More Shibari with Dasniya, now in Kreuzberg. Much fun.
Jeden Mittwoch 20 -22 h Shibari Technik in Kreuzberg
An diesen Abenden werden …
February 4, 2010
anouk van dijk & falk richter – TRUST
The set is moody, gloomy, dark, chrome chairs and black leather sofa, matching seats, a stylist-industrial minimalist clutter extending back …
January 20, 2010
Hermann Heisig – THEMSELVES ALREADY HOP!
The second performance of Saturday night in Tanztage’s Festsaal, Hermann Heisig’s THEMSELVES ALREADY HOP! is superficially opposed to almost the …
January 20, 2010
too far again, not far enough…
Daniel is performing in the Adelaide Fringe this year. I think it will be rather good. Some photos to enjoy …
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 10, 2010
Jana Unmüßig – HAUS
I had planned to see only a couple of performances in Tanztage, I thought perhaps one a night over a …
January 10, 2010
Death by Glitter – Get a Leg Up
The third performance of Friday night, and barely making it in time while snacking on Thunfisch pizza on the tram …
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 7, 2010
Reading: Katherine Pratt Ewing – Stolen Honor – Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin
katherine pratt ewing – stolen honor
January 5, 2010
i’d dance on your grave but i’ll piss on it instead
It’s not often I’m taken with glee to read of the death of someone. During the years I’ve blogged, many …
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. …
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 …
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 11, 2009
Ath
An adventure yesterday, south-west of Bruxelles for around 30 minutes. A train with Gala, past a town called Silly. No, …
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
SOIT – We Was Them
To start at the end. Or, an ending. Somewhere past an hour, Ivan and Harold (I think) sit on the …
October 7, 2009
i went to brussels … again
A week this time. To Flughaven Schönefeld, then to Bruxelles Airport, raining once more, grey from B to B. Here …
October 4, 2009
i have a futon
The last time I saw my futon was, I think, early last year when I temporarily removed from storage all …
September 21, 2009
soit – we was them
A good a reason as any to return to Bruxelles, or better than most. The delightful Hans, along with Anuschka, …
September 5, 2009
leaving the brauerei
For the last nine months, I’ve been living in a beautiful, isolated small apartment, by virtue of being on a …
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 20, 2009
i went to bruxelles…
I was possessed by the desire to go to Brussels on Sunday last week, and in a fit of unusualness, …
August 5, 2009
a chronology of burnt-out corpses
Mainly that I laughed and snorted when I read the title and looked at the familiar map of Berlin drowned …
July 19, 2009
Gunter Kroemer
Over much of this year I’ve been working with Christian Ender on rebuilding the code of one of his documentary …
July 8, 2009
dasniyasommer.de
Because it’s…
I’m watching WordPress install under the tessellated layers of windows open. I can see command lines march upwards, not …
July 7, 2009
thingswithbits.info
I thought it was about time I had another website…
(Now I just need to get around to spending more than …
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 16, 2009
Reading: Alexandra Richie – Faust’s Metropolis – A History of Berlin
alexandra richie – faust’s metropolis
June 16, 2009
bötzow brauerei beleuchtet bei nacht
An undertaking by night in the Brauerei. An unlikely moment where my poor camera has enough light to capture the …
June 1, 2009
käse und brot
Still coming back to myself. Daniel arrived with much cheese and bread. Later I ate three steaks. Salt and meat, …
May 27, 2009
im keller, 6ter stock… später in der buchhandlung und auch gewitterhagelsturm
A strange adventure with Daniel accompanying me and Matti translating on occasion. Kreuzberg near my old home, Dieffenbachstr, time too …
May 27, 2009
Reading: Barry Cunliffe – Europe Between the Oceans 9000 BC – AD 1000
europe between the oceans – barry cunliffe
May 20, 2009
brauerei schornstein… ohne schornstein
It is almost time for dinner. What little things have I done recently? Updated to OS X 10.5.7 which miraculously …
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
sonne um abenddämmerung… mehr regen
Tired. Allzu viele Wartezeiten für Termine. Allzu viele Termine. Bei jedem Schritt, Abhängigkeit. Mehr ich weiß nicht, wie zu sagen.
