More Shibari with Dasniya, now in Kreuzberg. Much fun.
Jeden Mittwoch 20 -22 h Shibari Technik in Kreuzberg
An diesen Abenden werden …
January 31, 2010
reading: g. whitney azoy – buzkashi – game and power in afghanistan
g. whitney azoy – buzkashi
January 21, 2010
reading: christopher i. beckwith – empires of the silk road
christopher i. beckwith – empires of the silk road
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 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 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 …
April 12, 2009
reading: jorge luis borges – collected fictions
jorge luis borges – collected fictions
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 …
January 18, 2009
Annemarie Schwarzenbach
And so I discovered Annamarie Schwarzenbach, who to a certain kind of Berlinerin is probably quite famous, yet in English …
January 9, 2009
sakhalin arctic pirate lighthouse
In my long search for the perfect lighthouse to wage piracy from, I’ve stumbled across a chain of Soviet era …
January 3, 2009
Top Ten (Plus 1) Good News Stories in the Muslim World, 2008 (That Nobody Noticed)
Cheerful Saturday morning reading I thought I’d post in its entirety, though I do think anyone who has the slightest …
November 30, 2008
reading: wildwood – a journey through trees – roger deakin
wildwood – a journey through trees – roger deakin
November 19, 2008
transgender day of remembrance
For any queer trans* Berliners who read me, there is a meeting tomorrow night 6pm, at my favourite bar, Silverfuture, …
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, …
August 1, 2008
books… forgotten… found
I left many things when I departed from Zürich. And Guangzhou, and Taipei, and… Things come together again. All my …
June 27, 2008
Global Voices Summit – Budapest
Some of my favourite and also most inspiring bloggers, writers, wonderful computer and internet people are all in Budapest for …
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 8, 2008
Reading: again… some for the fifth time…
Suffering from a paucity of new books the last two weeks, and packing mine all away in preparation for inevitable …
June 8, 2008
blog…
A notably slow Sunday, cleaning, washing dishes, reading The Subject of Gender that I am already certain will be on …
June 6, 2008
Reading: Harriet Evans – The Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China
harriet evans – the subject of gender
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 14, 2008
Reading: Liao Yiwu – The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up
Normally I say nothing about the books I’m reading, I have a superstition that to do so would cause me …
May 14, 2008
Reading: Antonio Giustozzi – Koran, Kalashnikov and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan 2002-2007
koran, kalashnikov and laptop
March 21, 2008
Reading: Daniel Ladinski Trans. – The Gift: Poems by Hafiz, The Great Sufi Master
hafiz – the gift. trans. daniel ladinsky
March 6, 2008
Reading: Taliban – Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia – Ahmed Rashid
taliban – ahmed rashid
February 25, 2008
Reading: Susan Mann – The Talented Women of the Zhang Family
susan mann – the talented women of the zhang family
February 25, 2008
Reading: Rosanne Klass – Land of the High Flags: Afghanistan When the Going Was Good
rosanne klass – land of the high flags
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 …
November 18, 2007
november 20
This Tuesday is International Day of Transgender Remembrance. I should be dwelling on Happy Things today but it’s been a …
November 17, 2007
reading: terry pratchett…
terry pratchett – mort
terry pratchett – the colour of magic
terry pratchett – equal rites
terry pratchett – …
November 11, 2007
ikochi vs dreadcircus
Feast Festival is on in Adelaide and like, wow I have seen nothing… But I am not going to miss …
September 26, 2007
中秋节快乐！！！
mmmm … mooncakes …
green tea mooncake with one yolk
hong kong elegant flavour
June 19, 2007
冯三七 canton disaster relief blogging
John is responsible for much of my email. He only knows this now. But I read it all, after-all, I …
May 27, 2007
pre-breakfast tranny blogging
I’m really, really, really trying to blog more often but dialup connection that drops out every few minutes and …
May 6, 2007
the life of 金星 jin xing
Conversations on contemporary art in China that swung around to dance invariably brought mention of Shanghai choreographer and dancer Jin …
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 18, 2007
homeless dance co
In-between rehearsing, last night I drifted up to the 4th floor of Asialink for drinks and hanging out with the …
February 27, 2007
venus flytrap – visa for love
It’s been about three months since I first mentioned Venus Flytrap, the ultra-tranny manufactured pop group from Thailand, signed to …
February 24, 2007
Protected: saturday tranny blogging
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
February 18, 2007
新年快乐! 恭喜发财! – hoping that meat prices don’t go up
Yes, I am missing not being in Guangzhou, or joining hundreds of millions on the country’s trains. So, from Mary …
February 11, 2007
sunday tranny-blogging (and spitting in china)
What is it about Sundays that seem to cause a blog upwelling of a more cerebral nature than during the …
February 6, 2007
