Half a million people stuck in the Guangzhou Train Station, over 100 trains carrying thousands of people each stranded in …
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 …
June 19, 2007 – 10:30 pm
冯三七 canton disaster relief blogging
John is responsible for much of my email. He only knows this now. But I read it all, after-all, I …
May 30, 2007 – 8:07 pm
stir-fried poultry
I had some time spare yesterday amidst the stream of meetings and appointments, so went on a hot date with …
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 24, 2007 – 5:01 pm
it’s all about 冯三七 … i mean feng37 … i mean john
A couple of weeks ago, John Kennedy – also known as contemporary Chinese poetry translator Feng37 – thought that getting …
December 11, 2006 – 10:26 pm
英西峰林走廊攀岩 rock climbing in qingyuan county
Under many different names but mostly known to us as Kowloon as in what Mongkok is a part of in …
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 1, 2006 – 6:14 pm
2006中国(广州)国际纪录片大会 Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival
A bit slack lately blogging about my favourite city, Guangzhou. Yes I do love it that much. 曹斐 Cao Fei, …
November 1, 2006 – 3:26 pm
两块一个走 – 2 kuai a zou
One afternoon in, I guess late April, I took Emile and Paul for a stroll through my favourite part of …
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 …
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 …
August 18, 2006 – 10:08 pm
广州有毒液体泄 – Guangzhou liquid inferno
There has been a large chemical leak in 天河区 Tian He District of Guangzhou, near 东圃石溪 Dongpushi Creek today. The …
August 17, 2006 – 5:55 pm
东山 – guangzhou’s merchant suburb
The night in 2003 I spent walking around Dong Shan in the rain and wet heat was perhaps the night …
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 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 27, 2006 – 2:38 pm
岭南启示录 apocalypse prd – eazy-z in g-town
Along with glad tidings of impending theatrical malfeasance from Emile yesterday, he also had a small package of love for …
July 7, 2006 – 6:57 pm
三元里 san yuan li in new york
Ou Ning of Alternative Archive, who does spend more time in airports than me, and possibly the person mostly likely …
July 4, 2006 – 5:13 pm
bird flu in nar nar goon
I’ve had a very unintentional absence from the world after landing in Melbourne on Friday. Saturday evening I became sick …
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 28, 2006 – 6:59 pm
食色性也
食色性也。食饱思淫欲。 liao xinxin, nikita, jie paso, fangzheng, claire, emma 廖欣欣, nikita, 陈志杰, 方正, 冯嘉怡, 郑慕雅
June 21, 2006 – 10:07 pm
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – Apocalypse 1626.666
Besides spelling mistakes and irregular comprehension of names, the DVD of 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD is nearly finished, in fact tomorrow …
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 17, 2006 – 8:52 pm
guangzhou islands, graves, dead rivers and southern barbarians
Reading maps can describe places that have vanished, ghost inscriptions of shifting fringes, more so in places where geography itself …
May 30, 2006 – 1:09 am
KCR Guangzhou to Dongguan again
My once monthly trip to Hong Kong was under a leaden and saturated sky. Guangzhou and much of the province …
May 27, 2006 – 1:23 am
famous in haizhu
Following on from the attention 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD got in 周末画报 Modern Weekly, I spent the afternoon in Haizhu Park …
May 26, 2006 – 10:07 pm
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – more of the same…
Still more stuff is turning up in the post-show blur across the internet. On the night of the dress rehearsal, …
May 26, 2006 – 4:12 am
collapsing old buildings
There is a small part of Guangzhou where I am disoriented and nearly convinced I am actually in Zürich walking …
May 17, 2006 – 5:38 pm
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – uber_lingua
Everyone has gone. Emile is back in Melbourne now, and tomorrow is making Guangzhou sounds at St Jerome’s. Remember, each …
May 16, 2006 – 3:42 pm
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – byte-aftermath
Paul and Emile left last night after a fine dinner with everyone at 1920, the German café on 沿江路 Yanjiang …
May 14, 2006 – 1:40 am
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – typhoon chanchu
Yesterday was one of those days I really wanted to not happen. It reminded me of a few other pre-show …
May 11, 2006 – 11:30 am
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – smell of greasepaint
The last week has been a conscious block for me when it has come to choreographing the bikini-high-heel dance-a-thon/showgirl-on-nembutal-and-acid bit. …
