May 13, 2008

just filling in

Gala is in Melbourne, so is quite a few of Adelaide people. See her show starting next week in the...

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

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 29, 2008

生日快乐!!! happy 4rd birthday supernaut

Oops … 我忘了… I forgot… My blog's 4th birthday was almost three weeks ago on the 7th of April. I...

April 21, 2008

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

pestilence day 13

Friday, rehearsal 13, night and darkness. Daniel and I seem to work rather well when the building creaks and groans...

April 16, 2008

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

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...

March 22, 2008

reading: business cards - the art of saying hello

business cards - the art of saying hello

March 21, 2008

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 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...

February 25, 2008

Reading: Susan Mann - The Talented Women of the Zhang Family

susan mann - the talented women of the zhang family

January 27, 2008

more feeds and things … and blogrolls

A little bit preoccupied today and doing busywork (yes, is a word), and somehow stumbled upon several rather cool blogs...

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...

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January 7, 2008

Reading: Katherine Dunn - Geek Love

katherine dunn - geek love

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monadologie day 11

We played in the VR Lab today. The Astrophysics Centre has 3-D Stereoscopic projectors and twin cameras for filming also...

December 12, 2007

monadologie days 1, 2, & 3

I am at Swinburne. I have an office. It's half way to the first floor (or second if you're counting...

monadologie - a start

I'm now in residence at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing where I'll be for much of summer working...

December 9, 2007

Reading: Norman Page - Auden and Isherwood - The Berlin Years

norman page - auden and isherwood - the berlin years

December 8, 2007

a small break and things…

No internet for more than a week is something, especially in a week as frantic as this, and lack of...

December 7, 2007

pestilence

This morning, sleeping not yoga-ing, a little message from Alison in Adelaide, "Dear frances … i am pleased to hav...

November 29, 2007

AIR

While I'm about to embark on my residency at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, and getting quite giddy...

November 22, 2007

kunst and the greens

Three years ago I was so happy to be leaving Australia immediately after the nauseating reelection of that repulsive clique...

November 17, 2007

reading: terry pratchett…

terry pratchett - mort terry pratchett - the colour of magic terry pratchett - equal rites terry pratchett...

October 29, 2007

reading: kerstin finger - tape: an excursion through the world of adhesive tapes

tape: an excursion through the world of adhesive tapes

October 24, 2007

reading: matilda mcquaid - extreme textiles

matilda mcquaid - extreme textiles

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October 6, 2007

all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 15 & 16 & this week

Libby said, "You're panicking. Deal with it". I said, "Oh I need to write that down", it would go well...

September 27, 2007

all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 14

Xuan said to me, over lunch, "I never dream I'm an …", makes little creeping tendril extraterrestrial fingers, "alien...

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 7, 2007

all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 8

I couldn't really justify rape fantasies or liking being strangled through Judith Butler's Gender Trouble, and I did do an...

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 27, 2007

all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 5

So when I leave writing about stuff for a few days, things get … blurry. The last few days have...

August 23, 2007

all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 4

A visit to the giant porn supermarket next to ACarts yesterday, to search for any book I could find on...

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

if you're cute and you're in the bar's toilet …

More from Alison whose installation-performance if you're cute and you've got good sneakers … in the toilets of FAD Bar...

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 9, 2007

all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 1

Late afternoon into twilight, playing in the dark our first rehearsal, Paea, Xuan, Tara and Daniel together in one small...

August 8, 2007

ignition - all the people i can remember sleeping with …

A morning back at ADT, really for the first time in about a month, and I forgot how astounding they...

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...

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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...

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July 16, 2007

we were thinking about each other

I returned to Judith Butler last week, beginning a rereading of Gender Trouble and placing Undoing Gender on order at...

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...

April 29, 2007

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...

April 23, 2007

new photography in guangzhou

All month I've been meaning to blog this, but attack of laziness and other things to keep me occupied meant...

April 5, 2007

sometimes i paint …

Emile took me along to see an exhibition of Peter Saville while we were in Zürich. I'm really surprised at...

April 1, 2007

sunday morning avoiding-work blogging

More stuff I've read in the past two weeks for your amazement and occasional pleasure, though because everyone's taste is...

March 14, 2007

soft sculpt adelaide

It's Adelaide Fringe time, so Gypsy Wood is sitting in the Garden of Unearthly Delights, and every dancer in town...

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...

March 3, 2007

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...

February 26, 2007

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...

February 24, 2007

i whore for astrophysics

One of my dream residencies would be the Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship, all kinds of Robert-Scott-I-am-just-going-outside-and-may-be-some-time excitement. Sadly my tranny...

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 14, 2007

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...

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 6, 2007

mel-adl: the detritus of cyclone isobel

An ominous bruised horizon, warnings of thunderstorms and a deadening, electric heat tense to snap, I was hoping for a...

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January 3, 2007

supernaut #3 blinks in the numinous light

Having spent the last few days playing around with a new design, I thought I'd preview it now. supernaut...

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January 2, 2007

it's all about the money #2

He could have ditched the first paragraph, stopped right at the end of the second sentence, and just copy-pasted that...

December 19, 2006

burning churches - the spirit of christmas

rrraaaaghgghghgghhhhh!!!! etc. Sunday afternoon,