Saturday night was the Finissage of the KunstAktienausstellung in Uferhallen. Some hours were spent wandering around the entire Hallen looking …
May 29, 2011 – 8:54 pm
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 – 6:58 pm
cartwheel
It reminded me a little of China Miéville’s Handstand, except the pigeon was perhaps making a no-handed cartwheel. We have …
May 16, 2011 – 7:41 pm
Nein! Nein! Nicht die Wunde ist es.
I heard it slightly wrong. Parsifal, struck with awareness of Amfortas and the wound is physically overwrought. “Sie brennt in …
December 21, 2010 – 3:54 am
Paul Emmanuel – Fleece Paintings
Paul Emmanuel, whom I met in Taipei ages ago, has an exhibition opening in a couple of weeks. Farms, sheep, …
November 27, 2010 – 11:37 am
Reading: James R. Brandon – Theatre in Southeast Asia
james r. brandon – theatre in southeast asia
October 10, 2010 – 1:36 pm
uferhallen – autumn
A warm autumn afternoon yesterday with Michael, come all the way from Madrid. A morning cleaning, and more warmth of …
October 4, 2010 – 5:02 am
Reading: Peter Hopkirk – Foreign Devils on the Silk Road
peter hopkins – foreign devils on the silk road
October 4, 2010 – 5:01 am
Reading: Peter Hopkirk – Trespassers on the Roof of the World
peter hopkins – trespassers on the roof of the world
September 12, 2010 – 1:23 am
(Some) Stuff I Read This Week
For some reason I decided to start using Twitter again — I suspect iPhone — and without any clear purpose …
August 10, 2010 – 1:30 am
reading: jonathan burrows – a choreographer’s handbook
jonathan burrows – a choreographer’s handbook
June 28, 2010 – 1:54 am
BER – BRU – BER – VIE
Not so much an open secret as something I haven’t got around to writing about here, I depart tomorrow for …
June 1, 2010 – 7:52 am
fontographie
Early rising to Kreuzberg and after a time to wake Matthi up in Reichenbergerstr. Breakfast peanutbutter and coffee, talking across …
May 26, 2010 – 1:40 pm
readin: david hinton: chuang tzu – the inner chapters
david hinton: chuang tzu – the inner chapters
May 9, 2010 – 5:13 am
art sunday
Some rather nice art has fallen my way recently, falling around something that might become abjection. Of course it induces …
April 29, 2010 – 6:15 am
sydney’s siberia and other digital creatures
No, I don’t actually remember which Mac forum I discovered Jason Nelson and secrettechnology on. I do though highly enjoy …
April 29, 2010 – 5:48 am
an attempt to fail….in berlin
So I leaver Berlin for the other city I love beginning with B, and Tony Rizzi decides to come to …
April 19, 2010 – 12:23 pm
ick bin sechs jahre alt (und na logo habe ich vergessen)
Ja, naturlich, immer ein weniger mehr und immer bisschen spät. Habe Ich heute mit Katrin geplaudert, und dann mir ging …
February 22, 2010 – 12:26 pm
mousepath
Along with upgrading my laptop to 10.6 on the weekend (I always, always do these things last at night, and …
January 21, 2010 – 11:12 am
reading: christopher i. beckwith – empires of the silk road
christopher i. beckwith – empires of the silk road
January 12, 2010 – 6:11 am
Laura Kalauz + Martin Schick – Title
Possibly the most problematic of all the performances I’ve seen so far in Tanztage, Laura Kalauz’s and Martin Schick’s Title …
January 9, 2010 – 9:50 am
An Kaler – Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy
(An aside: Having managed to evade seeing dance for the most part last year, I thought I should take advantage …
January 2, 2010 – 11:16 am
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 – 2:21 am
solstice
Taoism struggles against the cultural preference for the “light.” The Tao Te Ching, especially, champions the low, the dark. Darkness …
December 2, 2009 – 3:31 pm
seile
I bought some rope today. From Fesseltrieb in far east Sonnenallee, biking through a first biting day of winter, clear …
November 3, 2009 – 12:58 pm
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 – 2:53 pm
bondage basics
More from Dasniya, who shall be teaching a two day workshop in Shibari in November. Certainly one of the highlights …
October 25, 2009 – 7:05 am
orgy of tolerance
To have your idols disappoint. It is a delicious sensation. And probably inevitable, necessary. My Friday Antwerp wanderings, despite the …