…
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 12, 2009
a book is living
My sofa has a variously shaded crocheted lilac blanket I like to lie on, or curl up under, wrap around …
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 …
April 3, 2009
höhlenforschung im hof
I am sick, a little exhausted and run down and sad at the moment, not that I am ever so …
March 22, 2009
because i have been remiss…
I haven’t blogged much this month due to… oh I’m not sure, it just slips by sometimes and I think, …
March 3, 2009
digging up the hof
When the sign on the door said please clean up the Hof and put your bicycles in the cellar, and …
February 25, 2009
double happiness
Two excellent things in the last couple of days I shall endeavour to celebrate. Perhaps with wine and peanut butter. …
February 18, 2009
some days of snow over the bötzow brauerei
Lina returned. Monday night via Hermannplatz. I remember the M41 does not lead towards me. The last few days have …
February 12, 2009
nach dem schnee… ganz kalt…
I borrowed Lina’s camera. I’d forgotten what it’s like to have a good camera, one that can zoom and frame …
February 11, 2009
starker schnee-regen… oder maßiger…
More of a dusting of water frozen out of the air. Lina arrived from Amsterdam, it rained and the slate …
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 7, 2009
Bötzow-Brauerei
Quite often I look out my window, across the warm brick expanse of… I wonder what it is, a vast …
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 29, 2009
von berlin hbf nach freiburg… again
To Freiburg, wondering if there is a future for me here, in Germany or Berlin or… and passing through Spandau …
January 22, 2009
a retrospective
Sitting in my lounge with Daniel talking about dance and my old works, many of which I am still very …
January 21, 2009
things to do at silverfuture this weekend
Because I haven’t been there for oh so too long, and I need a bit of queer drunkenness… and books …
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 12, 2009
Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is not self-defence – it’s a war crime
This letter of attorneys and academics appeared in the Times of London on Sunday. I suggest that all bloggers who …
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 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, …
January 1, 2009
my new house…
Moving again, nearby, a hobo attic suspended above Berlin. Daniel, Gala and Vanessa for Silverster dinner, Suisse cheese fondue, roast …
December 27, 2008
volkspark friedrichshain
I thought it was a park to walk through, but it was a graveyard. It is the Alter Friedhof der …
December 25, 2008
weihnacht…
… with Daniel, Gala and Jörges, and breathtaking Weihnacht decorations, much food, Wieners, drinking… more of the same today.
satan …
December 23, 2008
schlachtensee again…
Last time I was here it was autumn. Today with Gala, the day after her birthday, cold but again blue …
December 14, 2008
reading: jeanette winterson – oranges are not the only fruit
jeanette winterson – oranges are not the only fruit
December 8, 2008
things with bits
For all of you with Apple computers, iPods, iPhones, wireless internet, other bits and pieces of hardware, a need for …
December 3, 2008
departure…
A few small things to remember by. A room in a house on a street called Borstal. A windmill visible …
December 1, 2008
the beach to seasalter
Avoiding rain by staying in bed with cups of tea, chocolate, various cheeses of distinct smelliness, perhaps to have arisen …
November 30, 2008
reading: wildwood – a journey through trees – roger deakin
wildwood – a journey through trees – roger deakin
November 29, 2008
walking whitstable to canterbury
Various rains, mists, hazes, dampness the entire day, and we still decided to walk from Whitstable to Canterbury, some 11 …
November 28, 2008
reading: jeanette winterson – lighthousekeeping
jeanette winterson – lighthousekeeping
November 27, 2008
alleys, a pirate shack…
Alleys for fishermen and harbour girls. The greyness creates a completely different light here and sounds from the distance travel …
November 26, 2008
further along the beach… and a castle
Another walk yesterday, after two hours of yoga, inadvertently, I just pottered through things I haven’t done for a while, …
November 25, 2008
along the beach…
I went for a walk yesterday, in search of fish and seafood for dinner, but arrived too late, too much …
November 24, 2008
oysters, cheese, snowing somewhat
The customs inspector at Flughaven Tegel was most concerned at my obvious overstaying of the three month tourist visa, stamped …
November 21, 2008
ich werde pirat
Saturday morning I shall rise at an unfortunately early hour and stumble towards Flughaven Tegel. I hope I go the …
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, …
November 12, 2008
landwehrkanal
Along the Landwehrkanal on my bicycle going west, some blue sky and sun today, though cold. I kept riding till …
November 10, 2008
finishing
This week I made a decision I’ve been thinking about on and off for years, and always delayed because somehow …
November 2, 2008
dinner & thwarted by a dog
The firetrucks took so long to arrive. The police were there first, and then more. Then an ambulance, all useful …
October 29, 2008
mehlwurm
In the opposite direction to my original intent, Alex Platz, down Alte Jacobstr, often an unmemorable street, at one intersection …
October 25, 2008
ich habe deutsche gelernt… ein bisschen
Oh it’s finished. A month of learning German five hours a day, grammar grammar grammar… my brain hurt from all …
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 19, 2008
lucky trimmer
***DEUTSCH***
Liebe LUCKIES!