pestilence – a crypto-history of the black plague
Amidst all this grant-writing that is seriously damaging my eyes – colours and objects are permanently dimmer and intangible after …
January 31, 2007
Music Furthest From the Sea
Album of the week for anyone who loves central Asian music, especially the kind that gets blasted across bazaars, from …
January 29, 2007
another adelaide arrival/departure
As when I arrived in Adelaide, so too was it grey and occasionally seeped in a fine mist for Bonnie, …
January 28, 2007
adelaide stuff
I’m sorry!!! I know we were only just talking in the kitchen a few hours ago and you really, really, …
January 8, 2007
Protected: miscellaneous tranny stuff … coz we rule
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
December 18, 2006
我的小飛機場 my little airport
Walking to a bookshop, walking to East St Kilda, walking through Alma Park, listening to my iPod and I was …
December 10, 2006
stuff i read and even bookmarked in the last week
Bookmarked, that is, so I could blah on loudly here about it, in lieu of dragging myself through the warm …
December 1, 2006
2006中国(广州)国际纪录片大会 Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival
A bit slack lately blogging about my favourite city, Guangzhou. Yes I do love it that much. 曹斐 Cao Fei, …
November 29, 2006
beyond the valley of the ultra-trannies
A while ago I was quite the fan of Lady, the Korean tranny pop sensation riding on the wave of …
November 16, 2006
harisu gets married
One half of me is like, yeah cool look how progressive parts of Asia are for a transsexual to get …
October 31, 2006
miss international queen 2006
I’ve been meaning to blog about this for a few days but I am lazy and self-centred. So. Finally I …
October 16, 2006
amazing philippine beauties 2006
Actually I know why you mostly come here and it has nothing to do with having a social conscience. You’re …
October 13, 2006
shooting them like rats, dogs
A truly disgusting start to yesterday was reading about climbers in Tibet on Cho Oyu watching the Chinese Army massacre …
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 …
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 26, 2006
水上人家 – river people
When I was in Hong Kong for a day in early May, as usual I went on my idea of …
August 23, 2006
asian blog awards 2006
I have no idea who nominated me for the Asian Blog Awards 2006, but I’m quite flattered; and quite amused …
August 16, 2006
savage formosa
National Geographic is one of those magazines like good chocolate I get breathless over when each new issue arrives in …
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 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 20, 2006
every transsexual is first at something
Once being first was easy, when everything hadn’t been done, lately, first is the prefix on a long chain of …
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 …
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
korean law ruling allows change of sex
During the weeks I ventured west into the mountains, Korea’s Supreme Court was debating whether to permit male-to-female transsexuals to …
June 17, 2006
guangzhou islands, graves, dead rivers and southern barbarians
Reading maps can describe places that have vanished, ghost inscriptions of shifting fringes, more so in places where geography itself …
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 30, 2006
transsexual law in korea and japan
A couple of articles on the current legal and cultural positions of transsexuals in Japan and Korea broadly illustrates a …
May 30, 2006
KCR Guangzhou to Dongguan again
My once monthly trip to Hong Kong was under a leaden and saturated sky. Guangzhou and much of the province …
May 28, 2006
miss tiffany’s universe 2006
It’s that time of the year again, and in wishing to have some kind of fair competition, I neglected to …
May 7, 2006
a visit to the sex market
South-East Asia’s biggest sex market that is, though I always expected Thailand, or Korea or Japan who have the first …
April 30, 2006
10 = marquido + itta
Before it all passes me by again and I’m still looking like an imbecile going … wuuuuh … ? this …
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 24, 2006
New Order’s Peter Hook Guangzhou Babyface DJ set
One of the most influential bands on me from when I first heard the pounding of Blue Monday, and I …
April 23, 2006
第三届广东现代舞周 3rd Guangdong Modern Dance Festival
Last year I was less than flattering about the dance I saw at the 第二届广东现代舞周 2nd Guangdong Modern Dance Festival, …
April 17, 2006
narcoleptic shemale attempts blog…
It started with Hanzi Smatter’s year-old piece on someone who’d got 妖 tattooed on their neck, which might mean “charming” …
April 17, 2006
supernaut is lazy (but can read…)
I’d probably be better using del.icio.us for all the stuff I read, but I found on top of keeping supernaut …
April 8, 2006
a couple of anniversaries i forgot…
I’m really not one for anniversaries, and have even forgotten my birthday a couple of times, but feeling the need …
April 8, 2006
welcome to japanese new music festival
I just want to lick something drenched in acid. That’s twice I’ve seen Acid Mothers Temple and my immediate response …
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 1, 2006
acid mothers temple! guangzhou!
