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. …
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 sublime …
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. …
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, I …
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 cameras. …
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 of …
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! …
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 I decide to …
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 vor …
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 remains, …
October 12, 2008
Reading: Walter Benjamin – Berlin Childhood around 1900
The last few days I have enjoyed the rather delectable company of a hobo formerly from Berlin, now residing in …
October 3, 2008
subatomic particle plushies
Oh I want these. Really, really, really…
Julie Peasley makes particle plushies at the Particle Zoo. Quarks, Leptons, Theoretical particles like …
September 18, 2008
englisch buchhandlungen aus berlin
(I was waiting until I’d visited a few more bookshops, but I’ve been distracted with writing applications, and know it …
September 17, 2008
surfacing…
The last week was spent mostly writing applications for residencies. Four of them due yesterday and feeling a little worn …
September 4, 2008
köpenickenstr wagenburg
I’ll try and remember where I began. It was last night. Was I searching for something for someone? Was I …
August 29, 2008
revalerstr 99
This week a haze has descended on me, it is easier to stay in bed safe in the folds of …
August 4, 2008
von zürich hbf nach freiburg im breisgau
The train stopped in Basel. For quite some time. Moved several meters, stopped again. Moved a little less, stopped. A …
July 24, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 8)
Wherein I discover that ImPulsTanz knows about my blogging of settlement and having revealed as such in their newsletter, I …
July 22, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 6)
This being the day of my birth… uh… day, AND!!! my second in Vienna. Excellent!!
(AND!!! not getting around to writing …
July 21, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 5) (and sunday also)
umm… Supermodels. Catwalks. Shopping lists. Hate. Ambivalence. Whispering. Not whispering loudly enough. Microphones. Costume changes. Love. Happiness. Drugs. Music. This …
July 17, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 3)
Today I ate dates and fresh peaches for lunch. And a banana. And had dinner at Der Wiener Deewan, mmm …
July 14, 2008
von berlin hbf nach wien sued
Early rising, 9 hours from Berlin to Vienna, through Czechoslovakia, I’ve never been there before. Now I’ve seen several train …
July 14, 2008
gute aussichten – junge deutsche fotografie
My last full day in Berlin, an afternoon adventure with someone who takes rather splendid photographs herself of derelict amusement …
July 7, 2008
Juedisches Museum Berlin
I went to the Juedische Museum Berlin today.
juedisches museum berlin – 1
juedisches museum berlin – 2
juedisches museum …
July 7, 2008
the remainder of the weekend
I don’t understand what I’m looking at. This afternoon, again in Rosenthalerplatz, I decided to walk much of the way …
July 6, 2008
ADL-SYD-FRA-BER
Adelaide to Sydney, upgraded to business class due to length of leg, and three seats to myself, the opportune westerly …
June 28, 2008
monadologie – cosmos magazine
The bubble-quote of my traipsing through a park in Sydney, the endless, vertiginous blackness crisp with infinitesimal points, and there …
June 25, 2008
emile. blog. eurodisney.
Only this to say, about time. Emile is blogging at eurodisney.biz
emile zile – eurodisney.biz
June 23, 2008
42a at EAF
Last year at Downtown, 42a was the most memorable show for me in Adelaide. Then Alison got Triennial funding and …
June 21, 2008
saint uncle judith… jude… i mean judy
I’m not sure of the trail that led me to spending some of an afternoon reading interviews with Judith Butler, …
June 17, 2008
vienna…
I’m going to Vienna.
eeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
I got an email this afternoon saying I’ve been accepted for the Choreographers’ Venture with Hans van …
June 13, 2008
jan dunning
When the Liberals won the elections in 2004, my only consolation was that shortly after I departed for a few …
June 12, 2008
chingiz aitmatov
I only recently discovered him, and was looking forward to reading The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, when …
June 5, 2008
Reading: Julian Burnside – Watching Brief: Reflections on Human Rights, Law and Justice
julian burnside – watching brief
May 27, 2008
buzkashi, self-portrait & laptop
When I was a student, I would trundle up to Melbourne Uni and on weekends and holidays hole up the …
May 13, 2008
pestilence days 15-17
I’ve been editing DVDs this week, first all the people i can remember sleeping with…, then monadologie, and in the …
May 10, 2008
pestilence last days
If I’m looking for acceptable, believable excuses, then lack of internet at home, necessary for late-night bed blogging, and an …
April 29, 2008
生日快乐!!! happy 4rd birthday supernaut
Oops … 我忘了… I forgot…
My blog’s 4th birthday was almost three weeks ago on the 7th of April.
I am …
April 21, 2008
pestilence day 14
Obviously today I am completely distracted and nervous and managed to do little except lie on the floor spontaneously falling …
April 19, 2008
pestilence day 13
Friday, rehearsal 13, night and darkness. Daniel and I seem to work rather well when the building creaks and groans, …
April 16, 2008
pestilence days 5-11
Night rehearsals.
I’ve been slack at blogging this project. It’s taken me an awful lot of methodical, patient, slogging to get …
April 7, 2008
pestilence day 3 & 4
Friday and Monday and the weekend at the library.
