November 19, 2008

transgender day of remembrance

For any queer trans* Berliners who read me, there is a meeting tomorrow night 6pm, at my favourite bar, Silverfuture...

June 4, 2008

恭喜天安门

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...

January 3, 2008

to move freely

Approaching a return to Melbourne, back to airports on Saturday and to … see if I can make sense of...

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...

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...

May 30, 2007

stir-fried poultry

I had some time spare yesterday amidst the stream of meetings and appointments, so went on a hot date with...

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 6, 2007

friday atheist re-blogging

Being the day when a carpenter who has fantastically scant evidence for ever having existed in the first place was...

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...

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 10, 2007

revenge of the lezzie shemale feminists

I wrote the following post in Guangzhou mid-last year after going on a bender with Michael, the Principal Bassoonist in...

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...

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...

December 11, 2006

英西峰林走廊攀岩 rock climbing in qingyuan county

Under many different names but mostly known to us as Kowloon as in what Mongkok is a part of in...

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...

超牛b的余震 - Aftershock in Guangzhou

ex-Feng37 has been burning a posting storm through Canton recently, and I suspect he's moved out of Fangcun and found...

December 1, 2006

2006中国(广州)国际纪录片大会 Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival

A bit slack lately blogging about my favourite city, Guangzhou. Yes I do love it that much. 曹斐 Cao Fei...

November 28, 2006

等待戈多 waiting for godot

I really need a category for performance, because sticking Samuel Beckett under 'dance' is just a bit weird, not withstanding...

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...

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 19, 2006

battersea power station, guangzhou

Unlike recent high-modernist industrial travelogues in which ailing former jewels-in-the-crown of the European heavy industry age are cut up and...

August 27, 2006

waiting for fat bird

One of the most enjoyable blogs to emerge from Guangdong Province, and one of my favourites for being an art-performance-archaeological-theoretical...

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 17, 2006

东山 - guangzhou's merchant suburb

The night in 2003 I spent walking around Dong Shan in the rain and wet heat was perhaps the night...

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August 6, 2006

less art more self-indulgence

It was about a year and a half ago when I considered the probability of an endless stretch of boringness...

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 28, 2006

创意广州十三行 creative canton

It was slightly unnerving, to be lying there above the swollen and turbulent Pearl River, undercutting the empty, but for...

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...

July 7, 2006

三元里 san yuan li in new york

Ou Ning of Alternative Archive, who does spend more time in airports than me, and possibly the person mostly likely...

July 4, 2006

bird flu in nar nar goon

I've had a very unintentional absence from the world after landing in Melbourne on Friday. Saturday evening I became sick...

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 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 17, 2006

guangzhou islands, graves, dead rivers and southern barbarians

Reading maps can describe places that have vanished, ghost inscriptions of shifting fringes, more so in places where geography itself...

May 30, 2006

shenzhen beautiful transsexual photo studio

Having been tardy in writing about anything that attracts the most readers, and a bit of a follow-on from a...

KCR Guangzhou to Dongguan again

My once monthly trip to Hong Kong was under a leaden and saturated sky. Guangzhou and much of the province...

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 27, 2006

famous in haizhu

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...

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...

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...

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 30, 2006

10 = marquido + itta

Before it all passes me by again and I'm still looking like an imbecile going ... wuuuuh ... ? this...

April 28, 2006

still lazy (but reading like a concubine at an orgy)

I just can't seem to get focussed on blogging at the moment, I think because my schedule is a little...

April 24, 2006

New Order's Peter Hook Guangzhou Babyface DJ set

One of the most influential bands on me from when I first heard the pounding of Blue Monday, and I...

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

第三届广东现代舞周 3rd Guangdong Modern Dance Festival

Last year I was less than flattering about the dance I saw at the 第二届广东现代舞周 2nd Guangdong Modern Dance Festival...

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 12, 2006

what were they doing there?

Someone was telling me 佛山 Foshan, the Fo meant fire, like in Cantonese, but duh! it actually means Buddha. Anyway...

April 11, 2006

西门子艺术项目 - what art you doing here?

Cao Fei's performance/video/installation for the global Siemens Arts Programme in Foshan, What Are You Doing Here? opens today. There's a...

April 8, 2006

a couple of anniversaries i forgot...