Gerade als sich draußen alles abkühlt, wird es heiß im LUCKY TRIMMER Büro!
Bereitet Euch vor auf unser nächstes Abenteuer…
15. …
October 19, 2008
where i was last night…
When people ask me why I came to Berlin, I say, well partly for the dance, and partly for living. …
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 14, 2008
reading: iain m banks – feersum endjinn (5th time), the algebraist (2nd time)
iain m banks – the algebraist
iain m banks – feersum endjinn
October 12, 2008
from nikolassee to grunewaldsee via schlachtensee
Much welcome distraction these last few days as a visit from my delightful hobo has kept me both awake and …
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 …
October 3, 2008
walking in graefe-kiez
Still I am thinking of my walk to ballet each morning and how oh perhaps tomorrow or next week I …
September 30, 2008
where i am…
Oh a long pause… oops… not from lack of things to say, just fallen out of the habit. So, for …
September 24, 2008
kreuzberg 10967
I have moved. A home. For a while, my own room, a bed, unpacked suitcases, books on top of a …
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 9, 2008
some u-bahnhof & s-bahnhof i have visited
I’ve visited many more and find them all delightful and yummy thick ceramic tiles and iron girders with fat rivets …
September 7, 2008
reading: books from zürich…
Lacking new reading, and I am suffering, I have been opening my suitcase of books from my life in Zürich …
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 31, 2008
rosa luxemburg platz
Wandering around the Volksbühne in the evening on the way to eat Burritos. A new bookshop discovered, much laziness, food …
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 26, 2008
kreuzberg… s036
Looking for… turned around exiting the u-bahn, dampness and grey Berlin wears comfortably. Some cities resent their weather, others, Guangzhou …
August 22, 2008
hadlichstraße… a cigarette dancing factory
I often muse on how dance takes me into peculiar, old, strange, uninhabited, alien places. Old cities are amassed with …
August 19, 2008
someone arrives…
rosenthaler platz sunday night
u-bahn rosenthaler platz
gauloises…
still life… beer, smoking, sugar, ashtray
someone arrives… daniel
August 16, 2008
chuang tzu again…
About a week ago, a quote from Chuang Tzu turned up on The Useless Tree (another shortly after explaining just …
August 14, 2008
small adventures in the black canal
I keep hitting my head on this when I stand up, so I had to move the chair. mmm… comfortable …
August 10, 2008
von freiburg nach berlin…
Thick carpets of tall brown grass and wild flowers, tiny floating like halos above on gentle seductive hills. I wanted …
August 6, 2008
schwarzwald
Only a bit of it, really. From Annaplatz out and left to the end of the street, past the Turkish …
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 …
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 …
July 30, 2008
von wien westbahnhof nach zürich hbf
Some books I read small pieces of in my room in Vienna. Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others, a …
July 28, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 12)
Sleepy all day, getting up late, nearly lunchtime, slobbing around all afternoon then too quickly i’m almost late and so… …
July 27, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 11)
We opened.
We went to Burgtheater to our tables in front of Casablanca playing and ate potatoes and pasta. And some …
July 26, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 10)
I’ve been meaning to say something about my apartment, I mean to say, where I’m staying. The woman who let …
July 25, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 9)
I saw Jan Fabre’s Another Sleepy Dusty Delta Day. It was unmemorable. Earlier I ate organic crunchy peanut butter and …
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 23, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 7)
I think a stop to yoga soon, or maybe exchange for snoozing or lying on the floor pretending to warm …
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 18, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 4)
So perhaps I admit I’m going to blog about this most days…
Somehow I found myself doing yoga at WUK in …
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 16, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 2)
I ate prunes today. I went to find coffee, and found myself with chocolate croissant and mélange in a dainty …
July 15, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 1)
I am here.
Oh back in WUK. Last time at DanceWEB, I lived around the corner with some scores of others. …
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 11, 2008
s-/u-bahn,m-bus/tram
Up… down… up… down… walking, thinking, sitting on the s- or u-bahn, watching the world letting my thoughts drift, Berlin, …
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 …
July 1, 2008
my life
Packed. Waiting for the shipping company. Everything I have, in storage for most of four years, and now to return. …
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 25, 2008
emile. blog. eurodisney.
