bie bao volume 5: PhiloSophia Istanbul 1921 Art describes the city of Berlin

describes the city of Berlin governed by algorithms where human participation is rewarded with creature comforts as well as ecstatic experiences

Annie Pootoogook

far from the burdens and apparatus of modern society

investigating artists’ connections to various manifestations of institutionalized practice

dancers and inventors of genres fill the pages

bie bao volume 5: PhiloSophia Istanbul 1921 Art describes the city of BerlinThe fifth volume of the bie bao series presents Ilya Zdanevichs fictional auto biographical writings based on his one year stay in Istanbul in 1921. It contains the three final chapters of PhiloSophia, a massive novel he wrote in 1930, depicting an obscure revolutionary plot evolving around Hagia Sophia. This volume also presents the first two chapters of Zdanevichs 1929 epistolary novel Letters to Morgan Philips Price. Letters are addressed to his