This is a very short reminder that Dasniya Sommer will in Brussels in July for her Yoga and Bondage, and …
June 19, 2011 – 1:50 am
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 – 12:34 pm
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 – 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 20, 2011 – 12:40 am
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 – 9:57 pm
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 – 6:55 pm
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 – 5:06 pm
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 – 4:26 pm
Reading: Paul Hockenos – Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic
paul hockenos – joschka fischer
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 19, 2011 – 10:25 pm
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 – 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 …
December 11, 2010 – 4:58 am
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 – 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 …
November 10, 2010 – 6:07 am
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 – 5:51 am
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 – 10:56 am
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 – 1:28 am
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 – 1:09 am
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 – 11:57 am
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 – 8:01 am
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 – 4:35 am
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 – 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 …
September 25, 2010 – 11:17 am
grunewald
Schlachtensee, Krume Lanke and the lakes along the east side of Grunewald have been my favourite walks around Berlin since …
September 19, 2010 – 1:59 am
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 – 4:34 am
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 – 8:50 am
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 – 4:24 am
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 – 1:33 am
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 – 2:33 am
grunewald schlachten see
Raining in steady endless sheets, grey and the faint sense of autumn already. While hiking around Vienna I thought I …
August 12, 2010 – 9:39 am
Werner Bab
One of the first sites I did as a freelancer was porting imdialog-ev.org from a dead cms into WordPress for …
July 29, 2010 – 4:45 am
die bäume bleiben
(Just before cycling back to rehearsal…) Our beautiful tree of Uferstrasse will remain for the moment. The Berliner Wasserbetriebe has …
July 17, 2010 – 2:17 am
Nowkoelln Flowmarkt
Because I never manage to be here on the one Sunday a month, and shall be gone to Vienna tomorrow …
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 27, 2010 – 1:07 pm
actually the whole purpose of this was…
actually the whole purpose of this was… actually the whole purpose of this was… actually the whole purpose of this …
June 8, 2010 – 1:16 am
late spring painting of leaves for arrival of summer
He carries a large white bucket and three different brushes, two delicate tied on to poles, one short and fat. …
June 3, 2010 – 1:18 am
there is a chimney on the other side…
… but not so much sun this spring. A view from my window in Wedding, over the BVG workshops, now …
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 18, 2010 – 4:10 am
reading: hanna arendt – eichmann in jerusalem
reading: hanna arendt – eichmann in jerusalem
May 6, 2010 – 7:37 am
brussels train
A week in Brussels. Much reading, three new books, two finished. Much cooking also, Hans, Aunschka, Paea whom I’ve not …
May 3, 2010 – 2:45 pm
reading: hanna arendt – eichmann and the holocaust
reading: hanna arendt – eichmann and the holocaust
May 1, 2010 – 3:37 am
I am a Muslim
Coming to Berlin caused my attention to drift to a small part of my life I know little about, and …
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 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 …
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 …
April 18, 2010 – 12:14 pm
Kirschblütenfest in den Asiatischen Gärten
Journeying far east to Erholungspark Marzhan and the Gärten der Welt for the Cherry Blossom Festival. Much apartment-stack architecture reminding …
April 7, 2010 – 3:56 am
absence
Not much blogging the last months and I feel shame. Though I have excuses. Firstly, the intermittent trackpad/keyboard freezing problem …
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 …
February 4, 2010 – 2:15 pm
anouk van dijk & falk richter – TRUST
The set is moody, gloomy, dark, chrome chairs and black leather sofa, matching seats, a stylist-industrial minimalist clutter extending back …
January 20, 2010 – 2:47 pm
Hermann Heisig – THEMSELVES ALREADY HOP!
