TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

2:57 PM
Posted by jodi rose

Arrive to a surprisingly warm evening, spring has reached Berlin at last.
The apartment is even more spartan then when I left, although tanya and ben deliver an airbed so at least it's not the floor this time. The glamour.

Meet Andrew at Hermannplatz in the morning, and finally get to meet the fabulous Miss LeBomb also. We bond over the genius of Paul Vervhoeven, and her doodle gallery, with plans to visit a 30's bathhouse in neukolln on sunday and hear a danish sound artist friend of hers play next week. Stories from Andrew of the nomadic artist's space he has just helped set up in Istanbul, based on the traditional Karavanserai. A place for nomads to rest, refresh, eat and exchange ideas, songs, experiences and nourish each other before returning to the road. 'We made it for you, Jodi, there's streaming wireless and a fabulous bridge, the bosphorous which is already lit up at night with crazy LED's'. Me: They definitely need it to sing, who do I call?!?

Suddenly life has gone back into hyper-drive, am hoping the nice relaxed zen state I've achieved over the past two weeks will last until the end of the day, at least ;) Hugo is talking about his 'informal architecture' at the DAZ tonight - he wanted to build a 'realistic utopia' that could add something beautiful to the everyday world, and has this gorgeous fold-out green-stripey contraption on wheels, that contains a chair and awnings, which he sets up in various places and films people interaction. Apparently a bunch of punks walked off with it in F'shain, tore up some of the canvas to wear as skirts - he was thrilled!

Tomorrow is the 'little babylon' transit lounge exhibition/party.

Miyuki wrote to let me know that the Bridge Guard Radio Diary is finally going to air this Sunday, as part of the Trans Europe program she made for The Night Air. So tune in or download!

And the Global Bridge Symphony (in progress) is part of the 'Auditory Cities' program on a 40 speaker diffusion system at SIAL in Melbourne.

Now for a final moment of respite compiling 'songs for the road' after my rail listening experience, before going out to deal with life again.