“Welcome to Japanese New Music Festival”
I am officially a groupie, and I’m so excited I can’t even type properly. One …
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 …
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 24, 2006
reading some books
Today was a minor holiday after my 15 hour binge yesterday in DVD Studio Pro and the joy of sorting …
February 18, 2006
destination prd
In my daily ploughing through a couple of hundred RSS feeds, I read from Danwei, there’s a new quarterly magazine …
February 16, 2006
ma jian – stick your tongue out
In Taiwan a year ago, thanks to the vast library at the Taipei Artist Village I got seriously into reading …
February 9, 2006
PUBLIC=UN+PUBLIC
Jo Lloyd, who went to Japan to hang out with nibrol on an Asialink Performing Arts Residency last year is …
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 …
December 15, 2005
mimi marks and stupid people
About a month ago, Mimi Marks won the Miss International Queen 2005 beauty pageant for transsexuals in Thailand, which I …
December 11, 2005
a quarter of a billion – an addendum
I had some doubts this morning about posting the previous entry. And more doubts since reading R.J. Rummell’s blog more …
December 10, 2005
a quarter of a billion
I’m taking a bit of a break from blogging, the return to Australia has left me with a disembodied sense …
December 7, 2005
kcr – guangzhou to dongguan
The Kowloon to Guangzhou through train is one of the weirdest train rides I’ve been on, and it’s one I’ve …
December 5, 2005
planes trains busses taxis
I’ll be gracing the Hong Kong airport tomorrow, and leaving Guangzhou. It’s been a whirl of a 10 day adventure …
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 29, 2005
lady – the blog
Lady, the hot trash Korean transgender manufactured pop band noone has listened to but everyone has seen pictures of, now …
November 28, 2005
z-town to g-town
The flight wasn’t as bad as I’d thought it would be, though getting screwed at Hong Kong airport for a …
November 23, 2005
airport lounging
I’m travelling to Hong Kong early Friday morning so my abuse of bandwidth and the internet has slowed to a …
November 19, 2005
absolutely freak out
Acid Mothers Temple!!! Zubi Zuva X, Akaten, Ruins Alone, Zoffy, Shrinp Wark, Seikazoku!!! Welcome to Japan New Music Festival!!!
