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Morrison &Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce the addition of six highly regarded IP litigators to its Intellectual Property (IP) Litigation group. The San Francisco-based team, which joins from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &Rosati, consists of partners Stefani E. Shanberg and Jennifer J. Schmidt, of counsel Robin L. Brewer, and associates Eugene Marder, Madeleine E. Greene, and Michael J. Guo.
Ms. Shanberg and Ms. Schmidt lead an impressive IP litigation practice and have helped some of Silicon Valley's top technology companies prevail in their important IP disputes. The team has secured wins and favorable outcomes for clients in federal court, arbitration, Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) proceedings, and the Federal Circuit Court of Appeal. The new litigators will further strengthen Morrison &Foerster's globally renowned IP Litigation practice, including enhancing its representation of clients before the ITC under the unfair imports provision (Section 337) of the U.S. Tariff Act. Ms. Shanberg currently holds the prestigious position of President of the ITC Trial Lawyers Association—the first ever West Coast lawyer to assume this role.
"We are delighted to welcome such a tremendous group of trial lawyers whose commitment to deep client relationships makes them an ideal fit at Morrison &Foerster," said LarrenNashelsky, chair of Morrison &Foerster. "Stefani, Jennifer, and the rest of the team's technology expertise and focus also align with our reputation as a destination firm for technology companies looking for sophisticated and creative IP strategies."
Morrison &Foerster's IP Litigation group covers all aspects of intellectual property disputes, from complex patent litigation to trademark and interference matters before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The firm's clients benefit from one of the largest and best-respected patent groups in the world, with more than 300 attorneys, more than half of whom are litigators. The arrival of Ms. Shanberg and Ms. Schmidt, as well as the rest of their team, also highlights Morrison &Foerster's continued commitment to making strategic investments to its IP Litigation bench, following the additions of Mark Whitaker, David Manspeizer, and Greg Chopskie on the East Coast last year.
"Our six new outstanding lawyers will complement and further strengthen our IP Litigation group," said Rich Hung, co-chair of Morrison &Foerster's IP Litigation group. "Their deep expertise and knowledge in navigating complex IP disputes for technology companies, as well as their experience litigating in diverse venues, will be extremely valuable for our clients."
The group's move to Morrison &Foerster also underscores the firm's focus on adding talented lawyers in the thriving San Francisco Bay Area market. The addition of Ms. Shanberg and Ms. Schmidt comes on the heels of the arrival of four new corporate partners – Dario Avram, Patrick Huard, Alex Kaufman, and Sara Terheggen– and of Joshua Hill, Jr., a white collar litigator, who have all come to the firm in the Bay Area over the last year.
"Morrison &Foerster's reputation as a litigation and trial powerhouse, and as a leader in the Bay Area were key factors in our decision to join the firm. The firm is renowned as a destination for clients and litigators alike, and as an ideal home for litigators to practice," said Ms. Shanberg. "Our team has been practicing law together and delivering value to clients for many years, and we are delighted to continue this momentum with the strong team at Morrison &Foerster."
Ms. Schmidt added: "We look forward to continuing to provide our clients with strong, smart legal counsel from a global platform and to further solidifying the firm's position as the leading IP group serving technology clients."
Here is some further information on Morrison &Foerster's newest attorneys.
Stefani E. Shanberg's practice focuses on patent litigation, with a particular emphasis on defending technology companies. She has extensive experience in all areas of intellectual property litigation and complex commercial litigation relating to intellectual property. Ms. Shanberg has handled matters before federal courts, the ITC, and the Federal Circuit Court of Appeal. Ms. Shanberg is the go-to advisor for many of the hottest technology companies facing intellectual property lawsuits and prides herself on an understanding of her clients' businesses and goals. Ms. Shanberg's patent litigation engagements have related to diverse technologies, including smartphone apps, email, network security, wireless communications, and other Internet, hardware, and software products, as well as consumer products.
While her practice involves matters pending throughout the nation, Ms. Shanberg has particular experience with investigations before the International Trade Commission and currently serves as the President of the ITC Trial Lawyers Association (ITC-TLA); she is the first West Coast President of the ITC-TLA. Ms. Shanberg is regularly recognized as a leading intellectual property litigator and as among the top women in technology law. She has her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law and her B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, from which she graduated with high honors.
Jennifer J. Schmidt's practice focuses on patent litigation and related complex commercial litigation. Ms. Schmidt has more than a decade of significant trial experience in cases relating to diverse technologies and routinely handles matters before federal courts, the ITC, the PTAB, and arbitration tribunals. With an electrical engineering and computer science background, she focuses her practice on defending technology companies against claims of patent infringement in a wide range of technology fields, including computer hardware and software, video compression, smartphone apps, network security, search algorithms, semiconductor physics, and consumer products.
Ms. Schmidt is consistently ranked by Northern California Super Lawyers in their list of "Rising Stars," and has also been recognized by New York Super Lawyers. She has her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was the Managing Editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology, and an A.B. in electrical engineering and computer science from Harvard University, where she graduated magna cum laude and worked at the Harvard Robotics Lab.
