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July 7, 2009Xiao Ke and I have been exchanging emails asking each other questions like: “What did you feel about your body at 5, at 15, at 25?”, In what ways are you typically Chinese/Irish, in what ways atypical? Then Xiao Ke … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentWoolworth’s in Leytonstone: A room of one’s own
July 2, 2009I’ve been discussing with Waltham Forest Council the possibility of using the empty Woolworths in Leytonstone for an evening of Waltham Forest choreography. I’d been calling the evening Pick’n’Mix but Leytonstone Arts Trail has used the Woolworths first and adopted … read more…
Posted in Blog | Tagged choreography, Fearghus Ó Conchúir, Fearghus O'Conchuir, Pick'n'Mix, Woolworths | Leave a commentCosán Dearg – some years on
June 27, 2009Cosán Dearg is a piece I made in 2005 with director Jason Byrne(whose Phaedra’s Love won best production last year in the Irish Times Theatre awards), composer Julie Feeney (whose critically acclaimed new album Pages is just released) and fellow … read more…
Posted in Blog | Tagged Bernadette Iglich, Cosán Dearg, Fearghus Ó Conchúir, Fearghus O'Conchuir, Jason Byrne, Julie Feeney | Leave a commentAnna Minton Secured by Design
June 25, 2009Anna Minton has just published a book called Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty-First-Century City. In it she describes the increasing privatisation of public space and claims that it is responsible for a climate and fear and mistrust … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentRoberta Lima
June 11, 2009I spent this morning working with Roberta Lima, another of the Red Gate residents, whose work focuses on her own body, and in the past has included live and video-mediated performances that involve piercing, costume and feminist iconography. She is … read more…
Posted in Blog | Tagged Roberta Lima, Stefan Lewandowski | 1 CommentBeijing Parkour – making sense of Beijing
June 11, 2009The Goethe institute in China has published a pamphlet called Beijing Parkour, assembling a series of maps and elevations of various districts in Beijing that together creatively revisioning space in the way that Parkour encourages. The pamphlet contains an interview … read more…
Posted in Blog | Tagged Beijing, Bodies and buildings, Red Gate residency, to think about | Leave a comment4th June Tiananmen
June 9, 200920 years ago the Chinese army began its violent crackdown on the Tiananmen demonstrations. Since last month, the internet censors in China have been curtailing access to websites such as Youtube and blogger (which is why it’s been difficult to … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentAn almost Osage gallery
May 30, 2009On the airport side road, near Chaochangdi, there’s a gallery complex with this unfinished gallery space. I was told that the Osage chain of galleries rented it for two years with the intention of opening a new branch there but … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentCycling through Feijiacun
May 30, 2009According to a recent article in the Guardian, ()4 new highrise buildings are finished each day in China. My local village in Beijing doesn’t have highrises but the pace of construction here is relentless. I wish I’d filmed the village … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentHegezhuang unfinished studios with Stéphane
May 27, 2009Next to the red brick gallery in which I danced last week is a compound of unfinished studio spaces. On Stéphane’s last day in Beijing I brought him there to see if we could use the space. There were a … read more…
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