Mashinka Firunts is a writer, curator, and artist residing in Philadelphia with writer, editor, and archivist, Daniel Snelson. MA, Modern Art: Curatorial Studies, Columbia University, 2010 BA, Interdisciplinary Studies, UC Berkeley, 2007 RECENT Co-curator, Semiospectacle No 2      3B Development Residency      IRT, NYC, 2011 Contributing Writer, Culturebot.org, 2010-2011 Curator, Semiospectacle: A Literary Revue      Performance Space 122, NYC, 2010 Line Producer, Wooster Group's Avant-Garde-Arama!      Performance Space 122, NYC, 2010 Invited Speaker, Panel Discussion      On Tableau Vivant of the Delirium Constructions      Dumbo Arts Festival, NYC, 2010 Dramaturg, Prelude Festival 10      CUNY Graduate Center, NYC, 2010 Staff Writer, IRWaG Biannual Publication      Institute for Research on Women and Gender      Columbia University, 2009-2010 BOOKS Co-Editor, 7CV Critical Reader      Edit Publications, 2010 Contributing Author, Selected Essays About a Bibliography      Edit Publications, 2010 Author, Beauty Secrets of Margarita Morozova      With Introduction by Guy Maddin      Ed. Roxanne Carter      Persephassa Press, 2005 PERFORMANCES & PRESENTATIONS Presentation, Parlor Lecture, Semiospectacle No 2      In Collaboration with Danny Snelson      IRT, NYC, 2011 Performance, Noise! 2010      Ontological-Hysteric Theater, NYC, 2010 Performance, Vaginal Davis is Speaking from the Diaphragm      Performance Space 122, NYC, 2010 Presentation, Edit: Performing Networked Publishing      Kelly Writers House      University of Pennsylvania, 2010 Presentation, Anxieties of Overexposure      National Graduate Student Conference on Performance      University of California, Los Angeles, 2010 Performance, Semiospectacle: A Literary Revue      Performance Space 122, NYC, 2010 Presentation, Columbia University Seminar Symposium      The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, 2009 Performance, Boog City Poet's Theater      Boog City Festival, Sidewalk Cafe, NYC, 2009 Presentation, Praxis of Pedagogy Conference      CUNY Graduate Center, NYC, 2009 Presentation, Radical Intersections      Conference on Performance Across Disciplines      Northwestern University, Evanston, 2009 Performance, Dances of Vice Die Dreigroschenoper Evening      Montauk Club, NYC, 2008 Performance, Dada Dollhouse at Worth Ryder Gallery      UC Berkeley Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, 2006 Presentation, Face to Face with the Slavs      UCLA Conference on Slavic Studies      University of California, Los Angeles, 2006 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS EOAGH, issue 6, ed. Tan Lin, 2011 "Talking to Annie Dorsen", Culturebot.org, 2011 "Tani E. Barlow's Girls in Society:      'Asia,' Colonial Modernity, and the Place of      Vernacular Sociology in Consumer Culture"      IRWaG Biannual Publication, volume xxix      Columbia University, 2010 "Dynasty Handbag's 'Brothers & Sisters & Motherfuckers      at Performance Space 122"      Culturebot.org, 2010 Dramaturgical Statement, Prelude Festival Catalog      CUNY Graduate Center, 2010 Curatorial Statement, Semiospectacle Catalog      Columbia University, 2010 "Feminist Interventions: Carol Sanger's      Abortion and the Visual Construction of Loss      IRWaG Biannual Publication, volume xxviii      Columbia University, 2010 Vagabond, issue 3      UC Berkeley Multilingual Literary Journal, 2007 Faultlines, volume v, issue 1      Center for Race & Gender Biannual Publication      UC Berkeley, 2006 Venuszine.com, 2005 Kiss Machine Magazine, issue 9, 2004 CURATED EXHIBITIONS Semiospectacle No 2      Co-curated with Danny Snelson      IRT, NYC, 2011 Semiospectacle: A Literary Revue      Performance Space 122, NYC, 2010 Guy Maddin: Digital Film Stills      Co-curated with Michael Rababy      The Arsenal, Los Angeles, 2005 The Social (May)      Co-curated with Michael Rababy      The Arsenal, Los Angeles, 2005 The Social (March)      Co-curated with Michael Rababy      The Arsenal, Los Angeles, 2005 GRANTS Undergraduate Research Grant      UC Berkeley Center for Race & Gender, 2006 PRESS & REVIEWS Nicola Trethowan, The Cosmological Cosmetics Regimen: Metamorphosis and Monolingualism in the Text of Identity      Undergraduate Thesis      University of Melbourne, 2010 Jordan Hruska, "Society of the Semiospectacle"      Art in America, March 24, 2010 Alex Gartenfeld, "Let Her Teach You: Questions for Vaginal Davis"      Interview Magazine, March 23, 2010 Featured Artist, FemalePersuasion.Net, July 2005