I’ve been struggling somewhat with this piece, possibly because I’ve been making …
March 22, 2008
reading: business cards – the art of saying hello
business cards – the art of saying hello
March 21, 2008
monadologie … last days and finish
The previous week has been on of quite small scale. I’ve been trying to learn everything I can on absorption …
March 19, 2008
monadologie photos
I do have much more to write about these last days at the centre, and I’ll make excuses elsewhere. I …
February 25, 2008
Reading: Susan Mann – The Talented Women of the Zhang Family
susan mann – the talented women of the zhang family
January 27, 2008
more feeds and things … and blogrolls
A little bit preoccupied today and doing busywork (yes, is a word), and somehow stumbled upon several rather cool blogs …
January 14, 2008
monadologie day 16 & 17
Mostly I slept. I roused to see the Christian Marclay exhibition on at ACMI, and was utterly deliriously overjoyed and …
January 13, 2008
frances without laptop
Avoiding bringing home my laptop means time for fun things like staring at walls, lying in bed, rolling over, looking …
January 7, 2008
monadologie day 11
We played in the VR Lab today. The Astrophysics Centre has 3-D Stereoscopic projectors and twin cameras for filming also …
December 12, 2007
monadologie days 1, 2, & 3
I am at Swinburne. I have an office. It’s half way to the first floor (or second if you’re counting …
December 12, 2007
monadologie – a start
I’m now in residence at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing where I’ll be for much of summer working …
December 9, 2007
Reading: Norman Page – Auden and Isherwood – The Berlin Years
norman page – auden and isherwood – the berlin years
December 8, 2007
a small break and things…
No internet for more than a week is something, especially in a week as frantic as this, and lack of …
December 7, 2007
pestilence
This morning, sleeping not yoga-ing, a little message from Alison in Adelaide, “Dear frances … i am pleased to hav …
November 29, 2007
AIR
While I’m about to embark on my residency at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, and getting quite giddy …
November 22, 2007
kunst and the greens
Three years ago I was so happy to be leaving Australia immediately after the nauseating reelection of that repulsive clique …
November 17, 2007
reading: terry pratchett…
terry pratchett – mort
terry pratchett – the colour of magic
terry pratchett – equal rites
terry pratchett – …
October 29, 2007
reading: kerstin finger – tape: an excursion through the world of adhesive tapes
tape: an excursion through the world of adhesive tapes
October 6, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 15 & 16 & this week
Libby said, “You’re panicking. Deal with it”. I said, “Oh I need to write that down”, it would go well …
September 27, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 14
Xuan said to me, over lunch, “I never dream I’m an …”, makes little creeping tendril extraterrestrial fingers, “alien …”, …
September 26, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 13
So after last rehearsal, I was variously meant to watch all the video on Friday, but too busy with Melbourne …
September 15, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 9 & 10
Oh lazy huh? And today feeling awful, possibly from lack of sleep and I really hope not from Ebola. Anyway …
September 7, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 8
I couldn’t really justify rape fantasies or liking being strangled through Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble, and I did do an …
September 2, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 7
After my opening up during the last rehearsal, today’s three-hour endurance spectacle, resting on many pages of preparatory notes and …
August 30, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 6
Talking talking talking. I was really not so prepared for this rehearsal, but it turned into a bit of a …
August 27, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 5
So when I leave writing about stuff for a few days, things get … blurry. The last few days have …
August 23, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 4
A visit to the giant porn supermarket next to ACarts yesterday, to search for any book I could find on …
August 16, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 3
Yesterday was long, at times something to be endured, frightening when it came to rehearsing and going to places of …
August 14, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 2
Second rehearsal is sometimes like second night blues when you’re performing, despite spending much of the weekend preparing, reading Judith …
August 9, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 1
Late afternoon into twilight, playing in the dark our first rehearsal, Paea, Xuan, Tara and Daniel together in one small …
August 8, 2007
ignition – all the people i can remember sleeping with …
A morning back at ADT, really for the first time in about a month, and I forgot how astounding they …
August 1, 2007
michelangelo antonioni
Blowup was one of those films that changed how I look at cinema, and then how I imagined performance. Early …
July 30, 2007
perform your grief
Emile in Sydney! Then in Europe on tour with Curseovdialect! Then doing Masters in Amsterdam. See you in Nederlans for …
July 16, 2007
we were thinking about each other
I returned to Judith Butler last week, beginning a rereading of Gender Trouble and placing Undoing Gender on order at …
July 14, 2007
42a a cameraphone recollection
A recollection of 42a from my phone, somewhat disordered.
real wallpaper and floating pixel flowers
subterranean leds
televised hundreds and …
April 29, 2007
it returns to wilderness
Letter-hyphen-town has been what most cities I’ve lived in have been reduced to since Emile in Zürich shortened it to …
April 23, 2007
new photography in guangzhou
All month I’ve been meaning to blog this, but attack of laziness and other things to keep me occupied meant …
April 5, 2007
sometimes i paint …
Emile took me along to see an exhibition of Peter Saville while we were in Zürich. I’m really surprised at …
April 1, 2007
sunday morning avoiding-work blogging
More stuff I’ve read in the past two weeks for your amazement and occasional pleasure, though because everyone’s taste is …
March 14, 2007
soft sculpt adelaide
It’s Adelaide Fringe time, so Gypsy Wood is sitting in the Garden of Unearthly Delights, and every dancer in town …
March 9, 2007
emile zile mediakunst am berlin
Emile has been living in an old convent in Rotterdam for a while now, in residence at Het Wilde Weten, …
March 3, 2007
saturday morning re-blogging
Last night was a rather interesting experience for me that I’m not going to blog about, but certainly has much …
February 26, 2007
when in doubt … cliché and generalise
Two almost opposite examinations of art or culture came from Ou Ning’s blog today, the first a textless photographic documentary, …
February 24, 2007
i whore for astrophysics
One of my dream residencies would be the Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship, all kinds of Robert-Scott-I-am-just-going-outside-and-may-be-some-time excitement. Sadly my tranny …
February 16, 2007
art, and the mutation of mass media
Emile says everything is grey, and “phishy weather”. That would be Glasgow, then. But, ART! He’s showing videos from Australian …
February 14, 2007
向欧洲致歉 apologies to europe
Occasionally I stumble across an artist who manages to strip all the complexity from what is often a torturous endeavour, …
January 13, 2007
live @ the soup kitchen – the next day
Gavin Clarke is something of a ummm … megalomaniac, performing in I think four of the ten works, curating the …
January 3, 2007
supernaut #3 blinks in the numinous light
Having spent the last few days playing around with a new design, I thought I’d preview it now.
