Just when it looked like winter was lost … leichter then stärker then mäßiger Schnee! Aber später kommt Regen, und …
February 14, 2012
Krähe Schnee Baum
The cold is waning, though perhaps remain a pair or more days when – at least in the nights – …
February 13, 2012
Reading: Annamarie Schwarzenbach – All the Roads are Open: The Afghan Journey (trans. Isabel Fargo Cole)
In the first winter of Berlin for me, my poverty and the hanging dread of unwanted return to Australia were …
February 10, 2012
New Tyres
After managing to snap my rear derailleur completely off a couple of weeks ago (there went the € I’d planned …
February 6, 2012
mmm … mits!
I thought perhaps there was a mistake, alas (or yay!) no; as I ate breakfast, it was warming up to …
January 19, 2012
Pankufer Weeping Willow
What the fuck is it with fucking men with chainsaws in Wedding the last year or so? Firstly they try …
January 16, 2012
Christian & his Verdienstkreuz
One of the first freelance jobs I got in Berlin was salvaging a website for Christian Ender. Over the past …
January 12, 2012
Daniel Jaber – Reassessment
Daniel is performing! Presented as part of the Adelaide Festival Centre’s inSPACE:development Program, Reassessment examines concepts surrounding Self-Worth, perception and …
December 30, 2011
Schnee
Distracted from reading in bed this morning by an indecipherable mumbling. ‘Was?’ … ‘Schnee!’ About time! Snow und Schornstein Snow …
December 13, 2011
the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — beginning aftermath
… Where was I? Brussels. It took longer to get from Schönefeld airport to home than from Brussels to Berlin. …
November 26, 2011
Ivo’s Studio
Red sky in the morning, and a chaotic arrival to Brussels. Somehow I thought Chaussee de Mons ran parallel to …
November 13, 2011
thingswithbits updates itself
I’ve never been so taken by my design website, in respect to design having been thrown into a free template, …
November 10, 2011
danielschlusser.com
Some time in Vienna last year, Daniel Schlusser came to visit and we made some trial rehearsals with ropes and …
October 19, 2011
Reading … a 4th anniversary
Another year of books. Not as many as last year; I took a pause for some time, unable to find …
October 7, 2011
Daniel Schlusser — Ophelia
In the graben between late night and early morning, while scrabbling small amendments for something of Daniel Schlusser’s I hope …
September 24, 2011
Reading: Liao Yiwu – God is Red
It was only in July this year, Liao Yiwu paid himself into the hands of smugglers on the border of …
August 26, 2011
SOIT – Messiah Run!
Hans and SOIT have been in Berlin the last few days during Tanz I’m August, and working on Messiah Run! at the …
August 21, 2011
Klettern Iranische Wand
I thought I’d written about this before, but … it seems not. Some time last year, or perhaps earlier this …
August 13, 2011
abjection archery photoshoot
Earlier in the week, I met Christian crépes at a Belgian café beside the Spree; a first hello since I returned …
August 4, 2011
It was quite a slow return
I slept much of the way, or rather failed to stave off falling awake. It must have been not pretty …
August 1, 2011
Places
Because I seem to spend so much time in Brussels, and also have lived in several cities which until now …
July 9, 2011
Hello Brussels
A very early train. Not as early as a plane. For some reason there was an absence of cheap flights …
July 8, 2011
Trainingsradeln: Berlin – Liepnitzsee und Zurück
After my six-month bike report yesterday, and having been thwarted by rain on the weekend (I’m not really equipped for …
July 6, 2011
CAADX-105 … a story of riding a new bike
Late last year, I bought a bike. And wrote about it. And rode it also. But not so much. Firstly, …
June 19, 2011
Finissage der KunstAktienausstellung
Saturday night was the Finissage of the KunstAktienausstellung in Uferhallen. Some hours were spent wandering around the entire Hallen looking …
June 18, 2011
200 years of Liszt and some pianos
There is a piano restorer in Uferhallen. Once a week or so the forecourt fills with many cars not from …
May 29, 2011
cartwheel again
I thought perhaps these were better separate from a Yoga+Bondage workshop. The last few days have been busy at nameless, …
May 26, 2011