October 10, 2009 – 2:45 am
antwerpen
A train to Antwerpen with no ticket despite my attempts to buy one. Thirty minutes in which I think upon …
October 8, 2009 – 3:20 pm
Konstruierte Fantasien / The Construction of Fantasy
From Dasniya, and what I’ve been doing since March this year, being tied, suspended, flying, tying others, playing, something like …
September 30, 2009 – 2:20 pm
hilary
“…and when terror strikes just take a deep breath and remember that life is just one long learning experience. Nothing, …
September 26, 2009 – 10:35 am
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 – 9:27 am
osada steve
A couple of days before I began my current day job, a Thursday evening, having done some fast coding, I …
August 29, 2009 – 11:52 am
som faves
Ivo says, ” you know I was very suspicious about its qualities and I will still be…”. Though not in …
August 17, 2009 – 10:27 am
save the vca
It is a long time ago now, camping on the lawn outside the front of Victorian College of the Arts …
August 12, 2009 – 1:00 pm
plants vs brauerei
Somehow I stumbled back onto a couple who inspired my greatly years ago when I first started computers and design …
February 6, 2009 – 11:35 pm
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 …
July 24, 2008 – 7:05 am
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 8)
Wherein I discover that ImPulsTanz knows about my blogging of settlement and having revealed as such in their newsletter, I …
July 22, 2008 – 4:03 am
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 …
July 21, 2008 – 4:37 am
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 5) (and sunday also)
umm… Supermodels. Catwalks. Shopping lists. Hate. Ambivalence. Whispering. Not whispering loudly enough. Microphones. Costume changes. Love. Happiness. Drugs. Music. This …
July 17, 2008 – 5:44 am
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 3)
Today I ate dates and fresh peaches for lunch. And a banana. And had dinner at Der Wiener Deewan, mmm …
July 14, 2008 – 5:30 am
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 – 4:28 am
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 …
June 17, 2008 – 5:38 pm
vienna…
I’m going to Vienna. eeeeeeeeeeeee!!! I got an email this afternoon saying I’ve been accepted for the Choreographers’ Venture with …
June 13, 2008 – 5:01 pm
jan dunning
When the Liberals won the elections in 2004, my only consolation was that shortly after I departed for a few …
November 22, 2007 – 2:57 pm
kunst and the greens
Three years ago I was so happy to be leaving Australia immediately after the nauseating reelection of that repulsive clique …
January 2, 2007 – 9:41 pm
it’s all about the money #2
He could have ditched the first paragraph, stopped right at the end of the second sentence, and just copy-pasted that …
December 19, 2006 – 11:33 am
it’s all about the money
Slagging match of the week goes to Melbourne Festival vs. The Media, wherein Robin Usher tries to sound a rhetorical …
December 12, 2006 – 9:16 pm
iranian typography now
Japan design magazine PingMag has a long feature yesterday, Iranian Typography Now. It is one of the most sublime features …
December 10, 2006 – 12:12 am
超牛b的余震 － Aftershock in Guangzhou
ex-Feng37 has been burning a posting storm through Canton recently, and I suspect he’s moved out of Fangcun and found …
December 3, 2006 – 7:31 pm
dormitory
Splendidly late blogging, but wtf. I’ve been meaning to drool here about Wang Qingsong’s Dormitory, though equally any of his …
December 2, 2006 – 3:18 pm
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 …
December 1, 2006 – 3:24 pm
more on the Small Arts Sector Research Project
A couple of days ago I wrote about the new Small Arts Sector Research Project the Arts Industry Australia (Victoria) …
November 28, 2006 – 7:00 pm
Small Arts Sector Research Project
For all the independent artists around in Melbourne this Friday, the Arts Industry Council (Victoria) has announced this meeting. Please …
November 22, 2006 – 11:45 am
liberals arts policy: go fuck yourselves
I can’t quite articulate exactly how much I want to see the Victorian Liberals hurled bodily into a swampy, fetid …
November 4, 2006 – 8:02 am
la mama – does anyone take ozco seriously anymore?