Robin L. Brewer's practice focuses on patent litigation, including actions before the ITC, federal district courts, the Federal Circuit, and the PTAB. She has represented a variety of high-tech clients and has experience with cases involving digital wallets, network security, video compression technology, database systems, Internet advertising, email systems, smartphone apps, and online marketplaces. Ms. Brewer has successfully litigated all stages of a case, obtaining wins at federal district courts, PTAB, ITC, and Federal Circuit. She is consistently named to the "Rising Stars" list published by Northern California Super Lawyers. She has her J.D. from The George Washington University Law School with honors; her D.E.A. in Mechanical Engineering from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquees in Lyon, France; and her B.E. in biomedical engineering and A.B. in engineering science (cum laude), both from Dartmouth College.
Eugene Marder's practice focuses on patent litigation, primarily in software, electronic, digital media, and network technologies. He has represented a diverse array of high-tech clients and has had extensive involvement in high-stakes hardware and software patent litigation. In particular, Mr. Marder has significant trial experience in matters before federal district courts and the ITC. He has guided clients to successful outcomes at all stages of litigation, including victories through dispositive motions, at trial, and on appeal. He has a J.D. from Stanford Law School and his B.A. in international relations (magna cum laude) from the University of Southern California, where he was Phi Beta Kappa.
Madeleine E. Greene's practice primarily focuses on patent litigation in diverse technical fields, including network security, video compression, Internet applications, computer hardware and software, and housewares. She has experience in all stages of litigation and has represented clients before federal district courts throughout the country, the ITC, and the Federal Circuit. Ms. Greene has achieved favorable outcomes for numerous clients, including case resolutions resulting from successful claim construction and collateral proceedings along with total case victories through dispositive motions and on appeal. She has her J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law and her B.A. in Law & Society from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she received Dean's Honors.
Michael J. Guo's practice focuses on patent litigation. He has experience with all aspects of litigation in a diverse range of technologies and has represented clients before district courts, the Federal Circuit, the PTAB, and the ITC. He has achieved favorable results for clients, such as winning motions to dismiss, obtaining findings of noninfringement, and invalidating patent claims in Patent Office proceedings. Prior to his legal career, he was a quantitative analyst and later a web developer. He has a J.D. from University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, where he was an editor of the UCLA Law Review, and a B.S. in economics and electrical engineering/computer science from Yale University.
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Senators Again Urge FDA to Provide Stronger Warnings on E-Cigarettes
October 15, 2014 by Harold Bishop
U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Cal.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) have again written the FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg asking the agency to (1) move quickly to finalize its proposed deeming regulations that would expand the FDA's regulatory authority over e-cigarettes (see E-cigarette regulations would ban sales to minors, require health warnings, April 25, 2014), and (2) further strengthen the health warnings on e-cigarettes. On August 6, 2014, they previously asked the FDA to move quickly to finalize its proposed rule on e-cigarettes, and to include provisions that would limit youth access to the addictive products (see Congressional plea to FDA: regulate e-cigarette sales to minors now, August 6, 2014).
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"Lusting after a Tart of Peacock Tongues": A Conversation with Publisher Barbara Epler
Veronica Esposito
Barbara Epler started working at New Directions after graduating from college in 1984, and she has been its president and publisher since 2011. In 2015 Poets & Writers awarded Epler their Editor's Prize, and in 2016 Words Without Borders gave her the Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature.
Veronica Esposito: You became editor-in-chief with New Directions almost twenty-five years ago, in 1996. What are some of the biggest changes in the translation world since then?
Barbara Epler: Without yet being a large enough share of what's published in America overall, there has been a great growth in the amount and quality of translations appearing here. To my mind, that's due mostly to two factors: a miraculous growth in new companies here (mostly small and agile) largely or entirely devoted to translated literature, as well as a sort of general cultural nausea about how parochial the USA tends to be.
Back in the mid-1990s, great groundbreaking presses interested in translation were fairly thin on the ground. We did not yet have Archipelago, And Other Stories, Deep Vellum, Fence, Dorothy Project, New Vessel, Restless, Nightboat, New York Review of Books Classics, Open Letter, Other Press, Two Lines, Tilted Axis, Ugly Duckling, Wakefield, Wave, and more (apologies to houses I am forgetting!). Back in 1996, all these marvelous publishers were still a gleam in their founders' eyes.
Of course, back then there were terrific publishers of translation too: FSG, Arcade, Overlook, New Press, Dalkey, Godine, Graywolf, Grove, Coffee House, Knopf, and the many university presses with a translation line (or such amazing small treasure houses as Exact Change and Burning Deck). When we went peering in the global waters, with all sorts of shiny fish flashing along, there were less than a dozen herons perched along the banks, but now at every bend in the river I spot so many small quick egrets fishing busily—and it's really this plethora of new and visionary smaller publishers that has been such a game changer.
And then, too, our cultural nausea seems a factor as well: we can't help but be aware of how hegemonic and either stupid or evil so much of what we produce as a nation is: I feel that we're like plants: we turn from the dark to the light, and much of the light's streaming in from outside.
