I shall watch it with eyes averted. Or, perhaps glimpse it every so often. Nonetheless, tomorrow night I won’t exit …
the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — beginning aftermath
… Where was I? Brussels. It took longer to get from Schönefeld airport to home than from Brussels to Berlin. …
the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 10 & 11
It’s already over. We performed last night and today is Saturday, the residency finished. In-between now and Thursday morning, we …
the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 7
The first day returning after (most of) one day off, and ten hours rotating between studio and kitchen with a …
Ivo’s Studio
Red sky in the morning, and a chaotic arrival to Brussels. Somehow I thought Chaussee de Mons ran parallel to …
Paul Emmanuel – Fleece Paintings
Paul Emmanuel, whom I met in Taipei ages ago, has an exhibition opening in a couple of weeks. Farms, sheep, …
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 …
42a at EAF
Last year at Downtown, 42a was the most memorable show for me in Adelaide. Then Alison got Triennial funding and …
reading: kerstin finger – tape: an excursion through the world of adhesive tapes
tape: an excursion through the world of adhesive tapes
42a a cameraphone recollection
A recollection of 42a from my phone, somewhat disordered. real wallpaper and floating pixel flowers subterranean leds televised hundreds and …
42a
How to write about someone I have spent much of the last couple of months hanging out with, eating too …
42a + downtown artspace = ✓
Alison Currie, who has managed to keep me laughing until face and stomach pain despite the absence of my baby, …
it returns to wilderness
Letter-hyphen-town has been what most cities I’ve lived in have been reduced to since Emile in Zürich shortened it to …
i want your dance
Last year Bare Bones came to Melbourne to work with Roz Warby. What was intriguing for me was not the …
saturday morning re-blogging
Last night was a rather interesting experience for me that I’m not going to blog about, but certainly has much …
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, …
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, …
dormitory
Splendidly late blogging, but wtf. I’ve been meaning to drool here about Wang Qingsong’s Dormitory, though equally any of his …
china power station
Lawrence Li at Global Noise Online has been blogging regularly about the upcoming China Power Station, “A major exhibition of …
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 …
on plagues and skin disorders
Reading Jean Baudrillard‘s Symbolic Exchange and Death in 2003 was one of those pivotal moments in consumption of text that …
cryptozoology
A while ago I was sophistically explaining how my performances are what I decided to call crypto-ethnochoreography, in which the …
we intend to destroy all dogmatic verbal systems…
Before threw away a prosperous career as a writer and immanent tenure track in philosophy (post-modern, even) for the joy …
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 …
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, …
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 …
art art art … noise
In a pathetic effort to make up for a few days of blaring silence, with 2am crawls to bed, hour …
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, …
more robots rendering contemporary dance irrelevant
Before I decided the future of contemporary dance lay in aberrant ethnochoreography, and ransacked Cantonese Opera for ideas, I spent …
hard art to void dead words
Every time I make a piece, and looking back on it, I think how much more intense and overwhelming it …
paul emmanuel. the end
It looks like a dead kangaroo to me. I know Paul was planning on inflating the viscera of farm animals …
sex porn art casting shock ban!
I think I’m becoming a one-trick whore for we-make-money-not-art, because all I seem to do right now is read them …
dancing appliances and fat suits
I know that in the low latency of the internet a month is pretty much another age, but I’ve been …
jan fabre – history of tears
Emile got into Melbourne with a present for me, the flier for Jan Fabre’s new Troubelyn production, History of Tears. …
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 …
holy flying fetuses batman
Speaking of 萧昱 Xiao Yu and his penchant for the kind of art which would see him in the skanky …
bitches in the press
Bitches got a couple of mentions in the press including one review, which I dunno if they said anything good, …
pixeldirt
Justine Poplin makes really cool performance art and installations, and I’ve known her longer than anyone in Australia, and see …
Nick Jones – (slight return)
Nick Jones used to be the mad Keith Richards Pied Piper of VCA, folding, cutting, intertwining pages of books until …
nofzilla – digital disclosure
The genius that is nofzilla is going down in Boston at the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Along with a bunch of …
Art is fanaticism that demands diplomacy.
Back in the early 90s, Laibach stomped around in pseudo-facist uniforms, banged drums with fanatic zeal and blonde hair like …
Curiosities: post-art from the edge
Para/Sit Art Space in Hong Kong has recently opened an installation exhibition of four artists from Hong Kong, Australia, Japan …
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 …
jun nyugen-hatsushiba
Vietnam-based artist Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba is exhibiting video works and an installation at Malmö Konsthall in Sweden from March 5th. Historical …
blast theory tokyo – can you see me now?
British augmented-reality performance artists Blast Theory were in Japan last week for six days ofCan You See Me Now? on …
nofzilla – PE(s)T
Liz Nofzilla and Peter Pizzi from Boston and all over the internet are opening their installation at Atlantic Works Gallery …
平行輸入 pseudo hackers
My last night in Taipei was also the opening of the new 台北當代藝術館 MOCA exhibition, 平行輸入 Pseudo Hackers Art in …
plastic chinese stools and other great works of art
China Underground regularly has good stuff on art in China, and lately they’ve been adding some video-art, including Guang Yang’s …
i am alive and you are dead
The 台北國際藝術村 Taipei Artist Village had a Christmas open studio yesterday, and I was determined to bitch-slap any Christmas cheer …
paul emmanuel is psycho
Paul Emmanuel hooked up with his psychiatrist last night at 新樂園藝術空間 SLY Art Studio to eat some paint and answer …
passion no patience
Pei-jen Tsai, who I hung out with in Vienna last year, and missed by a few weeks at the Taipei …
hong yi at huashan
華山創意文化園區 Huashan was going crazy today with a couple of openings and the C04 台灣前衛文件展- Co4 taiwan avant-garde documenta II …
城市謠言 – 華人建築展 2004 The Rumor of China Towns
Blowing off the opportunity to see Ned Kelly at the Film Festival, the next stop for the night was MOCA …
beautiful new horizon
Asia Art Archive’s September newsletter has a travelogue from Taipei researcher Mio Iwakiri, who travelled to Tainan in August for …
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 …
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 …
thorpe is gay
Nat and Ali managed to make it all over the news this week with their project Hungry Bums, part of …
paura – joel zeka
Joel Zeka, whose recent RMIT/Next Wave show was Terrible Presence, is exhibiting Paura at Kick Gallery Melbourne from this Thursday, …
jo lloyd – cherry picking
Jo Lloyd, superstar dancer around town, and number 1 choreographer to boot is having a workshop showing of her new …
Yin Xiuzhen – Portable Cities
Making the most of airports, Beijing artist Yin Xiezhen is exhibiting two installations at the Sydney Biennale, Portable Cities and …
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, …
Artist Hangs Children
Hanging three kids from their necks in an oak tree in Milan park is a good way of getting in …