supernaut … i …
January 2, 2007
it’s all about the money #2
He could have ditched the first paragraph, stopped right at the end of the second sentence, and just copy-pasted that …
December 19, 2006
it’s all about the money
Slagging match of the week goes to Melbourne Festival vs. The Media, wherein Robin Usher tries to sound a rhetorical …
December 12, 2006
iranian typography now
Japan design magazine PingMag has a long feature yesterday, Iranian Typography Now. It is one of the most sublime features …
December 10, 2006
超牛b的余震 － Aftershock in Guangzhou
ex-Feng37 has been burning a posting storm through Canton recently, and I suspect he’s moved out of Fangcun and found …
December 3, 2006
dormitory
Splendidly late blogging, but wtf. I’ve been meaning to drool here about Wang Qingsong’s Dormitory, though equally any of his …
December 1, 2006
more on the Small Arts Sector Research Project
A couple of days ago I wrote about the new Small Arts Sector Research Project the Arts Industry Australia (Victoria) …
November 28, 2006
Small Arts Sector Research Project
For all the independent artists around in Melbourne this Friday, the Arts Industry Council (Victoria) has announced this meeting. Please …
November 22, 2006
liberals arts policy: go fuck yourselves
I can’t quite articulate exactly how much I want to see the Victorian Liberals hurled bodily into a swampy, fetid …
November 8, 2006
omg!!! i look like nicky hilton
Chris who I’m staying with in Adelaide, I heard down the corridor saying to Lotte, “See? Doesn’t she look like …
October 13, 2006
Hell Is Invisible … Heaven Is Her/e
One of the only tattoos I ever seriously considered getting was the Psychick Cross of the Temple ov Psychick Youth, …
October 8, 2006
berkeley china initiative
I’m not sure how much I’ll be blogging in the next week as things get mental with crush. In the …
October 5, 2006
china power station
Lawrence Li at Global Noise Online has been blogging regularly about the upcoming China Power Station, “A major exhibition of …
October 1, 2006
crush – shots against the wall
The first Friday of rehearsal, when we’d only been together for a couple of days we all had a bunch …
October 1, 2006
stuff i read today
Having dragged myself out of bed at the rather late hour of 1030 and still working my way through a …
September 26, 2006
crush – we have moved somewhere else
Today was our first day at the Wonderland Ballroom, a rococo art deco streamlined parquetry dancehall that is now the …
September 26, 2006
they are not my dreams
After coughing myself into sleep deprivation over the previous couple of weeks, it was a blessing when dreams returned last …
September 24, 2006
crush – something about adelaide
We are rehearsing in a quite splendid Art Deco building, formerly a cinema now a black-box theatre somewhere on the …
September 23, 2006
the art of obliteration
Reblogging from We need money not art, the subtle, unintentional, council-approved art of erasing graffiti through semi-regular monotone blocks of …
September 19, 2006
she’s my man
I started the day with the Scissor Sisters new album, Ta-Dah, and it’s everything I said about the first album. …
September 19, 2006
battersea power station, guangzhou
Unlike recent high-modernist industrial travelogues in which ailing former jewels-in-the-crown of the European heavy industry age are cut up and …
September 15, 2006
miscellaneous rubbish for a friday
Martha Graham. Evil despot of the Modern Dance universe. Shame she didn’t die sooner. The ImpulsTanz Juice newsletter quotes her …
September 6, 2006
temperance – a stranger knocks at his door; fang decides to kill him
When I was using Life Forms as my main tool for choreography, one of the best things about it was …
September 4, 2006
I’m gonna jam my thumb in its butthole now!
Last night’s amusement was provided by old Season 2 dvds of South Park (thank you Cantonese dvd pirates). I was …
September 2, 2006
what i read today
For a while I kept a del.ic.ious account (last updated almost two months ago). I also used to have one …
August 27, 2006
waiting for fat bird
One of the most enjoyable blogs to emerge from Guangdong Province, and one of my favourites for being an art-performance-archaeological-theoretical …
August 20, 2006
Robin Fox at Footscray AV Social Club
I’ve been meaning to mention some of the things Emile is up to lately, but mostly whenever we get together, …
August 17, 2006
东山 – guangzhou’s merchant suburb
The night in 2003 I spent walking around Dong Shan in the rain and wet heat was perhaps the night …
August 15, 2006
good riddance
Normally I wouldn’t quote from The Age as it’s really little more than mediocre tabloid sensationalism, and if I want …
August 8, 2006
crush
It’s been over two years and still we haven’t me. We have been in many of the same cities, Guangzhou, …
August 4, 2006
on plagues and skin disorders
Reading Jean Baudrillard’s Symbolic Exchange and Death in 2003 was one of those pivotal moments in consumption of text that …
July 30, 2006
3030 new photography in china
A new book of contemporary art photographers from China:
3030: New Photography in China
This fully illustrated survey of 30 of China’s …
July 28, 2006
创意广州十三行 creative canton
It was slightly unnerving, to be lying there above the swollen and turbulent Pearl River, undercutting the empty, but for …
July 27, 2006
岭南启示录 apocalypse prd – eazy-z in g-town
Along with glad tidings of impending theatrical malfeasance from Emile yesterday, he also had a small package of love for …
July 26, 2006
Tragedia Endogonidia – Romeo Castellucci in Melbourne
Mostly I am remiss. Three weeks since I arrived in Melbourne, and only today did I finally hang out with …
July 18, 2006
the art of blood
The repulsive seduction of performance art where the flesh of a body absorbs the impact of artistic expression is perhaps …
July 8, 2006
dutch east india papercut company
Shortly before I departed Guangzhou, I went shopping with Michael in search of 剪纸, papercut art, something Foshan was famous …
July 7, 2006
三元里 san yuan li in new york
Ou Ning of Alternative Archive, who does spend more time in airports than me, and possibly the person mostly likely …
June 29, 2006
again again flying …
Tomorrow I’m leaving Guangzhou again. This time flying from the new Baiyun Airport directly to Melbourne, the end of the …
June 26, 2006
cryptozoology
A while ago I was sophistically explaining how my performances are what I decided to call crypto-ethnochoreography, in which the …
June 23, 2006
we intend to destroy all dogmatic verbal systems…
Before threw away a prosperous career as a writer and immanent tenure track in philosophy (post-modern, even) for the joy …
June 19, 2006
一队夫妻只生育一孩子
A friend was in town for a day, so I subjected him to my tour of Canton, walking from where …
June 18, 2006
the turmoil ended with his death
During 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD, China didn’t celebrate forty years since the start of the Cultural Revolution, and for various reasons …
May 31, 2006
going on holiday
I’m going on holiday. For more than a week, maybe even two weeks… One place I’ve always wanted to visit, …
May 14, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – typhoon chanchu
Yesterday was one of those days I really wanted to not happen. It reminded me of a few other pre-show …
May 11, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – smell of greasepaint
The last week has been a conscious block for me when it has come to choreographing the bikini-high-heel dance-a-thon/showgirl-on-nembutal-and-acid bit. …
May 10, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – costume drama
We’re doing a lot of just running sections now, accruing detail and coherency through repetition, but still to finish are …
May 10, 2006
don’t try and escape you’ll be shot
Paul Emmanuel, who I have spent most of tonight making act like a stooge for Beelzebub has decided to remain …
May 7, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – 春宫图 spring palace lust
When I was researching hell in Guangzhou in December last year, I picked up from the now-defunct but hitherto infamous …
April 29, 2006
shemale realdolls put me out of a job
I’ve had a couple of enlightening moments in the beautiful, weird, endlessly diverse world of sex and desire in the …
April 29, 2006
we hate art and like nothing interesting
Beijing’s Dashanzi Art District which I always think of as embodying contemporary Chinese art as so much of it comes …
April 29, 2006
taipei art-punk squats
One of my favourite blogs from Taiwan is Anarchy in Taiwan or gotmahmojo who recently wrote a big piece on …
April 24, 2006
请平, 荔湾 Qingping Market and Liwan
There are certain intangible things I love about Guangzhou. Most of them are west of an imaginary and real divider …
April 18, 2006
art art art … art
Continuing my attempt to delete all the bookmarks in my temp folder about stuff-i-wanted-to-blog-about, there’s been some art in the …
April 14, 2006
apocalypse guangzhou
Paul Emmanuel, Emile Zile and I are having a screening of a bunch of short films of ours on Sunday …
April 12, 2006
what were they doing there?
