I started thinking about this miniature party idea back in Phnom Penh, 2015?, 2016?, when was that. It was at a time when I realized that the bigger parties (which I organized, since I don’t attend other people’s parties, generally) just weren’t ‘doing it’ for me. When there were more than four or six people, […]
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The next things are next. I’m hosting a ‘miniparty’ in Phnom Penh for just six people. That includes me, this time, so that means just five. Two people have already registered and that means we’re gonna give this a go. Reflecting, as I wrote the story about why I’m doing all these things, why I […]
Whatever falls to hand. Whomever we meet. In that space, in that time, together. This from Tokyo, March 2019.
Kind of overwhelmed with how many people are glued to their phones and computers, I got really excited and just made drawings. Analog. Mostly at jazz clubs, as is my ‘thing.’ The Book of Songs, et al. I showed them in a very low-key cafe, in Sweden’s Malmoe, one afternoon, inviting the people I had […]
Relationships, discovery and the chance encounter in Hanoi Let me set this up. We are in Hanoi. It is approaching evening. A streetside table, with red carnations and a small book on a round table. It’s the Book of Red. I’m about to share it with someone in my online community, S P A C […]
Loved this mini party. Four of us convened at Manzi, an art gallery in Hanoi that I like to go to because it is relatively quiet, and the lighting is good. There might have been a fifth person, but she couldn’t make up her mind, and you know, if you know me, it’s ‘advance bookings […]
MINIGALLERY. Here are a couple of photos from ‘Art of the Z I N E’ in Kuala Lumpur, taken by one of our guests, Muhd Muqhriz. More about what we are up to in Malaysia is here. Could be one of the next ‘bases’ for DK. So much great food, new conversation-starting on account of a change of […]
DK: ‘I was wondering if I could do something with you guys.’ OAF: ‘What?’ DK: ‘Something for Oulu Arts Festival, I think?’ OAF: ‘Let’s talk.’ DK: ‘Yes, lets!’ *** Café Tuokio Pakkahuoneenkatu 7 13–16 Zine Workshop: Hei Kesä. Zines. Conversation. Real life. In an age where the internet can confuse and lie to us, […]
‘WHAT ABOUT if?’ Choices. A conversation installation.
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Cambodian design. Art. Aesthetics. Something was in this place, something I had never before seen. Vernacular architecture enchanted, the moment I landed in Phnom Penh. I stayed five years. It didn’t quit, the old mood of returning, whenever I was gone for a while to explore elsewhere, the feeling that there was a magic here. […]
WHO: 16 strangers WHERE: Milk Green Tea, Phnom Penh WHEN: March 2014 WHAT: A salon using the ‘unconference’ method ORIGIN: ‘What is fromness?’ was inspired by the talk, ‘Ask me where I’m local’ by Taiye Selasi: ‘When someone asks you where you’re from … do you sometimes not know how to answer? Selasi speaks on behalf of […]
WHO: Sonam Tashi Gyaltsen, Dipika Kohli, Guests WHERE: B. R. E. W., Gangtok WHEN: October 2013 WHAT: A conversation salon series WHY: I love to gather people for remarkable connections, which means mixing things up quite a bit. You get out of your usual box, you run into someone you don’t really know and you have a […]
[Updated 10.2020] After a decade away from my hometown of Raleigh-Durham, NC, I kept bumping into people I knew. Who were my old colleagues in the fields I was just starting to work in: photography, mostly, for a newspaper. Some freelance creative writing, too. I left to work in newspapers more seriously, first at an […]
Returning to North Carolina USA in the late 2000s after leaving for a decade, as well as having no idea of what I was going to do, I needed to network. Obviously I got on twitter. Which, at the time, was my go-to social networking site. I like the chance encounter, and hashtags are a […]