I'm really not one for anniversaries, and have even forgotten my birthday a couple of times, but feeling the need...

welcome to japanese new music festival

I just want to lick something drenched in acid. That's twice I've seen Acid Mothers Temple and my immediate response...

林若熹 - 行愿 lin ruoxi - meditation on travelling

When asked to translate the exhibition notes for 林若熹 Lin Ruoxi's 行愿 exhibition, I wasn't expecting highrise-sized banners and three...

April 7, 2006

art art art ... noise

In a pathetic effort to make up for a few days of blaring silence, with 2am crawls to bed, hour...

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...

April 2, 2006

他们在这做什么? what are they doing here?

I'm off to Hong Kong tomorrow to pick up Paul and Emile, and I'm not sure when I'm coming back...

April 1, 2006

acid mothers temple! guangzhou!

"Welcome to Japanese New Music Festival" I am officially a groupie, and I'm so excited I can't even type properly...

March 30, 2006

bird flu

I've had Bird Flu for the last few days, I know because I checked the symptoms on the internet, and...

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 18, 2006

a pothole in jiulong

So I came back early. It was getting wet, which was slightly funny considering it hadn't really dried, and trying...

March 17, 2006

eeeeeee!!! blog!!!!

I was going to write a whole bunch of stuff about a whole pile of stuff, lots of exciting Guangzhou...

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 6, 2006

pearl river bikini party

Once, hanging out down on Shamian Island, and wanting to be, I dunno, somewhere less touristy, I saw Chairman Mao...

March 4, 2006

straight outta canton

I'm sure I had a post with the same title as this some time... but well, I can't find it...

February 27, 2006

guangzhou art and blogs

A few days ago a friend of mine who used to work at Park19 emailed me with a link to...

February 18, 2006

destination prd

In my daily ploughing through a couple of hundred RSS feeds, I read from Danwei, there's a new quarterly magazine...

February 17, 2006

my name is 张德江 Zhang Dejiang

I've been slowly limiting my China obsession to merely a Guangdong Province one. Mainly because China is simply too vast...

February 15, 2006

transylvania avenue

Cosmin, who was one of the mob of Guangzhou climbers that descended on Jiulong every weekend while I was in...

January 5, 2006

puk gai and other cantonese words of love

What I really like when speaking Cantonese is how it makes me sound like a slutty canto-porn star about to...

December 31, 2005

从太石村到东洲坑——更危险的一步 From Taishi village to Dongzhou–a step into danger

The massacre of peasants in Dongzhou, in Guangdong Province happened earlier this month, when I was having blog problems and...

December 29, 2005

先锋光芒 - ray of the avante garde

Guangzhou's 广州中华影城 Zhonghua Cinema is running a festival of recent Chinese films, 先锋光芒--中国青年导演电影展映(柏林篇)Ray of the Avante Garde - Chinese Young...

December 26, 2005

don't drink the brown acid

The first time it was almost world news; the second when upstart southern capital Guangzhou tried to get in on...

i like my guangzhou underground

I have such a soft spot for the city Lonely Planet used to advise everyone to don't-stop-just-keep-on-going-on-to-the-Real-China, and now describe...

December 16, 2005

独生一代 - single child generation

Park 19 in Guangzhou has been off the internet for a few weeks now, and when I visited the studios...

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December 7, 2005

kcr - guangzhou to dongguan

The Kowloon to Guangzhou through train is one of the weirdest train rides I've been on, and it's one I've...

December 5, 2005

planes trains busses taxis

I'll be gracing the Hong Kong airport tomorrow, and leaving Guangzhou. It's been a whirl of a 10 day adventure...

December 4, 2005

translate this: 行愿

I was at the 广州美术学院 and spent the afternoon with 林若熹 a professor at the Academy who is preparing a...

last night in guangzhou

More art. Hanging around the Fine Arts Academy with painter Wan Xiaojia, checking out people's studios, eating lots of Cantonese...

December 3, 2005

a night at loft 345

Last night I went down to Loft345, which used to be Park19 (because it was number 19 whatever lane and...

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December 1, 2005

a taxi ride

Going from Huanshi Dong Lu to Jiangnan Dadao, across the river and along the inner city elevated freeways that snake...

November 30, 2005

looking at art: 第二届广州三年展 2nd Guangzhou Triennial

I was going to try and find out if Park19 was still alive but only got as far as 二沙岛Er...

