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LAUNCH EVENT: Volume 02

Sunday, February 16th, 2025, 3-5pm
Emily Harvey Foundation*
537 Broadway, New York, NY 10012, USA

Readings by
Mónica de la Torre
& Hans Tammen
Jay Gao
quori theodor
Whitney Claflin

Mimosa Echard
Christopher Knowles

Event is free, but space is limited.
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*Special thanks to João Simoes, Christian Xatrec, Danielle Johnson and Emily Schecter

Founded by the artist Davide Balula and curator Julia Trotta, Viseu.Us is a new online publication dedicated to the voices of artists and writers. Each issue is guided by intuition, friendship, and fandom, and brings together a collection of voices across generations and artistic disciplines.

Mónica de la Torre‘s poetry books include Pause the Document (forthcoming from Nightboat Books in March 2025), Repetition NineteenThe Happy End / All Welcome, and two collections in Spanish published in her native Mexico City. Among other anthologies, she co-edited Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–79. She teaches poetry and experiments in translation at Brooklyn College. 

Hans Tammen likes to set sounds in motion, and then sit back to watch the movements unfold. Using textures, timbre and dynamics as primary elements, his music is continuously shifting, with different layers floating into the foreground while others disappear. He has worked with multichannel sound for 25 years.

Jay Gao is a poet from Edinburgh, Scotland, living in New York City. His recent books include: Bark, Archive, Splinter (Out-Spoken Press, 2024) and Imperium (Carcanet, 2022). Imperium was a winner of the 2023 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize, an Eric Gregory Award and a Somerset Maugham Award. He is also the author of four other poetry pamphlets and chapbooks. Currently, he is a reader for Poetry magazine and a PhD student in English at Columbia University where he studies experimental ecopoetics and race. 

quori theodor / adore is an invitation to self, unlearning as insubordination. Their work addresses questions of capital disobedience and the politics of vulnerability through the media of food. They are a founding member of Spiral Theory Test Kitchen (with Precious Okoyomon and Bobbi Salvör Menuez) and Circle Time School (with DIS and Telfar Global). They have exhibited internationally at venues including Performance Space New York, the University of Toronto, Palazzo Corsini, Midoriso, Superstars, Aspen Art Museum, Bridget Donahue and Canada Gallery. They are based in NYC on unceded Lenape territory.

Whitney Claflin (b. 1983, Providence, RI) is an artist living and working in New York. Her most recent publication is Food & Spirits, a book of 21 poems and 8 drawings, written between 2017 and 2022, and published by Song Cycle in 2022. Recent exhibitions include Pinky’s Where? at Derosia, New York in September 2024 and Why limit happy to an hour? at Haus Erholung, Mönchengladbach, Germany, January 2024. She will have a solo exhibition at MoMA PS1 opening March 27, 2025.

Mimosa Echard (b. 1986, Alès, France) lives and works in Paris. She explores sexuality, synthesis, and perception through sculpture, installation, and video games. Her works, exhibited at institutions like Centre Pompidou and Palais de Tokyo, are held in major international collections.

Christopher Knowles (b. 1959, New York City) is an American poet and artist known for his text-based works, “typings,” and paintings that explore repetition, structure, and pattern. His poetry, marked by rhythmic precision and unexpected phrasing, first gained recognition when featured in Bob Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach (1976). His paintings often use bright colors, symbols, and grids to create playful compositions. His work has been shown at MoMA, ICA Philadelphia, CAM Houston, and other institutions worldwide. His next show at Bridget Donahue will open on March 20th, 2025.

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Viseu.Us – Volume 02
Hendl Helen Mirra, Stephanie Dinkins, Mónica de la Torre & Hans Tammen, Jay Gao, quori theodor, Christopher Knowles, Whitney Claflin, Linda Nochlin, Amy Sillman & Mimosa Echard, Jjjjjerome Ellis