zhao ziyang - prisoner of the state
For any queer trans* Berliners who read me, there is a meeting tomorrow night 6pm, at my favourite bar, Silverfuture...
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...
It's mental week now, doing the costume shopping, organising lots of little things that sprout up like an Oxalis frenzy...
South-East Asia's biggest sex market that is, though I always expected Thailand, or Korea or Japan who have the first...
When I was researching hell in Guangzhou in December last year, I picked up from the now-defunct but hitherto infamous...
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...
A plan to catch a taxi home from rehearsal fell apart when I really couldn't pretend I can catch taxis...
Before it all passes me by again and I'm still looking like an imbecile going ... wuuuuh ... ? this...
I just can't seem to get focussed on blogging at the moment, I think because my schedule is a little...
One of the most influential bands on me from when I first heard the pounding of Blue Monday, and I...
There are certain intangible things I love about Guangzhou. Most of them are west of an imaginary and real divider...
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...
In one of my earlier science-fiction gorges, populated mostly by Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, occasionally Philip K. Dick, and...
Paul Emmanuel, Emile Zile and I are having a screening of a bunch of short films of ours on Sunday...
Someone was telling me 佛山 Foshan, the Fo meant fire, like in Cantonese, but duh! it actually means Buddha. Anyway...
Cao Fei's performance/video/installation for the global Siemens Arts Programme in Foshan, What Are You Doing Here? opens today. There's a...
I'm really not one for anniversaries, and have even forgotten my birthday a couple of times, but feeling the need...
I just want to lick something drenched in acid. That's twice I've seen Acid Mothers Temple and my immediate response...
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...
In a pathetic effort to make up for a few days of blaring silence, with 2am crawls to bed, hour...
Two nights in Hong Kong, picking up Emile and Paul from the airport, playing tourist across Kowloon and Central, seeing...
I'm off to Hong Kong tomorrow to pick up Paul and Emile, and I'm not sure when I'm coming back...
"Welcome to Japanese New Music Festival" I am officially a groupie, and I'm so excited I can't even type properly...
I've had Bird Flu for the last few days, I know because I checked the symptoms on the internet, and...
A very strange day yesterday of taxis and ferries and walking around parts of Guangzhou that are very much not...
So I came back early. It was getting wet, which was slightly funny considering it hadn't really dried, and trying...
I was going to write a whole bunch of stuff about a whole pile of stuff, lots of exciting Guangzhou...
When I get jammed into an aisle seat and told, "Aw, just put yer legs in the aisle", coz I'm...
Once, hanging out down on Shamian Island, and wanting to be, I dunno, somewhere less touristy, I saw Chairman Mao...
I'm sure I had a post with the same title as this some time... but well, I can't find it...
A few days ago a friend of mine who used to work at Park19 emailed me with a link to...
In my daily ploughing through a couple of hundred RSS feeds, I read from Danwei, there's a new quarterly magazine...
I've been slowly limiting my China obsession to merely a Guangdong Province one. Mainly because China is simply too vast...
Cosmin, who was one of the mob of Guangzhou climbers that descended on Jiulong every weekend while I was in...
What I really like when speaking Cantonese is how it makes me sound like a slutty canto-porn star about to...
The massacre of peasants in Dongzhou, in Guangdong Province happened earlier this month, when I was having blog problems and...
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...
The first time it was almost world news; the second when upstart southern capital Guangzhou tried to get in on...
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...
Park 19 in Guangzhou has been off the internet for a few weeks now, and when I visited the studios...
The Kowloon to Guangzhou through train is one of the weirdest train rides I've been on, and it's one I've...
I'll be gracing the Hong Kong airport tomorrow, and leaving Guangzhou. It's been a whirl of a 10 day adventure...
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...
More art. Hanging around the Fine Arts Academy with painter Wan Xiaojia, checking out people's studios, eating lots of Cantonese...
Last night I went down to Loft345, which used to be Park19 (because it was number 19 whatever lane and...
Going from Huanshi Dong Lu to Jiangnan Dadao, across the river and along the inner city elevated freeways that snake...
I was going to try and find out if Park19 was still alive but only got as far as 二沙岛Er...
The flight wasn't as bad as I'd thought it would be, though getting screwed at Hong Kong airport for a...
I'm travelling to Hong Kong early Friday morning so my abuse of bandwidth and the internet has slowed to a...
I never went to the real animal markets in Guangzhou. I arrived in the city as a vegetarian, but after...
I got an email a couple of days ago from the editors of the about to be published dongxi magazine...
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...
Sometimes everyone likes jumping on an event for no real reason, and forgets, ignores and generally pretends others haven't happened...
I dunno, but I think having a triennial is a bit weird, coz by the time it comes around again...