May 10, 2006 – 11:45 am
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – costume drama
We’re doing a lot of just running sections now, accruing detail and coherency through repetition, but still to finish are …
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 …
May 9, 2006 – 11:24 am
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – don’t call this a remount
It’s mental week now, doing the costume shopping, organising lots of little things that sprout up like an Oxalis frenzy. …
May 7, 2006 – 5:56 pm
a visit to the sex market
South-East Asia’s biggest sex market that is, though I always expected Thailand, or Korea or Japan who have the first …
May 7, 2006 – 2:54 am
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – 春宫图 spring palace lust
When I was researching hell in Guangzhou in December last year, I picked up from the now-defunct but hitherto infamous …
May 3, 2006 – 10:46 pm
粤剧 canton opera madness
A mad day of shopping for the performance, which now has a name: 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD. I’m not sure about …
May 2, 2006 – 10:36 pm
storm over shaheding
A plan to catch a taxi home from rehearsal fell apart when I really couldn’t pretend I can catch taxis …
April 30, 2006 – 3:21 pm
10 = marquido + itta
Before it all passes me by again and I’m still looking like an imbecile going … wuuuuh … ? this …
April 28, 2006 – 1:02 pm
still lazy (but reading like a concubine at an orgy)
I just can’t seem to get focussed on blogging at the moment, I think because my schedule is a little …
April 24, 2006 – 10:15 pm
New Order’s Peter Hook Guangzhou Babyface DJ set
One of the most influential bands on me from when I first heard the pounding of Blue Monday, and I …
April 24, 2006 – 7:02 pm
请平, 荔湾 Qingping Market and Liwan
There are certain intangible things I love about Guangzhou. Most of them are west of an imaginary and real divider …
April 23, 2006 – 8:15 pm
第三届广东现代舞周 3rd Guangdong Modern Dance Festival
Last year I was less than flattering about the dance I saw at the 第二届广东现代舞周 2nd Guangdong Modern Dance Festival, …
April 23, 2006 – 2:53 am
endless city
In one of my earlier science-fiction gorges, populated mostly by Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, occasionally Philip K. Dick, and …
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 – 6:29 pm
a couple of anniversaries i forgot…
I’m really not one for anniversaries, and have even forgotten my birthday a couple of times, but feeling the need …
April 8, 2006 – 4:12 pm
welcome to japanese new music festival
I just want to lick something drenched in acid. That’s twice I’ve seen Acid Mothers Temple and my immediate response …
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 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, …
April 1, 2006 – 3:29 pm
acid mothers temple! guangzhou!
“Welcome to Japanese New Music Festival” I am officially a groupie, and I’m so excited I can’t even type properly. …
March 30, 2006 – 12:15 pm
bird flu
I’ve had Bird Flu for the last few days, I know because I checked the symptoms on the internet, and …
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 18, 2006 – 9:15 pm
a pothole in jiulong
So I came back early. It was getting wet, which was slightly funny considering it hadn’t really dried, and trying …
March 17, 2006 – 11:08 pm
eeeeeee!!! blog!!!!
I was going to write a whole bunch of stuff about a whole pile of stuff, lots of exciting Guangzhou …
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 6, 2006 – 8:15 pm
pearl river bikini party
Once, hanging out down on Shamian Island, and wanting to be, I dunno, somewhere less touristy, I saw Chairman Mao …
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 18, 2006 – 1:36 pm
destination prd
In my daily ploughing through a couple of hundred RSS feeds, I read from Danwei, there’s a new quarterly magazine …
February 17, 2006 – 2:20 pm
my name is 张德江 Zhang Dejiang
I’ve been slowly limiting my China obsession to merely a Guangdong Province one. Mainly because China is simply too vast …
February 15, 2006 – 8:44 pm
transylvania avenue
Cosmin, who was one of the mob of Guangzhou climbers that descended on Jiulong every weekend while I was in …
December 29, 2005 – 3:18 pm
先锋光芒 – ray of the avante garde
Guangzhou’s 广州中华影城 Zhonghua Cinema is running a festival of recent Chinese films, 先锋光芒–中国青年导演电影展映（柏林篇）Ray of the Avante Garde – Chinese Young …
December 26, 2005 – 3:00 pm
don’t drink the brown acid
The first time it was almost world news; the second when upstart southern capital Guangzhou tried to get in on …
December 26, 2005 – 12:40 pm
i like my guangzhou underground