November 28, 2005

z-town to g-town

The flight wasn't as bad as I'd thought it would be, though getting screwed at Hong Kong airport for a...

November 23, 2005

airport lounging

I'm travelling to Hong Kong early Friday morning so my abuse of bandwidth and the internet has slowed to a...

November 4, 2005

the satanic orgy of meat

I never went to the real animal markets in Guangzhou. I arrived in the city as a vegetarian, but after...

October 31, 2005

dongxi wants stuff

I got an email a couple of days ago from the editors of the about to be published dongxi magazine...

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October 27, 2005

第二届广州三年展 Beyond: 2nd Guangzhou Triennial

More from 亞洲藝術文獻庫 Asia Art Archive on the upcoming 2nd Guangzhou Triennial (a title that I can't say without feeling...

太石村 taishi village - in the media

Sometimes everyone likes jumping on an event for no real reason, and forgets, ignores and generally pretends others haven't happened...

October 16, 2005

第二届广州三年展 pearl river art canton

I dunno, but I think having a triennial is a bit weird, coz by the time it comes around again...

china’s changing landscape

The first time I took the KCR train from Hong Kong to Guangzhou I thought I'd arrived in Mordor. Endless...

October 11, 2005

太石村 taishi village - so much for feeling happy

A while ago, I wrote about the 太石村 Taishi village election in Panyu District of Guangzhou, and how it was...

October 9, 2005

you must wait for democracy

China and democracy. Well there goes easy access to my website in China. The meme of China and its globally...

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...

October 2, 2005

all of china at the kennedy centre

There's a fairly huge mega-company type cultural celebration of China going on at the moment at both the Kennedy Centre...

royal hong kong circus tour of guangzhou

One of the events of last week which was variously setting a precedent, and ice-breaking on the level of Nixon...

September 21, 2005

太石村 taishi village elections

One of the more interesting pieces on politics in China I've read recently came in the form of two pretty...

September 13, 2005

抱石广州 bouldering in guangzhou

Rain didn't stop bolting in Jiulong, and two new routes went up, overhanging and around 10d/11a. No pictures yet... but...

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September 4, 2005

《迷狂之梦天》 journey of the unrestrained

For annyone in or near Guangzhou this weekend, the Guangdong Modern Dance Company is performing in the company Small Theatre...

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September 2, 2005

southern china + guangzhou rock climbing

I guess Guangzhou mustn't be that skanky wet furnace of mugginess and hysteria inducing heat anymore, though it's hard to...

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August 25, 2005

crazy for digital

The current state of film in China and Hong Kong, mostly triad good-cop/bad-cop or period piece fantastical martial arts sewerage...

August 14, 2005

zeroballet bitches extermination

After much pissing around, I thought it was time to dump some more narrow-band choking content on the dance side...

privatising contemporary dance in guangzhou

There was a huge interview and article in the Weekend Standard last week on Willy Tsao and the 广东现代舞团 Guangdong...

August 6, 2005

Down and Out in China

Richard thought I'd like it. I was filling one of his spare rooms in Panyu with the detritus of five...

June 28, 2005

slumming it in vevey

The most skanky flight I have ever had in my life was on the weekend, Hong Kong to Bangkok, to...

June 22, 2005

bitches in the press

Bitches got a couple of mentions in the press including one review, which I dunno if they said anything good...

literature commune chicken

I went to Park19 today to say goodbye to everyone until next time I stumble through Guangzhou. I also made...

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June 16, 2005

淹沒 before the flood

I missed this one completely. 淹沒Before the Flood was screened in Guangzhou on the weekend. It's also at the Los...

文献公社 at Park19

I haven't been able to find out much about this, except the beautiful flier that I picked up at park19...

June 15, 2005

splash life

Maybe it was last year, or very early this year, when we sat around the outside table at Sleepywood, mesmerised...

June 14, 2005

exterminate!!! exterminate!!!

Last Friday night down at the bar of Park19, a bunch of us got together to drink beer and eat...

June 13, 2005

eco-tourism in guangdong

I'm an avid map-reader. I'll spend hours pouring over all kinds of maps looking for something, nothing. Lately it's been...

burn-out

extermination the film was awesome. Expect video on my website sometime soon, and photos here even sooner. Went to Hong...

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June 6, 2005

bitches rocks hard

It went so well. bitches rocked out. Even the florescent lights coming on half way through didn't shake it. An...

