In early 2008, before I moved to Berlin, I had a book-buying spree, and a couple of those books I …
April 6, 2011 – 4:29 pm
reading: vera schwarcz – the chinese enlightenment: intellectuals and the legacy of the may fourth movement of 1919
vera schwarcz – the chinese enlightenment
October 9, 2010 – 3:31 am
Liu Xiaobo 刘晓波
Congratulations to Liu Xiaobo for being awarded the Nobel Peace prize. I’ve been keeping up with my reading on this …
January 10, 2010 – 5:28 am
Reading: Feng Jicai – Voices from the Whirlwind
feng jicai – voices from the whirlwind
June 1, 2009 – 6:02 pm
Reading: Zhao Ziyang – Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang
zhao ziyang – prisoner of the state
December 31, 2007 – 10:58 am
Reading: Jin Xing – Shanghai Tango (A Memoir)
jin xing – shanghai tango (a memoir)
September 9, 2007 – 1:12 pm
all about jin xing
Whenever I’d be hanging out with some group of artists or dancers, sitting around the remnants of dinner and drinking …
April 23, 2007 – 9:36 am
new photography in guangzhou
All month I’ve been meaning to blog this, but attack of laziness and other things to keep me occupied meant …
February 26, 2007 – 12:54 pm
when in doubt … cliché and generalise
Two almost opposite examinations of art or culture came from Ou Ning’s blog today, the first a textless photographic documentary, …
February 14, 2007 – 2:14 pm
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, …
December 12, 2006 – 7:41 pm
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 …
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 …
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 …
February 25, 2006 – 1:37 pm
p.k.14 – a tour of the public kingdom
It’s time to think about China and Guangzhou again as I’ll be in Hong Kong in two weeks and spending …
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 …
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 …
June 15, 2005 – 7:09 pm
sixth generation film
Wang Xiaoshuai’s Beijing Bicycle was a bit of an underground hit a couple of years ago – not that I …
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 26, 2005 – 12:42 am
bikes are bad
When I first arrived in Guangzhou, I was expecting to see more bicycles. I wasn’t too surprised by their relative …
May 25, 2005 – 1:08 pm
babes in beijing
In 1989, Rachel DeWoskin arrived in Beijing fresh from university to work for an American P.R. firm. Two months later …
May 7, 2005 – 11:44 pm
contemporary dance must die
A triple bill. Three times the fun. The 2nd Guangzhou Dance Festival is almost over, and Thursday night it was …
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 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 …
February 13, 2005 – 8:38 pm
gangstalean and beijing bookworm
So I go away for a couple of weeks, and look at all these new websites. Bloody hell, I’m glad …
February 12, 2005 – 2:14 pm
Rear Light – Beijing Dance at the Joyce
The 北京現代舞團 Beijing Modern Dance Company have been performing Read Light at the Joyce Theatre in New York. The Times …
January 8, 2005 – 3:31 pm
asian blog awards
The results are in for the 2004 Asian Blog Awards. Go over and check it out, and see some new …
December 24, 2004 – 12:26 pm
that’s gets shut down
Here a couple of days ago and gone today. That’s Magazines – Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai were a lifesaver when …
December 23, 2004 – 6:26 pm
give me toilet architecture or give me death
Professor Yu is going to be taking alot of shit for a while for thinking Rem Koolhaas should apologise for …
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 …
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 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 5, 2004 – 1:58 pm
architecture in beijing
The first architecture Biennial Beijing 2004 has just started in the capital, and Stefano Mirti, Simone Muscolino and Luca Poncellini …
October 4, 2004 – 8:15 pm
i hope someday you will join
The 迷笛现代音乐节 Midi Music Festival is on again in Beijing until today, which is probably the best festival in China …
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 5, 2004 – 12:30 am
北京舞蹈学院 Beijing Dance Academy 50th anniversary
The 北京舞蹈学院 Beijing Dance Academy will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary next week, which has attracted little attention, but if …
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 31, 2004 – 9:57 pm
北京娃娃 Beijing Doll
Early this year, Asian Times wrote a long article on lingei, the Chinese equivalent of Gen-X. Chun Shu, the author …
July 31, 2004 – 10:44 pm
comrades at trainspotting
This weekend at trainspotting in Beijing, there’s a mini-festival of queer films from China. If the sight of two men …
July 31, 2004 – 9:42 pm
北京现代舞团 beijing modern dance company – 《逆光》- rear light
北京现代舞团 – beijing modern dance company, one of the three or four contemporary dance companies in mainland China is getting …
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 …
June 27, 2004 – 9:26 pm
climbing in beijing
The magazine that got me out of my apartment and finding Guangzhou has a cover story on the one thing …
June 27, 2004 – 9:06 pm
films at 798 factories
798 Factories, the gallery/bookshop/bar scene in Beijing in a glorious old East German high-modernist arms factory screened two films last …
June 17, 2004 – 2:53 pm
cui jian – the father of chinese rock n roll
asia pacific arts has an interview with Cui Jian, the ‘father of Chinese rock n roll’, who started out playing …
June 11, 2004 – 11:21 pm
between past and future
The massive 10 year retrospective Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China has just opened in New …
June 11, 2004 – 10:42 pm
new media arts in Beijing
The international New Media Arts Exhibition Millenium Dialogue is running in Beijing at the moment, with students and lecturers from …
June 7, 2004 – 2:27 pm
Wang Qingsong makes art
Opening in a couple of days on June 11 is Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, …
June 4, 2004 – 9:57 pm
onedotzero in Beijing + Shanghai
China Daily has a piece on onedotzero the festival of digital film making its way to Beijing and Shanghai in …
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 9, 2004 – 5:53 pm
Architecture in Beijing
The future of Beijing architecture is roads, motorways, expressways, and making more and bigger urban streets. Xinhuanet wrote about the …
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 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 – 1:03 am
The Other Path – Landscape Initiatives project
Geri Wittig presented an overview of the C5 Landscape Initiative project at Beijing’s China Central Academy of Fine Arts yesterday. …
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 …