bLOGOS/HA HA: 10 ways to look at the past

David Jones, artist and poet (1895-1974) begins his PREFACE TO THE ANATHEMATA :

'I have made a heap of all that I could find.' (1) So wrote Nennius, or whoever composed the introductory matter to Historia Brittonum. He speaks of an 'inward wound' which was caused by the fear that certain things dear to him 'should be like smoke dissipated'. Further, he says, 'not trusting my own learning, which is none at all, but partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymous, Prosper, Eusebius and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons although our enemies . . . I have lispingly put together this . . . about past transactions, that [this material] might not be trodden under foot'. (2)

(1) The actual words are coacervavi omne quod inveni, and occur in Prologue 2 to the Historia.
(2) Quoted from the translation of Prologue 1. See The Works of Gildas and Nennius, J.A.Giles, London 1841.

27 July 2011

10 ways to look at the past

"I have seen the future
and it works"
Lincoln Steffens
after visit as journalist to Communist Russia
- 3 April 1919 -

"I have looked at the past
and cannot find it."
TAR
after visit as regardist to National Gallery of Victoria
- 27 July 2011 -
(see below)

Coincident with the National Gallery of Victoria's present-time exhibition :

10 ways to look at the past
23 July 2011–19 February 2012

Theatre of the Actors of Regard (TAR) will perform, at that exhibition, ten unheralded tableaux :

It being presently obscured
23 July 2011–19 February 2012

Title, script and stage directions for the ten are as follows :

detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...

LOGOS/HA HA

detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ... LOGOS/HA HA

detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...

LOGOS/HA HA

David Jones, artist and poet (1895-1974) begins his PREFACE TO THE ANATHEMATA :

27 July 2011

10 ways to look at the past

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