Someone was telling me 佛山 Foshan, the Fo meant fire, like in Cantonese, but duh! it actually means Buddha. Anyway, …
April 11, 2006
西门子艺术项目 – what art you doing here?
Cao Fei’s performance/video/installation for the global Siemens Arts Programme in Foshan, What Are You Doing Here? opens today. There’s a …
April 8, 2006
林若熹 – 行愿 lin ruoxi – meditation on travelling
When asked to translate the exhibition notes for 林若熹 Lin Ruoxi’s 行愿 exhibition, I wasn’t expecting highrise-sized banners and three …
April 7, 2006
art art art … noise
In a pathetic effort to make up for a few days of blaring silence, with 2am crawls to bed, hour …
April 6, 2006
cosplayers in hong kong
Two nights in Hong Kong, picking up Emile and Paul from the airport, playing tourist across Kowloon and Central, seeing …
April 2, 2006
他们在这做什么? what are they doing here?
I’m off to Hong Kong tomorrow to pick up Paul and Emile, and I’m not sure when I’m coming back, …
March 30, 2006
more robots rendering contemporary dance irrelevant
Before I decided the future of contemporary dance lay in aberrant ethnochoreography, and ransacked Cantonese Opera for ideas, I spent …
March 23, 2006
more blogs for compulsive clickers
Obviously I collect blogs the way philatelists collect small rectangles of perforated paper, and one day a mint-condition first-edition of …
March 22, 2006
park19 in 石围塘 shiweitang
A very strange day yesterday of taxis and ferries and walking around parts of Guangzhou that are very much not …
March 20, 2006
performance of the damned
There’s some weird Italy thing going on for me right now. Actually ever since I saw Fellini’s Satyricon when I …
March 15, 2006
hard art to void dead words
Every time I make a piece, and looking back on it, I think how much more intense and overwhelming it …
March 14, 2006
somewhere in asia…
When I get jammed into an aisle seat and told, “Aw, just put yer legs in the aisle”, coz I’m …
March 11, 2006
flying again
I’m flying to Hong Kong tomorrow, and then on to Guangzhou for a residency at Park19 until the end of …
March 5, 2006
japanese font orgasm
More than lines of code in Flash, or beautiful CSS and all that elegant and hidden stuff that makes web …
March 4, 2006
straight outta canton
I’m sure I had a post with the same title as this some time… but well, I can’t find it, …
February 27, 2006
guangzhou art and blogs
A few days ago a friend of mine who used to work at Park19 emailed me with a link to …
February 25, 2006
fengdu’s erased horizon
Daily reading of Diacritic, and this reminded me alot – in an almost diametrically opposite way – of the photography …
February 18, 2006
paul emmanuel. the end
It looks like a dead kangaroo to me. I know Paul was planning on inflating the viscera of farm animals …
February 16, 2006
sex porn art casting shock ban!
I think I’m becoming a one-trick whore for we-make-money-not-art, because all I seem to do right now is read them …
February 15, 2006
freaked out light hating slime mould robot
I just thought, “wouldn’t it be cool to get a bunch of these slime mould robots that can’t handle the …
February 13, 2006
transmediale 06 talking about china
In December last year, Martijn de Waal contacted me about as part of the Chinese Mediaculture project. It was a …
February 7, 2006
hell – some more photos from paul
More from the meat-locker of Paul Williams’ shoot of hell, and the video is coming soon too.
the twelve days …
February 6, 2006
hell – some photos from paul
Paul Williams, who shot the 16mm film of extermination came into watch the dress run and pre-show warm-up run of …
January 31, 2006
nam june paik
A couple of years ago, my film-maker pirate friend Paul showed me a nth-copy video of the most trippy dance …
January 24, 2006
hell day 11 – boticelli unmasked as doré
I had this suspicion all along when I was using these etchings of Dante’s Inferno that they weren’t the ones …
January 24, 2006
everything you always wanted to know about hell …
… but were afraid to ask Jean Baudrillard.
One of my enduringly favourite books, that I have somehow permanently connected as …
January 16, 2006
hell day 7 – shunga meets grindcore
After getting all teary-eyed watching Joe slip into exhaustion-induced halluncinations with a Boney M soundtrack in Touching the Void, it …
January 9, 2006
JT LeRoy – keeping it fake
Part of me likes the great simulacrum of the media endlessly recreating its own reality until it is all simultaneously …
January 8, 2006
dancing appliances and fat suits
I know that in the low latency of the internet a month is pretty much another age, but I’ve been …
January 7, 2006
hell day 3 – vampiros lesbos … again
Maybe it’s not proper rehearsal form to spend most of the afternoon talking, but considering how much we have all …
January 5, 2006
hell day 2 – absolutely freak out
We have sore necks. Some nice bruises, a bit of skin missing from the bony bits, and a few nicks …
January 3, 2006
Guanyin and the Kings of Hell
It’s something like perfect timing, or maybe just the endless wash of information ebbing and flowing. The Met Museum in …
January 1, 2006
jan fabre – history of tears
Emile got into Melbourne with a present for me, the flier for Jan Fabre’s new Troubelyn production, History of Tears.
