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I returned to Judith Butler last week, beginning a rereading of Gender Trouble and placing Undoing Gender on order at...
In-between rehearsing, last night I drifted up to the 4th floor of Asialink for drinks and hanging out with the...
Yes, I am missing not being in Guangzhou, or joining hundreds of millions on the country's trains. So, from Mary...
From curator of international kebabs Emile Zile, also famous in Melbourne for FOOTSCRAY AUDIO-VISUAL SOCIAL CLUB is the fruits of...
National Geographic is one of those magazines like good chocolate I get breathless over when each new issue arrives in...
One of my favourite blogs from Taiwan is Anarchy in Taiwan or gotmahmojo who recently wrote a big piece on...
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...
I'd probably be better using del.icio.us for all the stuff I read, but I found on top of keeping supernaut...
I think I'm becoming a one-trick whore for we-make-money-not-art, because all I seem to do right now is read them...
During my months in Taipei, hanging out at The Wall, and pretty much constantly amazed at what a cool arts...
It must be the time for old things to be revisited, and as always through whatever is going on around...
Some uppity group called with a bad name, Peacetime Foundation of Taiwan have decided the world would be a better...
The World Dance Alliance is currently seeking is currently seeking choreographers from across the Asian region for the annual choreographic...
Taiwan film-maker 蔡明亮 Tsai Ming-liang's porn musical 天邊一朵雲 - The Wayward Cloud opened un-cut though with an adult rating in...
The Hong Kong Film Awards have voted 小城之春 Spring in a Small Town, directed by Fei Mu as the number...
The big news since I landed in Melbourne that everyone wants an answer to is, "When do they begin bombing...
It's only out of sheer laziness that I haven't done this before. So while I'm freezing my arse off in...
I missed The Deported play at 這牆 The Wall a few weeks ago, but this piece by band-member AndyO on...
I'm travelling again, having left Taipei on Monday morning and spent a fun day in Hong Kong catching up with...
I'm leaving Taiwan tomorrow morning after 3 1/2 months here. It's been very cool, I like this place alot, and...
So I didn't make it to Yu Shan, but found some granite to pull on at some other peaks in...
I went down to 二十號倉庫 stock 20 yesterday, the Taizhong artist Village, which along with the Taipei Artist Village is...
I'm off to Hehuan Shan for the next few days. My plan to climb Yu Shan alone was thwarted, so...
Heading back to Taipei tomorrow after a week of eating. Posting will occur like a Chinese fireworks inferno some time...
My last night in Taipei was also the opening of the new 台北當代藝術館 MOCA exhibition, 平行輸入 Pseudo Hackers Art in...
It's been three months since I walked into this studio at the Taipei Artist Village. It's been my home for...
Two new shows opening in Taipei and Tainan. This weekend at 新樂園 xinleyuan, is 25302 marks of scope, and at...
Main Trend Gallery, which was part of Co4 Documenta last year has just opened 非常經濟實驗室 wayward economy, curated by...
The best thing about being an artist is the travelling and parties. In the last three years, I have spent...
I paid a visit to 這牆 The Wall on Saturday night. Well only got as far as the record shops...
Today I went to 陽明山國家公園 Yangming Shan National Park, a 1/2 hour scooter ride up into the hills north of...
The last couple of nights a big bunch of guys from Burkina Faso have been playing long into the evening...
Downstairs in the underground alleys next to The Wall is a world of Taiwan and Asian music purgatory. No Kenny...
Paul Emmaunel and Dr. Richard Maggs are chewing paint again, this time at ffotogallery in Penarth, along with Taiwan artist...
The results are in for the 2004 Asian Blog Awards. Go over and check it out, and see some new...
Before I came to Taiwan and the Taipei Artist Village, I had a pretty slim idea about what was going...
Last month Taipei had the hype of 台北金馬影展 Golden Horse Film Festival and the much less hyped 台灣國際紀錄片雙年展 Taiwan International...
I spent the weekend in Taizhong with Shang-ping, one of the artists in residence at the Taipei Artist Village. His...
