Istanbul: Last Day, Art Factory and Sylvére Lotringer

Sylvére Lotringer, who is the editor of SEMIOTEXT(E) and a twentieth-century French literature and philosophy professor at Columbia, spent the past two days with us and today’s follow up lecture occurred at the Art Factory, a family owned art storage and exhibition facility. Our hosts at the Art Factory were rather spectacular and our tour of their facility […]

Istanbul: Ancient History

I am deliriously exhausted at this point and everything seems to be part of some weird hallucination or dream that I am waiting to wake up from. Yesterday, early in the morning, I headed out to the Basilica Cisterns before our morning lecture with Sylvere Lotringer. Here’s some other photos from the sites we saw […]

Istanbul: Hagia Sophia

We were going to see the Basilica Cisterns but the lines were too long after lunch and those plans are tabled for early tomorrow morning before our next guest lecturer. Instead, we went directly to the Hagia Sophia, one of the places in Istanbul that I have always wanted to see. Another breathtaking moment for […]

Istanbul: Breathtaking Blue Mosque

After a brief meeting this morning to go over our fluid plan for the next couple of days, we all walked to the Blue Mosque. The line went fairly quickly and our reward was the absolutely stunning interior. Today, we spent the entire day in the old city. We did a lot today so I’m […]

Istanbul: good to know…

Courtesy of our hotel. Suspected and now confirmed by this sign and thankfully not as a result of a symptom 😉

Istanbul: We have arrived

    It was an a definite adventure once we arrived in the airport. I am quite certain we were there for several hours with standing in line to check our visas when twenty different flights arrived at the same time, waiting for luggage, utilizing the restroom with only one functioning toilet when the rest […]

Last Days In Paris

Paris and THE Jacqueline Rose

    Jacqueline Rose gave us an amazing lecture on Charlotte Salomon, a German-Jewish painter who was killed at Auschwitz. Charlotte Saloman’s life is one chapter in her upcoming book entitled “Women In Dark Times” and includes other chapters on Rosa Luxemburg and Marilyn Monroe. Everyone at IDSVA was in awe of Jacqueline not only […]

Parisian Polyphonic

  Exhilarating and exhausting. Our days have been jammed packed with lectures and presentations in the mornings and museums until dinnertime. I have seen so much art, it is almost a total blur and I am loosing track of what I did on which days :0) Internet has been spotty here as well. A short […]

Berlin: Subversive edge on the streets

Here is a great selection of the subversive imagery found all over Berlin.