A few days ago, I was talking with someone about a certain hack from the Herald Sun, whose name evades …
October 30, 2006 – 3:17 pm
some new blogs
About a week ago I was doing something and ended up splurting “contemporary dance” Melbourne into Google Blog Search. I …
October 13, 2006 – 11:00 am
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 – 8:53 pm
china power station
Lawrence Li at Global Noise Online has been blogging regularly about the upcoming China Power Station, “A major exhibition of …
October 1, 2006 – 11:52 am
stuff i read today
Having dragged myself out of bed at the rather late hour of 1030 and still working my way through a …
September 26, 2006 – 7:37 pm
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 23, 2006 – 11:37 am
the art of obliteration
Reblogging from We need money not art, the subtle, unintentional, council-approved art of erasing graffiti through semi-regular monotone blocks of …
September 19, 2006 – 8:02 pm
battersea power station, guangzhou
Unlike recent high-modernist industrial travelogues in which ailing former jewels-in-the-crown of the European heavy industry age are cut up and …
September 2, 2006 – 12:32 pm
what i read today
For a while I kept a del.ic.ious account (last updated almost two months ago). I also used to have one …
August 15, 2006 – 6:01 pm
good riddance
Normally I wouldn’t quote from The Age as it’s really little more than mediocre tabloid sensationalism, and if I want …
August 4, 2006 – 8:54 pm
on plagues and skin disorders
Reading Jean Baudrillard‘s Symbolic Exchange and Death in 2003 was one of those pivotal moments in consumption of text that …
July 30, 2006 – 5:36 pm
3030 new photography in china
A new book of contemporary art photographers from China: 3030: New Photography in China This fully illustrated survey of 30 …
July 28, 2006 – 2:46 pm
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 18, 2006 – 7:48 pm
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 – 7:09 pm
war and sport take centre stage
While having coffee with one choreographer who knows firsthand the House of Un-American Activities Commission blacklist trials that is Australian …
July 14, 2006 – 6:29 pm
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 8, 2006 – 5:35 pm
dutch east india papercut company
Shortly before I departed Guangzhou, I went shopping with Michael in search of 剪纸, papercut art, something Foshan was famous …
July 6, 2006 – 1:35 pm
a knife in the guts for danceworks
While I was wandering in my lederhosen across the alps of western Yunnan, Arts Victoria announced they would not be …
June 29, 2006 – 2:17 am
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 – 8:43 pm
cryptozoology
A while ago I was sophistically explaining how my performances are what I decided to call crypto-ethnochoreography, in which the …
June 19, 2006 – 1:07 pm
一队夫妻只生育一孩子
A friend was in town for a day, so I subjected him to my tour of Canton, walking from where …
June 18, 2006 – 3:24 pm
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 10, 2006 – 1:45 am
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 …
April 29, 2006 – 4:00 pm
shemale realdolls put me out of a job
I’ve had a couple of enlightening moments in the beautiful, weird, endlessly diverse world of sex and desire in the …
April 29, 2006 – 3:18 pm
we hate art and like nothing interesting
Beijing’s Dashanzi Art District which I always think of as embodying contemporary Chinese art as so much of it comes …
April 29, 2006 – 2:51 pm
taipei art-punk squats
One of my favourite blogs from Taiwan is Anarchy in Taiwan or gotmahmojo who recently wrote a big piece on …
April 18, 2006 – 10:49 pm
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 – 11:43 pm
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 14, 2006 – 1:56 am
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 – 1:58 pm
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 – 2:07 pm
西门子艺术项目 – what art you doing here?
Cao Fei‘s performance/video/installation for the global Siemens Arts Programme in Foshan, What Are You Doing Here? opens today. There’s a …
April 8, 2006 – 4:03 pm
林若熹 – 行愿 lin ruoxi – meditation on travelling
When asked to translate the exhibition notes for 林若熹 Lin Ruoxi’s 行愿 exhibition, I wasn’t expecting highrise-sized banners and three …
April 7, 2006 – 1:17 pm
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 – 10:50 pm
cosplayers in hong kong
Two nights in Hong Kong, picking up Emile and Paul from the airport, playing tourist across Kowloon and Central, seeing …
April 2, 2006 – 10:38 pm
他们在这做什么? what are they doing here?
