I once stayed a night in Chungking Mansions, when a flight from Canada arrived too late to catch even the cross-border bus to Guangzhou. I was given the address by a woman at the information booth just past the exit … Continue reading
In-between rehearsing, last night I drifted up to the 4th floor of Asialink for drinks and hanging out with the just-arrived Homeless Dance Company, and it was a very happy surprise for me to see Yogi, one of the dancers … Continue reading
Walking to a bookshop, walking to East St Kilda, walking through Alma Park, listening to my iPod and I was thinking how much excellent music I’ve picked up from all over the place, and then my favourite band of the … Continue reading
From curator of international kebabs Emile Zile, also famous in Melbourne for FOOTSCRAY AUDIO-VISUAL SOCIAL CLUB is the fruits of his hanging out in Hong Kong during our Apocalypse PRD adventures with Samantha Culp and videotage. Hong Kong doesn’t really … Continue reading
I’m not sure how much I’ll be blogging in the next week as things get mental with crush. In the meantime I’m trying to make myself a better person by reading a lot, and as usual it’s mostly about China. … Continue reading
Tomorrow I’m leaving Guangzhou again. This time flying from the new Baiyun Airport directly to Melbourne, the end of the world, the farthest point from the bright centre of the universe, where two of my most wonderful friends have plans … Continue reading
Two nights in Hong Kong, picking up Emile and Paul from the airport, playing tourist across Kowloon and Central, seeing so much art all of it worthy of bonfires, napalm firestorms, infernos, only one show out of so much rubbish … Continue reading
When I get jammed into an aisle seat and told, “Aw, just put yer legs in the aisle”, coz I’m a bit tall and don’t actually fit into the standard seat-space on Qantas’s crappy Airbus shipping containers, and I get … Continue reading
I’m flying to Hong Kong tomorrow, and then on to Guangzhou for a residency at Park19 until the end of May. Actually the residency doesn’t begin until April, but I’ve done everything in Melbourne I came back to do – … Continue reading
Daily reading of Diacritic, and this reminded me alot – in an almost diametrically opposite way – of the photography of Michael Wolf, and the image in Sun Tsung Leong‘s series Horizons of the once-city Fengdu in the upper part … Continue reading