Reminder: Yoga and Shibari Workshops – Belgium, July

This is a very short reminder that Dasniya Sommer will in Brussels in July for her Yoga and Bondage, and …

Finissage der KunstAktienausstellung

Saturday night was the Finissage of the KunstAktienausstellung in Uferhallen. Some hours were spent wandering around the entire Hallen looking …

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 …

drilling foundations at night

Riding home from Yoga+Bondage with Dasniya, around 1am the city still, especially along my favourite to-and-from Kreuzberg route. From Oranienplatz …

first y+b nameless

Most of the days since I returned from Brussels have been occupied with doings at nameless. Scraping, vacuuming (it survived), …

cartwheel again

I thought perhaps these were better separate from a Yoga+Bondage workshop. The last few days have been busy at nameless, …

cartwheel

It reminded me a little of China Miéville’s Handstand, except the pigeon was perhaps making a no-handed cartwheel. We have …

Morning Yoga – Wedding, Berlin

For the coming months, I will be teaching a morning yoga class at nameless. Class will initially be on Tuesday …

knoten-unknoten

Last night I stumbled upon knots and suspensions in the most unlikely of places (a bit like how after having …

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 …

dasniya sommer spring / summer yoga + shibari programme

Some workshops and classes from Dasniya in the coming months: On Wednesday evenings in Kreuzberg, the Yoga and Bondage class …

(renamed as) mm ∫-1x dt/dv ≥ ⨍(dy:fr:hf)

The last few days, Dasniya, Hartmut and myself had been in another Fabrik, with another mobile gantry. More dust and …

mein lesbisches auge 10

Some weeks ago, I was called upon to get an image ready for print with a half-hour, mid-night deadline; the …

Yoga and Shibari Workshops – July – Brussels

Returning to Brussels, in July Dasniya Sommer will be teaching two Yoga+Bondage workshops at Charleroi Danses – La Raffinerie. The …

bvg ∫-1x dt/dv ≥ ⨍(dy:fr:hf) … again

A couple of weeks ago, the delightful Nicole from La Monnaie came to visit. We sat outside Café Pförtner in …

Yoga&Shibari 27.4.

Wednesday has become a long day for me. Cycling to and from training in the morning, with the two hours …

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 …

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 …

Reading: Paul Hockenos – Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic

paul hockenos – joschka fischer

‘Yoga und Shibari’ – April/ Mai / Juni – Berlin

From Dasniya Sommer, our adventures in the coming months, a return of Yoga + Shibari classes, as well as some …

bvg ∫-1x dt/dv ≥ ⨍(dy:fr:hf)

(Which is harder to write when you can’t plop in some mathematical notation.) There’s a lot happening at Uferhallen lately. …

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 …

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 …

after the weekend of ropes

Jochen has a beautiful workshop in Ohlauerstr, near the Görlitzer Park, an old and vast Fabrik dressed in olive green …

Yoga & Shibari Workshop in March

From Dasniya Sommer: YOGA & SHIBARI WORKSHOP/ OPERATIC ROPES Liebe Leute, am ersten Märzwochenende (5./6.) unterrichten wir einen 2 tägigen …

berlin to brussels … again …

Much packing, organising, turning off of fridge, plants watering, courier arriving, eating the remainders of the fridge. (and so on.) …

uferstrasse snow

It’s not the Gulf Stream collapsing. It’s not going to be the coldest winter in 1000 years. The North Atlantic …

Parsifal

(Wherein I reveal what I’ve been biting my tongue about for months…) Dasniya said (perhaps in August), “The Opera in …

Shibari Technique December

While Dasniya is away on tour, I will be teaching the Tuesday evening Shibari Technique classes. The address is: “Buffet …

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 …

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 …

some sunday evening shibari attempts

No, I haven’t been writing here much lately (again). I took a week off and went to Brussels, staying with …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Uferstrasse Trees

A few months ago various people in Uferstrasse got together to save some trees that were to be felled in …

grunewald again…

How did that happen? A month and hot a single hike or walk. I thought perhaps it had been two …

uferhallen at night

Apparently the fire department will come and take me down if I attempt to climb the chimney in Uferhallen. Well, …

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 …

uferhallen – autumn

A warm autumn afternoon yesterday with Michael, come all the way from Madrid. A morning cleaning, and more warmth of …

grunewald

Schlachtensee, Krume Lanke and the lakes along the east side of Grunewald have been my favourite walks around Berlin since …