I feel that we're like plants: we turn from the dark to the light, and much of the light's streaming in from outside.
Esposito: What changes do you believe are upcoming for translated literature?
Epler: My feeling is that—especially with the atrocious anticultural, antiglobal bias of the outgoing administration finally behind us—there is a keen appetite for more translated literature from countries, cultures, and languages less represented here traditionally.
Moreover, when in an optimistic mood, I'd say these changes will gather momentum because the support for translated literature has become almost institutional—and I mean that in a good way. The New Yorker and Harper's now are regularly publishing translated works, as well as of course Granta, the Literary Review, Paris Review, White Review, and Conjunctions: these are places where we often find intriguing samples of writers' work from abroad; and of course we also see writers of interest in Bidoun, Two Lines, Asymptote, Little Star, Threepenny, Banipal, Exchanges, Circumference, and Samovar, all dedicated to works in translation.
And then think of how much Words Without Borders does, or PEN, or a website such as The Complete Review: these are resources we rely on.
Academia too seems to be shifting—I may be being Pollyanna here, but the universities seem slightly less allergic to recognizing stellar translations as a not unmeaningful part of a tenure-worthy academic portfolio.
And hello: the reestablishment of the National Book Award in Translation is a bellwether.
Esposito: A large part of the success of New Directions has been its ability to continually publish work that feels new and vital, even as the translation field and publishing as a whole have undergone dramatic transformations. What do you attribute this to?
Epler: Well, in a way there's a strength in hoeing the row you know. James Laughlin, who founded ND in 1936, drank the Ezra Pound Kool-Aid that there is one world, one world of literature, and readers should have access to everything, so translation was a key part of his program from the get-go. JL was the first publisher here of Borges, Nabokov, and Neruda, and New Directions has gone on to be the first of W. G. Sebald, Roberto Bolaño, László Krasznahorkai. JL of course spoke several languages and was a sui generis phenomenon, but I think we now have an incredibly sharp group here, who all read widely. We work as a collective and Declan Spring, Jeffrey Yang, Laurie Callahan, Tynan Kogane, Mieke Chew, Chris Wait, Brittany Dennison, and John Barrington all read and vigorously mong opinions. We have some extremely active truffle hunters.
We're also very lucky to be in close contact with like-minded publishers from all around the world who give us great tips.
And an additional huge resource is that we often share translations with such terrific anglophone publishers as Fitzcarraldo, And Other Stories, Istros, Granta, Daunt, Lolli, Harvill, Pushkin, Carcanet, MacLehose, Giramondo, Text, and Penguin, among many others. (Plus the remarkable Tilted Axis has sent us a couple of manuscripts I so much wish I'd made sure to read with more care.)
Also, speaking of the factors that make for success in publishing writers from around the world, I need to include both the visible and invisible sources of support that we could not manage without.
The visible ones are of course all the magazines and reviews I have mentioned both for preserial appearances and review attention, but also we owe all the reviewers; we owe all the editors of reviews that select our books for attention; we owe all the insanely hard-working jurors on the prizes which do so much to make the public aware of writers whose names aren't always easy to pronounce. I think of all the work that goes into the Best Translated Book Award, the National Book Award, the PEN prizes, the American Academy prizes, the Griffin, the Pulitzers, and others: it's endless and endlessly demanding. We can't afford to pay our authors or their translators what they deserve, but we can hope to lift their works up into the light with all this help. And then there are the amplifiers such as Literary Hub or the friendly voices on Instagram and Twitter. It's incredible the debts we owe. And one of our very largest debts is to the independent bookstores: our books need the love of the independent booksellers. And of course, last but not least of these debts is the one we owe to our designers: we couldn't succeed without their gift for the visible.
And then, making success possible, there are all the invisible debts we owe! I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that for many years (and we hope going forward), New Directions also owes a great debt to key cultural institutions from abroad who help us very much with both subventions of some of the costs of translation and also travel and event-planning support. It's a long list, including the Goethe Institut, the French Cultural Services, the Catalan Institute, KLTI from Korea, Fundación TyPA, the Brazilian Biblioteca Nacional, Pro Helvetia, the Instituto Camões, the Japan Foundation, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the Hungarian Book Office, the Spanish Ministry of Culture, the Polish Book Institute, the Italian Cultural Institute, the Argentine Foreign Ministry, and Reading Colombia. For a small for-profit press, pinching its pennies, this help is crucial.
Also, many of these cultural agencies invite editors to meet authors and publishers: we have had invitations to Antwerp, Buenos Aires, Germany, Tokyo, Milan, Taipei, Oslo, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Denmark, Korea, Australia, Israel, Indonesia, Istanbul, and Guadalajara. The trips can be exhausting, but they are incredibly interesting and informative, as well as providing the opportunity to build relationships with fellow editors from abroad who can be gold mines of information about international authors.