Only this to say, about time. Emile is blogging at eurodisney.biz
emile zile – eurodisney.biz
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 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 …
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 12, 2008
things…
I spent the early afternoon today pottering around on two things that while their minutia is like worms eating in …
May 11, 2008
airports
Daniel stayed the night, after our witching hour last rehearsal, and it was past 3 before sleeping. Later, after I …
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 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 20, 2008
Reading: Sidney Perkowitz – Universal Foam: The Story of Bubbles from Cappuccino to the Cosmos
sydney perkowitz – universal foam
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 17, 2008
pestilence day 12
Inadvertently, Daniel and i have spent all of this week working on the one scene that came from Kristeva’s abjection, …
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 …
April 1, 2008
Witch/Red
This is the month of Adelaide independent choreographers with five developments that I know of and maybe a couple of …
March 22, 2008
reading: business cards – the art of saying hello
business cards – the art of saying hello
March 21, 2008
Reading: Michel Foucault – Madness and Civilisation
michel foucault – madness and civilisation
February 17, 2008
Reading: Anne Fausto-Sterling – Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
anne fausto-sterling- sexing the body
February 1, 2008
reading: william gibson & bruce sterling – the difference engine
william gibson + bruce sterling – the difference engine
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 26, 2008
Reading: Charles Stross – The Atrocity Archives
charles stross – the atrocity archives
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 9, 2007
Reading: Norman Page – Auden and Isherwood – The Berlin Years
norman page – auden and isherwood – the berlin years
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 – …
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
danceminute
I used to be fairly prompt in getting enthusiastic here about new blogs, adding them to the spiraling list to …
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 10, 2007
flyhatched
It was only three years ago but seems … one of those entanglings with a person that are outside of …
June 25, 2007
häxan
Friday teaching improvisation at ADT, and I decide the appropriate soundtrack is sunn0))), Gabrielle is there, and normally I have …
June 20, 2007
dance dance dance to the radio
Somehow I’ve found myself devoid of blogging the last couple of months. I suppose that’s what a third birthday does …
June 18, 2007
more neurotic twitching
This Sunday I’m having another workshop doing more of the improvisation stuff I started a couple of weeks ago. Since …
May 30, 2007
“If the rest of us did that it would be a neurotic twitch.”
This Sunday I’m running a workshop based on what I’ve picked up from doing stuff with some dancers from Frankfurt …
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 25, 2007
adelaide again again
The last week or so I’ve been a bit distracted by what was an unexpected and very timely offer to …
April 19, 2007
dance for obsessive-compulsives
Emile is almost at the end of his winter of Rotterdam, that sent him to the Spielraum in Berlin for …
April 14, 2007
b-file
Falling asleep while passing time in a nearby bookstore while waiting for Michael to arrive in the distant north of …
April 6, 2007
b file at la mama
Another afternoon chat with Bonnie, this time while slurping orange juice and eating peanut butter and banana sandwiches on fresh, …
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 …
March 31, 2007
sense
A lazy lunch with Bonnie Paskas, one of the dancers in Emily Fernandez’s Sense, on for one more night tonight …
March 22, 2007
becky, jodi and john
Not that I’ve seen much dance this year but come December, this will still be one of the highlights of …
March 21, 2007
anna in space
My darling Anna, whom I first met at DanceWEB in Vienna 2003 and spent a few weeks post-inferno enjoying the …
March 11, 2007
lazy sunday cooking eating blogging …
A late night swirling Pernod with Bonnie at Orange and an early trip to the shops for Sunday fruit, now …
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 8, 2007
… and death
Emile sent me possibly the most perfect condolences card after I told him about Jean Baudrillard dying yesterday. It made …
March 7, 2007
jean baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard died.