I have such a soft spot for the city Lonely Planet used to advise everyone to don’t-stop-just-keep-on-going-on-to-the-Real-China, and now describe …
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 12, 2005 – 2:53 pm
chinese mediaculture
One of the works at the 第二届广州三年展 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, the Beijing Boom Tower, has come back to me in …
December 7, 2005 – 5:17 pm
kcr – guangzhou to dongguan
The Kowloon to Guangzhou through train is one of the weirdest train rides I’ve been on, and it’s one I’ve …
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 …
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 …
December 1, 2005 – 8:09 pm
a taxi ride
Going from Huanshi Dong Lu to Jiangnan Dadao, across the river and along the inner city elevated freeways that snake …
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 28, 2005 – 3:55 am
z-town to g-town
The flight wasn’t as bad as I’d thought it would be, though getting screwed at Hong Kong airport for a …
November 23, 2005 – 9:28 pm
airport lounging
I’m travelling to Hong Kong early Friday morning so my abuse of bandwidth and the internet has slowed to a …
November 7, 2005 – 8:10 pm
x-sports in china
One of the last times I went climbing at Jiulong, was the monster Hong Kong/Southern China climbers visit to Bamboo …
November 4, 2005 – 9:23 pm
the satanic orgy of meat
I never went to the real animal markets in Guangzhou. I arrived in the city as a vegetarian, but after …
October 31, 2005 – 4:06 am
dongxi wants stuff
I got an email a couple of days ago from the editors of the about to be published dongxi magazine. …
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 27, 2005 – 3:57 pm
太石村 taishi village – in the media
Sometimes everyone likes jumping on an event for no real reason, and forgets, ignores and generally pretends others haven’t happened. …
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 11, 2005 – 3:01 am
太石村 taishi village – so much for feeling happy
A while ago, I wrote about the 太石村 Taishi village election in Panyu District of Guangzhou, and how it was …
October 9, 2005 – 1:00 am
you must wait for democracy
China and democracy. Well there goes easy access to my website in China. The meme of China and its globally …
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 – 1:04 am
royal hong kong circus tour of guangzhou
One of the events of last week which was variously setting a precedent, and ice-breaking on the level of Nixon …
September 21, 2005 – 1:17 am
太石村 taishi village elections
One of the more interesting pieces on politics in China I’ve read recently came in the form of two pretty …
September 13, 2005 – 3:34 am
抱石广州 bouldering in guangzhou
Rain didn’t stop bolting in Jiulong, and two new routes went up, overhanging and around 10d/11a. No pictures yet… but …
September 2, 2005 – 5:35 am
southern china + guangzhou rock climbing
I guess Guangzhou mustn’t be that skanky wet furnace of mugginess and hysteria inducing heat anymore, though it’s hard to …
August 25, 2005 – 5:54 am
crazy for digital
The current state of film in China and Hong Kong, mostly triad good-cop/bad-cop or period piece fantastical martial arts sewerage …
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 – 10:16 pm
privatising contemporary dance in guangzhou
There was a huge interview and article in the Weekend Standard last week on Willy Tsao and the 广东现代舞团 Guangdong …
August 6, 2005 – 7:12 am
Down and Out in China
Richard thought I’d like it. I was filling one of his spare rooms in Panyu with the detritus of five …
June 28, 2005 – 2:05 am
slumming it in vevey
The most skanky flight I have ever had in my life was on the weekend, Hong Kong to Bangkok, to …
June 22, 2005 – 8:51 pm
bitches in the press
Bitches got a couple of mentions in the press including one review, which I dunno if they said anything good, …
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 – 8:39 pm
淹沒 before the flood
I missed this one completely. 淹沒Before the Flood was screened in Guangzhou on the weekend. It’s also at the Los …
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 – 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 13, 2005 – 7:16 pm
eco-tourism in guangdong
I’m an avid map-reader. I’ll spend hours pouring over all kinds of maps looking for something, nothing. Lately it’s been …
June 13, 2005 – 6:54 pm
burn-out
extermination the film was awesome. Expect video on my website sometime soon, and photos here even sooner. Went to Hong …
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 6, 2005 – 3:31 pm
bitches rocks hard
It went so well. bitches rocked out. Even the florescent lights coming on half way through didn’t shake it. An …
June 5, 2005 – 9:42 pm
罗岗 Luogang bouldering