Dasniya Sommer Shibari Workshop October Berlin (+ Finland and other things…)

Dasniya will be teaching Yoga and Shibari / Rope Techniques workshop in Berlin Kreuzberg on October 1st-3rd. Also, the very …

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 …

zwei jahre aufenthaltstitel

Not much writing here lately, being distracted with a couple of large design projects and miscellaneous other things (mostly involving …

london again

Dasniya received some photos of her and us at the London Festival of the Art of Japanese Bondage a couple …

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 …

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 …

hips hip knee knee

Somehow my hip has decided to fall apart. And my knee. Boring not to be able to dance, ride, yoga, …

Christoph Schlingensief

christoph schlingensief

grunewald schlachten see

Raining in steady endless sheets, grey and the faint sense of autumn already. While hiking around Vienna I thought I …

Werner Bab

One of the first sites I did as a freelancer was porting imdialog-ev.org from a dead cms into WordPress for …

die bäume bleiben

(Just before cycling back to rehearsal…) Our beautiful tree of Uferstrasse will remain for the moment. The Berliner Wasserbetriebe has …

Nowkoelln Flowmarkt

Because I never manage to be here on the one Sunday a month, and shall be gone to Vienna tomorrow …

two… zwei

Two years now. And it was yesterday. I arrived in Berlin after some hours from Frankfurt on the train, easier …

arrive…

Around twenty minutes before the decent would reach its terminal conclusion, I fell asleep, the Airbus landing, front or side …

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 …

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 …

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. …

shibari oskar helene heim

On the weekend, Dasniya and I travelled south-west to near Wannsee, Oskar Helene Heim, an old hospital now taken over …

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 …

Yoga & Shibari Brussels

Dasniya will be teaching Yoga and Bondage workshop in Brussels at the start of July. Excitement! Hello people! at the …

fontographie

Early rising to Kreuzberg and after a time to wake Matthi up in Reichenbergerstr. Breakfast peanutbutter and coffee, talking across …

reading: hanna arendt – eichmann in jerusalem

reading: hanna arendt – eichmann in jerusalem

brussels train

A week in Brussels. Much reading, three new books, two finished. Much cooking also, Hans, Aunschka, Paea whom I’ve not …

reading: hanna arendt – eichmann and the holocaust

reading: hanna arendt – eichmann and the holocaust

I am a Muslim

Coming to Berlin caused my attention to drift to a small part of my life I know little about, and …

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 …

SXF – BRU

This evening I wander west again, europe no longer under the baleful eye of Eyjafjallajökull, though I do find volcanoes …

bike

Once upon a time I had a beautiful bike. She was stolen. I cried. I came to Berlin. Trudel lent …

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 …

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 …

reading: sven regener – berlin blues

sven regener – berlin blues

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 …

some days in london … part one

Arriving late. Dasniya and I caught the ring S-Bahn to Flughaven Schönefeld certainly one of the most dreary airports belonging …

japanese bondage live drawing

Monday at the London Festival of Japanese Rope Bondage, something of a quieter day for all of us finished with …

FR ⊂ DY

Dasniya and I have been talking for some time about performing together, mostly between either ideas for works I’m thinking …

dasniya sommer dvd

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on a project for Dasniya Sommer, for whom I did her …

absence

Not much blogging the last months and I feel shame. Though I have excuses. Firstly, the intermittent trackpad/keyboard freezing problem …

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 …

rope techniques

More Shibari with Dasniya, now in Kreuzberg. Much fun. Jeden Mittwoch 20 -22 h Shibari Technik in Kreuzberg An diesen …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Jana Unmüßig – HAUS

I had planned to see only a couple of performances in Tanztage, I thought perhaps one a night over a …

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 …

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 …

Reading: Katherine Pratt Ewing – Stolen Honor – Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin

katherine pratt ewing – stolen honor

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. …

solstice

Taoism struggles against the cultural preference for the “light.” The Tao Te Ching, especially, champions the low, the dark. Darkness …

various things… some reading… a proper beginning

Daniel (no, not you, another one) says, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, and so begins again. Reading, thinking, …

seile

I bought some rope today. From Fesseltrieb in far east Sonnenallee, biking through a first biting day of winter, clear …

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 …

landwehr kanal mit schneeregen

Snow and ice in the early afternoon in Berlin. In November. I shall no longer pretend it is still autumn. …

