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by Jennifer Finney Boylan

CONTRIBUTING OP-ED WRITER | THE NEW YORK TIMES

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TAR, huh, yeah What is it good for

'TRIENNIAL', AT NGV INTERNATIONAL,
BY GILES FIELKE

Buried within the question recently explored by Felicity D. Scott, ‘Who is the festival for?’ is the rapidly fading possibility of the public.  ...

first published today at MEMO REVIEW
read full article here 


Giles Fielke is working on a PhD presenting a counter-modern history which looks at the artist organisation of discrete images, in the Art History department of The University of Melbourne. In particular his research focusses on works by Hollis Frampton and Harun Farocki and the question of the search. He is a founding member of the Artist Film Workshop <http://artistfilmworkshop.org> and regularly publishes writing on contemporary art and film

from emaj online journal of art


TAR ] Theatre of the Actors of Regard (
after Edwin sTARr

TAR, huh, yeah 
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
TAR, huh, yeah
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
Say it again, why'all

TAR, huh, good god
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing, listen to me ...

after songwriters Barret Strong and Norman Whitfield

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TAR skat | Matrix Music

Such a pleasure this morning to listen again to Andrew Ford's Music Show celebration of the centenary of Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996).

     
[Verse 2:]
Oh dear I wonder where my basket can be
(So do we, so do we, so do we, so do we, so do we)
Oh gee I wish that little girl I could see
(So do we, so do we, so do we, so do we, so do we)

Oh why was I so careless
With that basket of mine?
That itty bitty basket
Was a joy of mine!

[Chorus:]
A-tisket
A-tasket
I lost my yellow basket

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Won't someone help me
Find my basket
And make me happy again?

[Verse 3:]
(Was it green?) No, no, no, no
(Was it red?) No, no, no, no
(Was it blue?) No, no, no, no
Just a little yellow basket
A little yellow basket

FIAPCE  

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Living Standard

The Australia Council for the Arts has released
new research which shows the average income of a practising professional artist in Australia declined by about 4 per cent between 2008 and 2015.    

Theatre of the Accountants of Regard   

How much money do artists make?

•   In 2014-15 Australian artists earned a gross income of $48,400 on average — about 4 per cent less than when the survey was last conducted in 2007-08

•   But they tended to generate their income from a variety of sources
  

•   On average they made about $18,800 from their creative work, $13,900 from art-related work (usually teaching), and $15,700 from a non-arts-related job
  

•   A third of the artists surveyed said they were happy with that balance, while the rest wanted to spend more time creating

•   All types of artists face challenges meeting their minimum income requirements, but visual artists earn amongst the lowest incomes of any artists, despite being one of the most highly educated groups in the workforce.

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Sign Field

We've been watching old episodes of Sign Field.

Raise The Standard was directed by 前川五嶺 [1805-1876] and features Daikokuten as the standard bearer. A great favourite.

collection : FIAPCE 

Carry On Luggage has a similar theme. TAR-TV describes this episode as, 'The year before Flying High! - First Flight of an idio with an ideo'.

Theatre of the Aviators of Regard (-1979-) 

Both these episodes are revisited in the mayhem of
Parade Day.

FIAPCE / TAR 

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wept

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weep for painting 

MARS, Melbourne 

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above : in the arms of the virgin

by Nick Mourtzakis

2017

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after The Man of Sorrows in the arms of the Virgin

by Hans Membling
c.1475

collection of National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

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below : after Spatial Concept - Green Crater

by Lucio Fontana
c.1962-64

as regarded by Theatre of the Actors of Regard
at NGV Melbourne 1971

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Stigmatic Theatre of the Actors of Regard  

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Trans Avant Regard

Maybe KRAFTWERK could do the soundtrack...

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BAR click NETT click NEW click MAN click BAR NET NEW MAN

Modern Merican Painted Canvas didn't always float free to be seen in Independence Daze on the staged walls of Theatre of the Actors of Regard.

Various photos of Barnett Newman in his studio show him with heavily-suspended stretched right-angles of canvas anchored by chains before during and after the paint. 

These proof sheet photographs are from the 1965 studio portraits of Barnett Newman by Ugo Mulas.

In the mid-1940s Newman painted a small number of mostly untitled circle/sun motifs. One was clue-titled Pagan Void. After that, the vertical line motif ("zip") on the field (of colour) motif predominated the play. 

His 1948 consolidation work - one vertical zip centred on a vertical format canvas - he titled Onement (at one out of atonement). The son of Jewish immigrants from Poland, he had studied philosophy in New York and it all showed. Soon came By Twos (1949).

We do wonder about the presence/influence/role/

dynamic of the suspension chain verticals 'outside' 

on the painted verticals 'inside'?

Photos of the early exhibitions of these artworks, such as at Betty Parsons gallery, show them still in obvious suspension, not 'free floating'.

Ditto when shown in Melbourne in 1967.