I know everyone wants to dirt on the show last night, but bugger that. I’m going climbing. So, after a …
June 4, 2005 – 2:00 pm
bitches in rehearsal
Around lunchtime while waiting for the dirt samples to arrive, when the humidity and heat was excerable, I was asked, …
May 31, 2005 – 9:58 pm
bitches part III
It’s production week, or whatever else it can be called, so I’m going to be vanishing into production week limbo …
May 29, 2005 – 5:02 pm
bitches part II
Bitches is a week off and I should really be getting the costumes today, but mainland China has this problem… …
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 – 1:57 pm
yingde – the next jiulong
It was the last trip before the humidity rotted even out bones, and the vampire mosquitos were swarming, lecherous and …
May 19, 2005 – 11:37 pm
south of the border
I’m heading down to Hong Kong tomorrow for a bunch of stuff, but mainly to see Balletlab’s Phillip Adams’ new …
May 18, 2005 – 4:22 pm
bitches
I started rehearsals on Monday for the reason why Australia China Council gave me money and why I’m able to …
May 16, 2005 – 1:34 pm
heavy gravity in yangshou’s bastard cousin
The gravity was especially strong in Jiulong on Saturday. In addition to the kind of humidity that can rot the …
May 13, 2005 – 10:03 pm
jiulong again
I’m off climbing again in sunny Jiulong again tomorrow for the weekend. Expect lots of dirty photos of drills going …
May 8, 2005 – 8:20 pm
they’re dead! … everyone’s dead…
Last night was the end of the 第二届广东现代舞周2nd Guangzhou Contemporary Dance Festival, and I know I’ve been pretty harsh on …
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 …
May 7, 2005 – 8:36 pm
Yoga in Guangzhou
For residents of Guangzhou who really miss that yoga class you’d go to in the evening or on the weekend, …
May 4, 2005 – 2:47 pm
jiulong super-crag
Jiulong turned into a bit of a tourist town this weekend. Three carloads of climbers plus a few others ate …
April 30, 2005 – 8:30 pm
when art goes bad
Last night was not quite the beginning of the week of dance at the 2nd Guangzhou Dance Festival, but was …
April 30, 2005 – 5:53 pm
climb, you pathetic little human
I’m off tomorrow morning for a couple of days up at Jiulong again. It’s the big trip. Nine days of …
April 27, 2005 – 5:02 pm
Stop Motion
I arrived back in perfect time for the start of the 第二届广东现代舞 – 2nd Guangdong Modern Dance Festival, two weeks …
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 10, 2005 – 10:37 pm
anti-japan riots in guangzhou (and everywhere else)
The anti-Japan bullshit that has been fomenting across China in the major cities, reached a peak over the weekend. Ostensibly …
March 30, 2005 – 10:48 am
cock rock
In an effort to make everyone see what an awesome place Guangdong province is to go climbing in, it looks …
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 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 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 7, 2005 – 12:45 pm
another day at jiulong
We set off for Jiulong with the same driver and his white car with the dropped shocks around seven along …
March 5, 2005 – 6:32 pm
干花乐队 dead flowers at park19
Having blown my remaining change of DVDs again, including weird old documentaries on the history of Hong Kong filmmaking, I …
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 28, 2005 – 6:00 pm
19-T somewhere south of the river
Besides the main Park-19 where all the artists have studios, there’s another one, a bit further west of the University …
February 23, 2005 – 2:19 pm
park 19, 19-T and shanshui records
This Friday night at Park 19, Shanshui Records and a bunch of others have the Guangzhou part of their tour. …
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 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 26, 2005 – 3:28 pm
qing yuan, guangdong’s yangshuo
When I first knew I was going to China, my first thought was, “Damn I need to find where to …
January 19, 2005 – 6:09 pm
广东现代舞团 – Guangdong Modern Dance Company Performs
This weekend, the amazing 广东现代舞团 – Guangdong Modern Dance Company will present a season of new short works by the …
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 – 3:15 pm
that’s OC
I love a good West Coast badly-acted 30-nothing playing emotional-car-crash teenagers in expensive lifestyles, like The OC. The That’s Magazine …
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 20, 2004 – 4:20 pm
第三现场 – 第二届新年国际音乐节 live home 3
After a couple of months of silence and a website announcing the days of 第三现场 Live Home 3 were over, …
November 16, 2004 – 12:42 pm
guangzhou’s tallest building
In Yuexiu Park there is an old drum tower which is most of what remains of the once city-encircling walls. …