I’m so utterly devastated. He has been the single most important thinker, writer, philosopher for me, in my …
March 1, 2007
secret service
John Jasperse has been in town the last couple of weeks, making a work with Becky Hilton and jodi Meinick, …
February 27, 2007
gala goes to danceweb
I’m not sure if I should blab this everywhere, but I found out yesterday my dear friend and regular partner …
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 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, …
February 11, 2007
the meaning of everything
So far in 2007, I’ve started well over a score of books, and finished no more than a handful, well …
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 …
February 1, 2007
Protected: god made you a boy
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
January 28, 2007
what calliope did…
There is a stack of books next to my bed in Adelaide, mostly instilling disappointment in the novel as a …
December 23, 2006
seasons greetings
A Jesuit missionary named Èdouard de Gex remarked there are two kinds of Satanist, one who genuinely believes in the …
December 21, 2006
100 Dessus Dessous
A couple of days ago I spat a blizzard of burning pitch in the direction of various Melbourne journalists and …
December 13, 2006
summer ballet in melbourne
Lately I’ve been dragging my sorry bones across to the ballet barre, something I haven’t done with any regularity since …
December 12, 2006
smashing small thing together really fast
Maybe I should change my blog name to supernaut … i whore for science, I’ve been blogging so much about …
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 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 2, 2006
some stuff i read this week
Lazy Saturday afternoon post-dragging myself out of bed and thinking of going climbing pretty soon, but first a random trawl …
November 16, 2006
yeah but can you do one steam-powered?
This is totally the coolest thing I have seen today, Blackheads MC Helsinki Victorian Goth Chopper wins Custom Bike Show …
November 14, 2006
the r, thank you, golden duet
A couple of days ago I caught up with my dear strange friend Ivo Dimchev, who was one of the …
October 25, 2006
ghost eyes: strange visions from hong kong and beyond
From curator of international kebabs Emile Zile, also famous in Melbourne for FOOTSCRAY AUDIO-VISUAL SOCIAL CLUB is the fruits of …
October 21, 2006
what i’ve been reading today
Another list of completely unrelated stuff that circulated through my news feeds in the last couple of days and makes …
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 5, 2006
europe central
In another country, long enough ago to be only someone else’s life, I remember a summer entranced in my small …
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 …
September 29, 2006
torture is evil unless we’re doing it
It was a unique moment today, killing time between rehearsals and reading the latest issue of Dance Australia while dozing …
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
Shanghai to Mongolia via Mir
Reblogging again, this time combining a some of my disparate loves. Astronaut Shannon Lucid, like writer J. G. Ballard has …
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 …
August 6, 2006
less art more self-indulgence
It was about a year and a half ago when I considered the probability of an endless stretch of boringness …
August 5, 2006
helinski bike courier porn
Ok, so I’m reblogging, get over it. Anyway it’s about Helsinki, the city I almost went to last year for …
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 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 14, 2006
we are the robot ballet army
Where the drowning tide first flows in the eventual robotic obliteration of humanity seems to be in the most visceral …
July 14, 2006
eeeee!!!!! charles stross in melbourne
I’m still waiting to buy Charles Stross’ latest novel, and to fill the interim bought one of Neal Stephenson’s first …
July 9, 2006
charles stross – glasshouse
Before I lost most of this year to reading Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle, which I am currently re-reading for various …
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 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 15, 2006
the world is a poorer place
Sometimes I feel as if everyone who made the world brilliant, whose lives and works simply took humanity to new …
May 27, 2006
Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
Outside of my normal flippant abrogation of its meaning, there are not too many people for whom I genuinely reserve …
May 26, 2006
collapsing old buildings
There is a small part of Guangzhou where I am disoriented and nearly convinced I am actually in Zürich walking …
May 20, 2006
hiding under the bed…
In an uncanny, though not unanticipated recurrence, I am slightly lost in a post-performance limbo that bears many similarities with …
April 28, 2006
still lazy (but reading like a concubine at an orgy)
I just can’t seem to get focussed on blogging at the moment, I think because my schedule is a little …
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 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 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 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 …
March 26, 2006
金星 jin xing and shanghai dance festival
Something I’ve been meaning to write about for a bit, but I am lazy and prefer sleeping, is the 舞上海 …
March 26, 2006
my name is mud … JT LeRoy assassinated
Having exchanged vituperative asseveration for untrammelled glee in participating in the on-going carnival that marks the return-of-the-real and death-to-betrayal-of-authenticity that …
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 9, 2006
choreolab 2006
Things have been fairly mental the last week with everyone wanting applications for everything… I think I said that before… …
March 2, 2006
fuck off little britain
It was so much a part of Zürich, along with Jam, The Mighty Boosh, brot, kasse, and living in the …
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 23, 2006
love this time and other berlin gems
The 56th Berlin Film Festival has just finished, and major yay! for Jasmila Zbanic’s Grbavica and Michael Winterbottom and Mat …
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 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 12, 2006
anna tenta & copernicus
Anna Tenta is back in Zürich for another performance at Tanzhaus Wasserwerk. She was working on this solo when I …
February 9, 2006
…NOW SWIM!
