 A Week On An Island With Trojan Horse – The Summer School Reader Welcome to the Trojan Horse Summer School book launch party on February 14, 2026 from 14-16:00. The event will be held at Oulun kirjallisuuden talo, Hallistuskatu 9, Oulu. This book—just like the summer schools—is a collection of personal memories, reflections, and interpretations. Rather than documenting the thematics that arose, and what happened in the summer schools so far, our aim is to talk about the phenomena around and in between events. Summer schools are always intense experiences. We live together outside for a week, sharing the usually quite sunny weather, as well as the everyday maintenance routines: preparing breakfast, doing the dishes, warming up the sauna, and taking turns organising workshops. After a couple of days, the group usually feels comfortable with each other. When the week ends, it feels sad to say goodbye. For a couple of weeks, the group chats stay active with pictures from the island and from home. And then slowly, everyday life takes over, and the intensity fades. Still every now and then, even after years of silence, a message might appear in the old group chat. Random memories from the island are likely to pop up just as heart, animal, and celestial emojis are attached to the message. You can buy the book directly from us here. The book will be available in selected bookstores soon! /// Edited by: Ott Kagovere, Hanan Mahbouba, Jaroslav Toussaint, Arlene Tucker, Andre Vicentini, and Tommi Vasko Texts by: Hanan Mahbouba, Marianna Maruyama and Arlene Tucker, Jaroslav Toussaint, Andre Vicentini, and Tommi Vasko 105 × 180 mm 134 pages Edition: 500 Graphic design: Ott Kagovere and Keert Viiart Published by Trojan Horse ISBN 978-952-65706-0-0 2025  L-R: Kaisa Karvinen, Ilo, and Arlene Tucker will host the book launch party in Oulu on February 14th. See you there!
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 Who knew that the idea that budded on my walk home one October evening (2010) in Tartu, Estonia after a lecture with Juri Lotman would have amounted to a chapter in a book amongst many great authors? That talk about Martin Buber really got under my skin! Translation is Dialogue was born out of bringing awareness that we are in a constant state of translation and that translation is a process between sender and receiver. I wanted to simply show that your existence is relevant and that your existence is important to another person's.
So many amazing people have helped me along the way. To get TID off the ground, I have to give acknowledgment to Alejandra Pineda Silva, Peeter Torop and Elin Sütiste who really helped guide me with the concept and give me the confidence to carry on. The first time I presented TID was in Iceland at the Art in Transit conference in 2011. That's where I met Heather Connolly. We made a picnic along the pond and just instantly became friends. Since then we have been meeting at various translation conference in Estonia and in the UK. It was because of Heather that I was introduced to Ricarda Vidal and Madeleine Campbell, authors of the book. You never know who or what will fall into your path and only time will tell how these seedlings will grow. When you get a chance, please do have a read. Every author has given such insight and depth into the notion and practice of translation. Available on Palgrave. And I have to say that I am so tickled that they chose a TID artwork for the front cover of the book! Madis Katz made that photograph for the first installation of TID at Peeter Torop's Culture in Mediation: Total Translation, Complementary Perspectives held at Tartu University in Estonia on November 26-27, 2010. This just shows the power of translation and how it transforms itself into the world in different way. With love, Arlene  COUNTRY GONE MISSING: Nightmares in the Time of Trump, a new book of collectively sourced dreams has just been launched! With enchanting and disturbing reports from the collective unconscious filtered through the fevered and brilliant night-time brains of artists like Meredith Monk, Maxine Hong Kingston, Steve Kuusisto, Greg Sarris, Eileen Myles, Alison Cornyn, Susan Banyas and many more. Beth has illustrated these dreams with 20 original (pretty damn amazing) drawings. Please order your copy (or two or three), put one in a time capsule… all proceeds go to benefit Swingleft and progressive Dems in the mid-terms. #Resist!
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