The point I want to make is that any success of ours may start with the incredible book itself, but not much can happen on behalf of that work without all this support. (It's possible to feel guilty about all the debs New Directions piles up, but I like to lean on something JL once said: "It is a risk to be my friend. I operate on the principle that if someone does me a kindness that entitles me to ask immediately for another favor. That's not so immoral as it sounds—if you're Buddhist. If I am a Buddhist and I ask you for a favor I'm conferring merit on you by allowing you to do a good deed. If you collect enough good deeds that will shorten the time it takes you to become a Boddhisattva." Admittedly, JL was raised a Presbyterian.)
Esposito: What advice would you give to a newer translator who wants to publish groundbreaking writing?
Epler: First and foremost, I would advise them to send submissions to the wonderful PEN/Heim Translation Fund Awards! That's the best thing since sliced bread: you only need the permission of the rights-holder and a thirty-page sample, and you're set to win a nice little cash award—but more than that, the sample will be read by editors in publishing houses large and small. The PEN/Heim winners have a terrific track record for seeing their enthusiasm result in a book contract.
Second, I'd say knock on every door: send a sample to all the book publishers who bring out translated works you like, and also send the same to magazines, journals, and reviews with whom you feel a kinship.
Esposito: What is a risk that New Directions has taken in the past few years? How did it turn out?
Epler: It depends on how we think of "risk": we sank a lot of resources into the rediscovery of Clarice Lispector, and that program has succeeded spectacularly. On the other hand (in a strictly nickels-and-dimes sense), we bring out incredible authors who have not yet found the audience they deserve: they may enjoy such great critical success as Yoel Hoffmann, Daša Drndić, Evelio Rosero, Alexander Lernet-Holenia, José Revueltas, Ahmed Bouanani, Roger Lewinter, Raduan Nassar, Gennady Aygi, Abdelfattah Kilito, Alexander Kluge, Jorge Barón Biza, or Rafael Chirbes, but their books should be in more readers' hands. One of our best books in year, All My Cats, by Bohumil Hrabal, barely sold at all! These are all astonishing writers! And so of course it can be frustrating that we don't reach more readers, but then, balancing that, there's the happy success of Mathias Énard, Adania Shibli, and Ingeborg Bachmann or Hiraoki Sato's On Haiku, or Amparo Dávila's The Houseguest or our new author Hiroko Oyamada's The Factory and The Hole. I can't wait to see how the fantastic In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova does: we'll find out in the next few months . . . And then there's the extra thrill when you see a heretofore unknown author catch on like wildfire, such as Fernanda Melchor.
There's the thrill when you see a heretofore unknown author catch on like wildfire, such as Fernanda Melchor.
Esposito: When you discover a book for publication that feels really fresh, new, and vital, what are you seeing?
Epler: The thing that's a little relaxing about ND is that we all sort of know what we're looking for—James Laughlin liked to quote Gertrude Stein that when you read something really new, a bell goes off (or, as JL put it himself, the top of your scalp lifts up). JL thought the purpose of publishing is to have writers make their experiments public, and we inherited a somewhat narrow bailiwick: ND's supposed to try to follow in his footsteps and bring out ground-breaking or what used to be called avant-garde books. I myself always hope to feel the walls inside my mind moving around—or, more to the point, being moved around—thanks to what I am reading. When I first read Sebald, I felt I was tasting a dish I'd never imagned could exist, and without, I hope, sounding like a decadent sybarite, lusting after a tart of peacock tongues, that's a delicious sensation.
I always hope to feel the walls inside my mind moving around—or, more to the point, being moved around—thanks to what I am reading.
Esposito: Over the next five years, what would success look like for New Directions? For translated literature as a whole?
Epler: I think one of the most satisfying things anyone who works as an editor can experience is when an author you know is a genius is at long last widely recognized as such. What can be better than when authors we started out, say, twenty or twenty-five years ago—Fleur Jaeggy, Jenny Erpenbeck, César Aira, Inger Christensen, László Krasznahorkai, Yoko Tawada—become (at least within the confines of literature) household names? I would love to see more of that trend, and also any fresh runaway debut successes too. And of course, I am always excited about the next book by our writers being translated at this very moment, and very curious whom we might find next to bring into English. ND has been looking for writers from less-translated languages, to broaden and deepen our list: we've been improving in recent years but we certainly have room to grow.
And for translated literature as a whole, I have never seen American authors both look toward and support their fellow writers from around the world so generously, nor have I seen a time when the literary community here was so aware of what Goethe said back in 1827: "Left to itself every literature will exhaust its vitality if it is not refreshed by the interest and contributions of a foreign one."
Editorial note: This is the twelfth and final interview in Veronica Esposito's monthly series, En Face: Conversations on the Future of Translation, which ran throughout 2020.
Photo by Anita Sagastegui
Veronica Esposito is a writer and transgender advocate. She worked in literary translation in multiple capacities for over a decade before choosing to serve her community through peer support. She is currently working toward a master's in counseling. The author of four books, her publication credits include the Guardian and New York Times.


Friday, February 1st, 2019 @Myymälä2 Gallery (Uudenmaankatu 23)
Poetic Militancy: Theoretical Payback is a collaborative performance where the participants have the chance to militantly, theoretically or poetically attack a Eurocentric intellectual or a school of thought that promoted or stayed neutral toward theoretical racism. Performances are voluntary. You can pick one thinker, (pseudo-thinker), artist or writer for theoretical payback. Collaboratively we will read and perform our paybacks in two sessions.