The first time I took the KCR train from Hong Kong to Guangzhou I thought I'd arrived in Mordor. Endless...
A while ago, I wrote about the 太石村 Taishi village election in Panyu District of Guangzhou, and how it was...
China and democracy. Well there goes easy access to my website in China. The meme of China and its globally...
Well, the title says it all. Here in autumnal Zürich I got an email this evening from the wonderful Australia-China...
There's a fairly huge mega-company type cultural celebration of China going on at the moment at both the Kennedy Centre...
One of the events of last week which was variously setting a precedent, and ice-breaking on the level of Nixon...
One of the more interesting pieces on politics in China I've read recently came in the form of two pretty...
Rain didn't stop bolting in Jiulong, and two new routes went up, overhanging and around 10d/11a. No pictures yet... but...
For annyone in or near Guangzhou this weekend, the Guangdong Modern Dance Company is performing in the company Small Theatre...
I guess Guangzhou mustn't be that skanky wet furnace of mugginess and hysteria inducing heat anymore, though it's hard to...
The current state of film in China and Hong Kong, mostly triad good-cop/bad-cop or period piece fantastical martial arts sewerage...
After much pissing around, I thought it was time to dump some more narrow-band choking content on the dance side...
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...
Richard thought I'd like it. I was filling one of his spare rooms in Panyu with the detritus of five...
The most skanky flight I have ever had in my life was on the weekend, Hong Kong to Bangkok, to...
Bitches got a couple of mentions in the press including one review, which I dunno if they said anything good...
I went to Park19 today to say goodbye to everyone until next time I stumble through Guangzhou. I also made...
I missed this one completely. 淹沒Before the Flood was screened in Guangzhou on the weekend. It's also at the Los...
I haven't been able to find out much about this, except the beautiful flier that I picked up at park19...
Maybe it was last year, or very early this year, when we sat around the outside table at Sleepywood, mesmerised...
Last Friday night down at the bar of Park19, a bunch of us got together to drink beer and eat...
I'm an avid map-reader. I'll spend hours pouring over all kinds of maps looking for something, nothing. Lately it's been...
extermination the film was awesome. Expect video on my website sometime soon, and photos here even sooner. Went to Hong...
It went so well. bitches rocked out. Even the florescent lights coming on half way through didn't shake it. An...
I know everyone wants to dirt on the show last night, but bugger that. I'm going climbing. So, after a...
Around lunchtime while waiting for the dirt samples to arrive, when the humidity and heat was excerable, I was asked...
It's production week, or whatever else it can be called, so I'm going to be vanishing into production week limbo...
Bitches is a week off and I should really be getting the costumes today, but mainland China has this problem...
The dance festival here has been over for a couple of weeks, and other things are happening across the town...
It was the last trip before the humidity rotted even out bones, and the vampire mosquitos were swarming, lecherous and...
I'm heading down to Hong Kong tomorrow for a bunch of stuff, but mainly to see Balletlab's Phillip Adams' new...
I started rehearsals on Monday for the reason why Australia China Council gave me money and why I'm able to...
The gravity was especially strong in Jiulong on Saturday. In addition to the kind of humidity that can rot the...
I'm off climbing again in sunny Jiulong again tomorrow for the weekend. Expect lots of dirty photos of drills going...
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...
A triple bill. Three times the fun. The 2nd Guangzhou Dance Festival is almost over, and Thursday night it was...
For residents of Guangzhou who really miss that yoga class you'd go to in the evening or on the weekend...
Jiulong turned into a bit of a tourist town this weekend. Three carloads of climbers plus a few others ate...
Last night was not quite the beginning of the week of dance at the 2nd Guangzhou Dance Festival, but was...
I'm off tomorrow morning for a couple of days up at Jiulong again. It's the big trip. Nine days of...
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...
The flight sucked. Taking off is fun in a 747 or anything fast enough to make your bones rattle and...
I leave for Hong Kong and Guangzhou tomorrow for a couple of months making horrible art before heading over to...
The anti-Japan bullshit that has been fomenting across China in the major cities, reached a peak over the weekend. Ostensibly...
In an effort to make everyone see what an awesome place Guangdong province is to go climbing in, it looks...
Amanda Phillips and me are always in the same place, but never at the same time. She was in Zurich...
大声展 get it louder opens in Shenzhen at the end of next month before moving to Shanghai and Beijing. Over...
Brisbane-based expressions dance company is about to head off to Guangzhou to join a bunch of other dance companies from...
I've been travelling most of the week, leaving Guangzhou on Tuesday and heading to Melbourne for the next six weeks...
We set off for Jiulong with the same driver and his white car with the dropped shocks around seven along...
Having blown my remaining change of DVDs again, including weird old documentaries on the history of Hong Kong filmmaking, I...
