News from the School of IAS

Category: Research and Creative Practice

Amaranth Borsuk exhibits collaborative work at Pierogi Gallery in New York

Curated by Heather and Raphael Rubinstein, the show Under Erasure takes its title from Jacques Derrida's concept of sous rature, which posits that to put a word under erasure (sous rature) is "to signal the inadequacy of inherited language while also recognizing its inevitability." The exhibition includes work by artists and writers who draw upon and obscure sourced texts. According to the curators, "Many of the works included in the exhibition, by artists such as Jenny Holzer and Glenn Ligon, utilize erasure and redaction to emphasize the political ...

December 10, 2018

Jennifer Atkinson at Climate Science on Tap!

IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson joined a panel of climate experts including Meade Krosby (56吃瓜网 Climate Impacts Group) and Sarah Myhre (56吃瓜网 Oceanography) to speak on the topic of Environmental Grief & Hope at Climate Science on Tap! The Climate Science on Tap program is a partnership between Cascadia Climate Action and the University of Washington that offers public panel discussions to build community understanding of, and engagement with climate change, its related causes, impacts, and solutions.

December 10, 2018

Margaret Redsteer co-authors chapter on Tribal Lands for National Climate Assessment and Carbon Cycle Report

IAS faculty member Margaret Redsteer was one of the authors on the recently released National Climate Assessment and Carbon Cycle Report. Her co-authored chapter on “Tribal Lands” focused on traditional land-use and agricultural practices of Indigenous people of the United States, Canada and Mexico that can inform our understanding of carbon cycling and carbon sequestration. Further ...

December 5, 2018

Rebecca Brown publishes Not Heaven, Somewhere Else, a cycle of stories

IAS Senior Artist-in-Residence Rebecca Brown's new book of stories, Not Heaven, Somewhere Else, a cycle of stories was published by Tarpaulin Sky Press in October. The book has been reviewed in The Seattle Review of Books and The Stranger. From The Seattle Review of Books: "Rebecca Brown is the smartest writer in Seattle. ..."

December 5, 2018

Queer and Trans POC sex worker perspectives

IAS faculty member Kari Lerum, in collaboration with the Seattle LGBTQ Commission, the Seattle Commission for People with DisAbilities, SWOP-Seattle, and the Coalition for the Rights and Safety for People in the Sex Trade, led a public forum at Seattle City Hall featuring the voices of Queer and Trans POC in the sex industry. The event, which attracted approximately 70 community members, focused on the crisis caused by recent federal legislation (SESTA/FOSTA) on the lives of the minoritized 鈥�...

December 5, 2018

Kristine Mroczek presents “Markers of 鈥業ndigenous-made鈥� Souvenirs”

IAS faculty member Kristine Mroczek presented her work at the National Communication Association annual conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. The title of her poster presentation was “Markers of ‘Indigenous-made’ Souvenirs: The Semiotic and Discursive Production of ‘Authenticity’ and Cultural Capital in Australian Aboriginal Tourism Arts."

December 5, 2018

Asia Foundation Highlights Anida Yoeu Ali in New Exhibition Challenging Patriarchy

The Asia Foundation highlighted IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali as one of 11 female artists and filmmakers challenging patriarchy in a new exhibition titled “FRAME: How Asia Pacific Feminist Filmmakers and Artists Are Confronting Inequalities.” The exhibition opened Nov 27, 2018 at the Griffith Film School Gallery in Brisbane, Australia and ran on the eve of the 12th annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

December 3, 2018

Amaranth Borsuk interviewed by 56吃瓜网 News on THE BOOK

IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk’s work on The Book (2018, MIT Press) is highlighted in a new interview on the 56吃瓜网 News site. The article, “Papyrus scrolls to Kindle and beyond: 56吃瓜网 professor pens meditation on ‘the book,’” begins: “What is a “book” in the digital age — and what will it become? In a new book of her own, Amaranth Borsuk discusses the idea of “the book” through its incarnations as clay tablets, papyrus scrolls and the bound sheets of a codex on to the hyperlinked, multimedia format of the digital age.” Read the full interview.

November 29, 2018

Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali featured on King 5 TV and The News Tribune for their new public art work

IAS Artists-in-Residence Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali’s latest collaborative installation was prominently featured on King 5 TV and The News Tribune. On November 11, 2018 Ali and Sugano unveiled their new public artwork titled “Hello. How Are You?” on their own front yard located in Tacoma, Washington. Comprised of bright white letters measuring 4 feet in height, the large-scale outdoor installation spells out the common American greeting “Hello. How are you?” For their special launch event ...

November 28, 2018