Saturday, January 19th, 2019 @Kirkkopuistikko 20, FI-65100 Vaasa, Suomi
The Carpet Performance is a night of music and performance made by a group of Helsinki-based artists dedicated to Ibn Battuta. The group is invited to organize an event in the new art space in Vaasa. The inspiration of the events is coming from the concept of the primacy of geography over time, Travels of Ibn Battuta, historiography of Ibn Khaldun and music of Hayedeh. The reading group will have a conversation over the breakfast in the morning after the performance for the public.
Tuesday, September 4, 2018 @Exhibtion Laboratory, Helsinki
Shahram Khosravi (Public Talk): How Does it Feel to be a Crisis?
We live in a time of wall fetishism. Never as today have human beings been so obsessed with building walls. Walls are, however, old. Empires built walls, from the Great Wall of China, to Hadrian's Wall in Northern England and the Limes Tripolitanus of the Roman Empire in North Africa to keep "barbarians" out. And if we look closer we can see that there are still traces of the old imperial visions in the modern borders and border walls.
Thursday, August 23, 2018 @Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki
Exhibition Opening: "How To Build a Wall: Introduction into Art"
An exhibition made by a group of artists aiming to visit the intersections of 'art production' and 'cultural dominance through exclusionary methods'. Inspired by Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism and Wendy Brown's Walled States Waning Sovereignty, the project will incorporate the relationship between history and state-structures, state-structures and space, space and bodies.
Friday, July 13, 2018 @Brinkkala Gallery, Turku
Shipwreck Information Center: The history of shipbuilding and sea transportation is entangled with the history of migration. Many of the world's largest passenger ships (such as MS Oasis of the Seas) are built in Turku. In our technological era, large passenger ships are built by corporations solely for entertainment purposes, while small boats (plastic boats, rafts, and lifeboats) are used for migration. (more)
Sunday, May 1st, 2018, 18:00 @ Alkovi gallery, Helsinki
RED MAY, Exhibition opening: Students of Kuvataideakatemia from Kino Club and Reading group are organizing a special event for the opening. The public is invited to participate in making soup, and enjoying it with the neighborhood community. It will be a festive event celebrating the International workers day and Vappu.
RED MAY SEATTLE (May 2018)
Thursday, February 22, 2018, 17:00 @ Northwest Film Forum, Seattle
RED MAY "Socialize This!": Screening & conversation
Kshama Sawant (Socialist Alternative), Shaun Scott (DSA member), Emily Pothast (Artist-Curator), Eva Cherniavsky (writer, assistant Prof. at University of Washington), Andrej Markovcic (DSA member) (more)
Saturday, January 20th, 2018 17:00 @ Ex-club, Helsinki
Jo Kjaergaard: a presentation on her participation in 2017 Bogotá Kuir Festival with a screening of her film BogotáKuir. The presentation will be followed by a conversation with the Reading Group. (more)
Wednesday, December 12th, 2017 17:30 @ Ex-club, Helsinki
Carlos Salvador (Research Days): [Gift of seeing, artist talk and perfomrance] Carlos Salvador, a headmaster of an indigenous Wixarika secondary school and a self-learned photographer will be present and oversee the presentation which is organized by Lea Kantonen. The Wixarika have a shamanistic approach to art and the shamans strive towards something they call Nierika (The Gift of Seeing). Carlos Salvador's artistic work can be described as non-formal education.
