The last couple of days I’ve been working on a side-project, cleaning up my dance/performance/choreography website, francesdath.info. I decided a …
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 …
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, …
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 …
November 1, 2006
两块一个走 – 2 kuai a zou
One afternoon in, I guess late April, I took Emile and Paul for a stroll through my favourite part of …
July 27, 2006
岭南启示录 apocalypse prd – eazy-z in g-town
Along with glad tidings of impending theatrical malfeasance from Emile yesterday, he also had a small package of love for …
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 28, 2006
食色性也
食色性也。食饱思淫欲。 liao xinxin, nikita, jie paso, fangzheng, claire, emma 廖欣欣, nikita, 陈志杰, 方正, 冯嘉怡, 郑慕雅
June 21, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – Apocalypse 1626.666
Besides spelling mistakes and irregular comprehension of names, the DVD of 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD is nearly finished, in fact tomorrow …
June 18, 2006
the turmoil ended with his death
During 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD, China didn’t celebrate forty years since the start of the Cultural Revolution, and for various reasons …
May 31, 2006
going on holiday
I’m going on holiday. For more than a week, maybe even two weeks… One place I’ve always wanted to visit, …
May 26, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – more of the same…
Still more stuff is turning up in the post-show blur across the internet. On the night of the dress rehearsal, …
May 17, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – uber_lingua
Everyone has gone. Emile is back in Melbourne now, and tomorrow is making Guangzhou sounds at St Jerome’s. Remember, each …
May 16, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – byte-aftermath
Paul and Emile left last night after a fine dinner with everyone at 1920, the German café on 沿江路 Yanjiang …
May 14, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – typhoon chanchu
Yesterday was one of those days I really wanted to not happen. It reminded me of a few other pre-show …
May 11, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – smell of greasepaint
The last week has been a conscious block for me when it has come to choreographing the bikini-high-heel dance-a-thon/showgirl-on-nembutal-and-acid bit. …
May 10, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – costume drama
We’re doing a lot of just running sections now, accruing detail and coherency through repetition, but still to finish are …
May 10, 2006
don’t try and escape you’ll be shot
Paul Emmanuel, who I have spent most of tonight making act like a stooge for Beelzebub has decided to remain …
May 9, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – don’t call this a remount
It’s mental week now, doing the costume shopping, organising lots of little things that sprout up like an Oxalis frenzy. …
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 …
May 7, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – 春宫图 spring palace lust
When I was researching hell in Guangzhou in December last year, I picked up from the now-defunct but hitherto infamous …
May 3, 2006
粤剧 canton opera madness
A mad day of shopping for the performance, which now has a name: 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD. I’m not sure about …
May 2, 2006
storm over shaheding
A plan to catch a taxi home from rehearsal fell apart when I really couldn’t pretend I can catch taxis …
April 24, 2006
请平, 荔湾 Qingping Market and Liwan
There are certain intangible things I love about Guangzhou. Most of them are west of an imaginary and real divider …
April 23, 2006
endless city
In one of my earlier science-fiction gorges, populated mostly by Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, occasionally Philip K. Dick, and …
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 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 …
March 22, 2006
park19 in 石围塘 shiweitang
A very strange day yesterday of taxis and ferries and walking around parts of Guangzhou that are very much not …
March 14, 2006
somewhere in asia…
When I get jammed into an aisle seat and told, “Aw, just put yer legs in the aisle”, coz I’m …
March 11, 2006
flying again
I’m flying to Hong Kong tomorrow, and then on to Guangzhou for a residency at Park19 until the end of …
October 5, 2005
australia-china council funds me … again
Well, the title says it all. Here in autumnal Zürich I got an email this evening from the wonderful Australia-China …