The second performance of Saturday night in Tanztage’s Festsaal, Hermann Heisig’s THEMSELVES ALREADY HOP! is superficially opposed to almost the …
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 …
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 10, 2010 – 9:22 am
Jana Unmüßig – HAUS
I had planned to see only a couple of performances in Tanztage, I thought perhaps one a night over a …
January 10, 2010 – 7:25 am
Death by Glitter – Get a Leg Up
The third performance of Friday night, and barely making it in time while snacking on Thunfisch pizza on the tram …
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 7, 2010 – 10:33 am
Reading: Katherine Pratt Ewing – Stolen Honor – Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin
katherine pratt ewing – stolen honor
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 23, 2009 – 3:04 am
lx3 v2.1 1:1
While I suffer with what I shall call VogelschweinSARSgrippe, and ponder whether I can arrive in as many cities as …
November 4, 2009 – 3:12 pm
landwehr kanal mit schneeregen
Snow and ice in the early afternoon in Berlin. In November. I shall no longer pretend it is still autumn. …
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 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 …
October 7, 2009 – 9:32 am
i went to brussels … again
A week this time. To Flughaven Schönefeld, then to Bruxelles Airport, raining once more, grey from B to B. Here …
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 25, 2009 – 2:27 pm
riding home at night
Many other photos to show, of shibari chrome sex robots, and a nach dienstschluss mit Katrin, whom I am designing …
September 21, 2009 – 10:30 am
uferstr & kreuzberg & treptow
Sie sagt, “Kapitalismus muss weg!” mit Ihr Faust drohen, über ein €10 Zweiradschloss. Wir hat geradelt um Kreuzberg und Treptow, …
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 …
September 5, 2009 – 2:55 am
leaving the brauerei
For the last nine months, I’ve been living in a beautiful, isolated small apartment, by virtue of being on a …
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 28, 2009 – 12:57 pm
night and trees
I saw my darling Ivo perform last night at Halle. Sublimely brilliant and I shall attempt to write something on …
August 24, 2009 – 12:09 pm
i went to bruxelles… the weekend…
Ballet Friday, wandering the streets after and eating a lot. Mussels missed, but waffles, chocolate, pommes frites, beer, all yes. …
August 20, 2009 – 11:00 am
i went to bruxelles…
I was possessed by the desire to go to Brussels on Sunday last week, and in a fit of unusualness, …
August 19, 2009 – 12:42 pm
brauerei fast fertig
Soon I will have to leave my beloved hobo dachgeschoss. Eight months, surely one of the most beautiful homes in …
August 17, 2009 – 10:33 am
Yoga im August
Yoga in August for Berlinerinnen, two hours every Sunday and I think you should go. Liebe Augustinischen Yogis, Für jene …
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 …
August 8, 2009 – 11:48 am
häuslichkeit
I vacuum. Much hair. Häuslichwissenschaft. The grey fluff is, I suppose, mostly my skin. Grey and red. Occasional haferflocken. The …
August 5, 2009 – 1:53 pm
a chronology of burnt-out corpses
Mainly that I laughed and snorted when I read the title and looked at the familiar map of Berlin drowned …
July 25, 2009 – 6:00 am
nahe brauerei, sonnenblumen getötet
Playing with my camera yesterday during the rain, ah summer in Berlin would like to be tropical, but I miss …
July 19, 2009 – 4:18 am
Gunter Kroemer
Over much of this year I’ve been working with Christian Ender on rebuilding the code of one of his documentary …
July 15, 2009 – 1:32 pm
a plant a brewery
Learning more of depth of field and finally moving into the full manual mode on my LX3. It has a …
July 14, 2009 – 10:53 am
brauerei, alex im hintergrund
More playing with my camera. I wondered why shooting at f/4 was leaving the background in wide-angle shots a bit …
July 8, 2009 – 8:00 am
dasniyasommer.de
Because it’s… I’m watching WordPress install under the tessellated layers of windows open. I can see command lines march upwards, …
July 5, 2009 – 10:08 pm
one… eins
A year ago. A train from Frankfurt lulling me out of the delirium and endurance of 30 hours or more, …
July 4, 2009 – 9:07 pm
Daniel Jaber, Class at Marameo. July 6 – 17!
