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 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...

November 1, 2006

两块一个走 - 2 kuai a zou

One afternoon in, I guess late April, I took Emile and Paul for a stroll through my favourite part of...

July 27, 2006

岭南启示录 apocalypse prd - eazy-z in g-town

Along with glad tidings of impending theatrical malfeasance from Emile yesterday, he also had a small package of love for...

June 29, 2006

again again flying ...

Tomorrow I'm leaving Guangzhou again. This time flying from the new Baiyun Airport directly to Melbourne, the end of the...

June 28, 2006

食色性也

食色性也。食饱思淫欲。 liao xinxin, nikita, jie paso, fangzheng, claire, emma 廖欣欣, nikita, 陈志杰, 方正, 冯嘉怡, 郑慕雅

June 21, 2006

岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD - Apocalypse 1626.666

Besides spelling mistakes and irregular comprehension of names, the DVD of 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD is nearly finished, in fact tomorrow...

June 18, 2006

the turmoil ended with his death

During 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD, China didn't celebrate forty years since the start of the Cultural Revolution, and for various reasons...

May 31, 2006

going on holiday

I'm going on holiday. For more than a week, maybe even two weeks... One place I've always wanted to visit...

May 26, 2006

岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD - more of the same...

Still more stuff is turning up in the post-show blur across the internet. On the night of the dress rehearsal...

May 17, 2006

岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD - uber_lingua

Everyone has gone. Emile is back in Melbourne now, and tomorrow is making Guangzhou sounds at St Jerome's. Remember, each...

May 16, 2006

岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD - byte-aftermath

Paul and Emile left last night after a fine dinner with everyone at 1920, the German café on 沿江路 Yanjiang...

May 14, 2006

岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD - typhoon chanchu

Yesterday was one of those days I really wanted to not happen. It reminded me of a few other pre-show...

May 11, 2006

岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD - smell of greasepaint

The last week has been a conscious block for me when it has come to choreographing the bikini-high-heel dance-a-thon/showgirl-on-nembutal-and-acid bit...

May 10, 2006

岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD - costume drama

We're doing a lot of just running sections now, accruing detail and coherency through repetition, but still to finish are...

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...

May 9, 2006

岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD - don't call this a remount

It's mental week now, doing the costume shopping, organising lots of little things that sprout up like an Oxalis frenzy...

May 7, 2006

a visit to the sex market

South-East Asia's biggest sex market that is, though I always expected Thailand, or Korea or Japan who have the first...

岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD - 春宫图 spring palace lust

When I was researching hell in Guangzhou in December last year, I picked up from the now-defunct but hitherto infamous...

May 6, 2006

岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD

We are performing 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD at Park19 next Sunday night. I'll be trying to blog about it every day...

May 3, 2006

粤剧 canton opera madness

A mad day of shopping for the performance, which now has a name: 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD. I'm not sure about...

May 2, 2006

storm over shaheding

A plan to catch a taxi home from rehearsal fell apart when I really couldn't pretend I can catch taxis...

April 24, 2006

请平, 荔湾 Qingping Market and Liwan

There are certain intangible things I love about Guangzhou. Most of them are west of an imaginary and real divider...

April 23, 2006

endless city

In one of my earlier science-fiction gorges, populated mostly by Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, occasionally Philip K. Dick, and...

April 14, 2006

apocalypse guangzhou

Paul Emmanuel, Emile Zile and I are having a screening of a bunch of short films of ours on Sunday...

April 6, 2006

cosplayers in hong kong

Two nights in Hong Kong, picking up Emile and Paul from the airport, playing tourist across Kowloon and Central, seeing...

March 22, 2006

park19 in 石围塘 shiweitang

A very strange day yesterday of taxis and ferries and walking around parts of Guangzhou that are very much not...

March 14, 2006

somewhere in asia...

When I get jammed into an aisle seat and told, "Aw, just put yer legs in the aisle", coz I'm...

March 11, 2006

flying again

I'm flying to Hong Kong tomorrow, and then on to Guangzhou for a residency at Park19 until the end of...

October 5, 2005

australia-china council funds me ... again

Well, the title says it all. Here in autumnal Zürich I got an email this evening from the wonderful Australia-China...