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25.01.2022 May Space Geoffrey Weary Film Portraits - Kodak Girls 16 Oct - 3 Nov 2019 www.mayspace.com.au//black-box-projects-presents-geoffrey- Sound design: Michael B...ates BLACK BOX PROJECTS MAY SPACE 409b George Street Waterloo NSW Australia 2017 t: (02) 9318 1122 e:[email protected] Geoffrey James Weary
24.01.2022 Remembering The City www.homedigitalart.net home.html HOME: iPad artwork by Geoffrey Weary, Interface: icemedia, Sound: Michael Bates, Online: Tatiana Pentes
24.01.2022 The noontide sun of summer flowed over the still garden... Yukio Mishima
23.01.2022 8th Anniversary Late Serge Ermoll RIP 5 Oct 2010 - The Man The Legend sergeermoll.com tune in @ABCRadioNational Podcast.. Presented by Tatiana produced by Eurydice Aroney "A Heart Ripped Open" http://www.abc.net.au//a-heart-ripped-open---the-l/3329064. #australianjazz @serge_ermoll_memorial #sergeiermolaeff #jazz #pianist
23.01.2022 Yasumasa Morimuras visionary portrayal of Caravaggio at the 12th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai # #Proregress2018 #ShanghaiBiennale Powerstation of Art http://shanghaibiennale.org/
22.01.2022 all the houses will be designed in the Shikumen # style: grey brick walls black doors, brown stone door frames, small courtyards, various wings, winding wo...oden staircases. The buildings will be arranged along lanes and criss cross each other, exactly the same as in the original design of the foreign concessions. In short you will walk into the middle of those good old days, as if you are sleeping, back into a dream.. When Red is Black Qiu Xiaolong (2007) # #laoximen #Shnghi # See more
20.01.2022 Photo shoot ....in the post industrial world of the West Bund in # Long Museum #Shnghi #
20.01.2022 It’s when people move that photos are lost... Marguerite Duras
19.01.2022 FOR MICHAEL....a dedication in the leaves of an early addition of James Joyces ULYSSES (Paris,1922)
19.01.2022 Bus #LadyFromShanghai via Russia Xenichka #during the War #Shnghi # # red star #1930sfashion #beauty #transience #strangerthings #damage #scratches @tatjana_xenia .. ... ... ... #monochrome #blackandwhite #bnw #bnwphotography #duotone #portaits #selenium #seagullcamera #ShanghaiRussians #harbinrussians #hautecouture #stateless #soviet #bnw_rose #bnw_captures #China #bnw #photography #oldshanghai XeniaVladimirovna Ermolaeff #xeniavladimirovna
17.01.2022 "...And now in peering through the smoky panes into the street.. Edgar Allen Poe
16.01.2022 From Francis Als La dpense at Rockbund Art Museum #Shanghai curated by Yuko Hasegawa http://www.rockbundartmuseum.org///overview_mobile/d70cqws
16.01.2022 COME ON EVERYBODY! released 12 inch vinyl in the UK!. 8 blissful minutes of amazing jazz awaits you! https://soundcloud.com//coco-york-ft-serge-ermoll-ensemble Can you feel that? That freeform excitement in your soul, driving you to zone out or to get up and dance? Thats the power of #jazz #disco baby, and Coco York, Serge Ermoll, and John Sadd have come together on Soundcloud to deliver it! Come On Everybody is ready for you to listen to in the purest of 12 inch vinyl quality- crisp, beautiful, and nostalgic! @bluepiemusic https://soundcloud.com//coco-york-ft-serge-ermoll-ensemble
15.01.2022 A wall of photographs... Antonio Blanco Museum #portraits #surrealism #bali
14.01.2022 Two doors, two chains & one wall in #Shnghi # Old Town #
14.01.2022 ....at last I reached Bubbling Well Road, my breath was already coming in gasps... Kazuo Ishiguro
11.01.2022 May Space Geoffrey Weary: Film Portraits - Kodak Girls 16 Oct - 3 Nov 2019 www.mayspace.com.au//black-box-projects-presents-geoffrey- BLACK BOX PROJECTS Music & Sound Design: Michael Bates MAY SPACE 409b George Street Waterloo NSW Australia 2017... t: (02) 9318 1122 e:[email protected] Geoffrey James Weary #videoart #cinema #film #damage #scratches @kodak #kodak #kodakblack #filmart #filmscratches See more
10.01.2022 ...final and exact if distant image of a place once lived in and never to be returned to. George Johnston...