In …
January 1, 2006
錄影太奇 videotage blogging at MAG@V
錄影太奇 Videotage in Hong Kong I know better for 跳格 – JUMPING FRAMES@HKDF2006, the annual dance film/video festival that’s part …
December 30, 2005
nine lives – the birth of avante-garde in new china
SCALO Books have just published Beijing resident Karen Smith’s Nine Lives – The Birth of Avante-Garde in New China, and …
December 29, 2005
You can create art & beauty on a computer
On the other side of the hemisphere in Berlin, the 22nd Chaos Communication Congress has hackers making the world a …
December 28, 2005
Gothic Nightmares
Getting all ready for the start of rehearsals of hell in Melbourne, and watching lots of Peking Opera, 1970s Japanese …
December 16, 2005
独生一代 – single child generation
Park 19 in Guangzhou has been off the internet for a few weeks now, and when I visited the studios …
December 14, 2005
fast chicks and low cars
From one of my daily reads, we-make-money-not-art, comes my favourite combination of culture, fast cars and hot bikini chicks. Tell …
December 4, 2005
translate this: 行愿
I was at the 广州美术学院 and spent the afternoon with 林若熹 a professor at the Academy who is preparing a …
December 3, 2005
a night at loft 345
Last night I went down to Loft345, which used to be Park19 (because it was number 19 whatever lane and …
November 30, 2005
looking at art: 第二届广州三年展 2nd Guangzhou Triennial
I was going to try and find out if Park19 was still alive but only got as far as 二沙岛Er …
November 25, 2005
life
It’s been five months, an unexpected length of time for me to be in one place, almost long enough to …
November 13, 2005
art is treason
Just before I left Australia for Taiwan last year, the odious forces of imperialism, bizarrely named the Liberals got back …
November 8, 2005
performance art is the new painting
The New York Times has a large article on Performa 05, the visual art performance biennale in New York, going …
November 4, 2005
nusra in karachi
I know I keep on saying Nusra Latif Qureshi is one of the most amazing artists in the world, but …
November 2, 2005
daily blog reading
I went through my blog bookmarks a couple of days ago, which now number several folders with 15 or more …
November 1, 2005
176*144 – i took my time …
The project I started in Taiwan which didn’t go anywhere because Taipei didn’t have a 3G mobile phone network has …
October 28, 2005
human writes
Twice this week I’ve been asked to give wishes, the first a list of fifteen for a magazine, and the …
October 27, 2005
第二届广州三年展 Beyond: 2nd Guangzhou Triennial
More from 亞洲藝術文獻庫 Asia Art Archive on the upcoming 2nd Guangzhou Triennial (a title that I can’t say without feeling …
October 26, 2005
shanghai does contemporary art
Contemporary art in China is really mostly a scene in Beijing around 798 Factory, despite other cities having something going …
October 26, 2005
some more stuff i’ve been reading
Serious pruning of my temporary bookmarks folder(s) is needed. The stuff on 太石村 Tai Shi Village is already out of …
October 17, 2005
it’s my happening babe and it freaks me out
More from the endless mailing lists which make me feel popular and loved by filling up hundreds of kilobytes of …
October 16, 2005
第二届广州三年展 pearl river art canton
I dunno, but I think having a triennial is a bit weird, coz by the time it comes around again, …
October 14, 2005
亞洲藝術文獻庫 – solo naked performance art
Three great articles are in the most recent 亞洲藝術文獻庫 Asia Art Archive email newsletter. The first is Solo Endurance Performance …
October 13, 2005
four years of email mayhem
Almost a year ago, when I was in Taiwan, I put out a call for submissions for a 3G mobile …
October 9, 2005
fuga utopia – the twin peaks of tanztheatre
I’ve seen one of the best shows in years tonight, and I’m not just saying that because Anna Tenta is …
October 2, 2005
大山子 798 fringe arts festival
大山子or 798 Arts District in Beijing is holding its first Biennale to coincide with the Beijing Arts Festival. Wiki has …
October 2, 2005
the absence of hong kong art
Yan at Glutter got stuck into the abysmal state of contemporary arts in Hong Kong today, with My HK Contemporary …
October 1, 2005
dance like you’re drinking beer … or something
This is more of an exercise in embarrassment plus occasional gloating than a real post. Firstly there was the birthday …
September 28, 2005
christa de carouge
She’s kinda like a Swiss Issey Miyaki, whose idea of a good time is schlepping around the scrappier parts of …
September 28, 2005
psycho – they are not children … they are monsters!
Evil genius conjoined twins Paul Emmanuel and Dr. Richard Maggs when not beating the shit out of each other in …
September 15, 2005
i fornicate for satan
This from the master of doom, Emile Zile, I can’t really add anything except my first thought was Mia Farrow …
September 13, 2005
shock! surprise! ozco doesn’t fund me for the eleventh time!
Who’d a fucking thought? I mean the odds were seriously in my favour: 11 applications and 0, zero, zero success, …
September 10, 2005
It’s Alive!!! quick! kill it with this blunt shovel!
Arts Victoria have pretty much kept me from going off and doing something more rewarding and of greater social worth, …
September 8, 2005
exotic bodies heavenly products
Two artists who always give me a thrill when the invite for their latest show lands in my inbox are …
September 5, 2005
jenny saville – passage
It’s not that she’s new or anything, but I love how certain artists come back to my attention over the …
September 2, 2005
A Strange Heaven, Contemporary Chinese photography
There’s some rumour going around about me going to Helsinki in the next couple of weeks. Apparently my legendary and …
September 2, 2005
uli sigg – the man behind the flying fetus
In keeping with my new news policy, I only write about things that happened more than two weeks ago, which …
August 26, 2005
on a fast train
I’m going to Vevey for the weekend to see the aussies in Compagnie Nomades perform «Le bal des vampires». Plenty …
August 20, 2005
holy flying fetuses batman
Speaking of 萧昱 Xiao Yu and his penchant for the kind of art which would see him in the skanky …
August 19, 2005
pig-fucking at the chenjiatuo art farm
There’s something I like about Wim Delvoye’s tattooed pigs, and also something I find craven and a transparent ploy for …
August 14, 2005
eurodisney.cn
Emile thinks he’s being pretty bloody clever. EURODISNEY.CN. Oh ha ha. I told him to expect a visit from scabrous …
June 22, 2005
literature commune chicken
I went to Park19 today to say goodbye to everyone until next time I stumble through Guangzhou. I also made …
June 16, 2005
文献公社 at Park19
I haven’t been able to find out much about this, except the beautiful flier that I picked up at park19. …
June 15, 2005
splash life
Maybe it was last year, or very early this year, when we sat around the outside table at Sleepywood, mesmerised …
June 8, 2005
spooked
mmm … full bleed colour …
“Spooked – Art and Horror in the Western Australian landscape” documents the three ‘Spooked’ …
May 24, 2005
nusra latif qureshi – intentions of memory
Nusra Latif Qureshi, who has long been one of my favourite artists in Melbourne and has been storming out stuff …
May 9, 2005
pirate satellite
Emile Zile, who regular readers will know of as the evil black hand of Morloch and all-round defiler of good …
May 7, 2005
Cunnilingus in North Korea
The empyre mailing list went spastic in the last couple of days with the pornographically titled Cunnilingus in North Korea. …
May 5, 2005
pixeldirt
Justine Poplin makes really cool performance art and installations, and I’ve known her longer than anyone in Australia, and see …
May 5, 2005
Nick Jones – (slight return)
Nick Jones used to be the mad Keith Richards Pied Piper of VCA, folding, cutting, intertwining pages of books until …
April 28, 2005
body movin’
The Boston Cyberarts Festival is the place to be this week and next. Even dance gets a look in, and …
April 27, 2005
Stop Motion
I arrived back in perfect time for the start of the 第二届广东现代舞 – 2nd Guangdong Modern Dance Festival, two weeks …
April 21, 2005
kitty serendipity
Just in time for me to leave, Sayraphim Lothian, Ilona Nelson, Chris Nettleship, Robert Reid, Anna Schoo and Anniene Stockton …
April 21, 2005
nofzilla – digital disclosure
The genius that is nofzilla is going down in Boston at the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Along with a bunch of …
April 14, 2005
Art is fanaticism that demands diplomacy.
