Time--Line and Circle

Time is linear and time is periodic. I can say I was born June 12th, 1958, which today, September 22, 2009, makes me 51 years, 101 days old. I can recite the successive places I have lived, the degrees I have earned, the jobs I have had. This is one aspect of time, and the way we typically measure a life.

But time is also periodic. We begin and then return to where we began, only to begin anew. And so the cycle repeats itself over and over again. This is how memory works. When we remember an event, we become who we were then, ex...Read more

A writer confronted by Xu Bing's "Book from the Sky"

The artist Xu Bing is perhaps most famous for his massive work, Book From the Sky.  To create this work, Xu Bing invented several thousand Chinese characters, characters that do not, otherwise, exist, and therefore have no meaning.  He created this work of art by carving these newly created characters on woodblocks and printing massive scrolls an...Read more

A letter to Leslie Cheung, on his birthday

My dearest Leslie,

How to express the love I feel for you and for the family I have made through you, a family that is spread out over the entire world? We are inspired by your love for us and by our love for you. What magic have you worked here on this earth? Who were you, really? Why is your presence now even stronger and more pervasive than when you were alive...Read more

Architecture is...Discourse With Music

Here is a link to information about a performance that mixes experimental music and...architecture.  This is part of the Architecture is Art Festival in Hong Kong.  I think many musicians on AnD would be interested in this, more experimental, aspect of the festival.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Arts-Infinite/100912948583?v=wall&viewas=1302721090#/note.php?note_id=...Read more

Flamenco dance in Tennessee Williams' "Summer and Smoke"

I finally got a chance to see a performance of the play I was involved with as a choreographer.  The show has definitely come together and certain performers seem to have grown into their roles.  But I was a bit disappointed by last night's performance.  One of the two main leads was a bit flat, which is surprising because in rehearsals he was always the stronger of the two main leads.  But then I have heard of performers who are always great in audition and/or rehearsal but, before a...Read more

Let's cook...Italian

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Words are never enough

I'm thinking a lot about the expressiveness of the body and how we marginalize it today. We live in a world that relies almost exclusively on text for communication, using the written (more and more frequently electronically transmitted) word much more frequently than face-to-face communication. How many times have you have been introduced to someone that you have been communicating with for months, or years, and you say, "finally, I get to put a face to a name"?

Yet, the body is our master communicator. Have you...Read more

Raw

I.

I have fallen down an empty well;

A few broken bits discarded by others

Litter the ground around me,

I pick them up trying to fashion

Works of art out of what no one else wants.

Suspended high above a tunnel that is only darkness,

There is a bright ring of light.

From time to time a face peers over the edge

Scanning the void for signs of life, and,

Seeing nothing, turns away.

What is the purpose of existence?

Reaching out into the darkness

So little...Read more

Time Out HK Bourree Lam talks to Zuni Icosahedron’s Mathias Woo and singer Anthony Wong about Architecture is Art Festival

I copied this off of the Architecture is Art Facebook page.

Mathias Woo and Anthony Wong interview

Bourree Lam talks to Zuni Icosahedron’s Mathias Woo and singer Anthony Wong about their massive new festival discussing art and architecture.

Art and architecture have to be the two markers of civilisation, with the latter an important way for any city to show off to the rest of the world (with its sky-scraping citys...Read more

Time Magazine on the Hong Kong indie scene

Hey, if Time Magazine is covering it, the indie scene in Hong Kong must not be a well-kept secret anymore.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1917643,00.html