Three musicians, …
November 6, 2005
more stuff i’ve been reading
I’ve been really enjoying reading from blogs lately, obviously from my daily reading list, (which has since grown longer) even …
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 3, 2005
人妖 or 变性 … how about 变性人妖
While I was trawling through the internet, scraping up stuff on Miss International Queen 2005 I found a longish entry …
November 2, 2005
miss international queen 2005
Tiffany’s second annual beauty pageant for transsexuals Miss International Queen 2005 was held in the glowing centre of the she-male …
October 31, 2005
冬蔭功 tom yum goong meet jin xing
As usual I’m totally behind the times. I’m not sure how long ago it was released, but Prachya Pinkaew, director …
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
lady ride the shemale bubble
Rounding off the month’s stories of chick-with-dicks even The Independent finds Lady irresistible, but being news need some controversy, so …
October 26, 2005
when jurisprudence lags behind reality
It’s a really nice idea that a post-operative transsexual can change their gender on their birth certificate and every other …
October 26, 2005
跳格 – Jumping Frames 2006
JUMPING FRAMES@HKDF2006, the Hong Kong Dance Video Festival that is part of the Hong Kong Dance Festival is open for …
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 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 16, 2005
china’s changing landscape
The first time I took the KCR train from Hong Kong to Guangzhou I thought I’d arrived in Mordor. Endless …
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
Traditional Architecture in modern Asia
I’m not sure where the link to this came from, but anyone interested in Asian architecture will get a kick …
October 12, 2005
origami
Phillip Adams of Ballelab, Australia’s only genius choreographer is presenting a development of origami on October 21st and 22nd at …
October 7, 2005
acid mothers temple in zurich
There’s nothing more to say. Acid Mothers Temple are the closest thing I’ve ever heard to sucking on a blotter-sheet …
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
scraping tai-gu off the wheel
It must be the time for old things to be revisited, and as always through whatever is going on around …
October 2, 2005
all of china at the kennedy centre
There’s a fairly huge mega-company type cultural celebration of China going on at the moment at both the Kennedy Centre …
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 2, 2005
architecture for dictators
Periodically Domus deals with architecture in Asia that goes beyond the mind-numbing childishness of Shanghai=good!!! and manages to make the …
October 2, 2005
royal hong kong circus tour of guangzhou
One of the events of last week which was variously setting a precedent, and ice-breaking on the level of Nixon …
September 25, 2005
a bunch of stuff i’ve been reading
Rehearsals are making it a bit difficult for me to focus here, so instead of wading through what has become …
September 22, 2005
harisu is a hot issue
She didn’t quite have the same effect in Cherry Blossoms as Buck and Allanah do in Allanah Starr’s Big Boob …
September 8, 2005
les dames du bois de bologne
While the media is getting particularly wet over Harisu, Lady and Nong Toom, and other famous transsexuals, and places like …
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 …
September 2, 2005
KJ #64: Special Issue on Gender in Asia
Kyoto Journal is seeking submissions for KJ#64 Gender in Asia, guest edited by contributing editor Sally McLaren. More information on …
August 25, 2005
crazy for digital
The current state of film in China and Hong Kong, mostly triad good-cop/bad-cop or period piece fantastical martial arts sewerage …
August 20, 2005
miss waria indonesia 2005
Probably because it happened in late June when I was mostly living in airport lounges I missed the whole Miss …
August 17, 2005
transsexual soldiers, 20 years after halo jones
When I was a serious comic junkie and would spend waaay too much of my dole payments in the local …
August 14, 2005
privatising contemporary dance in guangzhou
There was a huge interview and article in the Weekend Standard last week on Willy Tsao and the 广东现代舞团 Guangdong …
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 …
August 6, 2005
Down and Out in China
Richard thought I’d like it. I was filling one of his spare rooms in Panyu with the detritus of five …
July 28, 2005
香平麗 our love – drag queen underworld
Not that I have much of a focus on China at the moment, but I know lots of you come …
June 28, 2005
slumming it in vevey
The most skanky flight I have ever had in my life was on the weekend, Hong Kong to Bangkok, to …
June 15, 2005
Bangkok Tattoo
The first book of John Burdett I read was a very halucinogenic Bangkok 8, which fits neatly into the category …
June 15, 2005
beautiful boxer at singapore arts fest
