MOULD - A Cheese Festival
Carriageworks
Sydney, Australia
May 24, 2019
Fromage, fromage!
One does not need to have French heritage to harbour a thorough appreciation for cheese – be it aged, soft, hard, blue, white or even vegan variants.
MOULD is …
Water of Life - Port Askaig and Kilchoman
Oh Islay, glorious Islay!
Every time when one thinks that the main distilleries of the island have been covered and the prime expressions have been sample, something comes your way that makes you reassess the state of play …
The Watch – Thoroughly Revised
Thames and Hudson
I used to collect watches and do appreciate a well-crafted timepiece, despite an Apple watch having taken over the real estate around my wrist for quite a while now.
For the uninitiated and the ones merely familiar …
Water of Life – Kavalan Solist
Whisky distilleries pop up in the most unexpected regions these days. Unfortunately, often, apart from the novelty factor truly great drops are not commonplace outside the confines of established whisky regions, however, every now and then you come across a gem …
Le Salon Dada - A Surrealist Dinner and Show
Claire’s Kitchen
It has been close to fifty years since the Rothschild’s much fabled about “Surrealist Ball” was held and attended by a smorgasbord of influential figureheads of the early 1970s – an event that seems to have …
Neo Rauch
Michael Glover
Lund Humphries
Now, here is an interesting one that might not necessarily be on everyone’s radar: Neo Rauch has come to prominence via subtly exposing political unjust and the decline of Western civilisation and alienation by channelling them through his multi-layered, …
Water of Life - Buffalo Trace
It has been a few moons between visits to the Big Apple – visits that will never run danger of losing their appeal that comes with plugging into the electrical current that keeps the city pumping and ultimately makes it one of …
Energies in the Arts by Douglas Kahn
The MIT Press
Hmm, “energy”. . . the good ole indestructible conserved quantity that is convertible in form and can be transferred to an object in order to get work done. Douglas Kahn’s book explores that inhabit whatever is …
FKA Twigs
Carriageworks
Sydney, Australia
June 9, 2019
Full disclosure, up to tonight I had not been exposed to the microcosm that is FKA Twigs – a circumstance I quite enjoy when it comes to exploring and experiencing artists and one that is rarer …
Water of Life - Koval bourbon
Ah, Chicago you windy city with your colourful underbelly history. It has been a few moons since the days of prohibition, the moonshining it prompted and the emergence of a proper distillery since the eighteen hundreds: Koval is an entity dedicated to crafting …
Water of Life – Kavalan Concertmaster
If you have followed my previous advice and have tried Kavalan’s Solist as well as other expressions, you would not find it further wondrous that Kavalan has transcended the well-calibrated symphony its expressions create into the realm of naming them accordingly. …
Water of Life – Evolve Spirits Bar
There is the textbook definition of “fossil”, i.e. pertaining to any remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age, as a skeleton, footprint, et cetera, and the metaphorical one that refers to a markedly outdated or …
Water of Life – Dark Mofo Winter Feast edition: Hobart Whisky and Belgrove Distillery
Dark Mofo’s Winter Feast is a definite highlight of the annual festival that not only offers access to the best of Tasmanian produce and cuisine, but also the best of what the local distilling, …
AUDINT -- Unsound: Undead
Urbanomic / Art Editions – The MIT Press
Noises. Sounds. Frequencies. Ultra-. Infra-. Audible. Inaudible.
An endlessly fascinating realm that the UK based research unit AUDINT group has been exploring, with a focus on shedding light on the outliers and the …
Water of Life – GlenAllachie
I am all about Islay and its distilleries when it comes to whiskies that excite me, which is not to say that I am unable to appreciate and enjoy drops from other regions for their own idiosyncratic flavours and merits.
Speyside …
Thrones!
Opera House
Sydney, Australia
June 25, 2019
Full disclosure: I have never seen a single episode of Game of Thrones, which puts me in the same shoes as one of the main protagonists of tonight’s performance. The beauty of Thrones! Is that despite …
Camp: Notes on Fashion
The Met
Love wearing a furious look and strutting around like the good ole drama queen (or king) you are?
Ah, the world of fashion and the profound influence everything camp and queer has had throughout the ages – not merely …
Open Frame Festival 2019
Carriageworks
Sydney, Australia
June 28-29, 2019
Open Frame is an annual festival of transgressive sound that is curated by the entity behind the moniker Room 40, an homage to the cryptanalysis section of the British Admiralty during the First World War. …
Water of Life – Michter’s
Ah, bourbon – the whisky of the South!
Full disclosure: On the road, I find it indefinitely harder to locate a good bourbon within the confines of say a hotel bar with more pedestrian offerings than it is to find a …
Water of Life – Sullivans Cove
Sullivans Cove is quite something.
Not that the Australian and specifically Tasmanian whisky scenes lack allure – au contraire – fantastic distilleries are not only mushrooming but the established ones keep releasing expressions that make me wish that they would …