Jurij has been teaching some of the best classes I’ve done in Melbourne in years – not that I know …
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 4, 2006
siwic 2006
If you’ve been reading this blog for more than six months, you’ll know in June last year I did the …
January 3, 2006
hacking matter
One of my highlights from 2005, and amongst my greatest enduring pleasures was a voracious consuming of a tower of …
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 …
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 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 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 12, 2005
chinese mediaculture
One of the works at the 第二届广州三年展 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, the Beijing Boom Tower, has come back to me in …
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 …
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 22, 2005
hell – video corruption
I’ve fallen out of the mood to blog at the moment. It coincided with finishing hell, and so finishing my …
November 19, 2005
splat …
Fat snotty lumps of snow pushed down the river from the breeze as it coiled over the hills above Zürich, …
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 18, 2005
straight outta z-town
Two months ago, by an odd set of circumstances, I schlepped out to the Zürich Flughaven to pick up video …
November 16, 2005
hell – the detritus
There’s always something of a blah period for me after I’ve finished a performance, but it’s most pronounced when the …
November 15, 2005
hell day (11) 12 – brot wine beer kasse kabab
It’s over. Saturday night was a breeze, no second night wierdness, and Sunday just went. It’s getting stranger and stranger …
November 12, 2005
hell day 10 – rockin the kanton-z-town
Premiere, opening night, make-up, hair, bikinis, an almost proper warm-up (a couple of pliés and running through the Botticelli section), …
November 11, 2005
hell day 9 – contaminated drug supply
Which is the name of one of Agoraphobic Nosebleed’s tracks, all 1 minute of it, so it’s a veritable Wagner-length …
November 11, 2005
China Digital Times 中国数字时代 rsf blog nomination
Two blogs from or on China have been nominated for the Reporters Sans Frontières in a field of eight (which …
November 10, 2005
hell day 8 – make some fucking noise
Some choreographers like to drill a piece into the ground once it’s finished, rehearsing it until it’s like whipping a …
November 9, 2005
hell day (6) 7 – something something something
I got my haircut today, and went shoe shopping … um … then we rehearsed. Actually we wanted to get …
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 6, 2005
hell day 4 + 5 – no sleep till baden
Which is where Emile is about now, doing his first VJ gig in Europe/Deutschland on this trip, and was what …
November 3, 2005
hell day 3 – reanimating the dead
I’d had this idea the reanimating of corpses would be good, but it’s become the best thing I’ve done all …
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 …
November 2, 2005
hell day 2 – rosemary you suck
Our necks are a bit sore, but the early highlight of the day was getting Emile’s satanic reverse gore-wrist metal …
November 2, 2005
hell day 1 – you are entering a world of pain
Agoraphobic nosebleed, Slayer, Sunn, Bolt Thrower, lots of strangling each other, grim dead reaper head-banging, and then some dancey-dance… then …
October 29, 2005
more of the same … mit brot
This is a special post for my two favourite readers, who I can no longer say anything to because I’ve …
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
behind the scenes
Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln is calling for entries of dance film documentaries for the 2006 Behind the Scenes Festival.
The film camera …
October 27, 2005
festival internacional danza
Martin said, “I am going crazy with my festival here. I attach the flyer. It is the best dance festival …
October 26, 2005
dana euro-trash
mmm … eurovision … it celebrated 50 years of costume and aural genius on the weekend, and some crap foursome …
October 25, 2005
i blog for … ummm … stuff …
Losing seriously in a game of charades last night when I displayed my absolute out-of-date-ness by failing to guess ‘computer+writer=blog’, …
October 21, 2005
mercy 45 – no sleep till hgkz
We opened Mercy 45 on Wednesday after three months of having way too much fun, and filling the Vortragsaal (or …
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 14, 2005
mercy 45 – costume party
We got the costumes yesterday, Christa de Carouge long black dresses which show off plenty of everything, especially when stray …
October 13, 2005
how to make … stuff
It was just big words on a pink piece of paper, MOVE IT!, and I was too lazy to turn …
October 13, 2005
body presentations
The Goethe-Institut’s mailing list has an excellent article on the state of dance and performance in Germany, looking at a …
October 12, 2005
mercy 45 – denise lampart compagnie
It’s all on next week, Mercy 45, the new performance by Denise Lampart Compagnie.
