I shall watch it with eyes averted. Or, perhaps glimpse it every so often. Nonetheless, tomorrow night I won’t exit …
October 30, 2011
temperance at cinedans
On a whim in May, because it landed in my maiming lists inbox, I decided to send temperance to Cinedans, promptly …
May 16, 2011
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 12, 2011
parsifal in film
I arrive in Brussels this morning, curiously with Anuschka sitting next to me the whole way. We stay up the …
May 1, 2011
temperance 16mm film
With all the adding of video and making newness on francesdath.info, I started looking at the footage of temperance again. …
March 19, 2011
die singende stadt — parsifal and calixto bieito
The last day screening, Dasniya and I climbed the stairs of Hackesche Höfe Kino for 90 more minutes of the …
March 19, 2011
2011.touchandplay.org
This morning I launched the website for the 2011 Touch&Play Festival. Still a bit to do, and content is still …
March 8, 2011
goat snake witch dance theatre blackness
The last couple of days I’ve been working on a side-project, cleaning up my dance/performance/choreography website, francesdath.info. I decided a …
March 8, 2011
Flowplayer Playlists and WPAlchemy Meta Boxes
Last night I spent a bit of time working on francesdath.info, which I’ve been shifting into WordPress recently. I wanted …
February 24, 2011
ein blick über café prückel
The day after opening Parsifal, we went to Bar du Matin for breakfast, and of course who should be there …
February 18, 2011
parsipress? pressifal?
More? More! Continuing on from when Castellucci was a criminal … Words and Pictures!. I was planning on making an …
February 10, 2011
Two Ways to Put Flowplayer into WordPress — Custom Fields & Shortcodes
I spent this afternoon working on a site for Daniel Schlusser that is hidden from view but close to completion. …
February 7, 2011
castellucci is a criminal
After the fourth performance, an emotionally tough night for us, we stand outside the stage door. A woman in beret, …
August 12, 2010
Werner Bab
One of the first sites I did as a freelancer was porting imdialog-ev.org from a dead cms into WordPress for …
July 28, 2010
rehearsing in café prückel
Today in Café Prückel, in the cellar, in the theatre. Filming some of the performance and performing some of it …
July 9, 2010
a website a video
She of the long red hair, Gabrielle Nankivell has her own website. Witch/Red was one of my favourite pieces in …
April 29, 2010
sydney’s siberia and other digital creatures
No, I don’t actually remember which Mac forum I discovered Jason Nelson and secrettechnology on. I do though highly enjoy …
April 17, 2010
customised flowplayer in wordpress
Last year while working on dasniyasommer.de and dealing with presenting video in an attractive way with much backend flexibility, I …
January 9, 2010
An Kaler – Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy
(An aside: Having managed to evade seeing dance for the most part last year, I thought I should take advantage …
August 12, 2009
plants vs brauerei
Somehow I stumbled back onto a couple who inspired my greatly years ago when I first started computers and design …
July 19, 2009
Gunter Kroemer
Over much of this year I’ve been working with Christian Ender on rebuilding the code of one of his documentary …
July 8, 2009
dasniyasommer.de
Because it’s… I’m watching WordPress install under the tessellated layers of windows open. I can see command lines march upwards, …
July 7, 2009
thingswithbits.info
I thought it was about time I had another website… (Now I just need to get around to spending more …
June 21, 2009
ich habe eine kamera. es ist schwarz
panasonic lx3 black noir schwarz miscellanea plus box and 8gb sdhc card panasonic lx3 and lens cap pasm! hotshoe! 4:3 …
June 16, 2009
bötzow brauerei beleuchtet bei nacht
An undertaking by night in the Brauerei. An unlikely moment where my poor camera has enough light to capture the …
February 14, 2009
we are enemies… secrettechnology
Discovered on a mac forum that I’ve been on for years, and the best game I’ve played in years also, …
January 4, 2009
re.act.feminism – performancekunst der 1960er und 70er jahre heute
Still dark, before 6am, lying in bed, the clouded sky lighting the city and me already with coffee and reading, …
December 14, 2008
reading: jeanette winterson – oranges are not the only fruit
jeanette winterson – oranges are not the only fruit
December 8, 2008
things with bits
For all of you with Apple computers, iPods, iPhones, wireless internet, other bits and pieces of hardware, a need for …
July 14, 2008
gute aussichten – junge deutsche fotografie
My last full day in Berlin, an afternoon adventure with someone who takes rather splendid photographs herself of derelict amusement …
June 25, 2008
emile. blog. eurodisney.
