The Travel Issue, Autumn 2016 |
Issue 69
features
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SUGAR WORLD: the Land of Legends theme park opened this summer, just as Turkey’s tourism economy collapsed. So who’s watching the dolphin show now? By Natasha Stallard, photography by CG Watkins
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GLASS AGAINST STEEL: on the luxurious shores of Lake Garda, Sam Thompson considers Salò, its grandiose monuments and its occluded history. Photography by Paolo Barbi
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DADA AND DRUGS: in Zurich, Philip Maughan discovers an energy and edge beneath the city’s verdant and placid façade. Photography by Timo Wirsching
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A SPACE TO MEET: the annual Southern Comfort transgender conference in sunny Fort Lauderdale. By Tom Rasmussen, photography by Chris Olszewski
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MAKING NATURE: a new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London explores the formalisation of nature, posing the question of how we relate to other species, and how we make sense of the world around us
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NO WOMAN IS AN ISLAND: in fecund French Polynesia Lili Owen Rowlands is cast adrift among the omnipresent honeymooners and the colony’s torrid history
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THE BANANA THAT CONQUERED THE WORLD: the Musa cavendishii’s journey from decorative wallpaper to the ships of the United Fruit Company. By Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe
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PORTRAIT OF A LADY: by enlisting the world’s best artists Dior has reinvented its classic bag in a series that elevates each to a work of art. By Samuel Joyce, visuals by Stine Deja
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STALIN'S RADIOACTIVE SPA: health and wellness in the ruins of the Soviet empire. By William Dunbar, photography by Vladimer Shioshvili
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SILICON VALLEY: material and metaphor blend together in the golden parkland of Palo Alto. Photo essay by Nick Seaton
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BALTIC INTERPLAY: this year, for the first time, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania collaborated on a pavilion at the Venice Biennale. By Owen Hatherley
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HYPERBOLAS IN THE SUN: Jaipur’s great temple of astronomical instruments brings together the antiquity of the stars and the future of mankind. By Rohit Gupta
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THE DEAD WILL OUTLIVE US ALL: the pastoral landscape of Bosnia’s mountains has been Europe’s crossroads for centuries. By Masoud Golsorkhi
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168 HOURS IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN: exciting, beautiful and bottomlessly strange. By Tod Wodicka, photography by Danielle Adair
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WORLD WITHOUT END: in the stark, dramatic landscapes of South Africa’s Paarl National Park. Photography by Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie, styling by Nobuko Tannawa
talk
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TALKS: MARGO JEFFERSON: “So much of my adult identity has been as a critic, so that means I live through texts and objects”
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MØ: “I think a lot of people expect just some pop star with blonde hair and then they come to the concerts and I’m a total skid”
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HASSAN BLASIM: “In world literature, the centrality of the West is a problem”
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MIRANDA JULY: “The plan was to be a director, and I immediately set out, with great determination, on a totally weird path towards that”
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MARTIN REV: “As an artist, you never really succeed and reach a definitive end in your work”
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JONATHAN GALASSI: “It was another way of being. People aren’t quite that way today”
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ZOWIE BROACH: “Ultimately, fashion will remain. It’s too big of a beast. But it will slowly change”
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STUART ELDEN: “I wasn’t interested in the more salacious life of Foucault which has been covered, sometimes well and sometimes badly, in existing work”
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PHOEBE ENGLISH: “I’m the only English person that I work with, and the thought that that could be threatened is really horrible”
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MARK GREIF: “There was a period when in my house we were watching a lot of Keeping Up with the Kardashians – although it feels odd to say one ‘watches’ the show”
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MIRROR, MIRROR: Helmut Newton 2004