Back in the early 90s, Laibach stomped around in pseudo-facist uniforms, banged drums with fanatic zeal and blonde hair like …
April 10, 2005
RE:Wanchai – Hong Kong International Artists’ Workshop
The 國際藝術家交流工作坊(香港) Hong Hong International Artists’ Workshop has invited 12 local and international artists to be in residence during April. …
April 4, 2005
Curiosities: post-art from the edge
Para/Sit Art Space in Hong Kong has recently opened an installation exhibition of four artists from Hong Kong, Australia, Japan …
April 2, 2005
the age of the grotesque
Another day of reading magazines at The Wall in East St Kilda, and one of the best images of the …
March 27, 2005
regeneration
Another exhibition, pretty similar to the Stanford Show below is on at Otis College of Art + Design’s Ben Maltz …
March 27, 2005
political hysteria in chinese art
One of the many articles on Chinese art I missed during my amputation from the internet in February came from …
March 24, 2005
we have decided not to die
The absolute best photographs I saw last year, and definitely in the top 10 of all time were We Have …
March 22, 2005
UAE Sharjah International Biennale 7
The UAE Sharjah International Biennale 7 opens in a couple of weeks in Sharjah Art Museum and the nearby Heritage …
March 22, 2005
para/site messes with lenses
Parasite Art Space in Sheung Wan opened Take a ST/Roll 圓．遊．會 earlier this month, which is running until mid-April …
March 18, 2005
all about genesis
One evening in Taipei, drinking at some bar I met my evil twin. It’s not often I meet someone who …
March 18, 2005
COSPlayers – cao fei in beijing
Guangzhou artist Cao Fei has opened her exhibition at Courtyard Gallery in Beijing. Urban teenage superhero video COSPlayers is being …
March 17, 2005
jun nyugen-hatsushiba
Vietnam-based artist Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba is exhibiting video works and an installation at Malmö Konsthall in Sweden from March 5th.
Historical events …
March 16, 2005
大声展 get it louder
大声展 get it louder opens in Shenzhen at the end of next month before moving to Shanghai and Beijing. Over …
March 16, 2005
sabeen raja talk
Pakistani minature artist Sabeen Raja is in Melbourne to exhibit her works at Axes Art Space and Gertrude Street Contemporary …
March 15, 2005
roppongi kingyo – performance art at its finest
It’s not really dance or art, and it’s almost a month since I read this, but there’s something about the …
March 5, 2005
干花乐队 dead flowers at park19
Having blown my remaining change of DVDs again, including weird old documentaries on the history of Hong Kong filmmaking, I …
March 2, 2005
the new park-19
I went back to the new Park-19 today in daylight surrounded by the craziness of the Nantai markets. I’m looking …
March 1, 2005
blast theory tokyo – can you see me now?
British augmented-reality performance artists Blast Theory were in Japan last week for six days ofCan You See Me Now? on …
March 1, 2005
Australia China Council funds me
Just when I was thinking of giving it all up, getting a nice easy job (say maybe a showgirl in …
February 23, 2005
nusra +naeem’s new gallery
i’ve written about Nsra and Naeem a couple of times in the past. I met them both when I was …
February 23, 2005
nofzilla – PE(s)T
Liz Nofzilla and Peter Pizzi from Boston and all over the internet are opening their installation at Atlantic Works Gallery …
February 23, 2005
park 19, 19-T and shanshui records
This Friday night at Park 19, Shanshui Records and a bunch of others have the Guangzhou part of their tour.
19-T中国巡演广州PARK19站
时间：2005年2月25日星期五20：00
地点：广州PARK19艺术空间南泰新空间
地址：广州市海珠区南泰路168号南泰百货批发中心二号楼8楼（南泰加油站旁）
演出乐手：Kesqsse（19-t）、Amnjk（19-t）、Sulumi（Shanshui）、Iloop（Shanshui）
客席乐手：李劲松（亚洲传声）、Double …
February 22, 2005
park 19 where it’s all at
I went to Park 19 yesterday, the artists studio space on the south side o the river near Xiaogang Park. …
February 21, 2005
2005广州国际摄影双年展“城市·重视” 2005 Guangzhou Photo Biennale
The 2005 Guangzhou Photo Biennale opened at the 广东美术馆 Guangdong Museum of Modern Art in mid-January and is running until …
February 13, 2005
leaving taiwan
I’m leaving Taiwan tomorrow morning after 3 1/2 months here. It’s been very cool, I like this place alot, and …
February 11, 2005
i love Italia
From one of the mailing lists I’m on, undo.net comes Le Invasioni Barbariche, curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi at Galleria …
February 11, 2005
二十號倉庫 stock 20
I went down to 二十號倉庫 stock 20 yesterday, the Taizhong artist Village, which along with the Taipei Artist Village is …
January 31, 2005
平行輸入 pseudo hackers
My last night in Taipei was also the opening of the new 台北當代藝術館 MOCA exhibition, 平行輸入 Pseudo Hackers Art in …
January 28, 2005
going offline
It’s been three months since I walked into this studio at the Taipei Artist Village. It’s been my home for …
January 28, 2005
cut-up #6
cut-up the art of living in a medialised landscape issue number 6 is online now. For those of you who …
January 28, 2005
25302 marks of scope
Two new shows opening in Taipei and Tainan. This weekend at 新樂園 xinleyuan, is 25302 marks of scope, and at …
January 26, 2005
非常經濟實驗室 wayward economy
Main Trend Gallery, which was part of Co4 Documenta last year has just opened 非常經濟實驗室 wayward economy, curated by …
January 26, 2005
the free meal ticket
The best thing about being an artist is the travelling and parties. In the last three years, I have spent …
January 19, 2005
architecture of density
The Robert Kock Gallery in San Francisco is exhibiting the large-scale photographs of Hong Kong-based artist Michael Wolf until the …
January 16, 2005
psycho and the chain
Paul Emmaunel and Dr. Richard Maggs are chewing paint again, this time at ffotogallery in Penarth, along with Taiwan artist …
January 14, 2005
free public lynching
The issue with Australia Council for the Arts eviscerating the New Media Arts Board has had a slight hiatus over …
January 7, 2005
art village @ taiwan
Before I came to Taiwan and the Taipei Artist Village, I had a pretty slim idea about what was going …
January 5, 2005
plastic chinese stools and other great works of art
China Underground regularly has good stuff on art in China, and lately they’ve been adding some video-art, including Guang Yang’s …
January 3, 2005
in the mountains
I spent the weekend in Taizhong with Shang-ping, one of the artists in residence at the Taipei Artist Village. His …
December 26, 2004
i am alive and you are dead
The 台北國際藝術村 Taipei Artist Village had a Christmas open studio yesterday, and I was determined to bitch-slap any Christmas cheer …
December 23, 2004
blush
Terrance Lewis was another one of the DanceWEB mob in Vienna last year, and based in Mumbai is one of …
December 21, 2004
ANAT on the murder of the new media art board
Keeping on with the news that the government has decided to destroy the new media arts board of the Australia …
December 15, 2004
大山子艺术区 on wiki
Factory 798 in Beijing was the site of the Dashanzi International Art Festival earlier this year, and is one of …
December 12, 2004
saturday art special
There’s so much art on at the moment, I missed the opening of the Taiwan International Documentary Festival yesterday. It …
December 12, 2004
what i read this week
It’s a smorgasboard of words this week. fro Li Bai all the way up to street slang, don’t ya just …
December 11, 2004
paul emmanuel is psycho
Paul Emmanuel hooked up with his psychiatrist last night at 新樂園藝術空間 SLY Art Studio to eat some paint and …
December 9, 2004
new media arts wasted
Part two of the news that Australia Council is trashing the New Media Arts Board. I’m posting this email in …
December 9, 2004
australia council dumps new media arts board
This morning, the Fibreculture mailing-list was dealing with what will rank as one of the worst decisions made in Australian …
December 8, 2004
176*144 – performance art for 3G phones
My next project in Taipei is performance 3G mobile phones. With Big Brother in Australia getting on the bandwagon with …
December 7, 2004
Co4 … so what?