Tuesday, 21.11.2017 @ Ex-club, Helsinki
Public Art: As an artist in society" a seminar by Irmeli Kokko, will host a conversation with Paul O'Neil (Artistic Director of Checkpoint Helsinki), Christine Langinauer (producer, Academy of Fine Arts) and moderated by Pontus Kyander (lecturer Academy of Fine Arts). The event is simultaneous with the Reading group session. (more)
Saturday, November 18, 2017 17:00 @ Victrola Cafe, Seattle
RED MAY General Assembly (more)
Monday, November 6th, 2017 17:00 @ Ex-club, Helsinki
Art & Activism + FAR Night School: Art & Activism in the Posthuman Turn is a course in Visual Culture and Contemporary Art (ViCCA) program in Aalto University organized by artist and researcher Tim Smith. FAR Night School is a Feminist Anti-Racist Night School. It is an independent platform for feminist and anti-racist learning, based in Helsinki. FAR Night School started in the January 2017 and organizes meetings and learning/sharing sessions as regularly as possible. (more)
Tuesday, October 17th, 2017 18:30 @ Ex-club, Helsinki
Giovanna Esposito Yussif & Christine Langinauer: Practice Sharing Practice, is an artist talk, conversation, and dinner. Giovanna Esposito Yussif is a Curator and art historian based in Helsinki. Currently, her work focuses on rooting alliances between sites of production, situated knowledges and collaborative models of inquiry. Christine Langinauer is a curator, writer and art producer based in Helsinki. She has worked on numerous exhibitions, events, publications and projects in Finland, Estonia, Germany, France and many other countries. The event is simultaneous with the bi-weekly reading group meeting at ex-club. (more)
Saturday, October 14th, 2017 18:30 @ Ex-club, Helsinki
Maarit Suomi-Väänänen: is an award-winning media artist and a graduate of the University of Art and Design, Helsinki. Maarit combines the expressive forms of visual art to optical possibilities. Her films ponder social and emotional themes as well as themes connected to identity and communication. Praised as fascinating and open to a multitude of interpretations, Maarit's experimental comedies and documentaries have toured over 40 countries and presented in exhibitions, biennales, festivals and broadcast, including the Museum of Modern Art Kiasma in Helsinki, YLE Finnish Broadcasting Company and IDFA in Amsterdam. (more)
Sunday, October 8th, 2017 19:00 @ Vermillion Art Gallery and Bar, Seattle
RED MAY's October Revolution Party! Drink! Dance! Conspire! (More)
Friday, October 6th, 2017 19:00 @ Myymälä2 Gallery, Helsinki
Reading group meeting: The next meeting will focus on postcolonial ideas and subjectivity in relation to what Vivek Chibber calls the Specter of Capital. The book (Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital) received enormous attention after its publication in 2013 and was supported by Chomsky and Zizek. However, the book criticizes postcolonial theory as represented by the Subaltern Studies school. Gayatri Spivak wrote a review of the book that was published in Cambridge Review of International Affairs to which Chibber replied in the same journal.
Saturday, September 30th, 2017 7:00 pm @ Elliott Bay Books, Seattle (by RED MAY)
Michael Hardt: Join RED MAY as we welcome Michael Hardt who will present Assembly, his latest collaboration with Antonio Negri. From the jacket blurb: "ASSEMBLY proposes how contemporary social movements can better harness power to effect lasting change; challenges the assumption that social movements must return to traditional, centralized forms of political leadership; provides a new analysis of the dominance of finance and money; advocates social unionism, or mixing labor organizing with social movements." "Are you ready for democracy? "Assembly argues: don't be scared to remake it." (more)
Wednesday, July 12, 2017 | 17:30 @ Memory of War exhibition, Helsinki
Conversation: "Memory of War" exhibition is a collaboration between Helsinki based artists of middle eastern and european dissent and is part of Art-Tu project that has started in 2016. In July, 2016 Art-Tu had an exhibition "Journey" at Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki. This year's theme "Memory of War" explores how civilians experience the devastation of continuous state of war –near and far, in our present day as well as in our distant memories. Combating racism is one of the main initiatives of this project. Art-Tu 2017 is organised by Turvapaikanhakijoiden Tuki ry (Support for asylum seekers). Curator of the exhibition is sculptor, community artist and art pedagog Heidi Hänninen.(more)
RED MAY SEATTLE – (May, 2017) (more)
Tuesday, May 9, 2017 | 18:30 @ Myymälä2 Gallery, Helsinki
Conversation: "The Refugee in the Age of Fiber Optics" As part of Golden Age of Chaos And Clusterfuck exhibition.
Golden Age of Chaos And Clusterfuck is a collective effort of nine artists to understand, through art, the nature of knowledge in today's society. When the processes through which we produce, reproduce, store and access information are changing, how does the society change as a result? Or rather, how do the changes in both effect each other? Consisting of field notes, observations, documentation and objects, the exhibition takes the form of a temporary research centre, in which the participating artists share their findings and source materials. The show will take shape organically as the artistic research continues in the gallery space. A publication documenting the process is produced on-site and launched at the end. (more)
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 | 18:45 @ INCA, Seattle
Dakota Gearhart uses video, photography, and installation to examine the environment and how it is perceived through mythology and commerce. Her work has been exhibited at the Tacoma Art Museum, Henry Art Gallery, On The Ground Floor (Los Angeles), The Front (New Orleans), S1 Gallery (Portland), ROY G BIV (Columbus), KARST (Plymouth, UK), and Vulpes Vulpes (London). She received her MFA from the University of Washington (Seattle) and currently lives between Brooklyn, NY and Seattle, WA.
For TMNW, Dakota will engage the idea of spectatorship as it pertains to her upcoming show @ Glass Box Gallery (Seattle) in May. (more)
Saturday, April 8, 2017 | 18:45 @ Alkovi, Helsinki
Crowd Source ii Exhibition // Red May Opening Event
Installation By Hami Bahadori & Jo Kjaergaard. The RED MAY events will happen during the month of May 2017 in Seattle and Helsinki. The works gathered by This Might Not Work will be an extension to the RED MAY festival, in order to support and promote these initiatives. (more)
Saturday, April 1, 2017 | 18:45 @ Glass Box Gallery
Jason Groves teaching and research in German literature and ecology address the unprecedented entanglement of human life on an increasingly imperiled planet. He is Assistant Professor of Germanics at the University of Washington and his essays on literature, theater, performance, and ecological thought have appeared in Modern Language Notes, Performance Studies, Society and Space, The Goethe Yearbook, Theory in the Era of Climate Change, and The Yearbook of Comparative Literature.