Reading… a 2nd anniversary

My reading the last year has not been of either the volume, nor the breadth of the previous, in no …

bondage basics

More from Dasniya, who shall be teaching a two day workshop in Shibari in November. Certainly one of the highlights …

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 …

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 …

i have a futon

The last time I saw my futon was, I think, early last year when I temporarily removed from storage all …

riding home at night

Many other photos to show, of shibari chrome sex robots, and a nach dienstschluss mit Katrin, whom I am designing …

uferstr & kreuzberg & treptow

Sie sagt, “Kapitalismus muss weg!” mit Ihr Faust drohen, über ein €10 Zweiradschloss. Wir hat geradelt um Kreuzberg und Treptow, …

osada steve

A couple of days before I began my current day job, a Thursday evening, having done some fast coding, I …

leaving the brauerei

For the last nine months, I’ve been living in a beautiful, isolated small apartment, by virtue of being on a …

som faves

Ivo says, ” you know I was very suspicious about its qualities and I will still be…”. Though not in …

night and trees

I saw my darling Ivo perform last night at Halle. Sublimely brilliant and I shall attempt to write something on …

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. …

i went to bruxelles…

I was possessed by the desire to go to Brussels on Sunday last week, and in a fit of unusualness, …

brauerei fast fertig

Soon I will have to leave my beloved hobo dachgeschoss. Eight months, surely one of the most beautiful homes in …

Yoga im August

Yoga in August for Berlinerinnen, two hours every Sunday and I think you should go. Liebe Augustinischen Yogis, Für jene …

plants vs brauerei

Somehow I stumbled back onto a couple who inspired my greatly years ago when I first started computers and design …

häuslichkeit

I vacuum. Much hair. Häuslichwissenschaft. The grey fluff is, I suppose, mostly my skin. Grey and red. Occasional haferflocken. The …

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 …

nahe brauerei, sonnenblumen getötet

Playing with my camera yesterday during the rain, ah summer in Berlin would like to be tropical, but I miss …

Gunter Kroemer

Over much of this year I’ve been working with Christian Ender on rebuilding the code of one of his documentary …

a plant a brewery

Learning more of depth of field and finally moving into the full manual mode on my LX3. It has a …

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 …

dasniyasommer.de

Because it’s… I’m watching WordPress install under the tessellated layers of windows open. I can see command lines march upwards, …

one… eins

A year ago. A train from Frankfurt lulling me out of the delirium and endurance of 30 hours or more, …

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! …

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 …

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 …

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 …

käse und brot

Still coming back to myself. Daniel arrived with much cheese and bread. Later I ate three steaks. Salt and meat, …

i’m home now…

That’s all. where i was, tuesday till saturday from daniel… from dasniya…

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 …

gewitterregen über bötzow brauerei

Summer, it has been decided will be stormy with displays of thunder and lightning. Much blowing of wind also. It …

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 …

SUNN O))) @ Volksbühne/Prater

SUNN O))) @ Volksbühne/Prater Berlin, Berlin Sunday, May 24 2009, 8:00 PM — ideologic MUSIKBÜHNE: SUNN O))) So. 24.05.2009, 20:00 …

brauerei… nochmal…

chimney in sky bötzow brauerei at dusk

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. …

super dickmann (and his ‘s)

Yes, really we laughed a lot. super dickmann’s … (super dickmann’s what?)

regnend…

I have been meaning to write a couple of long posts on dance, art, performance and instead spent much of …

der 1. mai in berlin

I should really make a new category for Berlin… … Berlin. I should really get off Movable Type so when …

yesterday evening

Another play with stitching panoramas… it really doesn’t convey the immensity or closeness of the Bötzow Brauerei that looms outside …

berlin frühlingszeit vielfalten

Someone said, “Oh your photos are very good, you must have a DSLR, no?” No. My camera three years ago …

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 …

a book is living

My sofa has a variously shaded crocheted lilac blanket I like to lie on, or curl up under, wrap around …

höhlenforschung im hof

I am sick, a little exhausted and run down and sad at the moment, not that I am ever so …

i was…

… going to title this “all hail the true metal warriors”, in a private joke for myself, which I think …

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, …

digging up the hof

When the sign on the door said please clean up the Hof and put your bicycles in the cellar, and …

double happiness

Two excellent things in the last couple of days I shall endeavour to celebrate. Perhaps with wine and peanut butter. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Bötzow-Brauerei