Along with some of the gang from 新樂園藝術空間 SLY Art Studo I spent the afternoon at 大趨勢畫廊 Main Trend Gallery …
December 7, 2004
cyber-zoo
This is a zoo where the inmates aren’t so friendly. For a long time around the hacker world there have …
December 5, 2004
第二屆新樂園跨領域藝術節 SLY art 2nd new field art festival
The group exhibition I am part of at SLY Art Studio opened this evening, with much eating drinking and music …
December 2, 2004
media mammon
Almost a year of being a bug crawling around the grid in breedster, and now the folks at drunk men …
November 27, 2004
hong yi at huashan
華山創意文化園區 Huashan was going crazy today with a couple of openings and the C04 台灣前衛文件展- Co4 taiwan avant-garde documenta II …
November 27, 2004
colin at the taipei artist village
Last night Colin, one of the Australians staying in the Taipei Artist Village played a concert in the main gallery. …
November 26, 2004
me at 新樂園藝術空間 sly art studio
Next Saturday at 新樂園藝術空間 SLY Art Studo is the opening of the 2nd New Field Art Festival. Along with Thierry …
November 25, 2004
making art in china
What’s it like to be a foreign artist in residence in China? Last night, three of us from the Taipei …
November 20, 2004
《水火祭 disaster solemnity troy 特洛依》at huashan
In-between Co4 Documenta and UBU a bunch of artists and me spent a couple of hours sitting and drinking on …
November 20, 2004
C04台灣前衛文件展 – Co4 taiwan avant-garde documenta II
In another Friday of art overdose, the 大趨勢畫廊 Main Trend Gallery played host to the opening of C04台灣前衛文件展 – Co4 …
November 18, 2004
shunji iwai
Filmmaker Shunji Iwai is having a screening of four of his films in Taipei over the next two weeks. Not …
November 18, 2004
beijing artists channel throbbing gristle
An opinion piece on the current state of avant-garde art in Beijing brought to mind a conversation I’d had in …
November 16, 2004
nofzilla
One of the projects I’m doing in Taipei is performances for mobile phones. It’s pretty basic use of existing technology, …
November 15, 2004
locus – jien-hua huang at 新樂園藝術空間 sly art space
Another exhibition also opened on the weekend which I didn’t get along to, but saw while being set up. 黃建樺 …
November 14, 2004
it park – chen kaihuang tchenogramme
Last night, the 伊通公園 ItPark in I-Tong St near the TAV had the opening of 陳愷璜 Chen Kai-Huang’s 關於 …
November 13, 2004
城市謠言 – 華人建築展 2004 The Rumor of China Towns
Blowing off the opportunity to see Ned Kelly at the Film Festival, the next stop for the night was MOCA …
November 11, 2004
red vs blue
A while ago on one of the net-art email lists I subscribe to, there was discussion about performance in video …
November 9, 2004
shanghai art arse licking
The Guardian has been running a Special Report on China for the last couple of weeks, which should be compulsory …
November 6, 2004
qj studios – 没大没小 Mei Da Mei Xiao
Just before I left Guangzhou, I had a couple of conversations about the art scene in the city, which seems …
October 31, 2004
arriving in taipei
Another blindingly early start on the jet-fuel trail. I divide my flights up into sections: 1) taxi to Guangzhou East …
October 10, 2004
what’s going on?