For TMNW, Jason will explore the poetics of walking as it constitutes what Franz Kafka once called the art of "a bad career." (more.)
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 | 18:45 @ INCA
Genevieve Goffman is an artist living in Portland, OR. She graduated from Reed College, and her work has been shown in S1, The Melanie Flood Project, The White Gallery, and HQHQ. Much of her work involves the finding and re-organizing of fragments, in the hopes of comparing the stories that are remembered to those that fall through the cracks.
For TMNW, Genevieve will explore the importance of faking it till you make, making do, and the pretense that makes up both her gym life and her art practice. (more)
Friday, March 17, 2017 | 20:00 @ Gary Hill's Studio
MSHR is a collaborative project composed of Birch Cooper and Brenna Murphy, founded in 2011 in Portland, Oregon and now based in New York City. The duo produces sculptural synthesizers, ritualistic performances, and installations that place the human body into a dynamic relationship with sound and light, generating expanded sensory experiences. They will be performing an experimental audiovisual set in Gary Hill's studio. (more)
Sunday, March 12, 2017 | 18:15 @ Glass Box Gallery
Joe Milutis is a professor and an interdisciplinary artist who works primarily between interdisciplinary areas to create and explore unforeseen conjunctions. His practice encompasses academic and creative work in a variety of media and distribution modes, including experiments in narrative and poetics; sound and radio; video; new media; performance and various media/literature hybrids. (more)
Wednesday, January 25th 2017 | 15:00 at Merikatu 13, 00140 Helsinki
"Crowd•Source" (Public art show): Hami Bahadori & Matt Bell, Curated by 13lock. Supported by the Academy of Fine Arts of Uniarts Helsinki. (more)
2016 Fall Film Screening Series: "Darkness"
Film Series Winter is coming and the days are becoming shorter.
Thursday, December 15th 2016 | 2:00 pm at Kuvataideakatemia Library, Helsinki
INCA Press Book Release: There will be books available for purchase, between 2pm and 4pm at Kuvataideakatemia Library, Helsinki. Open discussion on INCA press's new books (in English)
Wednesday, December 7th 2016 | 6:00 pm at Kuvataideakatemia, Helsinki
INCA Press Book Launch + Editor's/Artist Talk: launch of the books including "Forms of Education: Couldn't Get a Sense of It" & "To Make a Public: Temporary Art Review 2011-2016". Presentation/talk by editors Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas, and contributors Diego Bruno and Sezgin Boynik, followed by QA and discussion. (more)
Sunday, October 7th, 2016 | 7 pm at Scarecrow Video, Seattle
This Might Not Work: Darkness. The first screening of our six-part film program for the fall. Army of Shadows (1969), dir. Jean-Pierre Melville.
Sunday, September 25th 2016 | 6:30 pm at Kuvataideakatemia, Helsinki
Film Screening in an unknown location – The group is gathering on the ground floor lobby of Kuvataideakatemia (Elimäenkatu 25 A, 00510 Helsinki) at 6:30 pm then walking to the location (5 min). Note–Bring things to keep yourselves warm. (more)
Sunday, August 21st 2016 | 6:00 pm, INCA
"On loan" Exhibition – (Exhibition Dates: August 21 – September 3) Participating Artists: Clifford Owens, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Mladen Stilinović, Susanne Winterling, Jueqian Fang (more)
Saturday, August 13th 2016 | 7:00 pm, Glassbox Gallery
Panel Discussion: The Need for Alternative Approaches in Art and Education
Alejandra Salinas (INCA – Institute for New Connotative Action) – Seattle
Philip Wohlestetter (Red May University) – Seattle
Victoria Anne Reis and manuel arturo abreu (home school) – Portland
Am Johal (The Vancouver Institute for Social Research) – Vancouver, BC (more)
Wednesday July 27th 2016 | 7 pm at Glass Box Gallery
Gary Hill: Gary Hill is one of the most important contemporary artists investigating the relationships between language/text, sounds and electronic images. He has been the recipient of many awards and fellowships including the Guggenheim fellowship and MacArthur award. His influential works have been exhibited in most major contemporary art museums worldwide. (more)
Sunday July 10th 2016 | 6:30 pm at INCA
Jeanne Heuving & Maged Zaher: (Artist talk and Book Reading)
Jeanne Heuving has published two critical monographs and two creative books. Her cross-genre book Incapacity won a 2004 Book of the Year Award from Small Press Traffic.