EXCELLENT!!! (which reminds me, I never saw the sequel) And I’ll miss this sequel also. Poo. Fliegen, fliegen, fliegen… splat! …
June 21, 2009 – 1:23 am
ich habe eine kamera. es ist schwarz
panasonic lx3 black noir schwarz miscellanea plus box and 8gb sdhc card panasonic lx3 and lens cap pasm! hotshoe! 4:3 …
June 18, 2009 – 1:31 am
Daniel Jaber, Tumbling at Marameo! June 22-26
Not that I shall be doing it, which sucks… Excellent fun!!! (more details on the flier…) Daniel Jaber – Tumbling …
June 16, 2009 – 3:39 am
bötzow brauerei beleuchtet bei nacht
An undertaking by night in the Brauerei. An unlikely moment where my poor camera has enough light to capture the …
June 1, 2009 – 5:48 pm
käse und brot
Still coming back to myself. Daniel arrived with much cheese and bread. Later I ate three steaks. Salt and meat, …
May 30, 2009 – 7:46 pm
i’m home now…
That’s all. where i was, tuesday till saturday from daniel… from dasniya…
May 27, 2009 – 3:18 am
im keller, 6ter stock… später in der buchhandlung und auch gewitterhagelsturm
A strange adventure with Daniel accompanying me and Matti translating on occasion. Kreuzberg near my old home, Dieffenbachstr, time too …
May 26, 2009 – 2:33 am
gewitterregen über bötzow brauerei
Summer, it has been decided will be stormy with displays of thunder and lightning. Much blowing of wind also. It …
May 20, 2009 – 3:25 am
brauerei schornstein… ohne schornstein
It is almost time for dinner. What little things have I done recently? Updated to OS X 10.5.7 which miraculously …
May 8, 2009 – 6:01 am
sonne um abenddämmerung… mehr regen
Tired. Allzu viele Wartezeiten für Termine. Allzu viele Termine. Bei jedem Schritt, Abhängigkeit. Mehr ich weiß nicht, wie zu sagen. …
May 8, 2009 – 5:40 am
super dickmann (and his ‘s)
Yes, really we laughed a lot. super dickmann’s … (super dickmann’s what?)
May 4, 2009 – 5:17 am
regnend…
I have been meaning to write a couple of long posts on dance, art, performance and instead spent much of …
May 1, 2009 – 11:43 pm
der 1. mai in berlin
I should really make a new category for Berlin… … Berlin. I should really get off Movable Type so when …
April 25, 2009 – 11:17 pm
yesterday evening
Another play with stitching panoramas… it really doesn’t convey the immensity or closeness of the Bötzow Brauerei that looms outside …
April 23, 2009 – 2:43 am
berlin frühlingszeit vielfalten
Someone said, “Oh your photos are very good, you must have a DSLR, no?” No. My camera three years ago …
April 18, 2009 – 2:26 am
ick bin fünf jahre alt (und ein wenig mehr)
mmm… ja, so… leider, ich habe nochmal vergaß. Meine erste Blog Geburtstag in Berlin! Det find’ ick schau. Das war …
April 12, 2009 – 5:20 am
a book is living
My sofa has a variously shaded crocheted lilac blanket I like to lie on, or curl up under, wrap around …
April 3, 2009 – 3:26 am
höhlenforschung im hof
I am sick, a little exhausted and run down and sad at the moment, not that I am ever so …
March 22, 2009 – 1:01 am
because i have been remiss…
I haven’t blogged much this month due to… oh I’m not sure, it just slips by sometimes and I think, …
March 3, 2009 – 8:43 pm
digging up the hof
When the sign on the door said please clean up the Hof and put your bicycles in the cellar, and …
February 25, 2009 – 9:18 pm
double happiness
Two excellent things in the last couple of days I shall endeavour to celebrate. Perhaps with wine and peanut butter. …
February 18, 2009 – 8:03 pm
some days of snow over the bötzow brauerei
Lina returned. Monday night via Hermannplatz. I remember the M41 does not lead towards me. The last few days have …
February 12, 2009 – 11:47 pm
nach dem schnee… ganz kalt…
I borrowed Lina’s camera. I’d forgotten what it’s like to have a good camera, one that can zoom and frame …
February 11, 2009 – 7:21 am
starker schnee-regen… oder maßiger…
More of a dusting of water frozen out of the air. Lina arrived from Amsterdam, it rained and the slate …
February 7, 2009 – 11:51 pm
Bötzow-Brauerei the next day…