I’m off to Hong Kong tomorrow to pick up Paul and Emile, and I’m not sure when I’m coming back, …
March 23, 2006 – 7:15 pm
more blogs for compulsive clickers
Obviously I collect blogs the way philatelists collect small rectangles of perforated paper, and one day a mint-condition first-edition of …
March 22, 2006 – 2:47 pm
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 15, 2006 – 10:51 pm
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 11, 2006 – 8:18 pm
flying again
I’m flying to Hong Kong tomorrow, and then on to Guangzhou for a residency at Park19 until the end of …
March 4, 2006 – 4:33 pm
straight outta canton
I’m sure I had a post with the same title as this some time… but well, I can’t find it, …
February 27, 2006 – 5:24 pm
guangzhou art and blogs
A few days ago a friend of mine who used to work at Park19 emailed me with a link to …
February 25, 2006 – 4:06 pm
fengdu’s erased horizon
Daily reading of Diacritic, and this reminded me alot – in an almost diametrically opposite way – of the photography …
February 18, 2006 – 12:28 pm
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 – 3:29 pm
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 – 8:58 pm
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 …
January 31, 2006 – 2:23 pm
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 8, 2006 – 6:19 pm
dancing appliances and fat suits
I know that in the low latency of the internet a month is pretty much another age, but I’ve been …
January 3, 2006 – 11:50 am
Guanyin and the Kings of Hell
It’s something like perfect timing, or maybe just the endless wash of information ebbing and flowing. The Met Museum in …
January 1, 2006 – 2:15 pm
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. …
December 30, 2005 – 2:52 pm
nine lives – the birth of avante-garde in new china
SCALO Books have just published Beijing resident Karen Smith’s Nine Lives – The Birth of Avante-Garde in New China, and …
December 29, 2005 – 4:38 pm
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 – 12:32 pm
Gothic Nightmares
Getting all ready for the start of rehearsals of hell in Melbourne, and watching lots of Peking Opera, 1970s Japanese …
December 16, 2005 – 6:44 pm
独生一代 – single child generation
Park 19 in Guangzhou has been off the internet for a few weeks now, and when I visited the studios …
December 14, 2005 – 6:52 pm
fast chicks and low cars
From one of my daily reads, we-make-money-not-art, comes my favourite combination of culture, fast cars and hot bikini chicks. Tell …
December 4, 2005 – 12:21 pm
translate this: 行愿
I was at the 广州美术学院 and spent the afternoon with 林若熹 a professor at the Academy who is preparing a …
December 3, 2005 – 2:10 pm
a night at loft 345
Last night I went down to Loft345, which used to be Park19 (because it was number 19 whatever lane and …
November 30, 2005 – 1:47 pm
looking at art: 第二届广州三年展 2nd Guangzhou Triennial
I was going to try and find out if Park19 was still alive but only got as far as 二沙岛Er …
November 25, 2005 – 1:34 am
life
It’s been five months, an unexpected length of time for me to be in one place, almost long enough to …
November 13, 2005 – 7:33 pm
art is treason
Just before I left Australia for Taiwan last year, the odious forces of imperialism, bizarrely named the Liberals got back …
November 8, 2005 – 10:08 pm
performance art is the new painting
The New York Times has a large article on Performa 05, the visual art performance biennale in New York, going …
November 4, 2005 – 8:36 pm
nusra in karachi
I know I keep on saying Nusra Latif Qureshi is one of the most amazing artists in the world, but …
October 27, 2005 – 5:52 pm
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 – 6:17 pm
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 – 1:22 am
some more stuff i’ve been reading
Serious pruning of my temporary bookmarks folder(s) is needed. The stuff on 太石村 Tai Shi Village is already out of …
October 17, 2005 – 3:03 am
it’s my happening babe and it freaks me out
More from the endless mailing lists which make me feel popular and loved by filling up hundreds of kilobytes of …
October 16, 2005 – 11:13 pm
第二届广州三年展 pearl river art canton
I dunno, but I think having a triennial is a bit weird, coz by the time it comes around again, …
October 14, 2005 – 6:12 pm
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 – 3:54 am
four years of email mayhem
Almost a year ago, when I was in Taiwan, I put out a call for submissions for a 3G mobile …
October 2, 2005 – 9:50 pm
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 – 9:16 pm
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 – 9:05 pm
the absence of hong kong art
Yan at Glutter got stuck into the abysmal state of contemporary arts in Hong Kong today, with My HK Contemporary …
October 1, 2005 – 11:23 am
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 – 3:56 am
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 – 2:31 am
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 25, 2005 – 7:42 pm
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 15, 2005 – 1:41 am
i fornicate for satan
This from the master of doom, Emile Zile, I can’t really add anything except my first thought was Mia Farrow …
September 13, 2005 – 5:19 am
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 13, 2005 – 3:25 am
shock! surprise! ozco doesn’t fund me for the eleventh time!