Quite often I look out my window, across the warm brick expanse of… I wonder what it is, a vast …

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 …

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 …

a retrospective

Sitting in my lounge with Daniel talking about dance and my old works, many of which I am still very …

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 …

Annemarie Schwarzenbach

And so I discovered Annamarie Schwarzenbach, who to a certain kind of Berlinerin is probably quite famous, yet in English …

my new house…

Moving again, nearby, a hobo attic suspended above Berlin. Daniel, Gala and Vanessa for Silverster dinner, Suisse cheese fondue, roast …

volkspark friedrichshain

I thought it was a park to walk through, but it was a graveyard. It is the Alter Friedhof der …

weihnacht…

… with Daniel, Gala and Jörges, and breathtaking Weihnacht decorations, much food, Wieners, drinking… more of the same today. satan …

schlachtensee again…

Last time I was here it was autumn. Today with Gala, the day after her birthday, cold but again blue …

departure…

A few small things to remember by. A room in a house on a street called Borstal. A windmill visible …

ich werde pirat

Saturday morning I shall rise at an unfortunately early hour and stumble towards Flughaven Tegel. I hope I go the …

transgender day of remembrance

For any queer trans* Berliners who read me, there is a meeting tomorrow night 6pm, at my favourite bar, Silverfuture, …

landwehrkanal

Along the Landwehrkanal on my bicycle going west, some blue sky and sun today, though cold. I kept riding till …

finishing

This week I made a decision I’ve been thinking about on and off for years, and always delayed because somehow …

mehlwurm

In the opposite direction to my original intent, Alex Platz, down Alte Jacobstr, often an unmemorable street, at one intersection …

deathline in berlin

Oh Miss K you were one of the first blogs I discovered and one of the first tranny blogs also, …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

Reading: walter benjamin – illuminations

walter benjamin – illuminations

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 …

walking in graefe-kiez

Still I am thinking of my walk to ballet each morning and how oh perhaps tomorrow or next week I …

where i am…

Oh a long pause… oops… not from lack of things to say, just fallen out of the habit. So, for …

kreuzberg 10967

I have moved. A home. For a while, my own room, a bed, unpacked suitcases, books on top of a …

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 …

u-bahn turmstrasse

u-bahn turm strasse

surfacing…

The last week was spent mostly writing applications for residencies. Four of them due yesterday and feeling a little worn …

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 …

köpenickenstr wagenburg

I’ll try and remember where I began. It was last night. Was I searching for something for someone? Was I …

rosa luxemburg platz

Wandering around the Volksbühne in the evening on the way to eat Burritos. A new bookshop discovered, much laziness, food …

revalerstr 99

This week a haze has descended on me, it is easier to stay in bed safe in the folds of …

kreuzberg… s036

Looking for… turned around exiting the u-bahn, dampness and grey Berlin wears comfortably. Some cities resent their weather, others, Guangzhou …

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 …

someone arrives…

rosenthaler platz sunday night u-bahn rosenthaler platz gauloises… still life… beer, smoking, sugar, ashtray someone arrives… daniel

chuang tzu again…

About a week ago, a quote from Chuang Tzu turned up on The Useless Tree (another shortly after explaining just …

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 …

von freiburg nach berlin…

Thick carpets of tall brown grass and wild flowers, tiny floating like halos above on gentle seductive hills. I wanted …

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 …

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 …

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, …

Juedisches Museum Berlin

I went to the Juedische Museum Berlin today. juedisches museum berlin – 1 juedisches museum berlin – 2 juedisches museum …

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 …

ADL-SYD-FRA-BER

Adelaide to Sydney, upgraded to business class due to length of leg, and three seats to myself, the opportune westerly …

my life

Packed. Waiting for the shipping company. Everything I have, in storage for most of four years, and now to return. …

Reading: Norman Page – Auden and Isherwood – The Berlin Years

norman page – auden and isherwood – the berlin years

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 …

dance for obsessive-compulsives

Emile is almost at the end of his winter of Rotterdam, that sent him to the Spielraum in Berlin for …

b-file

Falling asleep while passing time in a nearby bookstore while waiting for Michael to arrive in the distant north of …

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, …

secret service

John Jasperse has been in town the last couple of weeks, making a work with Becky Hilton and jodi Meinick, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

hugo wolf projekt

Like I write about everyone from DanceWEB who tells me about their shows, so now I’m going to do the …

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