June 25, 2008

emile. blog. eurodisney.

Only this to say, about time. Emile is blogging at eurodisney.biz emile zile - eurodisney.biz

June 3, 2008

making our bodies home

I read this by way of Becca at Whimsy with a Twist, one of my favourite intelligent trans bloggers, and...

May 27, 2008

buzkashi, self-portrait & laptop

When I was a student, I would trundle up to Melbourne Uni and on weekends and holidays hole up the...

May 26, 2008

phoenix

Sometimes I get really deliriously happy about humans and what we occasionally do. Phoenix landed in the Martian arctic this...

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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 19, 2008

monadologie photos

I do have much more to write about these last days at the centre, and I'll make excuses elsewhere. I...

March 4, 2008

avalanche!

On Mars! Quite the most spectacular photograph I've seen this year. Look out below! HiRISE caught an avalanche in action...

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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

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

monadologie day 28 & 29

This week has mostly involved me being in the studio and not so much time at the Centre. It was...

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 29, 2008

monadologie day 25 & 26

The twenty-fifth day being that wherein herd displays of nationalistic supremacy and mob imbecility occur across a country still insultingly...

January 25, 2008

monadologie day 23 & 24

I'm losing track of what day is where… We spent a big day on Wednesday learning large amounts of material...

January 22, 2008

monadologie day (21 &) 22

Some hecticness, I'll write about yesterday and today properly-ish when I have time … or not. A little video. 45...

January 17, 2008

monadologie day 20

Thursday, the last day of our second week, though it feels like our first week as we were in the...

January 14, 2008

monadologie day 16 & 17

Mostly I slept. I roused to see the Christian Marclay exhibition on at ACMI, and was utterly deliriously overjoyed and...

January 13, 2008

frances without laptop

Avoiding bringing home my laptop means time for fun things like staring at walls, lying in bed, rolling over, looking...

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January 12, 2008

monadologie day 14 & 15

Thursday was so baking and heavy, like getting into the trunk of a car on a hot day and being...

January 9, 2008

monadologie day 12 & 13

I chose Camera B. The other one, Camera A seemed to be silently petulant around me. Together, they make up...

January 7, 2008

monadologie day 11

We played in the VR Lab today. The Astrophysics Centre has 3-D Stereoscopic projectors and twin cameras for filming also...

September 26, 2007

all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 13

So after last rehearsal, I was variously meant to watch all the video on Friday, but too busy with Melbourne...

September 15, 2007

all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 9 & 10

Oh lazy huh? And today feeling awful, possibly from lack of sleep and I really hope not from Ebola. Anyway...

September 9, 2007

some pictures i took with my phone

My iPod seems to be dead, and somehow I keep managing to resuscitate my laptop despite in/out errors and loads...

September 2, 2007

all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 7

After my opening up during the last rehearsal, today's three-hour endurance spectacle, resting on many pages of preparatory notes and...

August 30, 2007

all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 6

Talking talking talking. I was really not so prepared for this rehearsal, but it turned into a bit of a...

August 19, 2007

sunset on hindley st

Maybe a week ago, leaving the mall and about to walk along Hindley St towards something and being stopped by...

August 16, 2007

all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 3

Yesterday was long, at times something to be endured, frightening when it came to rehearsing and going to places of...

August 14, 2007

all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 2

Second rehearsal is sometimes like second night blues when you're performing, despite spending much of the weekend preparing, reading Judith...

August 1, 2007

michelangelo antonioni

Blowup was one of those films that changed how I look at cinema, and then how I imagined performance. Early...

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July 30, 2007

perform your grief

Emile in Sydney! Then in Europe on tour with Curseovdialect! Then doing Masters in Amsterdam. See you in Nederlans for...

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July 14, 2007

42a a cameraphone recollection

A recollection of 42a from my phone, somewhat disordered. real wallpaper and floating pixel flowers subterranean leds televised hundreds and...

July 13, 2007

42a

How to write about someone I have spent much of the last couple of months hanging out with, eating too...

June 29, 2007

42a + downtown artspace = ✓

Alison Currie, who has managed to keep me laughing until face and stomach pain despite the absence of my baby...

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 4, 2007

choreolab

Alison Croggon said to me, "I like drinking with theatre types, and those whom I drink with are pretty cool...

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...

May 21, 2007

in the bones of children

In William Forsythe's Improvisation Technologies dvd, he demonstrates the drawing of lines in space as an exersise in geometric analysis...

April 19, 2007

dance for obsessive-compulsives

Emile is almost at the end of his winter of Rotterdam, that sent him to the Spielraum in Berlin for...

April 18, 2007

forget me not

The past week I've been rehearsing with Ivan Thorley and a bunch of dancers for his film Forget me not...

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...

something about who?

Miriam Rivera a couple of years ago upset a bunch of straight blokes, then rode the reality-tv thing all the...

March 9, 2007

emile zile mediakunst am berlin

Emile has been living in an old convent in Rotterdam for a while now, in residence at Het Wilde Weten...

February 24, 2007

saturday tranny blogging

Back to what supernaut is really famous for (no, not this, or this, can't you people clean up your smutty...

February 16, 2007

art, and the mutation of mass media

Emile says everything is grey, and "phishy weather". That would be Glasgow, then. But, ART! He's showing videos from Australian...

February 11, 2007

sunday tranny-blogging (and spitting in china)

What is it about Sundays that seem to cause a blog upwelling of a more cerebral nature than during the...

January 13, 2007

live @ the soup kitchen - the next day

Gavin Clarke is something of a ummm … megalomaniac, performing in I think four of the ten works, curating the...

January 8, 2007

miscellaneous tranny stuff … coz we rule

Someone, obviously stupid, whom I haven't bothered to remember despite having a vague association in the Melbourne contemporary dance SCENE...

January 6, 2007

mel-adl: the detritus of cyclone isobel

An ominous bruised horizon, warnings of thunderstorms and a deadening, electric heat tense to snap, I was hoping for a...

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December 14, 2006

burnley bouldering overpass

A late-morning ballet class, a lot of cycling, and a mid-afternoon boulder down at Burnley. I was feeling like chocolate...

degraves st subway alley

Somehow I have managed to avoid, during my decade in and out of Melbourne, from ever going down the stairs...

December 6, 2006

I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it…

Who woulda thought NASA would suddenly come over all media-savvy and blip out not one but two press releases in...

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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 13, 2006

leaving adelaide again

One final morning class at Leigh Warren after a tumultuous previous night where I made the mistake of inadequate supplies...

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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...

October 16, 2006

a nature hike through the book of revelations

Sunday morning I arrived in Melbourne after three weeks in Adelaide, my fifth domestic flight since June and one of...

September 13, 2006

temperance - photos from rhys

Lucky that almost a gig of photos that Rhys took during the filming on Sunday turned up this morning, or...

September 11, 2006

temperance - 16mm anamorphic zeiss porn

Sunday was a smooth rush through six minutes of dancing bookended by a 7am stagger out of bed and a...

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 4, 2006

I'm gonna jam my thumb in its butthole now!

Last night's amusement was provided by old Season 2 dvds of South Park (thank you Cantonese dvd pirates). I was...

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