Who’d a fucking thought? I mean the odds were seriously in my favour: 11 applications and 0, zero, zero success, …
September 8, 2005 – 3:54 am
exotic bodies heavenly products
Two artists who always give me a thrill when the invite for their latest show lands in my inbox are …
September 5, 2005 – 3:19 am
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 – 5:57 am
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 – 5:05 am
uli sigg – the man behind the flying fetus
In keeping with my new news policy, I only write about things that happened more than two weeks ago, which …
August 20, 2005 – 3:25 am
holy flying fetuses batman
Speaking of 萧昱 Xiao Yu and his penchant for the kind of art which would see him in the skanky …
August 19, 2005 – 5:47 am
pig-fucking at the chenjiatuo art farm
There’s something I like about Wim Delvoye’s tattooed pigs, and also something I find craven and a transparent ploy for …
August 14, 2005 – 9:46 pm
eurodisney.cn
Emile thinks he’s being pretty bloody clever. EURODISNEY.CN. Oh ha ha. I told him to expect a visit from scabrous …
June 22, 2005 – 7:37 pm
literature commune chicken
I went to Park19 today to say goodbye to everyone until next time I stumble through Guangzhou. I also made …
June 16, 2005 – 4:23 pm
文献公社 at Park19
I haven’t been able to find out much about this, except the beautiful flier that I picked up at park19. …
June 15, 2005 – 7:34 pm
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 – 6:12 pm
splash life
Maybe it was last year, or very early this year, when we sat around the outside table at Sleepywood, mesmerised …
June 8, 2005 – 2:24 pm
spooked
mmm … full bleed colour … “Spooked – Art and Horror in the Western Australian landscape” documents the three ‘Spooked’ …
May 24, 2005 – 11:24 pm
nusra latif qureshi – intentions of memory
Nusra Latif Qureshi, who has long been one of my favourite artists in Melbourne and has been storming out stuff …
May 9, 2005 – 4:36 pm
pirate satellite
Emile Zile, who regular readers will know of as the evil black hand of Morloch and all-round defiler of good …
May 7, 2005 – 2:01 pm
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 – 4:24 pm
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 – 4:00 pm
Nick Jones – (slight return)
Nick Jones used to be the mad Keith Richards Pied Piper of VCA, folding, cutting, intertwining pages of books until …
April 28, 2005 – 4:35 pm
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 – 6:50 pm
travelling again
I leave for Hong Kong and Guangzhou tomorrow for a couple of months making horrible art before heading over to …
April 21, 2005 – 6:39 pm
nofzilla – digital disclosure
The genius that is nofzilla is going down in Boston at the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Along with a bunch of …
April 14, 2005 – 11:18 pm
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 – 6:18 pm
RE:Wanchai – Hong Kong International Artists’ Workshop
The 國際藝術家交流工作坊(香港) Hong Hong International Artists’ Workshop has invited 12 local and international artists to be in residence during April. …
April 4, 2005 – 9:57 pm
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 – 4:34 pm
the age of the grotesque
Another day of reading magazines at The Wall in East St Kilda, and one of the best images of the …
March 27, 2005 – 11:23 am
regeneration
Another exhibition, pretty similar to the Stanford Show below is on at Otis College of Art + Design’s Ben Maltz …
March 27, 2005 – 11:05 am
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 – 11:56 am
we have decided not to die
The absolute best photographs I saw last year, and definitely in the top 10 of all time were We Have …
March 22, 2005 – 5:45 pm
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 – 5:31 pm
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 and …
March 18, 2005 – 10:35 am
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 – 1:33 pm
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 …
March 16, 2005 – 11:07 am
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 – 10:50 am
sabeen raja talk
Pakistani minature artist Sabeen Raja is in Melbourne to exhibit her works at Axes Art Space and Gertrude Street Contemporary …
March 2, 2005 – 11:53 am
the new park-19
I went back to the new Park-19 today in daylight surrounded by the craziness of the Nantai markets. I’m looking …
March 1, 2005 – 10:58 am
Australia China Council funds me
Just when I was thinking of giving it all up, getting a nice easy job (say maybe a showgirl in …
February 23, 2005 – 2:31 pm
nusra +naeem’s new gallery
i’ve written about Nsra and Naeem a couple of times in the past. I met them both when I was …
February 23, 2005 – 2:23 pm
nofzilla – PE(s)T
Liz Nofzilla and Peter Pizzi from Boston and all over the internet are opening their installation at Atlantic Works Gallery …
February 22, 2005 – 4:56 pm