I went back to the new Park-19 today in daylight surrounded by the craziness of the Nantai markets. I'm looking...
A while ago, I saw some photos of a place just north of Guangzhou that looked so like Yangshou, the...
Just when I was thinking of giving it all up, getting a nice easy job (say maybe a showgirl in...
Besides the main Park-19 where all the artists have studios, there's another one, a bit further west of the University...
This Friday night at Park 19, Shanshui Records and a bunch of others have the Guangzhou part of their tour...
I went to Park 19 yesterday, the artists studio space on the south side o the river near Xiaogang Park...
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...
I'm travelling again, having left Taipei on Monday morning and spent a fun day in Hong Kong catching up with...
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...
The centre of the manufacturing universe, Guangdong Provence now has the largest population in China. Bigger than most countries even...
When I first knew I was going to China, my first thought was, "Damn I need to find where to...
This weekend, the amazing 广东现代舞团 - Guangdong Modern Dance Company will present a season of new short works by the...
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...
The results are in for the 2004 Asian Blog Awards. Go over and check it out, and see some new...
The party at Simon World for the 2004 Asian Blog Awards has barely finished and the results are still being...
The Sydney Festival opens in a couple of weeks, premiering Kate Champion's Already Elsewhere and Shen Wei Dance Arts, the...
This is your last chance to vote for me in the Asian Blog Awards, so go on do something worthwhile...
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...
Here a couple of days ago and gone today. That's Magazines - Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai were a lifesaver when...
After a couple of months of silence and a website announcing the days of 第三现场 Live Home 3 were over...
Just in case I ever need to recall what I read this week that didn't have anything to do with...
In Yuexiu Park there is an old drum tower which is most of what remains of the once city-encircling walls...
Just before I left Guangzhou, I had a couple of conversations about the art scene in the city, which seems...
Another blindingly early start on the jet-fuel trail. I divide my flights up into sections: 1) taxi to Guangzhou East...
Friday. My last day in Guangzhou. Two weeks of teaching dance at the Guangdong Modern Dance Company School, Yoga at...
Around 5pm it's impossible to get a taxi anywhere in town, and even if you do, it moves so slow...
When I first came to Guangzhou, I was introduced by the fearsome culinary vultures of the Symphony Orchestra to about...
China is keeping me busy. I'm teaching contemporary dance at the Guangdong modern Dance Company School Yes, they have a...
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...
Watch any Chinese martial arts movie and somewhere there will always be a set of double doors with fearsome, demonic...
News Guangdong reports on the Kaiping Watchtowers, diaolou 碉樓, which have come under State protection for their architecture and historic...
By 2030, in a study reported on in the HK Standard, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong will have merged into...
Para/Site Art Space new gallery in Hong Kong has just celebrated its opening with the multi-media installations of Hong Kong-based...
The Economist published a fairly detailed article on the state of the environment in China, the levels of continuing degradation...
In Guangzhou this Saturday, a group of noise-makers from across the city will be shaking the rotten concrete out of...
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...
Vitamin Creative Space in Guangzhou recently had a project do nothing anywhere at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in...
Live Home 3 has an exhibition 1個歧視 - A Discrimination on at the moment, with a number of local artists...
The Guangdong Symphony Orchestra blew into town on Thursday for a one-nighter at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall performing...
The 小谷围 Xiaoguwei artist village in Guangzhou, about 17 kilometers from the city centre is being demolished. The 165 villas...
Winds of Change - Regional Briefings have their regular update of things going on in China. It's a very good...
Something has been happening in Guangzhou in the last year, which always seems like the poor second child to Beijing...
I like a good airport, especially because I don't have to good fortune to belong to any airport club where...
There's nothing like hanging out along the Pearl River at night, whether it's down near Shamian Island or on Er...
Things are going wild at 第三现场 3 Live Home this month. This week is the first hip-hop week in Guangzhou...
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...
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...
Architect Peter Eisenman took part in a competition recently to design a new museum and public square in the heart...
N+N Corsino are two French choreographers from Marseille. or one choreographer and one mathematician, who don't make dance in theatres...
Last weekend it was the first punk/metal/hardcore festival in Hong Kong, this week it's three nights of action in...
The cover story of this month's That's Guangzhou is devoted to bikes, BMX and the emerging scene in Guangzhou of...
The 小谷围 Xiaoguwei artist village in Southern Guangzhou, home of the Lingnan School of painting where almost 200 artists, architects...
广州 Guangzhou is becoming the festival capital of China, and home to more dance per square meter than any other...
Following on from the Post Generation and New Century exhibitions of contemporary Chinese artists, 广东美术馆 Guangdong Museum of Art new...
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...
别爱人 bie ai ren is the new contemporary dance work by the internationally renowned Guangzhou-based Guangdong Modern Dance Company. Bie...