Friday night, until the last half hour, was either frustrating or glum. It’s a different thing to push oneself through …
August 12, 2011 – 8:24 pm
Reading (Playing): Gabriele Klein, Gitta Barthel, Esther Wagner – Choreografischer Baukasten
Klein, Barthel, Wagner – Choreografischer Baukasten
July 27, 2011 – 7:22 pm
process/unprocess showing at rosas
A short invitation to a showing of some sort this Friday: The last two weeks, Gala Moody and I have …
July 25, 2011 – 11:30 pm
process/unprocess week 2 day 1
I am humming. Gala stands over me. She is reading the Aftersong from Beyond Good and Evil. We look at …
May 16, 2011 – 7:41 pm
Nein! Nein! Nicht die Wunde ist es.
I heard it slightly wrong. Parsifal, struck with awareness of Amfortas and the wound is physically overwrought. “Sie brennt in …
May 1, 2011 – 11:44 am
temperance 16mm film
With all the adding of video and making newness on francesdath.info, I started looking at the footage of temperance again. …
April 6, 2011 – 4:29 pm
reading: vera schwarcz – the chinese enlightenment: intellectuals and the legacy of the may fourth movement of 1919
vera schwarcz – the chinese enlightenment
December 24, 2010 – 11:36 am
Reading: Howard Barker – Death, The One and the Art of Theatre
howard barker – death, the one and the art of theatre
December 18, 2010 – 4:07 am
Reading: Reza Negarestani – Cyclonopedia
reza negarestani – cyclonopedia
November 27, 2010 – 11:13 am
blacker…
China Miéville’s rejectamentalist manifesto has been one of my favourite daily-ish reads since I stumbled into it after wondering where …
August 22, 2010 – 11:38 am
Reading: Gerald Siegmund – William Forsythe: Denken in Bewegung
Gerald Siegmund – William Forsythe: Denken in Bewegung
August 10, 2010 – 1:30 am
reading: jonathan burrows – a choreographer’s handbook
jonathan burrows – a choreographer’s handbook
May 26, 2010 – 1:40 pm
readin: david hinton: chuang tzu – the inner chapters
david hinton: chuang tzu – the inner chapters
January 12, 2010 – 6:11 am
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 …
January 10, 2010 – 9:22 am
Jana Unmüßig – HAUS
I had planned to see only a couple of performances in Tanztage, I thought perhaps one a night over a …
November 3, 2009 – 12:58 pm
Reading… a 2nd anniversary
My reading the last year has not been of either the volume, nor the breadth of the previous, in no …
May 10, 2009 – 9:19 pm
daniel is reading…
judith butler – undoing gender susan sontag – styles of radical will deleuze and guattari – a thousand plateaus
April 12, 2009 – 3:45 am
reading: theodor adorno – aesthetic theory
theodor adorno – aesthetic theory
December 13, 2008 – 10:31 pm
reading: hanna arendt – the life of the mind
hanna arendt – the life of the mind
October 16, 2008 – 7:18 pm
Reading… an anniversary
A year ago in the briefest of lines, I began keeping a list of the books I’ve digested… burp. What …
October 12, 2008 – 5:14 pm
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 …
May 13, 2008 – 12:57 pm
pestilence days 15-17
I’ve been editing DVDs this week, first all the people i can remember sleeping with…, then monadologie, and in the …
May 10, 2008 – 11:57 am
pestilence last days
If I’m looking for acceptable, believable excuses, then lack of internet at home, necessary for late-night bed blogging, and an …
April 21, 2008 – 3:02 pm
pestilence day 14
Obviously today I am completely distracted and nervous and managed to do little except lie on the floor spontaneously falling …
April 19, 2008 – 2:10 pm
pestilence day 13
Friday, rehearsal 13, night and darkness. Daniel and I seem to work rather well when the building creaks and groans, …
April 17, 2008 – 10:59 pm
pestilence day 12
Inadvertently, Daniel and i have spent all of this week working on the one scene that came from Kristeva’s abjection, …
April 16, 2008 – 4:46 pm
pestilence days 5-11
Night rehearsals. I’ve been slack at blogging this project. It’s taken me an awful lot of methodical, patient, slogging to …
April 7, 2008 – 8:33 pm
pestilence day 3 & 4
Friday and Monday and the weekend at the library. I’ve been struggling somewhat with this piece, possibly because I’ve been …
April 3, 2008 – 4:07 pm
pestilence day 1 & 2
There is a reason for not blogging day one of rehearsals and it has to do with being delightfully waylaid …
March 21, 2008 – 5:37 pm
monadologie … last days and finish
The previous week has been on of quite small scale. I’ve been trying to learn everything I can on absorption …
March 21, 2008 – 4:52 pm
Reading: Michel Foucault – Madness and Civilisation
michel foucault – madness and civilisation
March 3, 2008 – 5:05 pm
monadologie day 46
For those who count, days 43 through 45 were production days at Napier St and some 23 minutes of performing …
October 16, 2007 – 12:24 pm
reading … ?
I used to keep a list of all the books I read, and thought maybe I should do that again …
August 20, 2007 – 1:26 pm
science is the new black metal
I was sitting at Cibo around lunchtime, getting ready to visit some sex shops around Hindley St looking for instruction …
May 11, 2007 – 9:38 am
monadologie – science is the new black metal
A few months ago I got really excited by the Stereo satellites 3-D photographs and videos of the sun, there’s …
March 11, 2007 – 5:31 pm
lazy sunday cooking eating blogging …
A late night swirling Pernod with Bonnie at Orange and an early trip to the shops for Sunday fruit, now …
March 8, 2007 – 2:25 pm
… and death
Emile sent me possibly the most perfect condolences card after I told him about Jean Baudrillard dying yesterday. It made …
March 7, 2007 – 2:15 pm
jean baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard died. I’m so utterly devastated. He has been the single most important thinker, writer, philosopher for me, in …
February 15, 2007 – 4:46 pm
leibniz, monadologie, choreographing and thinking too much
I’ve taken to walking back through Faulkner Park, between the Domain and, I guess you could say, Prahran, though the …
February 10, 2007 – 12:38 pm
Protected: revenge of the lezzie shemale feminists
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
September 2, 2006 – 12:32 pm
what i read today
For a while I kept a del.ic.ious account (last updated almost two months ago). I also used to have one …
May 27, 2006 – 3:13 pm
Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
Outside of my normal flippant abrogation of its meaning, there are not too many people for whom I genuinely reserve …
June 8, 2005 – 1:04 pm
Nadine down the rabbit hole
Dominico used to keep the kitchen at DanceWEB happy by rolling fat blunts and cooking long into the night while …
April 16, 2005 – 4:27 pm
no longer a line split through time
I’m going to have to rave about how good China Miéville is. Not only is he fantastically good looking in …
April 14, 2005 – 11:18 pm
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 …
October 10, 2004 – 3:47 pm
jacques is dead
Jacques Derrida is dead. I met him in 1997, when I was at VCA and Elizabeth Presa had organised the …