Kirchgängerbanger by Slavs and Tatars

Publisher: Motto Books / Westfälischer Kunstverein, Düsseldorf, 2017
Editor: Slavs and Tatars
Format: Matte-laminated softcover with spot UV varnish
Edition: First Edition
Pages: 92
ISBN: 978-2940524709

Kirchgängerbanger is a reader compiled by the artistic collective Slavs and Tatars that foregrounds the provocative writings of Johann Georg Hamann, the 18th-century critic of Enlightenment rationality. Hamann’s polemics—steeped in Lutheran theology, linguistic play, and irreverent sexuality—are presented alongside an introduction by Slavs and Tatars, producing a text that collapses conventional philosophical seriousness into a space of wit, contradiction, and bodily rhetoric. With selections such as ‘New Apology of the Letter H’ and its self-reflexive variations, the book enacts a dialogue between historical critique and contemporary discourse, where theology, language, and transgression intersect as forms of reenchantment.