Half a million people stuck in the Guangzhou Train Station, over 100 trains carrying thousands of people each stranded in...
This is not Guangzhou Train Station. This is Huanshi Xi Lu, quite far in front of the station. News from...
A little bit preoccupied today and doing busywork (yes, is a word), and somehow stumbled upon several rather cool blogs...
Approaching a return to Melbourne, back to airports on Saturday and to … see if I can make sense of...
jin xing - shanghai tango (a memoir)
mmmm … mooncakes … green tea mooncake with one yolk hong kong elegant flavour
Whenever I'd be hanging out with some group of artists or dancers, sitting around the remnants of dinner and drinking...
John is responsible for much of my email. He only knows this now. But I read it all, after-all, I...
I had some time spare yesterday amidst the stream of meetings and appointments, so went on a hot date with...
All month I've been meaning to blog this, but attack of laziness and other things to keep me occupied meant...
Being the day when a carpenter who has fantastically scant evidence for ever having existed in the first place was...
More stuff I've read in the past two weeks for your amazement and occasional pleasure, though because everyone's taste is...
A late night swirling Pernod with Bonnie at Orange and an early trip to the shops for Sunday fruit, now...
Two almost opposite examinations of art or culture came from Ou Ning's blog today, the first a textless photographic documentary...
A couple of weeks ago, John Kennedy - also known as contemporary Chinese poetry translator Feng37 - thought that getting...
Yes, I am missing not being in Guangzhou, or joining hundreds of millions on the country's trains. So, from Mary...
I wrote the following post in Guangzhou mid-last year after going on a bender with Michael, the Principal Bassoonist in...
Amidst all this grant-writing that is seriously damaging my eyes - colours and objects are permanently dimmer and intangible after...
Happy reading for me this afternoon from Mary Ann in Shenzhen, who writes one of the best blogs coming out...
Under many different names but mostly known to us as Kowloon as in what Mongkok is a part of in...
Bookmarked, that is, so I could blah on loudly here about it, in lieu of dragging myself through the warm...
ex-Feng37 has been burning a posting storm through Canton recently, and I suspect he's moved out of Fangcun and found...
A bit slack lately blogging about my favourite city, Guangzhou. Yes I do love it that much. 曹斐 Cao Fei...
I really need a category for performance, because sticking Samuel Beckett under 'dance' is just a bit weird, not withstanding...
One afternoon in, I guess late April, I took Emile and Paul for a stroll through my favourite part of...
I've been lucky enough to have had a couple of Mid-Autumn Festivals in Guangzhou, and yeah it's a bit late...
Lawrence Li at Global Noise Online has been blogging regularly about the upcoming China Power Station, "A major exhibition of...
Having dragged myself out of bed at the rather late hour of 1030 and still working my way through a...
Unlike recent high-modernist industrial travelogues in which ailing former jewels-in-the-crown of the European heavy industry age are cut up and...
One of the most enjoyable blogs to emerge from Guangdong Province, and one of my favourites for being an art-performance-archaeological-theoretical...
When I was in Hong Kong for a day in early May, as usual I went on my idea of...
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...
The night in 2003 I spent walking around Dong Shan in the rain and wet heat was perhaps the night...
It was about a year and a half ago when I considered the probability of an endless stretch of boringness...
Reading Jean Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and Death in 2003 was one of those pivotal moments in consumption of text that...
A new book of contemporary art photographers from China: 3030: New Photography in China This fully illustrated survey of 30...
It was slightly unnerving, to be lying there above the swollen and turbulent Pearl River, undercutting the empty, but for...
Along with glad tidings of impending theatrical malfeasance from Emile yesterday, he also had a small package of love for...
Ou Ning of Alternative Archive, who does spend more time in airports than me, and possibly the person mostly likely...
I've had a very unintentional absence from the world after landing in Melbourne on Friday. Saturday evening I became sick...
Tomorrow I'm leaving Guangzhou again. This time flying from the new Baiyun Airport directly to Melbourne, the end of the...
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
Besides spelling mistakes and irregular comprehension of names, the DVD of 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD is nearly finished, in fact tomorrow...
A friend was in town for a day, so I subjected him to my tour of Canton, walking from where...
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...
Reading maps can describe places that have vanished, ghost inscriptions of shifting fringes, more so in places where geography itself...
Having been tardy in writing about anything that attracts the most readers, and a bit of a follow-on from a...
My once monthly trip to Hong Kong was under a leaden and saturated sky. Guangzhou and much of the province...
Periodically, I write about stuff in China that has little at first glance to do with making dance and art...
Following on from the attention 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD got in 周末画报 Modern Weekly, I spent the afternoon in Haizhu Park...
Still more stuff is turning up in the post-show blur across the internet. On the night of the dress rehearsal...
There is a small part of Guangzhou where I am disoriented and nearly convinced I am actually in Zürich walking...
Everyone has gone. Emile is back in Melbourne now, and tomorrow is making Guangzhou sounds at St Jerome's. Remember, each...
Paul and Emile left last night after a fine dinner with everyone at 1920, the German café on 沿江路 Yanjiang...
Yesterday was one of those days I really wanted to not happen. It reminded me of a few other pre-show...
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...
We're doing a lot of just running sections now, accruing detail and coherency through repetition, but still to finish are...
Paul Emmanuel, who I have spent most of tonight making act like a stooge for Beelzebub has decided to remain...