The coffee is made thus: In a small bowl two teaspoons or so of sugar for every cup is added. …
May 1, 2011 – 11:44 am
temperance 16mm film
With all the adding of video and making newness on francesdath.info, I started looking at the footage of temperance again. …
April 12, 2011 – 12:05 pm
生日快乐!!! happy 7th birthday supernaut! (nochmal vergessen…)
aaa!!! I forgot again! every year! Trotzdem … Schokolade! Kuchen! Viel Spaß und Krawall machen! supernaut? yes!
March 26, 2011 – 10:28 am
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 8, 2011 – 5:08 pm
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 …
November 16, 2010 – 5:35 am
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 …
July 9, 2010 – 4:53 am
a website a video
She of the long red hair, Gabrielle Nankivell has her own website. Witch/Red was one of my favourite pieces in …
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 24, 2010 – 8:51 am
bike
Once upon a time I had a beautiful bike. She was stolen. I cried. I came to Berlin. Trudel lent …
April 21, 2010 – 11:40 am
Shifting Daniel Jaber into WordPress
Daniel Jaber is the second choreographer and dancer I’ve done a website for. Coming from Dasniya Sommer, I was intent …
March 15, 2010 – 2:07 am
enough from daniel
Something to celebrate because I lost all track of time. Adelaide’s Fringe Festival is over, which I’ve only ever experience …
January 20, 2010 – 6:42 am
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 …
October 4, 2009 – 2:50 am
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 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, …
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 …
March 23, 2008 – 5:55 pm
MEL-ADL … finish
Days of nothing over the weekend, seeing Bonnie for the last time in a while, breakfast at Mario’s on Brunswick …
February 25, 2008 – 10:16 am
MEL-ADL … again … again … something like home …
A taxi driver from Punjab studying electronics with such a polite demeanor managed to persuade me that going all the …
February 12, 2008 – 6:51 pm
sorry
“Today we honour the Indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history. We reflect on their …
January 23, 2008 – 7:00 am
Blog for Choice day
Today marks thirty-five years since Roe vs. Wade. A number of my favourite blogs including Feministing and (en)gender posted on …
December 23, 2007 – 10:12 am
MEL-ADL … again
A couple of nights staying with my wonderful friend Bonnie, eating pancakes, drinking tea, long chats into the night … …
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 …
September 9, 2007 – 1:18 am
some pictures i took with my phone
My iPod seems to be dead, and somehow I keep managing to resuscitate my laptop despite in/out errors and loads …
June 20, 2007 – 9:45 pm
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 …
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 14, 2006 – 7:41 pm
degraves st subway alley
Somehow I have managed to avoid, during my decade in and out of Melbourne, from ever going down the stairs …
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 19, 2006 – 11:25 am
lerderderg gorge tunnel
A trip to Lerderderg Gorge yesterday for a leisurely afternoon of hiking along the Tunnel trail, a hacked laceration through …
November 17, 2006 – 9:13 pm
first against the wall etc …
At first I wasn’t going to blog this, you know, another smarmy round of greasy dandruff-ridden back-slapping and syphilitic self-congratulation, …
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 …
September 4, 2006 – 9:35 pm
I’m gonna jam my thumb in its butthole now!
Last night’s amusement was provided by old Season 2 dvds of South Park (thank you Cantonese dvd pirates). I was …
August 25, 2006 – 5:21 pm
special mention
Luke George is inadvertently responsible for something I’m going to start on supernaut in the coming weeks. In the interim, …
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 9, 2006 – 6:07 pm
Jesuit Novice in Ossegg
A couple of nights ago, I experienced one of those profound moments in life when I realised someone I knew, …
August 8, 2006 – 8:02 pm
crush
It’s been over two years and still we haven’t me. We have been in many of the same cities, Guangzhou, …
August 6, 2006 – 3:28 pm
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 …
July 23, 2006 – 7:59 pm
patterson, nar nar & bunyip
Following a ripping friday night of Pastis and champagne, I spent the weekend with Bonnie and Paul south at Cape …
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 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 …
February 23, 2006 – 5:13 pm
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 21, 2006 – 4:29 pm
nothing left to do but vandalise shit
For a while I go so into playing Halo, and I mean so into it in the end I had …
December 5, 2005 – 4:16 pm
planes trains busses taxis
I’ll be gracing the Hong Kong airport tomorrow, and leaving Guangzhou. It’s been a whirl of a 10 day adventure …
November 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 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 13, 2005 – 3:20 am
russell page fellowship
The annual Russell Page Fellowship for professional dancers in Australia is open for applications. The Russell Page Fellowship was established …
October 5, 2005 – 3:30 am
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 …
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 10, 2005 – 6:57 am
It’s Alive!!! quick! kill it with this blunt shovel!