Stücktitel: Mercy 45
Aufführungsdaten: Premiere: Mittwoch, 19. Okt. …
October 12, 2005
slow boat to psychedelia
Writing abusive diatribes against a certain cretinous moron from a respectable Zürich newspaper who has built a reputation on vandalising …
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 7, 2005
i can’t feel my cock …
Champagne Bikini girls in Letraset Tattoos on non-stop video. Which is pretty much what last night was all about, part …
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
intellectual property for the people
I’ve been reading about two books a week, and have amassed a large-ish pile during my time in Zürich. I’ve …
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 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 22, 2005
fuga utopia at tanzhaus
Since I spend most of every day at Tanzhaus Wasswerwerk at the moment, and it’s full of people rehearsing, I …
September 19, 2005
the old man of hoy
It’s possible that on the one day off from dancing in the week I would be best served by lying …
September 18, 2005
a jew in china is not a parsimonious monkey
Some uppity group called with a bad name, Peacetime Foundation of Taiwan have decided the world would be a better …
September 13, 2005
i m P A C T 05 – Tracing Translation – Symposium
PACT Zollverein have announced a call for participant for i m P A C T 05 – Tracing Translation – …
September 12, 2005
eurotrash: sie sind da draussen
My first trip to the world of live dance in Zürich was seeing Christina Gehrig Binder &Anne Lorenz’s Sie Sind …
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 6, 2005
hugo wolf projekt
Like I write about everyone from DanceWEB who tells me about their shows, so now I’m going to do the …
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 …
September 1, 2005
sadomania
One of my all-time favourite directors, and I say this with utter seriousness, because people usually laugh at me when …
August 29, 2005
dirty undead weeekend
In-between inexplicable torrents of rain and general foulness passing for summer in Vevey, Compagnie Nomades have been performing Le Bal …
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 23, 2005
women’s social rights are not critical to the evolution of democracy
I have pretty much steered clear saying anything about the great neo-colonial escapade in Iraq, despite keeping up with the …
August 21, 2005
le bal des vampyres
There’s an outpost of Little Australia in Vevey, beside the lake which is where I spent my first week in …
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 19, 2005
slim pickings at supernaut
Yeah, I know four days of posting in half a month constitutes a new zenith in blogging atrophy for me. …
August 5, 2005
the truth about zürich
Currently have a crap internet connection – dial-up in fact. I feel like I have died and been reincarnated in …
July 29, 2005
ImPulsTanz – la vie viennoise
SiWiC may be over except in our sentimental imaginations, but DanceWEB and ImPulsTanz (gotta love this central European blizzard of …
July 27, 2005
siwic – provokant und ausdrucksstark
For the media whores who like to see their own name in the press again and again and again, or …
July 24, 2005
the hills are alive with the sound of wheezing
The best way to climb hills in Switzerland is by drinking coffee and eating pain au chocolate until late morning, …
July 22, 2005
this is my space and it’s highly embarrassing
Back in Vevey for a couple of days. Zurich was getting boring without anyone to cause trouble with. They all …
July 20, 2005
siwic – are we famous yet?