My camera is not so good. Well, it is my phone actually, so rather good for what it was three …
February 7, 2009 – 12:11 am
Bötzow-Brauerei
Quite often I look out my window, across the warm brick expanse of… I wonder what it is, a vast …
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 …
January 29, 2009 – 1:26 am
von berlin hbf nach freiburg… again
To Freiburg, wondering if there is a future for me here, in Germany or Berlin or… and passing through Spandau …
January 22, 2009 – 4:19 am
a retrospective
Sitting in my lounge with Daniel talking about dance and my old works, many of which I am still very …
January 21, 2009 – 11:47 pm
things to do at silverfuture this weekend
Because I haven’t been there for oh so too long, and I need a bit of queer drunkenness… and books …
January 18, 2009 – 10:58 pm
Annemarie Schwarzenbach
And so I discovered Annamarie Schwarzenbach, who to a certain kind of Berlinerin is probably quite famous, yet in English …
January 1, 2009 – 11:47 pm
my new house…
Moving again, nearby, a hobo attic suspended above Berlin. Daniel, Gala and Vanessa for Silverster dinner, Suisse cheese fondue, roast …
December 27, 2008 – 4:56 am
volkspark friedrichshain
I thought it was a park to walk through, but it was a graveyard. It is the Alter Friedhof der …
December 25, 2008 – 7:15 pm
weihnacht…
… with Daniel, Gala and Jörges, and breathtaking Weihnacht decorations, much food, Wieners, drinking… more of the same today. satan …
December 23, 2008 – 11:50 pm
schlachtensee again…
Last time I was here it was autumn. Today with Gala, the day after her birthday, cold but again blue …
December 3, 2008 – 12:26 am
departure…
A few small things to remember by. A room in a house on a street called Borstal. A windmill visible …
November 21, 2008 – 7:53 pm
ich werde pirat
Saturday morning I shall rise at an unfortunately early hour and stumble towards Flughaven Tegel. I hope I go the …
November 19, 2008 – 10:27 pm
transgender day of remembrance
For any queer trans* Berliners who read me, there is a meeting tomorrow night 6pm, at my favourite bar, Silverfuture, …
November 12, 2008 – 9:46 pm
landwehrkanal
Along the Landwehrkanal on my bicycle going west, some blue sky and sun today, though cold. I kept riding till …
November 10, 2008 – 12:17 am
finishing
This week I made a decision I’ve been thinking about on and off for years, and always delayed because somehow …
October 29, 2008 – 1:06 am
mehlwurm
In the opposite direction to my original intent, Alex Platz, down Alte Jacobstr, often an unmemorable street, at one intersection …
October 25, 2008 – 11:36 pm
ich habe deutsche gelernt… ein bisschen
Oh it’s finished. A month of learning German five hours a day, grammar grammar grammar… my brain hurt from all …
October 20, 2008 – 3:34 am
lustgarten und der palast der republic
It was an assignment for German class, to wander from the Goethe Institut to Hackescher Markt and then across the …
October 19, 2008 – 10:02 pm
where i was last night…
When people ask me why I came to Berlin, I say, well partly for the dance, and partly for living. …
October 12, 2008 – 6:02 pm
from nikolassee to grunewaldsee via schlachtensee
Much welcome distraction these last few days as a visit from my delightful hobo has kept me both awake and …
October 12, 2008 – 5:14 pm
Reading: Walter Benjamin – Berlin Childhood around 1900
The last few days I have enjoyed the rather delectable company of a hobo formerly from Berlin, now residing in …
October 3, 2008 – 5:58 am
walking in graefe-kiez
Still I am thinking of my walk to ballet each morning and how oh perhaps tomorrow or next week I …
September 30, 2008 – 4:43 pm
where i am…
Oh a long pause… oops… not from lack of things to say, just fallen out of the habit. So, for …
September 24, 2008 – 11:50 pm
kreuzberg 10967
I have moved. A home. For a while, my own room, a bed, unpacked suitcases, books on top of a …
September 18, 2008 – 1:53 am
englisch buchhandlungen aus berlin