June 5, 2005

罗岗 Luogang bouldering

I know everyone wants to dirt on the show last night, but bugger that. I'm going climbing. So, after a...

June 4, 2005

bitches in rehearsal

Around lunchtime while waiting for the dirt samples to arrive, when the humidity and heat was excerable, I was asked...

May 31, 2005

bitches part III

It's production week, or whatever else it can be called, so I'm going to be vanishing into production week limbo...

May 29, 2005

bitches part II

Bitches is a week off and I should really be getting the costumes today, but mainland China has this problem...

May 26, 2005

expressions at guangdong modern dance festival

The dance festival here has been over for a couple of weeks, and other things are happening across the town...

May 24, 2005

yingde - the next jiulong

It was the last trip before the humidity rotted even out bones, and the vampire mosquitos were swarming, lecherous and...

May 19, 2005

south of the border

I'm heading down to Hong Kong tomorrow for a bunch of stuff, but mainly to see Balletlab's Phillip Adams' new...

May 18, 2005

bitches

I started rehearsals on Monday for the reason why Australia China Council gave me money and why I'm able to...

May 16, 2005

heavy gravity in yangshou's bastard cousin

The gravity was especially strong in Jiulong on Saturday. In addition to the kind of humidity that can rot the...

May 13, 2005

jiulong again

I'm off climbing again in sunny Jiulong again tomorrow for the weekend. Expect lots of dirty photos of drills going...

May 8, 2005

they're dead! ... everyone's dead...

Last night was the end of the 第二届广东现代舞周2nd Guangzhou Contemporary Dance Festival, and I know I've been pretty harsh on...

May 7, 2005

contemporary dance must die

A triple bill. Three times the fun. The 2nd Guangzhou Dance Festival is almost over, and Thursday night it was...

Yoga in Guangzhou

For residents of Guangzhou who really miss that yoga class you'd go to in the evening or on the weekend...

May 4, 2005

jiulong super-crag

Jiulong turned into a bit of a tourist town this weekend. Three carloads of climbers plus a few others ate...

April 30, 2005

when art goes bad

Last night was not quite the beginning of the week of dance at the 2nd Guangzhou Dance Festival, but was...

climb, you pathetic little human

I'm off tomorrow morning for a couple of days up at Jiulong again. It's the big trip. Nine days of...

April 27, 2005

Stop Motion

I arrived back in perfect time for the start of the 第二届广东现代舞 - 2nd Guangdong Modern Dance Festival, two weeks...

back in guangzhou town - again

The flight sucked. Taking off is fun in a 747 or anything fast enough to make your bones rattle and...

April 21, 2005

travelling again

I leave for Hong Kong and Guangzhou tomorrow for a couple of months making horrible art before heading over to...

April 10, 2005

anti-japan riots in guangzhou (and everywhere else)

The anti-Japan bullshit that has been fomenting across China in the major cities, reached a peak over the weekend. Ostensibly...

March 30, 2005

cock rock

In an effort to make everyone see what an awesome place Guangdong province is to go climbing in, it looks...

March 25, 2005

chinese whispers in adelaide

Amanda Phillips and me are always in the same place, but never at the same time. She was in Zurich...

March 16, 2005

大声展 get it louder

大声展 get it louder opens in Shenzhen at the end of next month before moving to Shanghai and Beijing. Over...

March 14, 2005

virtually richard3

Brisbane-based expressions dance company is about to head off to Guangzhou to join a bunch of other dance companies from...

March 11, 2005

travelling again

I've been travelling most of the week, leaving Guangzhou on Tuesday and heading to Melbourne for the next six weeks...

March 7, 2005

another day at jiulong

We set off for Jiulong with the same driver and his white car with the dropped shocks around seven along...

March 5, 2005

干花乐队 dead flowers at park19

Having blown my remaining change of DVDs again, including weird old documentaries on the history of Hong Kong filmmaking, I...

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March 2, 2005

the new park-19

I went back to the new Park-19 today in daylight surrounded by the craziness of the Nantai markets. I'm looking...

March 1, 2005

Jiulong - you ain't in Hong Kong anymore

A while ago, I saw some photos of a place just north of Guangzhou that looked so like Yangshou, the...

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Australia China Council funds me

Just when I was thinking of giving it all up, getting a nice easy job (say maybe a showgirl in...

