bie bao volume 5: PhiloSophia Istanbul 1921 Art sex work is the constant

sex work is the constant backdrop of the story as it moves between Sydney

Annie Pootoogook

investigating artists’ connections to various manifestations of institutionalized practice

far from the burdens and apparatus of modern society

Nyege Nyege Festival by Markus Karlqvist

bie bao volume 5: PhiloSophia Istanbul 1921 Art sex work is the constantThe 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