Author: bloodonsilk

Exhibition Opening of Blood on Silk: Transmission at Index Project Space 60 Hutchinson Street St Peters,Sydney on Tuesday Nov 8th  6 -8 p.m. The Blood on Silk project pairs the seemingly unrelated. In this exhibition Davies investigates the overlay of seemingly unrelated points of transition by addressing the modes of transmission connecting the older silk trading routes with the newer routes for [...]

By Fiona Davies Saw a post on Roger Malina’s site titled “Free Will, Theory of Mind and the Physics of the City. http://malina.diatrope.com/2011/09/25/free-will-theory-of-the-mind-and-the-physics-of-the-city/   In it he talked about (and this is a very rough summary) physics of the city being  the study of the motivation and the resulting movement  of individuals on a urban topology. [...]

  'The first outbreak of plague occurred in China more than 2,600 years ago before reaching Europe via Central Asia's "Silk Road" trade route, according to a molecular "family tree" - mapped out last year - of 17 Y. pestis strains. It then spread to Africa, probably by an expedition led by Chinese seafarer Zhang [...]

Istanbul and Back Again   News:  August/September 2011 The interplay between the roles of observer, observed, the outsider and the everyday were explored by Fiona Davies in a recent month long residency at Caravansarai in Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk expressed these tensions in his memoir, Istanbul, Memories and the City . He describes how when his [...]