(I was waiting until I’d visited a few more bookshops, but I’ve been distracted with writing applications, and know it …
September 17, 2008 – 1:46 am
surfacing…
The last week was spent mostly writing applications for residencies. Four of them due yesterday and feeling a little worn …
September 9, 2008 – 3:11 am
some u-bahnhof & s-bahnhof i have visited
I’ve visited many more and find them all delightful and yummy thick ceramic tiles and iron girders with fat rivets …
September 4, 2008 – 4:42 am
köpenickenstr wagenburg
I’ll try and remember where I began. It was last night. Was I searching for something for someone? Was I …
August 31, 2008 – 7:34 am
rosa luxemburg platz
Wandering around the Volksbühne in the evening on the way to eat Burritos. A new bookshop discovered, much laziness, food …
August 29, 2008 – 5:47 am
revalerstr 99
This week a haze has descended on me, it is easier to stay in bed safe in the folds of …
August 26, 2008 – 6:49 pm
kreuzberg… s036
Looking for… turned around exiting the u-bahn, dampness and grey Berlin wears comfortably. Some cities resent their weather, others, Guangzhou …
August 22, 2008 – 3:56 am
hadlichstraße… a cigarette dancing factory
I often muse on how dance takes me into peculiar, old, strange, uninhabited, alien places. Old cities are amassed with …
August 19, 2008 – 10:04 pm
someone arrives…
rosenthaler platz sunday night u-bahn rosenthaler platz gauloises… still life… beer, smoking, sugar, ashtray someone arrives… daniel
August 16, 2008 – 8:21 pm
chuang tzu again…
About a week ago, a quote from Chuang Tzu turned up on The Useless Tree (another shortly after explaining just …
August 14, 2008 – 3:44 am
small adventures in the black canal
I keep hitting my head on this when I stand up, so I had to move the chair. mmm… comfortable …
August 10, 2008 – 6:49 am
von freiburg nach berlin…
Thick carpets of tall brown grass and wild flowers, tiny floating like halos above on gentle seductive hills. I wanted …
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 …
July 11, 2008 – 1:23 am
s-/u-bahn,m-bus/tram
Up… down… up… down… walking, thinking, sitting on the s- or u-bahn, watching the world letting my thoughts drift, Berlin, …
July 7, 2008 – 11:41 pm
Juedisches Museum Berlin
I went to the Juedische Museum Berlin today. juedisches museum berlin – 1 juedisches museum berlin – 2 juedisches museum …
July 7, 2008 – 6:05 am
the remainder of the weekend
I don’t understand what I’m looking at. This afternoon, again in Rosenthalerplatz, I decided to walk much of the way …
July 6, 2008 – 1:54 am
ADL-SYD-FRA-BER
Adelaide to Sydney, upgraded to business class due to length of leg, and three seats to myself, the opportune westerly …
July 1, 2008 – 12:49 pm
my life
Packed. Waiting for the shipping company. Everything I have, in storage for most of four years, and now to return. …
December 9, 2007 – 1:40 pm
Reading: Norman Page – Auden and Isherwood – The Berlin Years
norman page – auden and isherwood – the berlin years
July 16, 2007 – 2:52 pm
we were thinking about each other
I returned to Judith Butler last week, beginning a rereading of Gender Trouble and placing Undoing Gender on order at …
April 19, 2007 – 10:47 am
dance for obsessive-compulsives
Emile is almost at the end of his winter of Rotterdam, that sent him to the Spielraum in Berlin for …
April 14, 2007 – 7:38 pm
b-file
Falling asleep while passing time in a nearby bookstore while waiting for Michael to arrive in the distant north of …
March 9, 2007 – 8:41 am
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, …
March 1, 2007 – 3:56 pm
secret service
John Jasperse has been in town the last couple of weeks, making a work with Becky Hilton and jodi Meinick, …
February 16, 2007 – 2:46 pm
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 …
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 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 …
September 6, 2005 – 4:26 am
hugo wolf projekt
Like I write about everyone from DanceWEB who tells me about their shows, so now I’m going to do the …