February 28, 2005

19-T somewhere south of the river

Besides the main Park-19 where all the artists have studios, there's another one, a bit further west of the University...

February 23, 2005

park 19, 19-T and shanshui records

This Friday night at Park 19, Shanshui Records and a bunch of others have the Guangzhou part of their tour...

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February 22, 2005

park 19 where it's all at

I went to Park 19 yesterday, the artists studio space on the south side o the river near Xiaogang Park...

February 21, 2005

2005广州国际摄影双年展“城市·重视” 2005 Guangzhou Photo Biennale

The 2005 Guangzhou Photo Biennale opened at the 广东美术馆 Guangdong Museum of Modern Art in mid-January and is running until...

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February 16, 2005

airports hotels taxis and slow internet

I'm travelling again, having left Taipei on Monday morning and spent a fun day in Hong Kong catching up with...

February 12, 2005

Rear Light - Beijing Dance at the Joyce

The 北京現代舞團 Beijing Modern Dance Company have been performing Read Light at the Joyce Theatre in New York. The Times...

January 31, 2005

guangdong #1

The centre of the manufacturing universe, Guangdong Provence now has the largest population in China. Bigger than most countries even...

January 26, 2005

qing yuan, guangdong's yangshuo

When I first knew I was going to China, my first thought was, "Damn I need to find where to...

January 19, 2005

广东现代舞团 - Guangdong Modern Dance Company Performs

This weekend, the amazing 广东现代舞团 - Guangdong Modern Dance Company will present a season of new short works by the...

January 9, 2005

the little company that could

Just before I left Guangzhou, the 广东实验现代舞团 Guangdong Modern Dance Company and Symphony Orchestra were rehearsing in preparation of their...

January 8, 2005

asian blog awards

The results are in for the 2004 Asian Blog Awards. Go over and check it out, and see some new...

January 5, 2005

vote for meee!!! ... again ...

The party at Simon World for the 2004 Asian Blog Awards has barely finished and the results are still being...

December 30, 2004

shen wei at sydney opera house

The Sydney Festival opens in a couple of weeks, premiering Kate Champion's Already Elsewhere and Shen Wei Dance Arts, the...

vote for me!!!

This is your last chance to vote for me in the Asian Blog Awards, so go on do something worthwhile...

December 24, 2004

that's OC

I love a good West Coast badly-acted 30-nothing playing emotional-car-crash teenagers in expensive lifestyles, like The OC. The That's Magazine...

that's gets shut down

Here a couple of days ago and gone today. That's Magazines - Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai were a lifesaver when...

December 20, 2004

第三现场 - 第二届新年国际音乐节 live home 3

After a couple of months of silence and a website announcing the days of 第三现场 Live Home 3 were over...

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November 28, 2004

what i read this week

Just in case I ever need to recall what I read this week that didn't have anything to do with...

November 16, 2004

guangzhou's tallest building

In Yuexiu Park there is an old drum tower which is most of what remains of the once city-encircling walls...

November 6, 2004

qj studios - 没大没小 Mei Da Mei Xiao

Just before I left Guangzhou, I had a couple of conversations about the art scene in the city, which seems...

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October 31, 2004

arriving in taipei

Another blindingly early start on the jet-fuel trail. I divide my flights up into sections: 1) taxi to Guangzhou East...

October 29, 2004

down at the xinghai concert hall

Friday. My last day in Guangzhou. Two weeks of teaching dance at the Guangdong Modern Dance Company School, Yoga at...

October 22, 2004

东山小区 dong shan town

Around 5pm it's impossible to get a taxi anywhere in town, and even if you do, it moves so slow...

this one's for you, JD

When I first came to Guangzhou, I was introduced by the fearsome culinary vultures of the Symphony Orchestra to about...

October 21, 2004

liwan hutong

China is keeping me busy. I'm teaching contemporary dance at the Guangdong modern Dance Company School Yes, they have a...

October 4, 2004

dancing until the sky clears up

The 广东实验现代舞团 Guangdong Modern Dance Company is currently on tour in Europe, performing several dates in Nederlands and Belgium with...

September 27, 2004

twlight of the door gods

Watch any Chinese martial arts movie and somewhere there will always be a set of double doors with fearsome, demonic...

September 23, 2004

the watchtowers of 开平碉楼 kaiping diaolou

News Guangdong reports on the Kaiping Watchtowers, diaolou 碉樓, which have come under State protection for their architecture and historic...

