May 13, 2008

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 12, 2008

things…

I spent the early afternoon today pottering around on two things that while their minutia is like worms eating in...

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May 11, 2008

airports

Daniel stayed the night, after our witching hour last rehearsal, and it was past 3 before sleeping. Later, after I...

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 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 17, 2008

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

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...

April 1, 2008

Witch/Red

This is the month of Adelaide independent choreographers with five developments that I know of and maybe a couple of...

March 22, 2008

reading: business cards - the art of saying hello

business cards - the art of saying hello

March 21, 2008

Reading: Michel Foucault - Madness and Civilisation

michel foucault - madness and civilisation

February 1, 2008

reading: william gibson & bruce sterling - the difference engine

william gibson + bruce sterling - the difference engine

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 26, 2008

Reading: Charles Stross – The Atrocity Archives

charles stross - the atrocity archives

Reading: Charles Stross – Toast

charles stross - toast

December 30, 2007

Reading: Iain Banks - The Business (4th time)

iain banks - the business

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...

December 11, 2007

Reading: Iain Banks – Whit

iain banks - whit

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Reading: Charles Stross – Jennifer Morgue

charles stross - the jennifer morgue

December 9, 2007

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

norman page - auden and isherwood - the berlin years

November 18, 2007

november 20

This Tuesday is International Day of Transgender Remembrance. I should be dwelling on Happy Things today but it's been a...

November 17, 2007

reading: terry pratchett…

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

October 24, 2007

reading: matilda mcquaid - extreme textiles

matilda mcquaid - extreme textiles

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October 16, 2007

reading: neil gaiman - american gods

neil gaiman - american gods

October 14, 2007

reading: judith butler – undoing gender

judith butler – undoing gender

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

danceminute

I used to be fairly prompt in getting enthusiastic here about new blogs, adding them to the spiraling list to...

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 10, 2007

flyhatched

It was only three years ago but seems … one of those entanglings with a person that are outside of...

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 20, 2007

dance dance dance to the radio

Somehow I've found myself devoid of blogging the last couple of months. I suppose that's what a third birthday does...

June 18, 2007

more neurotic twitching

This Sunday I'm having another workshop doing more of the improvisation stuff I started a couple of weeks ago. Since...

May 30, 2007

"If the rest of us did that it would be a neurotic twitch."

This Sunday I'm running a workshop based on what I've picked up from doing stuff with some dancers from Frankfurt...

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 25, 2007

adelaide again again

The last week or so I've been a bit distracted by what was an unexpected and very timely offer to...

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 14, 2007

b-file

Falling asleep while passing time in a nearby bookstore while waiting for Michael to arrive in the distant north of...

April 6, 2007

b file at la mama

Another afternoon chat with Bonnie, this time while slurping orange juice and eating peanut butter and banana sandwiches on fresh...

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...

March 31, 2007

sense

A lazy lunch with Bonnie Paskas, one of the dancers in Emily Fernandez's Sense, on for one more night tonight...

March 22, 2007

becky, jodi and john

Not that I've seen much dance this year but come December, this will still be one of the highlights of...

March 21, 2007

anna in space

My darling Anna, whom I first met at DanceWEB in Vienna 2003 and spent a few weeks post-inferno enjoying the...

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 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 8, 2007

… 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

jean baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard died. I'm so utterly devastated. He has been the single most important thinker, writer, philosopher for me, in...

March 1, 2007

secret service

John Jasperse has been in town the last couple of weeks, making a work with Becky Hilton and jodi Meinick...

February 27, 2007

gala goes to danceweb

I'm not sure if I should blab this everywhere, but I found out yesterday my dear friend and regular partner...

venus flytrap - visa for love

It's been about three months since I first mentioned Venus Flytrap, the ultra-tranny manufactured pop group from Thailand, signed to...

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 15, 2007

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 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

the meaning of everything

So far in 2007, I've started well over a score of books, and finished no more than a handful, well...

February 6, 2007

pestilence - a crypto-history of the black plague

Amidst all this grant-writing that is seriously damaging my eyes - colours and objects are permanently dimmer and intangible after...

February 1, 2007

god made you a boy

After the tranny-medical adventures I had yesterday, I probably shouldn't even be going anywhere near reading an article like this...

January 28, 2007

what calliope did…

There is a stack of books next to my bed in Adelaide, mostly instilling disappointment in the novel as a...

January 14, 2007

autistic daughters at fad bar

Last night on the first floor of Fad bar, looking out of 1960s metal-framed curtain wall windows across architecture and...

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December 23, 2006

seasons greetings

A Jesuit missionary named Èdouard de Gex remarked there are two kinds of Satanist, one who genuinely believes in the...

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