I’ve already finished it. Joan Slonczewski I discovered through Charles Stross, when she guest-blogged there, and her The Highest Frontier was my …
December 15, 2011
Reading: Susan Mann – Precious Records: Women in China’s Long Eighteenth Century
Shortly before departing for Brussels, I finished Susan Mann’s brilliant The Talented Women of the Zhang Family, and began Gail Hershatter’s …
November 26, 2011
Ivo’s Studio
Red sky in the morning, and a chaotic arrival to Brussels. Somehow I thought Chaussee de Mons ran parallel to …
November 4, 2011
Reading: (2nd time) Susan Mann — The Talented Women of the Zhang Family
In early 2008, before I moved to Berlin, I had a book-buying spree, and a couple of those books I …
October 26, 2011
Ozco cuts Leigh Warren & Dancers Funding
I just heard from Daniel Jaber that the Australia Council for the Arts have cut Leigh Warren and Dancers triennial funding. Having …
October 6, 2011
Steve Jobs
Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class …
August 13, 2011
abjection archery photoshoot
Earlier in the week, I met Christian crépes at a Belgian café beside the Spree; a first hello since I returned …
August 12, 2011
Reading (Playing): Gabriele Klein, Gitta Barthel, Esther Wagner – Choreografischer Baukasten
Klein, Barthel, Wagner – Choreografischer Baukasten
August 12, 2011
Reading: John Cage – Silence: Lectures and Writings
John Cage – Silence: Lectures and Writings
August 12, 2011
Reading: Robert Temple – The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention
Robert Temple – The Genius of China
June 19, 2011
Finissage der KunstAktienausstellung
Saturday night was the Finissage of the KunstAktienausstellung in Uferhallen. Some hours were spent wandering around the entire Hallen looking …
May 29, 2011
cartwheel again
I thought perhaps these were better separate from a Yoga+Bondage workshop. The last few days have been busy at nameless, …
May 26, 2011
cartwheel
It reminded me a little of China Miéville’s Handstand, except the pigeon was perhaps making a no-handed cartwheel. We have …
May 16, 2011
Nein! Nein! Nicht die Wunde ist es.
I heard it slightly wrong. Parsifal, struck with awareness of Amfortas and the wound is physically overwrought. “Sie brennt in …
December 21, 2010
Paul Emmanuel – Fleece Paintings
Paul Emmanuel, whom I met in Taipei ages ago, has an exhibition opening in a couple of weeks. Farms, sheep, …
November 27, 2010
Reading: James R. Brandon – Theatre in Southeast Asia
james r. brandon – theatre in southeast asia
October 10, 2010
uferhallen – autumn
A warm autumn afternoon yesterday with Michael, come all the way from Madrid. A morning cleaning, and more warmth of …
October 4, 2010
Reading: Peter Hopkirk – Foreign Devils on the Silk Road
peter hopkins – foreign devils on the silk road
October 4, 2010
Reading: Peter Hopkirk – Trespassers on the Roof of the World
peter hopkins – trespassers on the roof of the world
September 12, 2010
(Some) Stuff I Read This Week
For some reason I decided to start using Twitter again — I suspect iPhone — and without any clear purpose …
August 10, 2010
reading: jonathan burrows – a choreographer’s handbook
jonathan burrows – a choreographer’s handbook
June 28, 2010
BER – BRU – BER – VIE
Not so much an open secret as something I haven’t got around to writing about here, I depart tomorrow for …
June 1, 2010
fontographie
Early rising to Kreuzberg and after a time to wake Matthi up in Reichenbergerstr. Breakfast peanutbutter and coffee, talking across …
May 26, 2010
readin: david hinton: chuang tzu – the inner chapters
david hinton: chuang tzu – the inner chapters
May 9, 2010
art sunday
Some rather nice art has fallen my way recently, falling around something that might become abjection. Of course it induces …
April 29, 2010
sydney’s siberia and other digital creatures
No, I don’t actually remember which Mac forum I discovered Jason Nelson and secrettechnology on. I do though highly enjoy …
April 29, 2010
an attempt to fail….in berlin
So I leaver Berlin for the other city I love beginning with B, and Tony Rizzi decides to come to …
April 19, 2010
ick bin sechs jahre alt (und na logo habe ich vergessen)
Ja, naturlich, immer ein weniger mehr und immer bisschen spät. Habe Ich heute mit Katrin geplaudert, und dann mir ging …
February 22, 2010
mousepath
Along with upgrading my laptop to 10.6 on the weekend (I always, always do these things last at night, and …
January 21, 2010
reading: christopher i. beckwith – empires of the silk road
christopher i. beckwith – empires of the silk road
January 12, 2010
Laura Kalauz + Martin Schick – Title
Possibly the most problematic of all the performances I’ve seen so far in Tanztage, Laura Kalauz’s and Martin Schick’s Title …
January 9, 2010
An Kaler – Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy
(An aside: Having managed to evade seeing dance for the most part last year, I thought I should take advantage …
January 2, 2010
2009 theater
Without taking the time to look, I’m not sure I’ve ever done an end-of-year best-of list for performances I’ve seen. …
December 22, 2009
solstice
Taoism struggles against the cultural preference for the “light.” The Tao Te Ching, especially, champions the low, the dark. Darkness …
December 2, 2009
seile
I bought some rope today. From Fesseltrieb in far east Sonnenallee, biking through a first biting day of winter, clear …
November 3, 2009