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 – 2:49 pm
2005广州国际摄影双年展“城市·重视” 2005 Guangzhou Photo Biennale
The 2005 Guangzhou Photo Biennale opened at the 广东美术馆 Guangdong Museum of Modern Art in mid-January and is running until …
February 13, 2005 – 8:22 pm
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 – 5:11 pm
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 – 4:44 pm
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 – 3:09 pm
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 – 11:03 pm
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 – 10:10 pm
cut-up #6
cut-up the art of living in a medialised landscape issue number 6 is online now. For those of you who …
January 28, 2005 – 5:41 pm
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 – 8:20 pm
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 徐文瑞 …
January 26, 2005 – 3:29 pm
the free meal ticket
The best thing about being an artist is the travelling and parties. In the last three years, I have spent …
January 19, 2005 – 3:32 pm
architecture of density
The Robert Kock Gallery in San Francisco is exhibiting the large-scale photographs of Hong Kong-based artist Michael Wolf until the …
January 16, 2005 – 3:33 pm
psycho and the chain
Paul Emmaunel and Dr. Richard Maggs are chewing paint again, this time at ffotogallery in Penarth, along with Taiwan artist …
January 14, 2005 – 12:23 pm
free public lynching
The issue with Australia Council for the Arts eviscerating the New Media Arts Board has had a slight hiatus over …
January 7, 2005 – 10:51 pm
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 – 9:26 pm
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 …
December 26, 2004 – 6:49 pm
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 21, 2004 – 5:48 pm
ANAT on the murder of the new media art board
Keeping on with the news that the government has decided to destroy the new media arts board of the Australia …
December 15, 2004 – 9:21 pm
大山子艺术区 on wiki
Factory 798 in Beijing was the site of the Dashanzi International Art Festival earlier this year, and is one of …
December 12, 2004 – 2:38 pm
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 11, 2004 – 3:06 pm
paul emmanuel is psycho
Paul Emmanuel hooked up with his psychiatrist last night at 新樂園藝術空間 SLY Art Studio to eat some paint and answer …
December 9, 2004 – 6:34 pm
new media arts wasted
Part two of the news that Australia Council is trashing the New Media Arts Board. I’m posting this email in …
December 9, 2004 – 12:43 pm
australia council dumps new media arts board
This morning, the Fibreculture mailing-list was dealing with what will rank as one of the worst decisions made in Australian …
December 7, 2004 – 10:44 pm
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 5, 2004 – 1:49 pm
第二屆新樂園跨領域藝術節 SLY art 2nd new field art festival
The group exhibition I am part of at SLY Art Studio opened this evening, with much eating drinking and music …
November 27, 2004 – 8:05 pm
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 26, 2004 – 2:56 pm
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 – 8:58 pm
making art in china
What’s it like to be a foreign artist in residence in China? Last night, three of us from the Taipei …
November 20, 2004 – 4:56 pm
《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 – 3:57 pm
C04台灣前衛文件展 – Co4 taiwan avant-garde documenta II
In another Friday of art overdose, the 大趨勢畫廊 Main Trend Gallery played host to the opening of C04台灣前衛文件展 – Co4 …
November 18, 2004 – 4:17 pm
beijing artists channel throbbing gristle
An opinion piece on the current state of avant-garde art in Beijing brought to mind a conversation I’d had in …
November 16, 2004 – 10:38 pm
nofzilla
One of the projects I’m doing in Taipei is performances for mobile phones. It’s pretty basic use of existing technology, …
November 15, 2004 – 1:48 pm
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 – 4:38 pm
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 ‘TCHENOGRAMME’ …
November 13, 2004 – 6:56 pm
城市謠言 – 華人建築展 2004 The Rumor of China Towns
Blowing off the opportunity to see Ned Kelly at the Film Festival, the next stop for the night was MOCA …
November 11, 2004 – 7:05 pm
red vs blue
A while ago on one of the net-art email lists I subscribe to, there was discussion about performance in video …
November 9, 2004 – 11:45 pm
shanghai art arse licking
The Guardian has been running a Special Report on China for the last couple of weeks, which should be compulsory …
November 6, 2004 – 9:13 pm
qj studios – 没大没小 Mei Da Mei Xiao
Just before I left Guangzhou, I had a couple of conversations about the art scene in the city, which seems …
October 31, 2004 – 8:53 pm
arriving in taipei
Another blindingly early start on the jet-fuel trail. I divide my flights up into sections: 1) taxi to Guangzhou East …
October 10, 2004 – 1:29 pm
what’s going on?