I’ve been very busy the last couple of weeks with getting ready for my residency in Taipei at the Taipei …
October 4, 2004
art and freedom vs. money in shanghai
With the recent issues in Australia of arts funding being sent on a round trip through the local abbatoir, and …
October 4, 2004
i hope someday you will join
The 迷笛现代音乐节 Midi Music Festival is on again in Beijing until today, which is probably the best festival in China …
September 27, 2004
twlight of the door gods
Watch any Chinese martial arts movie and somewhere there will always be a set of double doors with fearsome, demonic …
September 22, 2004
taikang art street
With the demolition or threatened demolition of artist’s villages and communities in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai as the glacial mental …
September 19, 2004
中国国际建筑艺术双年展 1st Architecture Biennale – Beijing
As Beijing is swathed in a landscape of construction and demolition, the 中国国际建筑艺术双年展 1st Architecture Biennale – Beijing opens today, …
September 18, 2004
kwangju biennale
The 5th Kwangju Biennale, A Grain of Dust, A drop of Water opened a couple of weeks ago, and like …
September 12, 2004
18個個展 18 Solo Exhibitions
The 金門碉堡藝術館 Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art a gallery located in old artillery bunkers on Kinmen, opened its exhibition 18個個展 …
September 10, 2004
territories at para/site
Para/Site Art Space new gallery in Hong Kong has just celebrated its opening with the multi-media installations of Hong Kong-based …
September 9, 2004
華山 huashan – when art becomes industry
What’s in a name? When it comes to art, there’s a big world between an arts and cultural centre, and …
September 8, 2004
seni in singapore
SENI 2004, Singapore’s international visual arts festival opens at the end of the month, and will be a good excuse …
September 4, 2004
beautiful new horizon
Asia Art Archive’s September newsletter has a travelogue from Taipei researcher Mio Iwakiri, who travelled to Tainan in August for …
September 2, 2004
fiction.love again
Fiction.Love opened a couple of weeks ago at 台北當代藝術館 Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, and got a bit of a …
September 2, 2004
xu yong at 798 space
Xu Yong, who runs 798 Space in the Dashanzi arts district in Beijing, where the recent 大山子艺术节 Dashanzi International Arts …
August 31, 2004
vincent gallo – the brown bunny
Hero of Buffalo 66, Vincent Gallo, who single-handedly resurrected 70’s prog-rockers Yes has just had his new film The Brown …
August 29, 2004
balletlab – fiction
I went and saw Phillip Adams’ BalletLab season of Fiction last night, two works by Phillip and Becky Hilton at …
August 25, 2004
i like my noise noisy
In Guangzhou this Saturday, a group of noise-makers from across the city will be shaking the rotten concrete out of …
August 24, 2004
great technology crappy game
In a sweatily adolescent application of great technology, Hong Kong’s Artificial Life have just announced the release of a new …
August 23, 2004
xanadu at the nla
Canberra’s National Library of Australia has just opened an exhibition of historical images from China, Xanadu – Encounters with China …
August 23, 2004
Do You Believe in Reality? – 台北雙年展 2004 Taipei Biennale
The 台北市立美術館 Taipei Fine Arts Museum announced the theme of the 台北雙年展 2004 Taipei Biennale on Friday, called Do You …
August 22, 2004
陳果 – 三更二之一: 餃子 Fruit Chan – Dumplings
陳果 Fruit Chan’s latest movie, 餃子 Dumplings has just opened in Hong Kong, one third of a horror series Three …
August 19, 2004
Fiction.Love
Opening in Taipei tomorrow at the 台北當代藝術館 Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art with the catchiest post-modern name of the week …
August 1, 2004
dance and music at sleepywood
Yesterday at Sleepywood Bar – 枕木酒吧in Guangzhou, dancers from the 广东现代舞团Guangdong Modern Dance Company and musicians from the Orchestra got …
July 30, 2004
halo 2 – i love bees
In early 2001, somehow I slipped into the very strange world of A.i. the online multi-player game which was in …
July 30, 2004
tac compression
From RSG and Beige who bought the world the endless joy of carnivore comes the world’s newest and best compression …
July 25, 2004
國立臺灣美術館 – navigator – digital art in the making
The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts has just opened an exhibition of new media art, navigator – digital art …
July 24, 2004
Iain Mott at 大山子艺术节 Dashanzi Art Festival
ANAT, The Australian Network for Art and Technology have just published the July-October issue of Filter devoted to sound. One …
July 19, 2004
thorpe is gay
Nat and Ali managed to make it all over the news this week with their project Hungry Bums, part of …
July 18, 2004
arabesque
Performing contemporary dance on the plains of Mongolia, with the audience coming to watch with their yurts, and slaughtering a …
July 17, 2004
sonar at schleswig-holstein musik festival
sonarsound is returing for the third consecutive year to the schleswig-holstein musik festival from July 16.
The festival, which this year …
July 17, 2004
35 000 days in asia
Asialink’s book 35 000 days in asia is being launched on Thursday 22 July, celebrating 10 years of arts residencies …
July 13, 2004
paura – joel zeka
Joel Zeka, whose recent RMIT/Next Wave show was Terrible Presence, is exhibiting Paura at Kick Gallery Melbourne from this Thursday, …
July 11, 2004
doing nothing anywhere
Vitamin Creative Space in Guangzhou recently had a project do nothing anywhere at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in …
July 7, 2004
nusra + naeem again
In June, I wrote about Nusra and Naeem’s art, and their exhibition, at Counihan Gallery, which opened a couple of …
July 7, 2004
humanism in china
Humanism in China, the photographic exhibition which started at the Guangzhou Museum of Art in December 2003, and travelled to …
July 3, 2004
1個歧視 – A Discrimination
Live Home 3 has an exhibition 1個歧視 – A Discrimination on at the moment, with a number of local artists …
June 27, 2004
films at 798 factories
798 Factories, the gallery/bookshop/bar scene in Beijing in a glorious old East German high-modernist arms factory screened two films last …
June 27, 2004
jo lloyd – cherry picking
Jo Lloyd, superstar dancer around town, and number 1 choreographer to boot is having a workshop showing of her new …
June 26, 2004
zhang dali – chinese offspring
One thing missing in China is the pervasive graffiti of tags, pieces, hip-hop art which you can see in almost …
June 23, 2004
unreal tournament presents swan lake
What more can someone do inside a MMORPG (massive multi-player online role-playing game) than just play the game? From the …
June 22, 2004
nusra + naeem
Nusra Latif Qureshi is exhibiting new work Exotic Bodies and lectures, with Naeem Rana’s Heavenly Products at the Counihan Gallery …
June 18, 2004
asian traffic
The Asian Traffic exhibition and conference has just opened at the Asia-Australia Arts Centre in Sydney, a four-month show …
June 17, 2004
台北雙年展 Taipei Biennale
The Taipei Fine Arts Museum has announced that Amy Cheng Huei-hua (Taiwan) and Barbara M.R. Vanderlinden (Belgium) will be curating …
June 15, 2004
artv
Anyone watching SBS late at night might wonder “what-the-fuck is Connex (or whatever the trains are called now) pushing?” when …
June 13, 2004
taiwan animation at annecy film festival
The Annecy International Film Festival in France is presenting a special programme devoted to Taiwan animation, Welcome Taiwan.
Among the films …
June 12, 2004
thailand new media arts festival 2004
In March this year Srinakarinwirot University, Bangkok hosted the Thailand New Media Arts Festival 2004, curated by Francis Wittenberger. Isabel …
June 12, 2004
小谷围 Xiaoguwei artist village demolished
The 小谷围 Xiaoguwei artist village in Guangzhou, about 17 kilometers from the city centre is being demolished. The 165 villas …
June 12, 2004
rive droite
Something has been happening in Guangzhou in the last year, which always seems like the poor second child to Beijing …
June 11, 2004
between past and future
The massive 10 year retrospective Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China has just opened in New …
June 11, 2004
new media arts in Beijing
The international New Media Arts Exhibition Millenium Dialogue is running in Beijing at the moment, with students and lecturers from …
June 8, 2004
Yin Xiuzhen – Portable Cities
Making the most of airports, Beijing artist Yin Xiezhen is exhibiting two installations at the Sydney Biennale, Portable Cities and …
June 7, 2004
Wang Qingsong makes art
Opening in a couple of days on June 11 is Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, …
May 31, 2004
台北國際藝術村 – Esthetics of Migration
Almost three years ago on a plot of land vacated by the Mass Rapid Transit authorities the 台北國際藝術村 Taipei …