Hello from Bogliasco,

With three days to go, I am driven to make connections between the edited video of relics and nature, soundtracks and movement images.

I seem to be obsessed with my shadow – as it crosses over into different realms of time and space. The piece is a movie within a movie – the soundtracks of pop tunes from David Bowie to Boney M are creating a kind of musical about masking mortality – which I didn’t anticipate.

The images in the new video footage come from a museum underneath the San Lorenzo church in Genoa. Genoa is 30 minutes by bus or train from Bogliasco.

Meet Fellows….

Left to right.. Grigory Kruzhkov, Jo Anna Isaak (husband, Daniel O’Connell), Loren Ghiglione (wife, Nancy Ghiglione)

Grigory Kruzhkov, Literature – Scholarship, Moscow (Russia)

Grigory is a professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities. He has been preparing a comprehensive one-volume edition of Edward Lear (1812-1888) in Russian, representing all kinds of his writings: nonsense rhymes and songs, nonsense tales, alphabets, cookery, botany and more.

Jo Anna Isaak, Visual Arts – Scholarship, New York, New York (USA)

Jo Ann Isaak is a John Marion Chair at Fordham University. She is working on a book on art and ecology entitled “The Greening of the Avant-garde.” What she will examine is the repeated realization on the part of individual artists and groups of artists of what is at stake for artists today in the radical avant-garde gestures of modernism and the implications of the modernist tradition on contemporary ecological art practices.

Loren Ghiglione, History, Evanston, Illinois (USA)

Loren Ghiglione is a Richard A. Schwarzlose Professor of Media Ethics at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. His project “Searching for America” is a personal history book about identity in America. He has used his time at the Study Center to complete research on the first Ghigliones in America, who arrived from Liguria in the 1870’s.

Meet our fearless leader

Alessandra Natale, Associate Director of the Bogliasco Foundation.

Photo gallery of a foodie’s expedition in Genoa.

This is my last Bogliasco blog – It has been an honor to be part of this illustrious group of Fellows and to experience such a beautiful and safe haven in which to be creative. Many thanks to the Bogliasco Foundation, the Liguria Study Center and the wonderful staff that made me feel at home.

Ciao, Karen