Anyone who even heard of Beautiful Boxer knows what happens when a Muay Thai boxer decides wearing a dress is …
June 15, 2005
all-naked lady
Giving Harisu a run for her money in the Korean Trannie Superstars Awards, my favourite band of the moment, Lady …
June 15, 2005
changing the law to match your gender
It shits me so much that something so obvious has to become the province of the law and the courts …
June 1, 2005
dance sucker dance
It’s the start of summer, so that means every town and its dog has a dance festival for the next …
May 31, 2005
bitches part III
It’s production week, or whatever else it can be called, so I’m going to be vanishing into production week limbo …
May 26, 2005
expressions at guangdong modern dance festival
The dance festival here has been over for a couple of weeks, and other things are happening across the town, …
May 25, 2005
babes in beijing
In 1989, Rachel DeWoskin arrived in Beijing fresh from university to work for an American P.R. firm. Two months later …
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 24, 2005
folding fiction
Besides an impulse cinema trip to see Star Wars – Revenge of the Sith (which seemed to leave lots of …
May 19, 2005
south of the border
I’m heading down to Hong Kong tomorrow for a bunch of stuff, but mainly to see Balletlab’s Phillip Adams’ new …
May 19, 2005
stranger than fiction
Australia’s only true genius, Phillip Adams has been shacked up in Hong Kong, a mere spit from Guangzhou. He’s been …
May 18, 2005
bitches
I started rehearsals on Monday for the reason why Australia China Council gave me money and why I’m able to …
May 16, 2005
heavy gravity in yangshou’s bastard cousin
The gravity was especially strong in Jiulong on Saturday. In addition to the kind of humidity that can rot the …
May 13, 2005
Miss Tiffany Universe 2005
Miss Tiffany 2005 was crowned in Pattaya, Thailand a couple of days ago. Sometimes Asia can be years ahead of …
May 8, 2005
they’re dead! … everyone’s dead…
Last night was the end of the 第二届广东现代舞周2nd Guangzhou Contemporary Dance Festival, and I know I’ve been pretty harsh on …
May 7, 2005
contemporary dance must die
A triple bill. Three times the fun. The 2nd Guangzhou Dance Festival is almost over, and Thursday night it was …
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
Sonar 2005
When I was at a very impressionable age my downward spiral away from god and into the arms of hedonism …
April 30, 2005
when art goes bad
Last night was not quite the beginning of the week of dance at the 2nd Guangzhou Dance Festival, but was …
April 27, 2005
back in guangzhou town – again
The flight sucked. Taking off is fun in a 747 or anything fast enough to make your bones rattle and …
April 21, 2005
travelling again
I leave for Hong Kong and Guangzhou tomorrow for a couple of months making horrible art before heading over to …
April 12, 2005
Chinese march over Japan’s war ‘whitewash’
The weekend government-sponsored outings in China made it into the Australian papers yesterday, as Chinese diplomats act like schoolyard hillbillies …
April 12, 2005
shashwati talukdar
The guy who makes the amazing ecto, which gives me blogging pleasure on a daily basis started a ‘blog of …
April 11, 2005
2005 Asia Young Choreography Projects
The World Dance Alliance is currently seeking is currently seeking choreographers from across the Asian region for the annual choreographic …
April 10, 2005
anti-japan riots in guangzhou (and everywhere else)
The anti-Japan bullshit that has been fomenting across China in the major cities, reached a peak over the weekend. Ostensibly …
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 5, 2005
China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia
The Asian Review of Books review James Lilley’s swashbuckling tale of intrigue, parachuting spies into communist Manchuria, and hanging out …
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
天邊一朵雲 – The Wayward Cloud
Taiwan film-maker 蔡明亮 Tsai Ming-liang’s porn musical 天邊一朵雲 – The Wayward Cloud opened un-cut though with an adult rating in …
April 2, 2005
Joseph Rock rises again
Reading the Green Guide at Orange yesterday, the last name I expected to see getting airtime on SBS this week …
March 31, 2005
we are lady
Forget about Sylvester and Divine, and even Harisu, the new face of shemale pop is Korea’s own Lady. In the …
March 27, 2005
小城之春 – The best Chinese-language movies of all time
The Hong Kong Film Awards have voted
小城之春 Spring in a Small Town, directed by Fei Mu as the number 1 …
March 25, 2005
harisu in trembling heart
Keeping her acting career on the make, Korean transsexual model Hirasu is pretty much playing herself in a new tv …
March 22, 2005
tropical malady
More good queer and just strange films coming out of Thailand. This month, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s most recent film Sud Pralad …
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 21, 2005
they rule