September 12, 2004

2030 pearl river mega-city

By 2030, in a study reported on in the HK Standard, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong will have merged into...

September 10, 2004

territories at para/site

Para/Site Art Space new gallery in Hong Kong has just celebrated its opening with the multi-media installations of Hong Kong-based...

August 31, 2004

pollution in China

The Economist published a fairly detailed article on the state of the environment in China, the levels of continuing degradation...

August 25, 2004

i like my noise noisy

In Guangzhou this Saturday, a group of noise-makers from across the city will be shaking the rotten concrete out of...

August 1, 2004

dance and music at sleepywood

Yesterday at Sleepywood Bar - 枕木酒吧in Guangzhou, dancers from the 广东现代舞团Guangdong Modern Dance Company and musicians from the Orchestra got...

July 11, 2004

doing nothing anywhere

Vitamin Creative Space in Guangzhou recently had a project do nothing anywhere at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in...

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July 3, 2004

1個歧視 - A Discrimination

Live Home 3 has an exhibition 1個歧視 - A Discrimination on at the moment, with a number of local artists...

June 18, 2004

Guangdong Symphony Orchestra in Sydney

The Guangdong Symphony Orchestra blew into town on Thursday for a one-nighter at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall performing...

June 12, 2004

小谷围 Xiaoguwei artist village demolished

The 小谷围 Xiaoguwei artist village in Guangzhou, about 17 kilometers from the city centre is being demolished. The 165 villas...

PRC news china briefing 2004-06-11

Winds of Change - Regional Briefings have their regular update of things going on in China. It's a very good...

rive droite

Something has been happening in Guangzhou in the last year, which always seems like the poor second child to Beijing...

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June 8, 2004

Baiyun airport

I like a good airport, especially because I don't have to good fortune to belong to any airport club where...

June 7, 2004

too many buildings not enough subways

There's nothing like hanging out along the Pearl River at night, whether it's down near Shamian Island or on Er...

June 4, 2004

第三现场 3 Live Home - Rhythm Construction

Things are going wild at 第三现场 3 Live Home this month. This week is the first hip-hop week in Guangzhou...

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May 31, 2004

广东实验现代舞团 Guangdong Modern Dance Company at Venice Biennale

The 广东实验现代舞团 Guangdong Modern Dance Company will be performing for the first time in Venice this month at la biennale...

May 26, 2004

广州声纳 sounding guangzhou

The 广东要是现代无团 Guangdong Modern Dance Company is host this weekend to Sounding Guangzhou, International Electronic Art Symposium. The symposium is...

May 23, 2004

Box of Changes

Architect Peter Eisenman took part in a competition recently to design a new museum and public square in the heart...

May 14, 2004

Topologies of the Instant - n+n corsino

N+N Corsino are two French choreographers from Marseille. or one choreographer and one mathematician, who don't make dance in theatres...

May 12, 2004

第三现场 livehome3 rock out for 3 nights

Last weekend it was the first punk/metal/hardcore festival in Hong Kong, this week it's three nights of action in...

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May 10, 2004

BMX Bandits

The cover story of this month's That's Guangzhou is devoted to bikes, BMX and the emerging scene in Guangzhou of...

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April 29, 2004

小谷围 Xiaoguwei: Development 1 Art 0

The 小谷围 Xiaoguwei artist village in Southern Guangzhou, home of the Lingnan School of painting where almost 200 artists, architects...

April 28, 2004

首届广东现代舞蹈周 1st Guangdong Contemporary Dance Festival

广州 Guangzhou is becoming the festival capital of China, and home to more dance per square meter than any other...

April 20, 2004

Open Gesture - Guangdong Museum of Art

Following on from the Post Generation and New Century exhibitions of contemporary Chinese artists, 广东美术馆 Guangdong Museum of Art new...

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April 17, 2004

别 爱 人 bie ai ren - Photos

广东实验现代舞团 Guangdong Shiyan Xiandai Wu Tuan - Guangdong Modern Dance Company choreographer 龙云娜 Long Yunna has sent me photos of...

April 8, 2004

别 爱 人 bie ai ren - 3 human basics

别爱人 bie ai ren is the new contemporary dance work by the internationally renowned Guangzhou-based Guangdong Modern Dance Company. Bie...