There were some people with cameras and others asking questions and taking notes who weren’t considering charging us with several …
July 18, 2005
siwic day 16 – how to win friends and influence people
After a most refreshing dawn swim by mostly naked, mostly quite trashed dancers in a river with a moderately swift …
July 17, 2005
siwic day 15 – sun exclusive: nigel charnock pashed me
It’s Monday now, and really I haven’t been home since Saturday morning, which is maybe not indicative of an average …
July 16, 2005
siwic day 14 – hope i die because of it
Yes, I am hungover. What is more important than any performance is what you do after, which usually involves stripping …
July 15, 2005
siwic day 13 – sex inspires wanking in choreography
So we ran the dog last night. Maybe should have taken it outside and introduced it to a shotgun. The …
July 14, 2005
siwic day 12 – “once i was afraid”
Martin said this was the last day. There are no more tasks, no more games of torture to play at …
July 13, 2005
siwic day 11 – all the people i can remember sleeping with and the drugs i took
It’s the last full day of tasks. Tomorrow we start trying to resuscitate one and an half weeks of self-indulgent …
July 12, 2005
siwic day 10 – you can sleep when you’re dead
I’m not gonna say much about Saturday night now that various :cough: choreographers from SiWiC – who shall remain unnamed …
July 10, 2005
siwic day 9 – ow it stingsss…
We’ve been working nine days straight, it’s been a scream, lots of dancing, lots of fun stuff, lots of excellent …
July 9, 2005
siwic day 8 – happy birthday martin
That’s right. Boy wonder, debonaire fashion styliste, over-acheiver, and too fucking young. Martin turned 27 today, so naturally I had …
July 8, 2005
siwic day 7 – war of the worlds
After yesterday’s frustrating ‘work with someone else’ circus which underlined what a megalomaniac attention-seeker I am, today was hours of …
July 7, 2005
siwic day 6 – frostbite
This was a day I didn’t enjoy. A task that sucked, having to work with another choreographer, many additional requirements …
July 6, 2005
siwic day 5 – lesbian vampires on smack
I had this idea I wanted to recreate the rape scene from Irreversible. Then I watched it. It’s not often …
July 5, 2005
siwic day 4 – killing dancers is fun
It started for real today. No more lazy 11am rolling into the studio feeling kinda lazy, no early finishes, and …
July 4, 2005
siwic day 3 – quantum physics & synchronised swimming
Another late start today, and not much in the way of dancing, only a 3 hour lecture on Quantum Physics …
July 3, 2005
siwic day 2 – 6 little choreographers
There is something very civilised about starting class at 11am. Even if it is a Saturday, it’s lazy, depraved in …
July 2, 2005
siwic day 1 – arriving in zurich & art sluts
For the next three weeks, I am in Zurich at SiWiC – the Schweizerischer Internationaler Weiterbildungskurs in Choreographie. I’m not …
July 2, 2005
holiday in vevey
The past week has been mostly spent lying on the beach beside Lake Geneva, eating, sleeping, and doing as little …
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 20, 2005
ivo dimchev was here
Serial evil-doer, shaved-head-thug-number-3, blood-selling drag queen performance artist and opera librettist Ivo Dimchev has a web-site. About bloody time.
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June 15, 2005
middle sex
Amidst a long list of stuff I’ve missed in the last couple of weeks was this doco on Channel 4 …
June 8, 2005
hot babes ice tea
Not that I wanna be advertising ice tea unless it’s fine Chinese 冰红茶 or 枕木’s Long Island Ice Tea served …
June 8, 2005
Nadine down the rabbit hole
Dominico used to keep the kitchen at DanceWEB happy by rolling fat blunts and cooking long into the night while …
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 18, 2005
the jerry bel show
Jerome Bel doing a talk-show at the Brussels Art Festival. What better way to spend an evening?
The Jerry Bel Show …
May 11, 2005
juicy flesh
DanceWEBber from 2003, Anna Stellar is performing from tomorrow in Klub Zak, Gdansk, Poland with Katarzyna Chmielewska in Juicy Flesh.
Juicy …
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
SoUndScaPe PErformaNcE!
I was just thinking noone seemed to be doing anything and thought I’d had to write even more crap about …
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 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 21, 2005
agnes and his brothers
The Goethe Institute is currently screening a bunch of new German films in the Festival of German Films 05 including …
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 16, 2005
no longer a line split through time
I’m going to have to rave about how good China Miéville is. Not only is he fantastically good looking in …
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
perdido street station
I’ve just got my laptop back, with a new 80 gig fast drive replacing the slow, small very worn-out old …
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 …
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 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 23, 2005
going to zurich
I just found out today I’ll be going to Zurich in July for SiWiC – the Schweizerischer Internationaler Weiterbildungskurs in …
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 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 14, 2005
good girl killer
Lots of new work from the former DanceWEB mob this month. Gdansk-based Anna Steller had Good Girl Killer at Klub …
March 14, 2005
Ladies First!
Hungarian choreographer and dancer Marta Ladjanszki is premiering her newest dance theatre piece, Ladies First! in Trafo (Budapest) on the …
March 2, 2005
HA-HA soul stretching exersises
Mad and beautiful genius Ivo Dimtchev has just taken out the Sofia choreography competition, winning two awards – the Jury …
March 1, 2005
compass for fools – jérôme meyer in nederlans and germany
Nederlans choreographer Jérôme Meyer is touring Compass for Fools across Nederlans and Germany during March. Compass for Fools is a …
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 22, 2005
i to eye
Lia Hakari, 2003 DanceWEBber is performing her solo, i-to-eye at the Cyprus Dance Platform on the 5th March.
i-to-eye