I’ve been very busy the last couple of weeks with getting ready for my residency in Taipei at the Taipei …
October 4, 2004 – 8:26 pm
art and freedom vs. money in shanghai
With the recent issues in Australia of arts funding being sent on a round trip through the local abbatoir, and …
September 22, 2004 – 4:41 pm
taikang art street
With the demolition or threatened demolition of artist’s villages and communities in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai as the glacial mental …
September 19, 2004 – 11:26 pm
中国国际建筑艺术双年展 1st Architecture Biennale – Beijing
As Beijing is swathed in a landscape of construction and demolition, the 中国国际建筑艺术双年展 1st Architecture Biennale – Beijing opens today, …
September 18, 2004 – 6:55 pm
kwangju biennale
The 5th Kwangju Biennale, A Grain of Dust, A drop of Water opened a couple of weeks ago, and like …
September 12, 2004 – 10:12 pm
18個個展 18 Solo Exhibitions
The 金門碉堡藝術館 Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art a gallery located in old artillery bunkers on Kinmen, opened its exhibition 18個個展 …
September 10, 2004 – 10:11 pm
territories at para/site
Para/Site Art Space new gallery in Hong Kong has just celebrated its opening with the multi-media installations of Hong Kong-based …
September 9, 2004 – 11:24 pm
華山 huashan – when art becomes industry
What’s in a name? When it comes to art, there’s a big world between an arts and cultural centre, and …
September 8, 2004 – 12:53 am
seni in singapore
SENI 2004, Singapore’s international visual arts festival opens at the end of the month, and will be a good excuse …
September 4, 2004 – 11:38 pm
beautiful new horizon
Asia Art Archive’s September newsletter has a travelogue from Taipei researcher Mio Iwakiri, who travelled to Tainan in August for …
September 2, 2004 – 1:33 am
fiction.love again
Fiction.Love opened a couple of weeks ago at 台北當代藝術館 Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, and got a bit of a …
September 2, 2004 – 12:36 am
xu yong at 798 space
Xu Yong, who runs 798 Space in the Dashanzi arts district in Beijing, where the recent 大山子艺术节 Dashanzi International Arts …
August 23, 2004 – 8:22 pm
Do You Believe in Reality? – 台北雙年展 2004 Taipei Biennale
The 台北市立美術館 Taipei Fine Arts Museum announced the theme of the 台北雙年展 2004 Taipei Biennale on Friday, called Do You …
August 19, 2004 – 11:45 pm
Fiction.Love
Opening in Taipei tomorrow at the 台北當代藝術館 Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art with the catchiest post-modern name of the week …
August 18, 2004 – 4:34 pm
extermination 3
Besides some beligerent contact with the Australian Family Association extermination didn’t get many inches in the dead-tree press. Hillary Crampton …
August 17, 2004 – 8:40 pm
extermination 2
For the last two weeks I’ve been locked in Dancehouse for extermination. We performed 8 shows over that time and …
July 30, 2004 – 6:31 pm
tac compression
From RSG and Beige who bought the world the endless joy of carnivore comes the world’s newest and best compression …
July 25, 2004 – 10:46 pm
國立臺灣美術館 – navigator – digital art in the making
The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts has just opened an exhibition of new media art, navigator – digital art …
July 24, 2004 – 12:57 am
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 – 10:13 pm
thorpe is gay
Nat and Ali managed to make it all over the news this week with their project Hungry Bums, part of …
July 17, 2004 – 9:16 pm
35 000 days in asia
Asialink’s book 35 000 days in asia is being launched on Thursday 22 July, celebrating 10 years of arts residencies …
July 13, 2004 – 12:04 am
paura – joel zeka
Joel Zeka, whose recent RMIT/Next Wave show was Terrible Presence, is exhibiting Paura at Kick Gallery Melbourne from this Thursday, …
July 11, 2004 – 7:26 pm
doing nothing anywhere
Vitamin Creative Space in Guangzhou recently had a project do nothing anywhere at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in …
July 7, 2004 – 6:22 pm
