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Margo Lanagan’s New Novel, Tender Morsels

Last month at Berkelow Books in Sydney, we launched Margo Lanagan’s new novel, Tender Morsels. In case you don’t know, Margo is already an award-winning writer of novels, short stories and poetry. Black Juice, her second collection of stories was an Honor book in the Michael L. Printz Award and won the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection. Red Spikes, her third story collection was named a Publishers Weekly Best Book Of The Year.

Best known internat… Continue

When I wrote my first novel I always knew I would perform it, in fact I called it performance prose. I’ve always written for performance - plays, film scripts, monologues, songs, musicals, performance poetry, speeches, lectures, eulogies - all fall into this category. Prose is a little different and this was my way of making the transition from a moving, lively form to a more sober, restrained one. So I played around, letting the performer out in the long monologues and reining her in (so I thou… Continue

I am posting this notice from Lee Wen re his latest performance in China
I hope you find it as interesting as i do


Anthropometry Revision:Yellow period (after Yves Klein)
- Lee Wen
with Jiang Jing, He Liping
Sunday 13 April 2008, 3 pm
Red & Grey Art Contemporary, Cheng Du, China

Program
3.00pm: Performance
Anthropometry Revision:Yellow period (after Yves Klein)

4.00pm: Panel Discussion
Zhou Bin
ZhaChangPing
Lee Wen
Jiang Jing
He Liping


I propose to make a performance re-visiting th… Continue

I'm packing my bags for Indonesia again - I leave on sunday for a village on the slopes of Mt Merapi in Central Java Indonesia. About 50 artists (international and local) will take part in Perfurbance #4, a five day festival of performance art, traditional performance, workshops and seminars culminating in a volcano trek .
(This is the volcano that was threatening to erupt just before the big earthquake in May 2006.Perfurbance#3 was held in the earthquake affected region at Gemblangan Village -… Continue

Arahmaiani is an Indonesian visual and performance artist working nationally and internationally, most recently with Muslim women in Thailand and China. I met at Perfurbance #3 in Central Java 2007. We began a conversation about art and community that continues until now. You can find more info and examples of her work on Google.

I asked Iani to tell me something about the background to her work...


" I started working on my art with social & political awareness since my early time in art… Continue