Reading… a 2nd anniversary
My reading the last year has not been of either the volume, nor the breadth of the previous, in no …
November 2, 2009
bondage basics
More from Dasniya, who shall be teaching a two day workshop in Shibari in November. Certainly one of the highlights …
October 25, 2009
orgy of tolerance
To have your idols disappoint. It is a delicious sensation. And probably inevitable, necessary. My Friday Antwerp wanderings, despite the …
October 10, 2009
antwerpen
A train to Antwerpen with no ticket despite my attempts to buy one. Thirty minutes in which I think upon …
October 8, 2009
Konstruierte Fantasien / The Construction of Fantasy
From Dasniya, and what I’ve been doing since March this year, being tied, suspended, flying, tying others, playing, something like …
September 30, 2009
hilary
“…and when terror strikes just take a deep breath and remember that life is just one long learning experience. Nothing, …
September 26, 2009
sorayama nawa shibari
Last night with the wonderful Katrin, I was introduced to an artist I’d not thought upon for years, and likely …
September 13, 2009
osada steve
A couple of days before I began my current day job, a Thursday evening, having done some fast coding, I …
August 29, 2009
som faves
Ivo says, ” you know I was very suspicious about its qualities and I will still be…”. Though not in …
August 17, 2009
save the vca
It is a long time ago now, camping on the lawn outside the front of Victorian College of the Arts …
August 12, 2009
plants vs brauerei
Somehow I stumbled back onto a couple who inspired my greatly years ago when I first started computers and design …
July 5, 2009
one… eins
A year ago. A train from Frankfurt lulling me out of the delirium and endurance of 30 hours or more, …
June 28, 2009
today i learned about depth of field
(Inbetween learning about search engine optimisation, Google Analytics… other…) I have a book which is a basic introduction to DSLR …
June 23, 2009
first light
Something telescopes do… it feels like the appropriate description for the first photo I take with my camera. Of course …
June 21, 2009
ich habe eine kamera. es ist schwarz
panasonic lx3 black noir schwarz miscellanea plus box and 8gb sdhc card panasonic lx3 and lens cap pasm! hotshoe! 4:3 …
June 16, 2009
Reading: Alexandra Richie – Faust’s Metropolis – A History of Berlin
alexandra richie – faust’s metropolis
May 27, 2009
Reading: Barry Cunliffe – Europe Between the Oceans 9000 BC – AD 1000
europe between the oceans – barry cunliffe
May 17, 2009
buchstabenmuseum
I’m not sure where I stumbled upon this, but it wasn’t so long ago and immediately thought of someone whose …
May 10, 2009
daniel is reading…
judith butler – undoing gender susan sontag – styles of radical will deleuze and guattari – a thousand plateaus
May 8, 2009
super dickmann (and his ‘s)
Yes, really we laughed a lot. super dickmann’s … (super dickmann’s what?)
May 4, 2009
regnend…
I have been meaning to write a couple of long posts on dance, art, performance and instead spent much of …
May 1, 2009
der 1. mai in berlin
I should really make a new category for Berlin… … Berlin. I should really get off Movable Type so when …
April 25, 2009
yesterday evening
Another play with stitching panoramas… it really doesn’t convey the immensity or closeness of the Bötzow Brauerei that looms outside …
April 23, 2009
berlin frühlingszeit vielfalten
Someone said, “Oh your photos are very good, you must have a DSLR, no?” No. My camera three years ago …
April 18, 2009
ick bin fünf jahre alt (und ein wenig mehr)
mmm… ja, so… leider, ich habe nochmal vergaß. Meine erste Blog Geburtstag in Berlin! Det find’ ick schau. Das war …
April 6, 2009
blog stuff
I shouldn’t be on my laptop today; I am bad. Working around 12 and sometimes up to 16 hours a …
February 22, 2009
on’s guro fairytales
Oh if only I could make art as good as this. One of those “uuhhh… why didn’t I think of …
February 14, 2009
we are enemies… secrettechnology
Discovered on a mac forum that I’ve been on for years, and the best game I’ve played in years also, …
February 7, 2009
Bötzow-Brauerei the next day…
My camera is not so good. Well, it is my phone actually, so rather good for what it was three …
February 7, 2009
biblio-smut
When I have my pirate castle I shall also have a library like this. I’m not sure which, maybe all …
February 6, 2009
MA √ 15’ { idiosyncrasy } sin x = ly – fx2¯
The best show I didn’t see this year, oh… I have difficulty with seeing dance, and then occasionally something is …
January 24, 2009
women in mac
I was watching Welcome to Macintosh a few nights ago, becoming engaged in a mindless indulgence in Apple, I do …
January 4, 2009
re.act.feminism – performancekunst der 1960er und 70er jahre heute
Still dark, before 6am, lying in bed, the clouded sky lighting the city and me already with coffee and reading, …
December 14, 2008
reading: jeanette winterson – oranges are not the only fruit
jeanette winterson – oranges are not the only fruit
November 28, 2008
reading: jeanette winterson – lighthousekeeping
jeanette winterson – lighthousekeeping
October 20, 2008
lustgarten und der palast der republic
It was an assignment for German class, to wander from the Goethe Institut to Hackescher Markt and then across the …
October 16, 2008
Reading… an anniversary
A year ago in the briefest of lines, I began keeping a list of the books I’ve digested… burp. What …