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 – 10:49 am
humanism in china
Humanism in China, the photographic exhibition which started at the Guangzhou Museum of Art in December 2003, and travelled to …
July 3, 2004 – 3:20 pm
1個歧視 – A Discrimination
Live Home 3 has an exhibition 1個歧視 – A Discrimination on at the moment, with a number of local artists …
June 26, 2004 – 3:16 pm
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 22, 2004 – 12:03 am
nusra + naeem
Nusra Latif Qureshi is exhibiting new work Exotic Bodies and lectures, with Naeem Rana’s Heavenly Products at the Counihan Gallery …
June 17, 2004 – 3:33 pm
台北雙年展 Taipei Biennale
The Taipei Fine Arts Museum has announced that Amy Cheng Huei-hua (Taiwan) and Barbara M.R. Vanderlinden (Belgium) will be curating …
June 15, 2004 – 1:39 pm
artv
Anyone watching SBS late at night might wonder “what-the-fuck is Connex (or whatever the trains are called now) pushing?” when …
June 12, 2004 – 10:13 pm
thailand new media arts festival 2004
In March this year Srinakarinwirot University, Bangkok hosted the Thailand New Media Arts Festival 2004, curated by Francis Wittenberger. Isabel …
June 12, 2004 – 4:42 pm
小谷围 Xiaoguwei artist village demolished
The 小谷围 Xiaoguwei artist village in Guangzhou, about 17 kilometers from the city centre is being demolished. The 165 villas …
June 12, 2004 – 12:45 am
rive droite
Something has been happening in Guangzhou in the last year, which always seems like the poor second child to Beijing …
June 8, 2004 – 1:15 pm
Yin Xiuzhen – Portable Cities
Making the most of airports, Beijing artist Yin Xiezhen is exhibiting two installations at the Sydney Biennale, Portable Cities and …
May 31, 2004 – 7:33 pm
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 Artists’ …
May 20, 2004 – 1:33 am
宋庄画家村画廊 10 years of Songzhuang Artist Village Gallery
Ten years ago Renzhuang village, a spit from the center of Beijing in the Tongzhou district, became the home of …
May 15, 2004 – 6:33 pm
798 Factories – great article shame about the title
The 大山字 Dashanzi Arts Festival at 798 Factories made the news in Australia today, and not just in buried in …
May 15, 2004 – 1:12 am
798 Factories books
The 798 Factories Dashanzi Arts Festival is going on at the moment, and for those of us who can’t make …
May 11, 2004 – 12:52 am
Artist Hangs Children
Hanging three kids from their necks in an oak tree in Milan park is a good way of getting in …
May 10, 2004 – 10:41 pm
Wenders, Xue, Laib at 广东美术馆 GDMoA
While Beijing has 大山子艺术节 Dashanzi Yishu Jie – Dashanzi Art Festival at 798 Group Factories, Guangzhou is also going art-crazy …
May 7, 2004 – 3:32 am
首届北京国际新媒体艺术展暨研讨会 – First Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium
Tsinghua University in Beijing, together with ZKM | Centre for Art and Media from Germany, and V2_ from Nederlands will …
May 5, 2004 – 8:49 pm
Nothing happened in Palestine
Yesterday, Melbourne’s The Age ran a front page story on a work by two artists in a Flinders St gallery …
May 4, 2004 – 11:15 pm
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 29, 2004 – 4:56 pm
小谷围 Xiaoguwei: Development 1 Art 0
The 小谷围 Xiaoguwei artist village in Southern Guangzhou, home of the Lingnan School of painting where almost 200 artists, architects, …
April 29, 2004 – 1:17 pm
ID Sniper debuts at China Police weapons fair
In June 2002, Jacob S. Boeskov, the CEO of Empire North, a young Danish Hi-Tech weapons company travelled to Beijing …
April 26, 2004 – 12:59 am
This is a Magazine
This is a Magazineis the best magazine in the world! Somehow I missed issue 12 – (I promise that) Hardcore …
April 20, 2004 – 11:24 pm
Open Gesture – Guangdong Museum of Art
Following on from the Post Generation and New Century exhibitions of contemporary Chinese artists, 广东美术馆 Guangdong Museum of Art new …
April 17, 2004 – 12:45 am
Tiananmen artists in Australia
Fifteen years ago today, the events that resulted in the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing began. The most visual display …