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...

February 25, 2008

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

susan mann - the talented women of the zhang family

February 5, 2008

waiting at the train station

Half a million people stuck in the Guangzhou Train Station, over 100 trains carrying thousands of people each stranded in...

February 4, 2008

新年快乐!﹣hoping the rats are warm on the trains

This is not Guangzhou Train Station. This is Huanshi Xi Lu, quite far in front of the station. News from...

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...

December 31, 2007

Reading: Jin Xing - Shanghai Tango (A Memoir)

jin xing - shanghai tango (a memoir)

September 26, 2007

中秋节快乐!!!

mmmm … mooncakes … green tea mooncake with one yolk hong kong elegant flavour

September 9, 2007

all about jin xing

Whenever I'd be hanging out with some group of artists or dancers, sitting around the remnants of dinner and drinking...

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...

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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June 19, 2007

冯三七 canton disaster relief blogging

John is responsible for much of my email. He only knows this now. But I read it all, after-all, I...

June 1, 2007

恭喜天安门

tiananmen square june 1989

May 6, 2007

the life of 金星 jin xing

Conversations on contemporary art in China that swung around to dance invariably brought mention of Shanghai choreographer and dancer Jin...

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 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 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

it's all about 冯三七 … i mean feng37 … i mean john

A couple of weeks ago, John Kennedy - also known as contemporary Chinese poetry translator Feng37 - thought that getting...

February 18, 2007

新年快乐! 恭喜发财! – hoping that meat prices don't go up

Yes, I am missing not being in Guangzhou, or joining hundreds of millions on the country's trains. So, from Mary...

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...

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 29, 2007

another adelaide arrival/departure

As when I arrived in Adelaide, so too was it grey and occasionally seeped in a fine mist for Bonnie...

January 11, 2007

我不知道我是什么性别

Happy reading for me this afternoon from Mary Ann in Shenzhen, who writes one of the best blogs coming out...

January 8, 2007

miscellaneous tranny stuff … coz we rule

Someone, obviously stupid, whom I haven't bothered to remember despite having a vague association in the Melbourne contemporary dance SCENE...

December 12, 2006

smashing small thing together really fast

Maybe I should change my blog name to supernaut … i whore for science, I've been blogging so much about...

December 10, 2006

stuff i read and even bookmarked in the last week

Bookmarked, that is, so I could blah on loudly here about it, in lieu of dragging myself through the warm...

December 5, 2006

super-condom tranny

I don't really want to be 'tranny activist' and have to get all political and fight-for-your-rights. Or perhaps more accurately...

December 3, 2006

dormitory

Splendidly late blogging, but wtf. I've been meaning to drool here about Wang Qingsong's Dormitory, though equally any of his...

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December 2, 2006

some stuff i read this week

Lazy Saturday afternoon post-dragging myself out of bed and thinking of going climbing pretty soon, but first a random trawl...

October 21, 2006

what i've been reading today

Another list of completely unrelated stuff that circulated through my news feeds in the last couple of days and makes...

October 13, 2006

shooting them like rats, dogs

A truly disgusting start to yesterday was reading about climbers in Tibet on Cho Oyu watching the Chinese Army massacre...

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October 8, 2006

berkeley china initiative

I'm not sure how much I'll be blogging in the next week as things get mental with crush. In the...

October 6, 2006

中秋节快乐

I've been lucky enough to have had a couple of Mid-Autumn Festivals in Guangzhou, and yeah it's a bit late...

October 5, 2006

china power station

Lawrence Li at Global Noise Online has been blogging regularly about the upcoming China Power Station, "A major exhibition of...

October 1, 2006

stuff i read today

Having dragged myself out of bed at the rather late hour of 1030 and still working my way through a...

September 25, 2006

长沙刁民 changsha rogue

One of my favourite means of getting around Guangzhou since I first got over my terror of speeding death under...

September 24, 2006

Shanghai to Mongolia via Mir

Reblogging again, this time combining a some of my disparate loves. Astronaut Shannon Lucid, like writer J. G. Ballard has...

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September 15, 2006

miscellaneous rubbish for a friday

Martha Graham. Evil despot of the Modern Dance universe. Shame she didn't die sooner. The ImpulsTanz Juice newsletter quotes her...

August 26, 2006

水上人家 - river people

When I was in Hong Kong for a day in early May, as usual I went on my idea of...

August 18, 2006

广州有毒液体泄 - Guangzhou liquid inferno

There has been a large chemical leak in 天河区 Tian He District of Guangzhou, near 东圃石溪 Dongpushi Creek today. The...

August 4, 2006

on plagues and skin disorders

Reading Jean Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and Death in 2003 was one of those pivotal moments in consumption of text that...

July 30, 2006

3030 new photography in china

A new book of contemporary art photographers from China: 3030: New Photography in China This fully illustrated survey of 30...

July 12, 2006

吴皓 hao wu released

Read all about it on Free Hao Wu. China: Wu Hao released Filed under: About Hao Wu, News, Nina's blog...

July 8, 2006

何清濂教授的易性术手术 sex change surgery with professor he

Professor He Qinglian in Shanghai has a website, 何氏性别再赋整形美容网 offering sex-change information and surgery at the surgery department of the...

June 19, 2006

一队夫妻只生育一孩子

A friend was in town for a day, so I subjected him to my tour of Canton, walking from where...

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...

June 13, 2006

beautiful and mysterious luoping

The vast monsoon-saturated billboard, the only unbleached colour in two days of hard-sleeper train from Kunming to Guangzhou said, "Welcome...

June 11, 2006

虎跳峡 & 玉龙雪山 tiger leaping gorge and jade dragon snow mountain

Some photos of five days I spent wandering through Tiger Leaping Gorge, some from the high trail, others from when...

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 28, 2006

云浮, 汕尾, 太石 and other holiday places

Periodically, I write about stuff in China that has little at first glance to do with making dance and art...

May 26, 2006

collapsing old buildings

There is a small part of Guangzhou where I am disoriented and nearly convinced I am actually in Zürich walking...

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...