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20-547: Tao dei Principi Ruspoli ( / ˈ r ʊ s p oʊ l i / ; born 7 November 1975) is an Italian-American filmmaker, photographer, musician, and co-founder of The Bombay Beach Biennale . He is the son of Alessandro Ruspoli, 9th Prince of Cerveteri and part of the Papal nobility . Ruspoli was born in Bangkok , Thailand, and raised in Rome , Italy and Los Angeles, California , United States. He

40-516: A celebratory weekend. The precise dates of the celebratory culmination are shared only with people who are actively participating in or contributing to its happening. There are no fees or tickets required to attend. In connection with the BBB, the town and beach of Bombay Beach have become increasingly populated with a variety of permanent art installations, or as permanent as the punishing environmental conditions will allow. The celebratory weekend includes

60-666: A critical study of John Berger – Ways of Telling – and two collections of essays: Anglo-English Attitudes and Working the Room . A selection of essays from these collections entitled Otherwise Known as the Human Condition was published in the U.S. in April 2011 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism . Dyer has written the following non-fiction titles: But Beautiful (on jazz); The Missing of

80-480: A personal discussion of his family's drug addictions, and Flamenco: A Personal Journey , a feature-length documentary about the flamenco way of life as it is lived by Roma in the south of Spain. He has directed a number of other short documentaries, including El Cable (also about flamenco), and This Film Needs No Title: A Portrait of Raymond Smullyan , a portrait of the logician, mathematician and concert pianist Raymond Smullyan ). In 2000, Ruspoli founded LAFCO,

100-402: A photographer and filmmaker. Bombay Beach Biennale The BBB avows itself as a "renegade celebration of art, music, and philosophy that takes place on the literal edge of western civilization." It involves a seasonal dimension, during which numerous artists and participants gather and stay in town for several months each year while they collaborate on art and events, and it culminates in

120-677: A property in Brixton with other former Oxford students. He credits this period with teaching him the craft of writing. His debut novel, The Colour of Memory , is set in Brixton in the 1980s, the decade that Dyer lived there. The novel has been described as a "fictionalization of Dyer's 20s". Dyer is the author of the following novels: The Colour of Memory (1989), The Search (1993), Paris Trance (1998) and Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi (2009). He wrote

140-452: A world-class philosophy conference with major scholars from universities such as Oxford, Harvard and more, as well as activists, artists, writers, and independent researchers presenting on topics related to the festival's theme. Past speakers have included Geoff Dyer , Eric Kaplan , Christia Mercer , Robert Pippin , Samantha Matherne, Kim Stringfellow , Iain Thomson , and Mark Wrathall (who

160-595: Is also the Director of Philosophical Operations of the BBB). Attendees gather for philosophical dialogue in a dilapidated building open to the elements, windows and doors long ago obliterated, covered in graffiti and the traces of bygone art installations. Philosophy talks also take place at night, sometimes in the presence of a gigantic sculpture wrestling with nihilism , or in the midst of other site-specific art installations. The distinctive local forces of erosion and decay, and

180-505: Is the second son of occasional actor and aristocrat Alessandro Ruspoli, 9th Prince of Cerveteri and Austrian-American actress Debra Berger . He is the older brother of Bartolomeo Ruspoli (born 6 October 1978 in Rome), second husband of oil heiress Aileen Getty. His half-siblings include Francesco Ruspoli, 10th Prince of Cerveteri , Mélusine Ruspoli , and Theodoro Ruspoli. Ruspoli graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1993, and later from

200-691: The Bombay Beach Biennale . Ruspoli married actress Olivia Wilde on 16 January 2003 in Venice, California . On 8 February 2011, they announced that they were separating. Wilde filed for divorce in Los Angeles County Superior Court on 3 March 2011, citing "irreconcilable differences". The divorce was finalized on 29 September 2011. Wilde did not seek spousal support, and the pair reached a private agreement on property division. Since 2009, he has lived and worked in Venice, Los Angeles , as

220-717: The Royal Society of Literature in 2005. In 2014, he was elected as an Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In 2013, he was the Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa 's Nonfiction Writing Program. He now teaches in the PhD program at the University of Southern California . Dyer is married to Rebecca Wilson , chief curator at Saatchi Art , Los Angeles. He lives in Venice, California . In March 2014, Dyer said he had had

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240-552: The University of California, Berkeley in 1998 with a degree in philosophy. Ruspoli's feature narrative début, Fix , was one of 10 feature films to screen in competition at the 2008 Slamdance Film Festival and soon afterward at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival , where Ruspoli was awarded the Heineken Red Star Award for "most innovative and progressive filmmaker". Fix also won

260-460: The 50 greatest nonfiction works of the past 25 years. He is the editor of John Berger: Selected Essays and co-editor, with Margaret Sartor , of What Was True: The Photographs and Notebooks of William Gedney . His 2014 book Another Great Day at Sea chronicles Dyer's experiences on the USS ; George H.W. Bush , where he was writer-in-residence for two weeks. Dyer was made a Fellow of

280-687: The Festival Award for Best Film at the 2008 Brooklyn Film Festival , Vail Film Festival and the 2008 Twin Rivers Media Festival, as well as other prizes at several international festivals. Ruspoli's documentaries include Being in the World , an exploration of the real world implications of the philosophical work of Martin Heidegger , and Monogamish starring Dan Savage , Esther Perel and Christopher Ryan . His other films include Just Say Know ,

300-647: The Human Condition Geoff Dyer (born 1958) is an English author. He has written a number of novels and non-fiction books, some of which have won literary awards. Dyer was born and raised in Cheltenham , England, as the only child of a sheet metal worker father and a school dinner lady mother. He was educated at the local grammar school and won a scholarship to study English at Corpus Christi College, Oxford . After graduating from Oxford, he claimed unemployment benefits, and moved into

320-493: The Los Angeles Filmmakers Cooperative, which is a bohemian collective of filmmakers and musicians who work out of a converted school bus. Through LAFCO, Ruspoli has produced several films. His producing credits include the feature film Camjackers , which he also acted in and co-edited. Camjackers won the editing award at the 44th Ann Arbor Film Festival . Tao is a flamenco guitar player and co-founder of

340-522: The Somme (on the memorialisation of the First World War); Out of Sheer Rage (about D. H. Lawrence ); Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It ; The Ongoing Moment (on photography); Zona (about Andrei Tarkovsky 's 1979 film Stalker ); and Broadsword Calling Danny Boy (about Brian G. Hutton 's 1968 film Where Eagles Dare ). In 2019, Out of Sheer Rage was listed by Slate as one of

360-461: The possibility of art as a saving power, often frame the philosophical conversations along with the overarching themes of each year. The philosophy conference of the BBB takes place in collaboration with The Bombay Beach Institute (BBI), a multidisciplinary cultural and intellectual organization also located in Bombay Beach. In 2016, the theme was "The Art of Decay". In 2017, the theme

380-687: The theme of the Biennale Season was “Questioning Hierarchy”. In 2023, the theme was “Chaos Theory”. In 2024, the theme was "White Gold", owing to abundant lithium reserves in the region. Geoff Dyer Best Travel Book Award 2004 Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It – WH Smith Literary Award Best Comic Novel – Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2009 Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism 2011 Otherwise Known as

400-517: Was "The Way the Future Used to Be". In 2018, the theme was "God’s Silence". In 2019, the topic was “Post-Modernism”. In 2020, activities were postponed due to COVID 19. In 2021, the Biennale’s theme was “More Minimalism”, and the event was expanded into an entire season rather than a single weekend, with artists encouraged to live within the community full time for part of the year. In 2022,

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