This one's for you, Emile. What I really needed to do was get out and bang my head, and last...
The 台北國際藝術村 Taipei Artist Village had a Christmas open studio yesterday, and I was determined to bitch-slap any Christmas cheer...
Werner Herzog's new film opened the 台灣國際紀錄片雙年展 Taiwan International Documentary Festival on Saturday. Last night under clouds that threatened rain...
There's so much art on at the moment, I missed the opening of the Taiwan International Documentary Festival yesterday. It...
Paul Emmanuel hooked up with his psychiatrist last night at 新樂園藝術空間 SLY Art Studio to eat some paint and answer...
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...
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...
Back for another wash-cycle of what happened in Asia this week (that I read about), and no matter what else...
The group exhibition I am part of at SLY Art Studio opened this evening, with much eating drinking and music...
Pei-jen Tsai, who I hung out with in Vienna last year, and missed by a few weeks at the Taipei...
華山創意文化園區 Huashan was going crazy today with a couple of openings and the C04 台灣前衛文件展- Co4 taiwan avant-garde documenta II...
Last night Colin, one of the Australians staying in the Taipei Artist Village played a concert in the main gallery...
Next Saturday at 新樂園藝術空間 SLY Art Studo is the opening of the 2nd New Field Art Festival. Along with Thierry...
What's it like to be a foreign artist in residence in China? Last night, three of us from the Taipei...
One festival finishes, another begins. Last night was the final of three ear-splitting nights of some of the best rock...
Last night was the start of the UBU 2004 Music Festival, around the corner from the lawn party 華山創意文化園區 Huashan...
In-between Co4 Documenta and UBU a bunch of artists and me spent a couple of hours sitting and drinking on...
In another Friday of art overdose, the 大趨勢畫廊 Main Trend Gallery played host to the opening of C04台灣前衛文件展 - Co4...
Filmmaker Shunji Iwai is having a screening of four of his films in Taipei over the next two weeks. Not...
Another exhibition also opened on the weekend which I didn't get along to, but saw while being set up...
Last night, the 伊通公園 ItPark in I-Tong St near the TAV had the opening of 陳愷璜 Chen Kai-Huang's 關於 'TCHENOGRAMME...
Blowing off the opportunity to see Ned Kelly at the Film Festival, the next stop for the night was MOCA...
Last night was the opening of the 2004 Australian Film Festival in Taipei down at the Leofoo Cineplex put together...
It's a sex-arama in across China and Taiwan this week. Leaving behind me in Guangzhou is the second annual sex...
I was lying in bed last night reading my Chinese word frequency dictionary (I need to go to a bookstore...
Another blindingly early start on the jet-fuel trail. I divide my flights up into sections: 1) taxi to Guangzhou East...
I've been very busy the last couple of weeks with getting ready for my residency in Taipei at the Taipei...
Unlike Melbourne and many western cities these days where skating is either prohibited on the streets or pushed as far...
雲門舞集 Cloud Gate Dance Theatre is about to open its autumn season in Taipei with new works by Wu Kuo-chu...
The 金門碉堡藝術館 Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art a gallery located in old artillery bunkers on Kinmen, opened its exhibition 18...
What's in a name? When it comes to art, there's a big world between an arts and cultural centre, and...
The Straits Times has a piece on why the Hungry Ghost Festival in Taiwan is keeping the ghosts very happy...
Asia Art Archive's September newsletter has a travelogue from Taipei researcher Mio Iwakiri, who travelled to Tainan in August for...
Fiction.Love opened a couple of weeks ago at 台北當代藝術館 Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, and got a bit of a...
The Taipei Times had a piece on Ximending, which sounds like either the kind of place I'd want to live...
The 台北市立美術館 Taipei Fine Arts Museum announced the theme of the 台北雙年展 2004 Taipei Biennale on Friday, called Do You...
Opening in Taipei tomorrow at the 台北當代藝術館 Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art with the catchiest post-modern name of the week...