Maged Zaher currently lives in Seattle. He has five books of poetry and two translation books of Arabic poetry. In 2013 he won the weekly Stranger's Genius award in literature. (more)
Wednesday June 29th 2016 | 7 pm at Glass Box Gallery
Carrie Bodle: Carrie Bodle received her Master's of Science in Visual Studies from the MIT Visual Arts Program in 2005. Artist residencies and fellowships include Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, IBM Watson Collaborative User Experience Group in Cambridge (more)
Saturday June 11th 2016 | 7 pm at INCA
Melanie Noel: Melanie Noel is the author of The Monarchs (Stockport Flats, 2013). Her poems have also appeared in Weekday, Spiral Orb, La Norda Especialo and THE ARCADIA PROJECT. She sometimes leads experiential workshops meant to invoke synesthesia and an altered sense of scale. (more)
Saturday May 14th 2016 | 7 pm at INCA
Rob Rhee: Robert Rhee is a Seattle based artist and writer. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally, including White Columns in NY, the Hunterdon Art Museum, the Ilmin Museum of Art in Seoul, the Changwon 2010 Biennale, and the Ferdinand Van Dieten Gallery in the Netherlands. (more)
Wednesday April 27th 2016 | 7 pm at Glass Box Gallery
Babak Golkar: Babak Golkar was born in Berkeley in 1977. He spent most of his formative years in Tehran until 1996 when he migrated to Vancouver, where he obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from Emily Carr Institute in 2003 and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia in 2006. (more)
Saturday April 9th 2016 | 7 pm at INCA
Gretchen Bennett: Gretchen Bennett is a Seattle based artist, who's works has been shown in variety of different venues locally and internationally. This year, Gretchen Bennett's work was included in the exhibition, The Potato Eaters at Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle, WA. In 2014 she received the Betty Bowen Special Recognition Award (more)
Thursday April 7th 2016 | 5 pm – 8pm at Gallery 110
Suitcase Exhibit: Curated by Daniele di Lodovico, Organized by This Might Not Work. The project is an ongoing art exhibition. The first manifestation of Suitcase was the New York Public Library's Art Collection Galleries on April 13, 2005 and included ten American artists and ten Italian artists. (more)
Saturday April 9th 2016 | 5 pm at Gallery 110
Suitcase Exhibit Curator Talk and Gallery Walkthrough: Gallery 110 has organized a talk and gallery walkthrough for both the Suitcase exhibition in the West gallery and Sean Fansler's exhibition in the East gallery. Join us for a tour of the exhibition, artist talk and curator's talk. (More)
Wednesday February 24th 2016 | 7 pm at Glass Box Gallery
Barbara Polster: Barbara Polster (b. 1987, Cleveland, OH) is an artist investigating themes of human limitation, wonder, and relationship to natural scale, primarily through sculpture, installation, and video. Recent solo exhibitions include: a [super]symmetry (2014) and superposition (2013), William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH. (more)
Saturday February 13th 2016 | 7 pm at INCA
Paul Berger: Paul Berger is the former professor at University of Washington's School of Art. Berger has earned a BA degree in art at UCLA and MFA graduate work at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY. His work involves multiple images in structured sequences, often with texts. Also his interest in sequence and narrative transitioned to one based in digital manipulation of electronic imagery beginning in the early 1980's. (more)
Saturday January 30th 2016 | 7 pm at INCA
Nasrin Himada: Nasrin Himada is a writer and curator residing in Montréal. Her interdisciplinary research interests focus on the history of Palestinian cinema, art and activism, and the militarization of urban space through prison infrastructure and police surveillance. She is the co-editor of the journal Scapegoat: Architecture/Landscape/Political Economy. (more)
Saturday January 9th 2016 | 7 pm at INCA
Max Kraushaar: Max Kraushaar was born and raised in Seattle. As an artist his goal has always been to seek answers to his own questions, regardless of medium. In the past Max has made, alone and collaboratively, books, rooms, gifs, videos, plays, sculptures, apps, photos, robots and a bunch of lame jokes. Currently Max lives in the small town of Twisp, Washington where he is building a gigantic studio that may or may not work.
Thursday December 17th 2015 | 6:30 pm at Photo Center NW
Brandon Alesauskas: Seattle based artist working with image, sound, and gustation who has shown work in different venues in the Northwest including Glass Box, Violet Strays, and Hedreen Gallery.
Thursday, October, 22nd 2015 | 6:30 pm at Photo Center NW
Daniele Di Lodovico: Doctoral candidate in Art History. Dissertation titled "Wooden Sculptures and the Making of Devotion in Central Italy of the XII-XV Centuries.
Thursday, September 17th 2015 | 6:30 pm at Photo Center NW
Aeron Bergman & Alejandra Salinas: Aeron Bergman (Detroit, USA) and Alejandra Salinas (La Rioja, Spain) are an artist duo who have lived in New York, Toronto, Detroit, London, Barcelona, Gothenburg, Oslo and currently live in Seattle.
Thursday, August 13th 2015 | 6:30 pm at Photo Center NW
Steve Davis: Documentary portrait and landscape photographer. Completed photographic project Captured Youth in juvenile prison facilities in Washington State. Coordinator of photography, media curator, and adjunct faculty member at The Evergreen State College.
Thursday, July 23rd 2015 | 6:30 pm at Photo Center NW
Joe T. Tennis, Ph.D.: Invisible "Conceptual" Art and the Harm It Can Do: Defining the Aesthetics of the Archive, Classification, and Knowledge Organization.
Thursday, May 12th, 2015 | 7 pm at University of Washington School of Art
Film Screening of The Rules of the Game (dir. Jean Renoir)