Only this to say, about time. Emile is blogging at eurodisney.biz emile zile – eurodisney.biz
June 3, 2008
Protected: making our bodies home
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May 27, 2008
buzkashi, self-portrait & laptop
When I was a student, I would trundle up to Melbourne Uni and on weekends and holidays hole up the …
May 26, 2008
phoenix
Sometimes I get really deliriously happy about humans and what we occasionally do. Phoenix landed in the Martian arctic this …
April 3, 2008
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 19, 2008
monadologie photos
I do have much more to write about these last days at the centre, and I’ll make excuses elsewhere. I …
March 4, 2008
avalanche!
On Mars! Quite the most spectacular photograph I’ve seen this year. Look out below! HiRISE caught an avalanche in action! …
February 14, 2008
monadologie
Frances would like to invite you to a showing of the development of monadologie. “In so far as the concatenation …
February 13, 2008
monadologie day 36
Feeling rather stunned after today. Bonnie and I worked out a couple of reiterative sequences that unfold from from the …
February 12, 2008
monadologie – self-referentiality
Just because I’ve continually forgotten to do this… I’m blogging the entire project and residency at Science is the New …
February 12, 2008
monadologie day 30 – 33, 34 & 35
So, has been an eventful week of much sleeplessness and then some sleep. And then some more sleeplessness. And now …
February 1, 2008
monadologie day 28 & 29
This week has mostly involved me being in the studio and not so much time at the Centre. It was …
January 30, 2008
monadologie day 27
Just me alone … and Sunn 0))) … unjoy. I wasn’t sure how useful me being in a studio on …
January 29, 2008
monadologie day 25 & 26
The twenty-fifth day being that wherein herd displays of nationalistic supremacy and mob imbecility occur across a country still insultingly …
January 25, 2008
monadologie day 23 & 24
I’m losing track of what day is where… We spent a big day on Wednesday learning large amounts of material …
January 22, 2008
monadologie day (21 &) 22
Some hecticness, I’ll write about yesterday and today properly-ish when I have time … or not. A little video. 45 …
January 17, 2008
monadologie day 20
Thursday, the last day of our second week, though it feels like our first week as we were in the …
January 14, 2008
monadologie day 16 & 17
Mostly I slept. I roused to see the Christian Marclay exhibition on at ACMI, and was utterly deliriously overjoyed and …
January 13, 2008
frances without laptop
Avoiding bringing home my laptop means time for fun things like staring at walls, lying in bed, rolling over, looking …
January 12, 2008
monadologie day 14 & 15
Thursday was so baking and heavy, like getting into the trunk of a car on a hot day and being …
January 9, 2008
monadologie day 12 & 13
I chose Camera B. The other one, Camera A seemed to be silently petulant around me. Together, they make up …
January 7, 2008
monadologie day 11
We played in the VR Lab today. The Astrophysics Centre has 3-D Stereoscopic projectors and twin cameras for filming also …
September 26, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 13
So after last rehearsal, I was variously meant to watch all the video on Friday, but too busy with Melbourne …
September 15, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 9 & 10
Oh lazy huh? And today feeling awful, possibly from lack of sleep and I really hope not from Ebola. Anyway …
September 9, 2007
some pictures i took with my phone
My iPod seems to be dead, and somehow I keep managing to resuscitate my laptop despite in/out errors and loads …
September 2, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 7
After my opening up during the last rehearsal, today’s three-hour endurance spectacle, resting on many pages of preparatory notes and …
August 30, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 6
Talking talking talking. I was really not so prepared for this rehearsal, but it turned into a bit of a …
August 19, 2007
sunset on hindley st
Maybe a week ago, leaving the mall and about to walk along Hindley St towards something and being stopped by …
August 16, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 3
Yesterday was long, at times something to be endured, frightening when it came to rehearsing and going to places of …
August 14, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 2
Second rehearsal is sometimes like second night blues when you’re performing, despite spending much of the weekend preparing, reading Judith …
August 1, 2007
michelangelo antonioni
Blowup was one of those films that changed how I look at cinema, and then how I imagined performance. Early …
July 30, 2007
perform your grief
Emile in Sydney! Then in Europe on tour with Curseovdialect! Then doing Masters in Amsterdam. See you in Nederlans for …
July 14, 2007
42a a cameraphone recollection
A recollection of 42a from my phone, somewhat disordered. real wallpaper and floating pixel flowers subterranean leds televised hundreds and …
July 13, 2007
42a
How to write about someone I have spent much of the last couple of months hanging out with, eating too …
June 29, 2007
42a + downtown artspace = ✓
Alison Currie, who has managed to keep me laughing until face and stomach pain despite the absence of my baby, …
June 26, 2007
i want more life, fucker!