Just in case you had any illusions about the benevolence of the Chinese communist party, who’ve shared the love three …
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
china demonstrates small-dick syndrome
The big news since I landed in Melbourne that everyone wants an answer to is, “When do they begin bombing?” …
March 17, 2005
조승우 cho seung-woo plays hedwig
Korean actor 조승우 Cho Seung-Woo, fresh off the musical Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and the film Marathon is about …
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 11, 2005
travelling again
I’ve been travelling most of the week, leaving Guangzhou on Tuesday and heading to Melbourne for the next six weeks. …
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 …
February 23, 2005
transsexuals on supernaut
It’s only out of sheer laziness that I haven’t done this before. So while I’m freezing my arse off in …
February 23, 2005
香江大舞台 fragrant river showgirls
There’s a show going on at night at the Wah Fu Estate in West Hong Kong Island that’s open to …
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 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
taiwan punk fucks the shit up
I missed The Deported play at 這牆 The Wall a few weeks ago, but this piece by band-member AndyO on …
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 20, 2005
harisu at the berlin film festival
The Hong Kong Gay and Lesbian Film Festival came and went last month and I didn’t even notice. oops. But …
February 20, 2005
香港舞蹈年獎 Hong Kong Dance Awards
The seventh annual 香港舞蹈年獎 Hong Kong Dance Awards were held on February 1st with performances by Hong Kong Dance Company …
February 16, 2005
airports hotels taxis and slow internet
I’m travelling again, having left Taipei on Monday morning and spent a fun day in Hong Kong catching up with …
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
more chinese sci-fi
Two new Chinese science-fiction magazines have appeared on the market in China. As all the names have ‘fantasy’ and ’science …
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 21, 2005
aakzb – channel_a
The last couple of nights a big bunch of guys from Burkina Faso have been playing long into the evening …
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 17, 2005
小白兔唱片 white wabbit records
Downstairs in the underground alleys next to The Wall is a world of Taiwan and Asian music purgatory. No Kenny …
January 8, 2005
asian blog awards
The results are in for the 2004 Asian Blog Awards. Go over and check it out, and see some new …
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 5, 2005
6 years of documentaries
Last month Taipei had the hype of 台北金馬影展 Golden Horse Film Festival and the much less hyped 台灣國際紀錄片雙年展 Taiwan International …
January 5, 2005
vote for meee!!! … again …
The party at Simon World for the 2004 Asian Blog Awards has barely finished and the results are still being …
December 30, 2004
vote for me!!!
This is your last chance to vote for me in the Asian Blog Awards, so go on do something worthwhile …
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 16, 2004
asian blog awards
It’s time to vote over at Simon World for the best blog from pretty much every country from Pakistan to …
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 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 6, 2004
台北金馬影展 golden horse film fest awards
The best film award in the 台北金馬影展 Golden Horse Film Festival has gone to a mainland China film portraying life …
December 5, 2004
what i read this week
Back for another wash-cycle of what happened in Asia this week (that I read about), and no matter what else …
December 2, 2004
passion no patience
Pei-jen Tsai, who I hung out with in Vienna last year, and missed by a few weeks at the Taipei …
November 28, 2004
what i read this week
Just in case I ever need to recall what I read this week that didn’t have anything to do with …
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 22, 2004
UBU and TRSIMF
One festival finishes, another begins. Last night was the final of three ear-splitting nights of some of the best rock …
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 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 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 9, 2004
tremors
I was lying in bed last night reading my Chinese word frequency dictionary (I need to go to a bookstore …
November 5, 2004
architecture in beijing
The first architecture Biennial Beijing 2004 has just started in the capital, and Stefano Mirti, Simone Muscolino and Luca Poncellini …
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 …
September 29, 2004
miss tiffany singapore
Miss Tiffany has been crowned for the first time in Singapore. In an imitation of the famous Thailand beauty …
September 27, 2004
skate till you die or go home
Unlike Melbourne and many western cities these days where skating is either prohibited on the streets or pushed as far …
