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 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...

May 1, 2008

Reading: Nasrin Alavi - We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs

nasrin alavi - we are iran

Reading: John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men

john steinbeck - of mice and men

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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 3, 2008

pestilence day 1 & 2

There is a reason for not blogging day one of rehearsals and it has to do with being delightfully waylaid...

March 21, 2008

monadologie … last days and finish

The previous week has been on of quite small scale. I've been trying to learn everything I can on absorption...

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Reading: Michel Foucault - Madness and Civilisation

michel foucault - madness and civilisation

March 6, 2008

Reading: Afghanistan - Louis Dupree

afghanistan - louis dupree

February 25, 2008

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

susan mann - the talented women of the zhang family

February 14, 2008

monadologie

Frances would like to invite you to a showing of the development of monadologie. "In so far as the concatenation...

February 13, 2008

monadologie day 36

Feeling rather stunned after today. Bonnie and I worked out a couple of reiterative sequences that unfold from from the...

February 12, 2008

sorry

“Today we honour the Indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history. We reflect on their...

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monadologie - self-referentiality

Just because I've continually forgotten to do this… I'm blogging the entire project and residency at Science is the New...

monadologie day 30 - 33, 34 & 35

So, has been an eventful week of much sleeplessness and then some sleep. And then some more sleeplessness. And now...

February 1, 2008

reading: william gibson & bruce sterling - the difference engine

william gibson + bruce sterling - the difference engine

January 30, 2008

monadologie day 27

Just me alone … and Sunn 0))) … unjoy. I wasn't sure how useful me being in a studio on...

January 28, 2008

drowning

I would swim underwater until my breath was nearly exhausted and then float, a calm, prickly and weightless silence and...

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Swimming

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

January 23, 2008

Blog for Choice day

Today marks thirty-five years since Roe vs. Wade. A number of my favourite blogs including Feministing and (en)gender posted on...

January 16, 2008

monadologie day 18 & 19

The learning of movement from video is exhausting me. I remember this from when I used to haha choreograph. Somehow...

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 30, 2007

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

iain banks - the business

December 21, 2007

monadologie - week 2

A rather crazy five days for me, dramas with friends far away and then Lily, Bonnie's sister coming into the...

December 17, 2007

Reading: Vernor Vinge - Rainbows End

vernor vinge - rainbows end

December 14, 2007

when i decompiled the source code of my feed reader it said, satan satan satan!!!

Obviously, I thought it was funny… (Later on I felt a sense of dread…) 666 satanic feed reader

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monadologie days 4 & 5

I've been reading Leibniz's 1714 text Monadologie again. It's sometimes like a vortex, or … how things turn and spiral...

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: 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 17, 2007

reading: terry pratchett…

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

October 29, 2007

reading: kerstin finger - tape: an excursion through the world of adhesive tapes

tape: an excursion through the world of adhesive tapes

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

August 23, 2007

all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 4

A visit to the giant porn supermarket next to ACarts yesterday, to search for any book I could find on...

August 20, 2007

science is the new black metal

I was sitting at Cibo around lunchtime, getting ready to visit some sex shops around Hindley St looking for instruction...

June 26, 2007

i want more life, fucker!

Bladerunner is about the most influential film for me, I've seen in more times than I can recall, usually once...

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 1, 2007

恭喜天安门

tiananmen square june 1989

May 11, 2007

monadologie - science is the new black metal

A few months ago I got really excited by the Stereo satellites 3-D photographs and videos of the sun, there's...

April 29, 2007

it returns to wilderness

Letter-hyphen-town has been what most cities I've lived in have been reduced to since Emile in Zürich shortened it to...

April 7, 2007

生日快乐!!! happy 3rd birthday supernaut

Waah! Three years of blogging. How did that happen? Funny it seems more of something to celebrate than my human...

March 22, 2007

three new categories

Finally I have added some new categories that have been eating at me like some rapacious tropical parasite. It a...

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 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...

January 1, 2007

I also wanted to include mermaids and shipwrecks …

Continuing my current science bender, a piece of reblogging from Barista on Marie Tharp, Cartographer, scientist, one of those people...

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October 5, 2006

europe central

In another country, long enough ago to be only someone else's life, I remember a summer entranced in my small...

September 6, 2006

temperance - a stranger knocks at his door; fang decides to kill him

When I was using Life Forms as my main tool for choreography, one of the best things about it was...

September 1, 2006

temperance - Théodicée

In The System of the World, demented Jesuit fanatic Édouard de Gex is meditating on Satanists, and to paraphrase says...

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...