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 29, 2004 – 7:50 pm
down at the xinghai concert hall
Friday. My last day in Guangzhou. Two weeks of teaching dance at the Guangdong Modern Dance Company School, Yoga at …
October 22, 2004 – 9:37 pm
东山小区 dong shan town
Around 5pm it’s impossible to get a taxi anywhere in town, and even if you do, it moves so slow …
October 22, 2004 – 5:13 pm
this one’s for you, JD
When I first came to Guangzhou, I was introduced by the fearsome culinary vultures of the Symphony Orchestra to about …
October 21, 2004 – 5:09 pm
liwan hutong
China is keeping me busy. I’m teaching contemporary dance at the Guangdong modern Dance Company School Yes, they have a …
October 4, 2004 – 6:40 pm
dancing until the sky clears up
The 广东实验现代舞团 Guangdong Modern Dance Company is currently on tour in Europe, performing several dates in Nederlands and Belgium with …
September 27, 2004 – 9:18 pm
twlight of the door gods
Watch any Chinese martial arts movie and somewhere there will always be a set of double doors with fearsome, demonic …
September 12, 2004 – 8:44 pm
2030 pearl river mega-city
By 2030, in a study reported on in the HK Standard, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong will have merged into …
August 31, 2004 – 9:35 pm
drugs are bad m’kay
At a recent conference in Guangzhou the Ministry of Public Security, the same nebulous folks who brought you the guailo …
August 25, 2004 – 10:01 pm
i like my noise noisy
In Guangzhou this Saturday, a group of noise-makers from across the city will be shaking the rotten concrete out of …
August 21, 2004 – 11:03 pm
baiyun airport opens
The new 白云飞机场 Baiyun International Airport opened recently, which I’m looking forward to flying in to and schlepping around in …
August 3, 2004 – 12:36 am
southern metropolis daily
What happened in Guangzhou when a graphic design student got arrested by the police for not having a temporary residence …
August 1, 2004 – 1:54 pm
dance and music at sleepywood
Yesterday at Sleepywood Bar – 枕木酒吧in Guangzhou, dancers from the 广东现代舞团Guangdong Modern Dance Company and musicians from the Orchestra got …
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 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 28, 2004 – 10:29 pm
shen wei and ADF
Shen Wei arrived in the US in 1995 from the Guangdong Modern Dance Company. Nine years later, he has his …
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 – 11:53 pm
Baiyun airport
I like a good airport, especially because I don’t have to good fortune to belong to any airport club where …
June 7, 2004 – 2:05 pm
too many buildings not enough subways
There’s nothing like hanging out along the Pearl River at night, whether it’s down near Shamian Island or on Er …
June 4, 2004 – 10:48 pm
第三现场 3 Live Home – Rhythm Construction
Things are going wild at 第三现场 3 Live Home this month. This week is the first hip-hop week in Guangzhou, …
May 31, 2004 – 8:13 pm
广东实验现代舞团 Guangdong Modern Dance Company at Venice Biennale
The 广东实验现代舞团 Guangdong Modern Dance Company will be performing for the first time in Venice this month at la biennale …
May 26, 2004 – 9:53 pm
广州声纳 sounding guangzhou
The 广东要是现代无团 Guangdong Modern Dance Company is host this weekend to Sounding Guangzhou, International Electronic Art Symposium. The symposium is …
May 23, 2004 – 8:50 pm
Box of Changes
Architect Peter Eisenman took part in a competition recently to design a new museum and public square in the heart …
May 14, 2004 – 11:28 pm
Topologies of the Instant – n+n corsino
N+N Corsino are two French choreographers from Marseille. or one choreographer and one mathematician, who don’t make dance in theatres, …
May 10, 2004 – 11:17 pm
BMX Bandits
The cover story of this month’s That’s Guangzhou is devoted to bikes, BMX and the emerging scene in Guangzhou of …
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 …
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 28, 2004 – 7:15 pm
首届广东现代舞蹈周 1st Guangdong Contemporary Dance Festival
广州 Guangzhou is becoming the festival capital of China, and home to more dance per square meter than any other …
April 24, 2004 – 12:16 am
SARS is back
Last year we were on the train from Wuhan to Guangzhou when we got a barrage of text messages warning …
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 – 7:58 pm
别 爱 人 bie ai ren – Photos
广东实验现代舞团 Guangdong Shiyan Xiandai Wu Tuan – Guangdong Modern Dance Company choreographer 龙云娜 Long Yunna has sent me photos of …
April 8, 2004 – 2:06 pm
别 爱 人 bie ai ren – 3 human basics
别爱人 bie ai ren is the new contemporary dance work by the internationally renowned Guangzhou-based Guangdong Modern Dance Company. Bie …