September 25, 2004
i-dance festival
Currently in the middle of their 25th anniversary celebrations, CCDC has also just been involved in the first independent …
September 24, 2004
shemale elephant polo
Fancy going to Thailand and watching a game of polo played by a team of shemales on elephants? Now that’s …
September 18, 2004
the great challenge
Julien Seri, the director of Yamasaki – les samourai des temps modernes which is not much of a samurai film …
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 11, 2004
asian horror in hollywood
When it comes to really disturbing horror films, with the exception of visceral nightmares like The Shining and The Exorcist, …
September 9, 2004
asian labour news august summary
Asian Labour News published their monthly report on labour-related news for China a couple of days ago. This site is …
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 8, 2004
nude dancers = happy dead
The Straits Times has a piece on why the Hungry Ghost Festival in Taiwan is keeping the ghosts very happy …
September 7, 2004
hurricane frances and storms in sichuan
It’s really cool to have a hurricane with your name on it, even if it has been ‘down-graded’ to a …
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 3, 2004
zatoichi – takeshi kitano
One of my favourite actor/directorsTakeshi Kitano’s latest film Zatochi opens in Australia today, and was reviewed on At The Movies …
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 …
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 …
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
5,6,7,8’s in Taiwan
One of the best bands in the world, the 5,6,7,8’s who like Mach Pelican have spent more time playing the …
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
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 10, 2004
symphonies in asia
Time Asia writes on the rise of Symphony Orchestras and western classical music in China and Asia, with the appointment …
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
korean punk
Asia Pacific Arts wrote about the punk scene in Korea a couple of weeks ago, and the scene around Skunk …
July 4, 2004
special toilets
Once again Thailand leads the world in human rights. The 1500 student Chiang Mai Technology College has opened a separate …
July 3, 2004
海洋熱 – ocean fever
Director Chen Lung-nan’s rock n’ roll documentary of a bunch of underground bands playing at the Gong-liao Ho-Hai-Yan Rock Festival …
July 3, 2004
korean queer culture festival
The 2004 Korea Queer Culture Festival was held in Seoul last month, along with the queer film festival, which received …
June 30, 2004
amanda in taiwan
Adelaide choreographer Amanda Phillips has just left for Taiwan, where she’ll be making a new work on Cloudgate2 for the …
June 27, 2004
bobby and ben
Last night I saw a face on SBS tv who looked really familiar. I met Bobby Singh when musician Ben …
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
China’s ‘gray’ publishing
This article on That’s Magazines explore the vile legal world of publishing in China.
Shanghai. (Interfax-China) – A potential dispute is …
June 23, 2004
where are all the good looking chinese girls?
The Straits Times has a bunch of filler between ads on the wild world of beauty contests that are rampant …
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 16, 2004
we love harisu
With Miriam giving Big Brother something to talk about before Merlin Luck taped his mouth shut in protest over imprisoned …
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 11, 2004
Daniel Yeung – Metalove
Choreographer Daniel Yeung, creator of the giant projected arsehole in his 2002 work Play Boys is back again with a …
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 …
May 29, 2004
Gozu and Casshein
Two films which are doing the rounds at the moment, Gozu by Ichi The Killer director Takashi Miike, and Casshern …
May 23, 2004
Box of Changes
Architect Peter Eisenman took part in a competition recently to design a new museum and public square in the heart …
May 23, 2004
Maggie Cheung Best Actress at Cannes
张曼玉 Maggie Cheung has won best actress award at Cannes for her role in French film Clean, directed by Olivier …
May 23, 2004
Chinese Mountaineering Team on K2
The climbing season on K2 has kicked off, with 54 expeditions attempting to summit the mountain made famous by prominent …
May 8, 2004
跳格 Tiaoge – Jumping Frames
跳格Tiaoge Jumping Frames, the Hong Kong Dance Video project between 城市當代舞蹈團 – chengshi dangdai wudao tuan CCDC and Videotage is …
May 4, 2004
大山子艺术节 Dashanzi Yishu Jie – Dashanzi Art Festival at 798 Group Factories
Beijing is becoming the home of avant-garde art in China according to several newspapers which ran the article on 798 …
April 27, 2004
The ‘new’ Silk Route
A new treaty has been signed by 23 nations at a UN meeting to create multiple landlinks between Khabarovsk and …