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

spam

truth & reality

please just watch the film Zeitgeist

where is this place ,

the start of a new work about home, family, displacement and belonging in the global, networked age.

propaganda

one of the best political works i've seen in a while was at the DESTE foundation in Athens. A female security guard, standing in a corner of one of the gallery rooms. As you enter the room she starts singing "this is propaganda..." (a simple melody and a phrase that she repeats as she begins to walk around the space a little).

its only when you leave the room you notice that other gallery minders are dressed fairly casually. the tune and the words - stuck in my head...

electrofringe - wear now

so it's the first year i'll be missing electrofringe in ages ... and in an attempt to still be there, alexandra gillespie will be speaking about my Mobile Patters work on the WearNow panel on Saturday September 29th in the Newcastle Regional Art Gallery at 2pm...

dialectic cursing - in tha dam

head to occii if u in amsterdam tonite...