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The Vacuum Cleaner, Cultural resistance collective of one fashioning radical social and ecological change, attempts to disrupt concentrations of power.

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non- Knowledge, Liverpool, Nov. 2008
  Expert: A load of rubbish: From waste to tools of beauty and resistance
  

Vera Valentine, Student for Graphic Design at Art Center Los Angeles [Lafayette]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, Nov. 2006
  Expert: An Introduction to "Leetspeak". A Graphic Design Nightmare
  

Juha Valkeapää is a vocal and performance artist. He has produced solo and group works, and pieces of vocal and performance art, theatre, music and dance as well as sound installations for shows and radio. His work “Silence” (2007) is based on Didier Comes’s comic-strip album. In his work “Creating silence” (2008), he got dressed in a noisy suit in order to create silence.

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Turku, Oct. 2011
  Expert: Silent figures on the streets - stray dogs, the homeless, security guards
  

Esko Valtaoja is an astronomer, writer, a preacher of the message of science and an art-gallery assistant. He also enjoys walking round art galleries. He likes to live in the middle ground between art and science, reality and fantasy, joy and sorrow, silence and noise, where everything really interesting always happens.

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Turku, Oct. 2011
  Expert: Why is space silent?
  

Riitta Vehanen has been the managing director and principal owner of Pietét Burial Services since 1993. Her education was in forestry, and she worked in that field previously. She gave up her work as a civil servant to become self-employed and moved from forestry into burials almost twenty years ago.

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Turku, Oct. 2011
  Expert: The aesthetics of death and encounters with it
  

Soumhya Venkatesan, Social Anthropologist at the University of Manchester. Research interests include objects and their agency, art and craft, and Hindu ritual. Regional expertise: India.

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non- Knowledge, Liverpool, Nov. 2008
  Expert: From stone to God and back again. Transformations in South Indian Hinduism
  

Ulrich Verthein, Head of the sport section at Mannheimer Morgen newspaper [Mannheim]

• Mobile Academy License © No. 1/2009, Blackmarket for useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Mannheim, Juni 2009
  Expert: Language radicalism and sport
  

Jan Verwoert, Art Critic, Author [Hamburg]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Hamburg, 2005
  Expert: a] To Whom and in Whom's Name Knowledge and Culture Should be Produced. b] Art Critic: Emotional Acts as an Argument
• On the Scene of Intimacy. A Phantasmagoria, Berlin, Dez. 2009
  Charismatic Counsellor: Kontrolle der Gefühle

Dr. Rainer Vesely, doctorate in German Language and Literature Studies, currently campus library of the PÄDAK/PH Vienna [Vienna]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Graz/ steirischer herbst, Sept. 2007
  Expert: Things to Know About Vladimir Nabokov's Novel The Gift
• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Vienna, May 2008
  Expert: "With his guilt so well concealed" - Bob Dylan and the Lost Innocence of Pop

Jeremy Vetter, Ph.D. in History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science [Nebraska]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, Nov. 2006
  Expert: Science in the American West: How Field Researchers Learned About the Environment
  

Rok Vevar, theatre director, dramaturg, author, member of the editorial board of Maska magazine [Ljubljana]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Graz/ steirischer herbst, Sept. 2007
  Expert: Taking a Gift of Theatre through the Gaze - The Paranoiac Structure of a Spectator's Story
  

Anna Viebrock, Costum and Set Designer [Germany]

• Private Advice, Berlin 2004
  

Dr. Astrid Vlamynck, Certified Level II Trainer for Energy Psychology, Specialist for Psychotherapeutic Medicine, Psychoanalysis [Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, April 2006
  Expert: How to Overcome Stage Fright and Resolve Fear: With Methods for Self Help

Astrid Vogel, painter, gallery owner, art teacher, investing her artistic creativity in hats since 2005 [Mannheim]

• Mobile Academy License © No. 1/2009, Blackmarket for useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Mannheim, Juni 2009
  Expert: Head over heels – the head as playground
  

Dr. Joseph Vogl, is professor for German Literature at the Humboldt- University Berlin permanent visiting professor at Princeton University, USA. He has translate Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault and written on Franz Kafka’s concept of ‚minor literature’, about the extensive complex of Goethe’s poetics, about the colour yellow, about the ‚homo oeconomicus’, about hesitation and about the specter of capital.

• The Refugee. Services rendered to Undesirables, Berlin 2002
  Talk: Political topographies
• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, Nov. 2006
  Expert: Kafka's America
• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, March 2007
  Expert: Thoughts and Velocities
• "Die Untoten – Life Sciences & Pulp Fiction", Hamburg, May 2011
  Expert: THE SPECTRE OF CAPITAL
  

Karsten D. Voigt, Coordinator for the German-American cooperation at the Auswärtiges Amt, Former Member of Bundestag and long-time Representative of the SPD in Foreign Affairs [Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, Nov. 2006
  Expert: Security Issues in U.S. Foreign Policy - Military Versus Political Strategies to Ease Conflicts
  

Volkan, Musician and Producer [Hip Hop/Experimental/Hard Core Heavy Metal] [Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledget Berlin, April 2006
  Expert: On Wall of Death, Pogo and Mosh - Hard Core Music and Dance [with Music and Video Examples
  

Traudl Vorbrodt, Educator and Social Worker at WeGe ins Leben e.V., Staff member of Pax Christi and Member of the Härtfefallkommission [Commission for Cases of Particular Hardship] [Berlin]

• The Refugee. Services rendered to Undesirables, Berlin 2002
  Talk: Stay of Juvenile Refugees for Humanitarian Reasons - Education Instead of Deportation
• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, March 2007
  Expert: The Children of the Legal Loophole in Berlin since 2005: Narratives by Binh, Leyla and Nudem
  

István Vörös, poet and writer, lecturer for Czech literature and creative writing at the Pázmány Péter University [Mór, Budapest]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, March 2007
  Expert: My Taoistic Poetry of Immobility
  

Dr. Christiane Voss is guest professor for media philosophy at the Bauhaus University, Weimar, since 2009, specializing in the philosophy of aesthetics, epistemology, the philosophy of film, theories of emotions, and the anthropology of media philosophy. Prior to this she was a researcher in the Free University of Berlin’s Collaborative Research Centre 626, active in the project “On the Significance of Illusion and Fiction in Film Aesthetics”, where she examined the strategy of aesthetic fictionalization in narrative film.

• On the Scene of Intimacy. A Phantasmagoria, Berlin, Dez. 2009
  Charismatic Counsellor: Anästhesie der Gefühle
• The Studio of the Blackmarket 02 Dresden, Februar 2011
  Expert: Jenseits der Fassaden und Visagen
• "Die Untoten – Life Sciences & Pulp Fiction", Hamburg, May 2011
  Expert: FINALLY AND NO END