Bladerunner is about the most influential film for me, I’ve seen in more times than I can recall, usually once …
June 25, 2007
häxan
Friday teaching improvisation at ADT, and I decide the appropriate soundtrack is sunn0))), Gabrielle is there, and normally I have …
June 4, 2007
choreolab
Alison Croggon said to me, “I like drinking with theatre types, and those whom I drink with are pretty cool …
May 27, 2007
pre-breakfast tranny blogging
I’m really, really, really trying to blog more often but dialup connection that drops out every few minutes and a …
May 21, 2007
in the bones of children
In William Forsythe’s Improvisation Technologies dvd, he demonstrates the drawing of lines in space as an exersise in geometric analysis. …
April 19, 2007
dance for obsessive-compulsives
Emile is almost at the end of his winter of Rotterdam, that sent him to the Spielraum in Berlin for …
April 18, 2007
forget me not
The past week I’ve been rehearsing with Ivan Thorley and a bunch of dancers for his film Forget me not …
March 11, 2007
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 11, 2007
something about who?
Miriam Rivera a couple of years ago upset a bunch of straight blokes, then rode the reality-tv thing all the …
March 9, 2007
emile zile mediakunst am berlin
Emile has been living in an old convent in Rotterdam for a while now, in residence at Het Wilde Weten, …
February 24, 2007
Protected: saturday tranny blogging
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February 16, 2007
art, and the mutation of mass media
Emile says everything is grey, and “phishy weather”. That would be Glasgow, then. But, ART! He’s showing videos from Australian …
February 11, 2007
sunday tranny-blogging (and spitting in china)
What is it about Sundays that seem to cause a blog upwelling of a more cerebral nature than during the …
January 13, 2007
live @ the soup kitchen – the next day
Gavin Clarke is something of a ummm … megalomaniac, performing in I think four of the ten works, curating the …
January 8, 2007
Protected: miscellaneous tranny stuff … coz we rule
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December 14, 2006
burnley bouldering overpass
A late-morning ballet class, a lot of cycling, and a mid-afternoon boulder down at Burnley. I was feeling like chocolate …
December 14, 2006
degraves st subway alley
Somehow I have managed to avoid, during my decade in and out of Melbourne, from ever going down the stairs …
December 6, 2006
I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it…
Who woulda thought NASA would suddenly come over all media-savvy and blip out not one but two press releases in …
December 1, 2006
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 13, 2006
leaving adelaide again
One final morning class at Leigh Warren after a tumultuous previous night where I made the mistake of inadequate supplies …
October 25, 2006
ghost eyes: strange visions from hong kong and beyond
From curator of international kebabs Emile Zile, also famous in Melbourne for FOOTSCRAY AUDIO-VISUAL SOCIAL CLUB is the fruits of …
October 16, 2006
a nature hike through the book of revelations
Sunday morning I arrived in Melbourne after three weeks in Adelaide, my fifth domestic flight since June and one of …
September 13, 2006
temperance – photos from rhys
Lucky that almost a gig of photos that Rhys took during the filming on Sunday turned up this morning, or …
September 11, 2006
temperance – 16mm anamorphic zeiss porn
Sunday was a smooth rush through six minutes of dancing bookended by a 7am stagger out of bed and a …
September 6, 2006
temperance – a stranger knocks at his door; fang decides to kill him
When I was using Life Forms as my main tool for choreography, one of the best things about it was …