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...

September 26, 2007

中秋节快乐!!!

mmmm … mooncakes … green tea mooncake with one yolk hong kong elegant flavour

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...

May 27, 2007

pre-breakfast tranny blogging

I'm really, really, really trying to blog more often but dialup connection that drops out every few minutes and a...

April 18, 2007

homeless dance co

In-between rehearsing, last night I drifted up to the 4th floor of Asialink for drinks and hanging out with the...

March 5, 2007

everything that has been said before about dance

Lining the walls of Chunky Move's foyer are vast placards of performances, and above the sofas, those shows are the...

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...

December 18, 2006

我的小飛機場 my little airport

Walking to a bookshop, walking to East St Kilda, walking through Alma Park, listening to my iPod and I was...

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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...

October 25, 2006

ghost eyes: strange visions from hong kong and beyond

From curator of international kebabs Emile Zile, also famous in Melbourne for FOOTSCRAY AUDIO-VISUAL SOCIAL CLUB is the fruits of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

February 25, 2006

fengdu's erased horizon

Daily reading of Diacritic, and this reminded me alot - in an almost diametrically opposite way - of the photography...

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...

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...

January 1, 2006

錄影太奇 videotage blogging at MAG@V

錄影太奇 Videotage in Hong Kong I know better for 跳格 - JUMPING FRAMES@HKDF2006, the annual dance film/video festival that's part...

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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...

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 6, 2005

more stuff i've been reading

I've been really enjoying reading from blogs lately, obviously from my daily reading list, (which has since grown longer) even...

November 2, 2005

daily blog reading

I went through my blog bookmarks a couple of days ago, which now number several folders with 15 or more...

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...

October 26, 2005

跳格 - Jumping Frames 2006

JUMPING FRAMES@HKDF2006, the Hong Kong Dance Video Festival that is part of the Hong Kong Dance Festival is open for...

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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 2, 2005

the absence of hong kong art

Yan at Glutter got stuck into the abysmal state of contemporary arts in Hong Kong today, with My HK Contemporary...

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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 23, 2005

ipod subway maps

I have nothing else to add, except a) I now wish I'd bought an iPod Photo or nano instead of...

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August 14, 2005

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...

May 27, 2005

queer in china

The last week or so I've seen alot more stuff on gays in China in the press. Maybe it's something...

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

folding fiction

Besides an impulse cinema trip to see Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith (which seemed to leave lots of...

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...

stranger than fiction

Australia's only true genius, Phillip Adams has been shacked up in Hong Kong, a mere spit from Guangzhou. He's been...

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 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...

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...

April 27, 2005

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

RE:Wanchai – Hong Kong International Artists’ Workshop

The 國際藝術家交流工作坊(香港) Hong Hong International Artists' Workshop has invited 12 local and international artists to be in residence during April...

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April 4, 2005

Curiosities: post-art from the edge

Para/Sit Art Space in Hong Kong has recently opened an installation exhibition of four artists from Hong Kong, Australia, Japan...

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March 27, 2005

小城之春 - The best Chinese-language movies of all time

The Hong Kong Film Awards have voted 小城之春 Spring in a Small Town, directed by Fei Mu as the number...

March 22, 2005

para/site messes with lenses

Parasite Art Space in Sheung Wan opened Take a ST/Roll 圓.遊.會 earlier this month, which is running until mid-April and...

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March 21, 2005

they rule

Just in case you had any illusions about the benevolence of the Chinese communist party, who've shared the love three...

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...

February 23, 2005

transsexuals on supernaut

It's only out of sheer laziness that I haven't done this before. So while I'm freezing my arse off in...

香江大舞台 fragrant river showgirls

There's a show going on at night at the Wah Fu Estate in West Hong Kong Island that's open to...

February 21, 2005

taiwan punk fucks the shit up

I missed The Deported play at 這牆 The Wall a few weeks ago, but this piece by band-member AndyO on...

February 20, 2005

香港舞蹈年獎 Hong Kong Dance Awards

The seventh annual 香港舞蹈年獎 Hong Kong Dance Awards were held on February 1st with performances by Hong Kong Dance Company...

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 19, 2005

architecture of density

The Robert Kock Gallery in San Francisco is exhibiting the large-scale photographs of Hong Kong-based artist Michael Wolf until the...

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December 7, 2004

Co4 ... so what?

Along with some of the gang from 新樂園藝術空間 SLY Art Studo I spent the afternoon at 大趨勢畫廊 Main Trend Gallery...

1337 $p33|< in china

TMD,7456,偶恨不得一脚TST? 1337 $p33|< the language of 12 year old script kiddies the world over has made it to the attention...

December 6, 2004

台北金馬影展 golden horse film fest awards

The best film award in the 台北金馬影展 Golden Horse Film Festival has gone to a mainland China film portraying life...

December 5, 2004

what i read this week

Back for another wash-cycle of what happened in Asia this week (that I read about), and no matter what else...

November 22, 2004

UBU and TRSIMF

One festival finishes, another begins. Last night was the final of three ear-splitting nights of some of the best rock...