Official Artist
Marie Jost
Dancer
, Author
408,188 views|
386
Posts
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Oetu4FW0I
I recently rediscovered this lovely, poetic silent film starring Lilian Gish and directed by D.W. Griffith. I first saw it as a teenager, back in the 1970s. It tells the story of two outcasts, a Chinese man settled in London and a poor, abused English girl and what happens when their paths cross. You may wonder why the part of the Chinese man is played by a White actor. In 1919, when this film was made, there were misogyny laws (and strong social custom) that would not permit a romance (however chaste) between a White woman and an Asian m...Read more
I get asked from time to time to submit my "bio" for something. Actually, depending on the context, I have about 4 or 5 different bios to draw on. Each is different, each represents a different aspect of who I am, and each is genuine. That's what happens when you live so many different lives simultaneously (and in chronological succession--I've lived long enough to have to take that into account now, too). I have an academic bio--the one I used when I was trying to get a job as an art historian. That b...Read more
If you go to the official website for the Architecture is Art Festival and click on the link " Request Booklet" and " download here" you can access a full-color 35 page PDF of the Festival Booklet filled with information on the participants and the various events, including interviews with the Artistic Director, Mathias Woo, and Special Guest Artist Anthony Wong Yiu Ming.
This song was composed by Najat Aatabou, a Berber from the Atlas Mountains when she was a high school girl, almost 30 years ago. It is called (in French) J'en ai marre (which loosely translates as "I'm sick of it").
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cezuMyA-bdg
They found the Yetty, and he did a concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum. Actually, under all that hair is Anthony Wong, half of Tat Ming, in their 2004 revival tour show. Western bands just don't do costumes like this! Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Fs1n3XqrE
Let me set the record straight right from the get go, this is not an attack on any one individual or organization on Alive Not Dead or anywhere else. I have just noticed since I have been on Alive Not Dead something that I want to call “the voice of entitlement”. This is the voice that Westerners use, usually unintentionally, in their speaking in foreign spheres. Foreign spheres means cultures that we have not grown up in , whatever the facts of our racial or ethnic identification. Those of us from the West, primarily the United ...Read more
September 1 - October 10, 2009
Hong Kong
Architecture is Art Festival
Artistic Director: Mathias Woo
Message from Artistic director
Architecture is Art Festival is an art festival with architecture as the central topic.
We live amongst architecture, but our understanding of architecture always remains in the economic dimension. The essence of architecture is not economy, but art. Architecture is everywhere, in every aspect of our world of the senses: sounds, colours, smells...Read more
This has been a season of firsts. First I was asked to present a lecture about modern flamenco for a course at Duke University. Then an article I wrote about foreigners in flamenco in 1998 has been reprinted on a web site run by an important New York flamenco guitarist. Then just this past week I was asked to coach an actress who has to dance flamenco in character in a play. I retired from performing over a year ago and, the entire 12 years I was most actively involved with flamenco, I never got asked to do anything but perform as part of a ...Read more
In Memoriam Leslie Cheung 1956-2003 Our Leslie, beautiful like a flower. I love you today and always-- a part of my heart beats for you alone, tonight a