cartwheel
It reminded me a little of China Miéville’s Handstand, except the pigeon was perhaps making a no-handed cartwheel. We have …
May 20, 2011
Morning Yoga – Wedding, Berlin
For the coming months, I will be teaching a morning yoga class at nameless. Class will initially be on Tuesday …
May 16, 2011
Two Solos Brussels: Nearby Buffalo & A Body
A good reason to come to Brussels. This weekend Gala Moody and Anuschka Von Oppen are performing at Ivo Dimchev’s …
April 25, 2011
multilingual goat witch
I’ve been adding video to francesdath.info the past few days, and also felt a compulsion to make the site multilingual …
April 19, 2011
TWO SHOWS: Nearby Buffalo and memory/such mich
From Anuschka von Oppen, who will be in Berlin shortly for a piece I (think I) saw some of in …
April 6, 2011
Reading: Paul Hockenos – Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic
paul hockenos – joschka fischer
March 26, 2011
something wicked this way comes
Yesterday, an arrival. Three years, eight months ago, I took a photo. I wrote also, “I have this strange compulsion …
March 19, 2011
die singende stadt — parsifal and calixto bieito
The last day screening, Dasniya and I climbed the stairs of Hackesche Höfe Kino for 90 more minutes of the …
March 8, 2011
goat snake witch dance theatre blackness
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 …
December 11, 2010
uferstrasse snow
It’s not the Gulf Stream collapsing. It’s not going to be the coldest winter in 1000 years. The North Atlantic …
November 16, 2010
Daniel Jaber in Kuala Lumpur
Daniel has been on an AsiaLink Performing Arts Residency in Malaysia for the last some months. Snakes? Yes! He has …
November 10, 2010
caadx-105 … a story of buying a new bike
I bought a bike. (Actually, I bought it a couple of weeks ago, I just got busy, was over in …
October 25, 2010
einstürzende neubauten 30
Between U- and S-Bahn returning home, Dy said, “Why don’t you write about this? After all, it’s a performance and …
October 24, 2010
grunewald … nordwärts vom nikolaisee
The S-Bahn detoured to Messe Sud, somewhere I’d never heard of before, then the ersatzverkehr bus dragged me the length …
October 20, 2010
Zwei Bäume weniger in Berlin nur Baustellen und Bagger und brave Bürger..
zwei bäume weniger – 1 zwei bäume weniger – 2 zwei bäume weniger – 3 zwei bäume weniger – 4 …
October 19, 2010
Uferstrasse Trees
A few months ago various people in Uferstrasse got together to save some trees that were to be felled in …
October 17, 2010
grunewald again…
How did that happen? A month and hot a single hike or walk. I thought perhaps it had been two …
October 16, 2010
uferhallen at night
Apparently the fire department will come and take me down if I attempt to climb the chimney in Uferhallen. Well, …
October 16, 2010
Reading… a 3rd anniversary
Regarding the two-score books of the last year, it is surprising which of the non-fiction – a term I use …
October 10, 2010
uferhallen – autumn
A warm autumn afternoon yesterday with Michael, come all the way from Madrid. A morning cleaning, and more warmth of …
September 25, 2010
grunewald
Schlachtensee, Krume Lanke and the lakes along the east side of Grunewald have been my favourite walks around Berlin since …
September 19, 2010
eating: lamb and fresh fig tajine
Michael came back to Berlin for the weekend, a welcome surprise that coincided nicely with my weeks-long desire for a …
September 17, 2010
zwei jahre aufenthaltstitel
Not much writing here lately, being distracted with a couple of large design projects and miscellaneous other things (mostly involving …
September 11, 2010
müggelsee by boat and foot
Today rising somewhat early and then via S-Bahn (und zwei abgefickte neo-faschisten), Ostkreuz, S-Bahn again to Friedrichshagen, a town outside …
September 5, 2010
germany is (slightly) embarrassing itself
Reading signandsight’s From the Feuilletons this week… it’s been dead in my feed for some time, but returned with excellent …
August 25, 2010
hips hip knee knee
Somehow my hip has decided to fall apart. And my knee. Boring not to be able to dance, ride, yoga, …
August 15, 2010
grunewald schlachten see
Raining in steady endless sheets, grey and the faint sense of autumn already. While hiking around Vienna I thought I …