Arts Victoria have pretty much kept me from going off and doing something more rewarding and of greater social worth, …
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 …
August 14, 2005 – 10:31 pm
zeroballet bitches extermination
After much pissing around, I thought it was time to dump some more narrow-band choking content on the dance side …
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 …
July 30, 2005 – 8:31 pm
australian dance awards 2005
Vote for me!. Nah, vote for the only person to do anything meaningful in choreography in Australia in the last …
June 28, 2005 – 8:22 am
hell is coming
I’ve just been informed that the very nice Arts Victoria have once again decided throwing money at me to make …
June 10, 2005 – 2:23 am
extermination at park19
Last year when extermination got performed, we also made a film. It’s been lurking, several rolls of 16mm, slowly going …
June 9, 2005 – 3:16 pm
stm at the body global
My first dance film, shadetreemechanic made by sea-dog Paul Williams and the divine Anna Smallwood and Joanne Collins is going …
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 26, 2005 – 7:17 pm
expressions at guangdong modern dance festival
The dance festival here has been over for a couple of weeks, and other things are happening across the town, …
May 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 24, 2005 – 6:49 pm
folding fiction
Besides an impulse cinema trip to see Star Wars – Revenge of the Sith (which seemed to leave lots of …
May 19, 2005 – 11:34 pm
stranger than fiction
Australia’s only true genius, Phillip Adams has been shacked up in Hong Kong, a mere spit from Guangzhou. He’s been …
May 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 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 …
May 5, 2005 – 2:02 am
one law for them another for the rest of us
Eugene McGee is a lawyer. He got drunk, drove and killed a cyclist. He didn’t stop because he didn’t want …
April 27, 2005 – 2:41 pm
back in guangzhou town – again
The flight sucked. Taking off is fun in a 747 or anything fast enough to make your bones rattle and …
April 21, 2005 – 7:36 pm
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 – 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 19, 2005 – 8:03 pm
shadetreemechanic in The Body Global
I’ve had no internet the last few days, which is a bit like having my kidney removed, leaves me weak …
April 15, 2005 – 7:43 pm
cutting extermination
One of the things I came back to Australia for was the editing of the 16mm film of extermination from …
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 …
March 25, 2005 – 2:28 pm
chinese whispers in adelaide
Amanda Phillips and me are always in the same place, but never at the same time. She was in Zurich …
March 23, 2005 – 3:02 pm
going to zurich
I just found out today I’ll be going to Zurich in July for SiWiC – the Schweizerischer Internationaler Weiterbildungskurs in …
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 15, 2005 – 9:59 am
climbing at mt rosea
The long weekend meant a trip to the Grampians with the Vic Climbing Club for three days of long, multi-pitch …
March 14, 2005 – 5:55 pm
virtually richard3
Brisbane-based expressions dance company is about to head off to Guangzhou to join a bunch of other dance companies from …
March 11, 2005 – 12:08 pm
travelling again
I’ve been travelling most of the week, leaving Guangzhou on Tuesday and heading to Melbourne for the next six weeks. …
March 1, 2005 – 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 20, 2005 – 10:46 pm
thinking in four dimensions
Professor Shirley Mckechnie one of the centres of the Melbourne and Australia dance scene, along with Robin Groves and Catherine …
February 11, 2005 – 4:46 pm
tremplin
Tor Chiu, formerly of Australia, one of the now hundreds of dancers who at one time swung a leg for …
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 17, 2005 – 3:32 pm
down at the ‘raps
Anyone who knows a climber in Australia has heard of Mt Arapiles, and pretty much every climber in the world …
December 30, 2004 – 11:47 pm
shen wei at sydney opera house
The Sydney Festival opens in a couple of weeks, premiering Kate Champion’s Already Elsewhere and Shen Wei Dance Arts, the …
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 …
November 29, 2004 – 3:07 pm
i want to dance better at parties
Gid is at it again. Not content with ballet for a contemporary democracy, now he wants to go sick outside …
November 13, 2004 – 6:14 pm
ned in taipei
Last night was the opening of the 2004 Australian Film Festival in Taipei down at the Leofoo Cineplex put together …
October 10, 2004 – 1:38 pm
axis of evil
I’m considering applying for refugee status to the Belgium Consulate. Howard winning the election again, gaining votes, and the emergence …
July 24, 2004 – 1:17 am
extermination
I’ve been rehearsing my new work for the last two weeks, extermination, which opens on August 5th at Dancehouse extermination …
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 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 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 …
June 27, 2004 – 3:28 pm
bobby and ben
Last night I saw a face on SBS tv who looked really familiar. I met Bobby Singh when musician Ben …
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 16, 2004 – 6:11 pm
besen funds extermination
I just found out today that the Besen Family Foundation have funded in part my performance and 16mm film extermination …
June 7, 2004 – 1:56 am
Hearts of Iron and Ken Park
The story of Hearts of Iron and China’s irony-free Ministry of Culture has been small print for a couple of …
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 …
April 28, 2004 – 12:07 am
Filter
Australia Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) have just published their new magazine, Filter covering art, science and technology in …
April 25, 2004 – 11:20 pm
Eastern Peak
I have big issues with crack climbing. Mainly because I don’t really know how to do it, so there’s lots …
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 …
April 17, 2004 – 12:07 am
Prime Minister ‘reflects’ on sex-change
Alex is 13 and wants to be a boy – not just in name and identity, but also on his …
April 7, 2004 – 4:14 pm
nobody moves and nobody gets hurt
[edit] I don’t really like this entry, but the authenticist in me can’t bring myself to re-write it… The original …