aussie high

a DVD of summer heights high found its way to berlin ...

now i don't have to explain the australian lifestyle to random peeps - just point them in this direction
(and mention that jonah is really just a television reincarnation of stuart thaung from my high school days - so so hilarious, both then and now)

lounging in transit

i'll be taking part in the 2008 Transit Lounge - split between Berlin and Australia - as part of a partner event of Conspire, Transmediale.08...

i'll be conspiring alongside other artists including:
Bianca Calandra, Robert Curgenven, Benjamin Ducroz, Katie Hepworth, Govinda Lange, Silvia Marzall, Kristina Matovic, Michael Prior, Jodi Rose, Sumugan Sivanesan, Anna Tautfest, Lynda Roberts...

home?

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Originally uploaded by bugzfizzle

despite the lack of actual housing in new orleans, projects such as this have been constructed - and yet, where do the inhabitants live exactly...?

empathy and otherness

review of ars electronica 2007 in the latest issue of realtime: http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue82/8764

one

transit

we got tha fucker out

i can't believe it, howard is no longer australia's PM - fucking finally

people in berlin think i'm a little mad today. why would all this grey weather make me so so happy? (its not the weather - i tell you...)

so labour - over to you, just don't fuck it

art of sedition

a la hommage to steve reich's 1960's tape music has been pulled from broadcast by an adelaide radio station, based on legal advice.

the piece, "Decennial Celebrations" commemorates the coalition and john howard's ten years in power, and was performed at adelaide's delicatessen venue in 2006. apparently the phrase "kill john howard" is enough to provoke the removal of such a work from airplay. in the words of the composer Christian Haines, "...eventually the words [in the piece] lose meaning because you can't tell the start and end of the sentence and leads to a sort of auditory hallucination."

in the final days leading up to australia's 2007 election, this really paints a picture of our rights to free speech.

betta late than neva

spent last week at the re:place conference, held at das haus der kulturen der welt

the second conference on media, art, history and science

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