09.01.2022 Come along to the New beginnings Festival in Spring 2018! #refugees #artists #music #food #fiesta https://newbeginningsfestival.com.au
05.01.2022 Beautiful ArtDeco staircase at the Rockbund Art Museum in #Shnghi .... # #
05.01.2022 Ive been blessed to be around some of the most passionate greatest artists/musicians of the world as I move around spheres and terrains (like a rolling stone?)... over the last 30 years. As Im invited to be included in 6 bands/groups tp play live music in New York in the next few weeks (2 gigs this coming week) and making an album with a musician in Boston, I cant help thinking of my first art collaboration outside China, with two of the kind Australians who helped and supported me through tough times just after I left a horrible marriage where I was the subject of domestic violence from my husband at the time, a white Australian man. The two artists who initiated and run the multi-media project are a couple: my former flatmate Geoffrey James Weary and his wife Tatjana Pentez who both specialize in and teach digital art and films. On my visit to Sydney in 1998 after I had moved to Hong Kong for good to work as a print journalist a year before, they invited me to be a model and dancer in their multi-media project, Strange Cities, about Tatjianas Russian grandparents who lived in China till early 1950s. Tatianas grandfather Sergei Ermolaeff, a Jewish Russian who was born in Tianjin and had never visited Russia, was a renowned jazz musician in China in the 1930s and 1940s. He was the leader of a big jazz band at the Cathay Hotel in Shanghai. Tatjianas grandmother Xenya had fled to China from Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution and met Sergei in China. The couple were rubbing shoulders with the rich the powerful the popular the wild the weird in high-society balls and receptions in the concession areas (parts of Shanghai colonized by various Western countries). Then Shanghai fell to the Japanese troops during WWII. Then the Peoples Liberation Army of the Chinese Communist Party took over China in 1949. The Ermolaeffs were forced by the Chinese Communist government to leave China in 1951, like thousands of other foreign refugees/immigrants in China. The couple settled in Sydney but lived in Shanghai forever. They were ridiculed by neighbors and even family members, forgotten by society, passed away in obscurity and erased by history, until Tatjiana pieced together their stories through old photos, letters and documents they left behind. "Scenes From A Shanghai Hotel" is a short film Geoffrey and Tatjiana made with the Australian Film Commission as part of their "Strange Cities" project. The plot is based on the life of Tatjianas grandmother and the Cathay Hotel where grandfather Sergei led the house band. Now the hotel, on the Bund, is called Peace Hotel, with a house band comprising of musicians as old as 90, who used to play there in the 40s. If you watch this film, turn up the volume and use good headphones/speakers. The tracks are wonderful, including a popular Shanghai jazz song in the 1930s by mega Chinese film star Zhou Xuan, whose nicknamed "Golden Throat" for her angelic voice and dreamy sensual singing. The visuals include Tatjianas old family photos and archival footage of the old Shanghai in the 1930s, and videos Geoffrey shot over their trips to Shanghai. And me, at age 29, playing the role of a Shanghai cabaret-dancer-turned-revolutionary. Now China to me is my past, another planet, I appreciate this wonderful film even more:
04.01.2022 ...a mix of the #virtual and actual in the wonderful Rain Room installation by RANDOM INTERNATIONAL at the Yuz Museum, Shanghai # # #rainroom
04.01.2022 Deep Horizon...
03.01.2022 The love of doors and Shikumen # #Shnghi # or Stone Gate Residences. Sadly, most have been demolished. From an exhibition at Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall.
03.01.2022 The #vintage Movie Stars of #Shnghi # #1920s #1940s in an alley off Nanjing Dong Lu # # #
03.01.2022 Late at night a big old house gets lonely.." The Eagles
02.01.2022 Frank’s World: HOME iPad interactive artwork Written, Produced & Directed by Geoffrey Weary 2020 Interface Design & Development: icemedia, Sound Design & Music: Michael Bates with thanks to Mark Gardiner, Online & Social Media: Tatiana Pentes Description Explore the world of HOME through the eyes of Frank, Jason and FAE. Frank’s memories overwhelm him as the shop he has lived and worked in for the past 50 years crumbles around him. Jason lives with his grandfather, He photographs Frank, and what is left of the shop. Meanwhile he dreams of escape. To where he isn’t sure. Fae often comes to visit her uncle Frank. They share an obsession with the city, street maps and the places that Fae loves to wander through.Frank remembers June, Vera and Fae's mother Clare.
02.01.2022 Only In Dreams...#Halloween #BlueVelvet #IsabellaRossellini Dorothy Vallens #DavidLynch Golden Age Cinema & Bar #GoldenAgeCinema
01.01.2022 I did a bad thing.. Burt Lancaster as The Swede The Killers, dir Robert Siodmak (1946)
01.01.2022 #Maman (1999) from the #LouiseBourgeois retrospective The Eternal Thread show Long Museum, West Bund. An awe inspiring work and exhibition.
01.01.2022 These are the doors that open into a room where you escape into your dreams...
