Sunday, Thomas’ last day in Berlin, and post-breakfast a soup was prepared. By 1 o’clock, up-and-down stairs was occurring, on …
December 3, 2010 – 7:45 am
Burka Bondage
The past couple of months Dasniya has been rehearsing with Helena Waldmann, in a piece she helped with last year …
May 9, 2010 – 5:13 am
art sunday
Some rather nice art has fallen my way recently, falling around something that might become abjection. Of course it induces …
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 …
January 7, 2010 – 10:30 am
Reading: Iris Chang – The Rape of Nanking
iris chang – the rape of nanking
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 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 …
September 26, 2009 – 10:35 am
sorayama nawa shibari
Last night with the wonderful Katrin, I was introduced to an artist I’d not thought upon for years, and likely …
September 26, 2009 – 9:50 am
reading: j.g. ballard – empire of the sun
j.g. ballard – empire of the sun
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 …
February 22, 2009 – 9:34 pm
on’s guro fairytales
Oh if only I could make art as good as this. One of those “uuhhh… why didn’t I think of …
January 9, 2009 – 5:23 pm
sakhalin arctic pirate lighthouse
In my long search for the perfect lighthouse to wage piracy from, I’ve stumbled across a chain of Soviet era …
November 11, 2007 – 7:19 pm
ikochi vs dreadcircus
Feast Festival is on in Adelaide and like, wow I have seen nothing… But I am not going to miss …
May 30, 2006 – 2:23 pm
transsexual law in korea and japan
A couple of articles on the current legal and cultural positions of transsexuals in Japan and Korea broadly illustrates a …
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 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 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 5, 2006 – 9:28 pm
japanese font orgasm
More than lines of code in Flash, or beautiful CSS and all that elegant and hidden stuff that makes web …
February 25, 2006 – 4:06 pm
fengdu’s erased horizon
Daily reading of Diacritic, and this reminded me alot – in an almost diametrically opposite way – of the photography …
February 9, 2006 – 9:31 am
PUBLIC=UN+PUBLIC
Jo Lloyd, who went to Japan to hang out with nibrol on an Asialink Performing Arts Residency last year is …
November 19, 2005 – 5:31 pm
absolutely freak out
Acid Mothers Temple!!! Zubi Zuva X, Akaten, Ruins Alone, Zoffy, Shrinp Wark, Seikazoku!!! Welcome to Japan New Music Festival!!! Three …
October 14, 2005 – 6:12 pm
亞洲藝術文獻庫 – solo naked performance art
Three great articles are in the most recent 亞洲藝術文獻庫 Asia Art Archive email newsletter. The first is Solo Endurance Performance …
October 7, 2005 – 3:50 am
acid mothers temple in zurich
There’s nothing more to say. Acid Mothers Temple are the closest thing I’ve ever heard to sucking on a blotter-sheet …
May 5, 2005 – 3:50 pm
Sonar 2005
When I was at a very impressionable age my downward spiral away from god and into the arms of hedonism …
April 12, 2005 – 10:36 pm
Chinese march over Japan’s war ‘whitewash’
The weekend government-sponsored outings in China made it into the Australian papers yesterday, as Chinese diplomats act like schoolyard hillbillies …
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 …
April 4, 2005 – 9:57 pm
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 …
March 15, 2005 – 10:34 am
roppongi kingyo – performance art at its finest
It’s not really dance or art, and it’s almost a month since I read this, but there’s something about the …
March 1, 2005 – 1:40 pm
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 …
September 11, 2004 – 11:46 pm
asian horror in hollywood
When it comes to really disturbing horror films, with the exception of visceral nightmares like The Shining and The Exorcist, …
September 3, 2004 – 1:22 am
zatoichi – takeshi kitano
One of my favourite actor/directorsTakeshi Kitano’s latest film Zatochi opens in Australia today, and was reviewed on At The Movies …
July 19, 2004 – 10:51 pm
5,6,7,8′s in Taiwan
One of the best bands in the world, the 5,6,7,8′s who like Mach Pelican have spent more time playing the …
May 29, 2004 – 1:45 am
Gozu and Casshein
Two films which are doing the rounds at the moment, Gozu by Ichi The Killer director Takashi Miike, and Casshern …