinner-Ceremony by TATAR KYZ:LAR
13.09.2026, silent green, Berlin

Photos @phantomorb taken in silent green by @tatarkyzlar

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And here are another four things we want you to know about our computer game, and why it is a dinner-ceremony.

1. The house is a real Tatar village house from the inside!
The house you move through in AŞ is based on a 3D scan of an actual house of relatives of our friends, who generously cooperated on creating the space while receiving the instructions to scan remotely.

2. Our memory of AŞ is fragmented by time and distance.
We chose the fragmented aesthetic of 3D scanning because our own memories of home and of this ritual are fragmented too. Living in migration, and with returning becoming increasingly difficult, these places often come back to us in pieces, slightly distorted, almost like in a dream.

3. Different guests are invited to our virtual AŞ.
In the game, we encounter figures from Tatar mythology and folklore, including Su Anası, Şüräle and Sak-Sok. But we also invite our own memories into the ritual: fragments of ourselves, our friends and families, stories we inherited, timelines we’ve lived through, altered by an autocratic imperial regime.

4. The table is what holds our space.
What we remember very clearly is the table: people gathering around it, food being served, time spent together. So while the house itself appears fragmented, the table remains very present.

That is why there is a table at the centre of the computer game, and also a physical table at the centre of the AŞ dinner performance. We are trying to bring these two together and re-live the ritual in a new form, shaped by our present reality in migration, somewhere between technology and tradition, past and future, critique and appreciation.

The AŞ virtual experience, and production of the Virtual Tatar Choir are funded by Musikfonds e.V. and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. taken in Web by @tatarkyzlar

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AŞ is a traditional Tatar ritual, a dinner ceremony. And we also turned it into a web-based computer game, which anyone can play online for free at https://tatar-ash.space

Three things to know about our game are:

1. The idea for the game came with the question: why is Tatar culture so rarely imagined as part of t̶e̶c̶h̶n̶o̶l̶o̶g̶i̶c̶a̶l̶ future? And what happens when we bring it into dialogue with a contemporary medium such as a computer game?

So we recreated AŞ the computer game, in a way that invites players to take part in the ritual, moving through Tatar culture, language, folklore, and stories of resistance.

2. We proud to share that the entire game production was made only by a small FLINTA team with creative technology by @neslob_ @dock_digital_berlin and design by our long time collaborator @schoenherr___

3. The game grew alongside our AŞ music album, where the same experiment continues through sound: Tatar instruments, language, field recordings, and the AI instrument Virtual Tatar Choir, trained on the voices of our relatives and ancestors. The album includes collabs with incredible Tatar artists @aigelslv and @svetabenprojects

This Sunday, the physical and virtual AŞ come together. Our dinner at silent green will unfold inside an immersive installation of the game, surrounding us as we eat, listen and move through the ritual together.

AŞ is free to play online
https://tatar-ash.space
Technical requirements apply

The AŞ virtual experience, and production of the Virtual Tatar Choir are funded by Musikfonds e.V. and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

Img1 & 2 @neslob_
Photos @ana.grancho
Screenshots @allapopp taken in Web by @tatarkyzlar

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At the center of the AŞ ritual is food, and for @allapopp especially the Tatar pie Bäleş.

After years of working with digital technologies @allapopp started wondering what other technologies already exist around us, following completely different logics and rooted in different cultural narratives.

Bäleş became one of the ways of thinking through this. Not only the pie itself, but the process of making it together, passing knowledge from generation to generation, gathering around the table, opening it and eating it together.

These rituals of making, sharing and gathering are where much of our artistic curiosity lives right now.

And this Sunday, we’ll gather around Bäleş and other dishes again for AŞ at Transgressive Memory Festival @ecommemoration taken in DOCK 11 by @tatarkyzlar

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AŞ, one year ago at @dock_11_ 🖤

Last year, we gathered around one table at DOCK 11 for AŞ: sharing food, stories, music, memories and blessings. It was such a special evening, and we’re very happy to bring the dinner ceremony back once again.

This Sunday, September 13, AŞ returns as part of Transgressive Memory Festival @ecommemoration at @silent.green

Around one table, we’ll gather again to eat, remember, listen and spend an evening together, surrounded by the world of our AŞ game, music and installation.

We can’t wait to do it all over again. 🖤

September 13, 6 PM
silent green Kulturquartier, Betonhalle
Berlin

Photos from AŞ at DOCK 11, 2025 by @ana.grancho by @tatarkyzlar

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What forms of memory gather around a table?

We’re excited to welcome TATAR KYZ:LAR (@tatarkyzlar) as part of the Transgressive Memory Festival 2026 performance programme with a very special ceremony.

Created by allapopp (@allapopp) and Dinara Rasuleva (@pustotalitarism), the work brings together ritual, poetry, music and immersive game space to reclaim and reimagine Tatar identity through decolonial, queer-feminist and migrant perspectives.

12–13 September 2026
silent green, Berlin 📍

#BerlinFestival #Performance #BerlinArtWeek #MediaArt #ContemporaryArt by @tatarkyzlar

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3 months ago

What memories, languages, and rituals come alive when we gather around a table?
TATAR KYZ:LAR (@tatarkyzlar) are part of the Transgressive Memory Festival 2026 performance programme with a very special ceremony.

Created by allapopp (@allapopp) and Dinara Rasuleva (@pustotalitarism), TATAR KYZ:LAR is a punk electronic music and poetry performative project that explores what it means to reclaim and reimagine identity following the loss, displacement, or fragmentation of native culture and language. Bringing together ritual, poetry, electronic sound, and an immersive game space, the work opens a shared setting in which memory can be performed, negotiated, and collectively reshaped.

allapopp is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary media and performance artist from Tatarstan whose work spans digital art, music, performance, installation, and mixed-reality formats.

Dinara Rasuleva is a Berlin-based writer and poet_ess born in Kazan, Tatarstan, whose multilingual practice moves across Tatar, Russian, English, and German to explore language as a space of memory, loss, and resistance.

Together, TATAR KYZ:LAR invite audiences into a space where inherited histories can be revisited otherwise, and where collective rituals may offer new ways of imagining belonging.

Transgressive Memory Festival
12–13 September 2026
silent green, Berlin 📍

Save the date — more on the festival programme soon.

©  Photo: Luna Afra Evans

© Graphic Design: Sophia Krasomil (@sophia_krasomil)

#Performance #Ceremony #BerlinArtWeek #MediaArt #gaming by @tatarkyzlar

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We’re excited to share a selection of projects submitted to the 3rd edition of the XR-History Award, presented in collaboration with @a_mazefest.

While these works were not selected for the final award, we want to acknowledge their strong artistic approaches, their sensitivity towards history, and their innovative use of Extended Reality, digital storytelling, and immersive media.

The XR-History Award honours projects that explore new ways of engaging with the past, opening historical narratives through experimentation, embodiment, and new media cultures.

Among the submissions were:
Plum Road Tea Dream – Sunrise Monument @plum_road_tea_dream
AŞ – VIRTUAL CEREMONY @tatarkyzlar
SPEECHLESS WITNESS OF A WANDERING TREE @aphrasal

Each of these projects offers a distinct perspective on memory, history, and cultural identity, expanding how we can experience and reflect on the past today. by @tatarkyzlar

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6 months ago

20.11.2025 in PANDA platforma:
AŞ, TATAR KYZ:LAR
(AŞ is the debut music album by TATAR KYZ:LAR, composed by allapopp and lyrics written by Deenara Rawsleva)
Special Guest: Sveta Ben

Photo by Roman Ekimov
#pandaplatforma taken in PANDA platforma by @tatarkyzlar

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