We conclude this now with the Sight Gag song as...

Barnett Newman conducts the Choir of Eyes (TAR) 

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FIAPCE Education

Théâtre des Acteurs du Rire  

Learn to Laugh at Art this weekend :
   
Serial and Conceptual Photography
Works by Rooney, Coventry, Tyndall, FIAPCE, Ruscha, Huebler, König, Boltanski, Feldmann, the Bechers, Tajiri, Groover, and more.

Spare Room 33
Canberra, Australia

open Saturday 25 March and Saturday 1 April 2017
11.00 am - 4.30 pm
and by appointment 

FIAPCE Education, 1974     
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FIAPCE Education, 1974     
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 written under the photographs
 IF YOU'RE REALLY SERIOUS YOU SHOULD BE LAUGHING

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TARgets

 AtlanTAR Season 1 Episode 5 : Darius goes to a shooting range.
 He books a bay, buys some bullets, pins up his TARget and 
 starts shootin' ...

 Nice cap, yo!

 Pretty soon, the dog TARget gets some special TAR attention. 

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FIAPCE  ( -1978- )  

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++++ delirium XXXX delirium ++++ delirium XXXX delirium ++++ delirium XXXX delirium ++++ delirium XXXX delirium ++++ delirium XXXX delirium ++++ delirium XXXX delirium ++++ delirium XXXX delirium ++++ delirium XXXX delirium ++++ delirium XXXX delirium ++++ delirium XXXX delirium ++++ delirium XXXX

In Principio LOGOS
Lelio Orsi (1511-1587)
Kiyoshi Koishi (1908-1957)
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre   

The falcon cannot hear the falconer; 

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; 

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, 

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere   

The ceremony of innocence is drowned; 

The best lack all conviction, while the worst   

Are full of passionate intensity. 

Surely some revelation is at hand; 

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.   

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out   

When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi 

Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert   

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,   

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,   

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it   

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.   

The darkness drops again; but now I know   

That twenty centuries of stony sleep 

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,   

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,   

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

- The Second Coming, W B Years

    

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Secret bLOG for a Secret Person in TARland

 l'enfant TARrible, 1952  

Joseph Beuys + Mihai Olos matrix  
Documenta 6 (1977)  

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HA HA HAKUIN Enso Border Patrol Tour

How many decades have we had a magazine print of this Hakuin enso on the office wall here? 

Never funnier than now! Sad!



The text under the office print says: 
When you forget yourself you become the universe.
Hakuin (1685 -1768)

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Online, under the same enso image, another (similar) text and commentary :

No space in the ten directions,
not one inch of great earth

The phrase is from a koan in which a monk asks Master Pa-ling, 

"Are the views of Zen masters the same or different from what is taught in sutras?"
Pa-ling answered, 

"When a rooster is cold, it flies up into a tree; when a duck is cold, it dives under the water".
 

In the twelfth century a Chinese monk, Wei-chao, added a verse to this koan :

A branch of plum blossoms is enshrouded by rain,
The golden one smiles without speaking.
A bright noon shines on the Water Dragon Palace,
While the moon and stars dance and laugh, dance and laugh:
No space in the ten directions, not one inch of great earth

Hakuin's ink was rather wet and his brushwork quite loose, causing the characters to become solid masses of ink next to his egg-shaped enso

by Audrey Yoshiko Seo

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Tour of TAR 

HA HA Theatre of the Actors of Regard

「白隠展」監修者・山下裕二先生 

HA HA Theatre of the Actors of Regard 

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Theatre of the Alternative Real : We welcome new members!

This is the headline. This is the image. This is the text :
 

Members Exhibition Previews: NGV Festival of Photography - Ross Coulter: Audience

See contemporary photography at its best with the NGV Festival of Photography. Taking over a number of galleries across the NGV on the year of the 50th anniversary of the NGV’s photography curatorial department, the Festival of Photography features exhibitions including Ross Coulter.

Join a floor talk with NGV Senior Curator of Photography, Susan van Wyk, at 3:30pm.

Venue: 
NGV International
180 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne VIC 3006

Date and Time: 
16 Mar, 2–5pm

Cost:
Free entry.

Who should attend:
We welcome new members!

Looking online today, in anticipation of "Audience" the exhibition, we were surprised to see the above installation image. Not as anticipated, with all those apparently black photos...

Some quick image searching reveals it is in fact a commercial generic stock photo : wtphoto?!

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We've been following Ross Coulter's Audience 
project from day one (15 August 2013) at Conical, Fitzroy...

photo by Theatre of the Audience Reciprocal  

...and are very much looking forward to it's animation as part of the NGV Festival of Photography opening tomorrow.


Ross Coulter
Audience 2013–16 (detail)
silver gelatin prints
20.0 x 25.0 cm each
Collection of the artist
© the artist

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Theatre After Rodin presents 'Pack Mentality'

   

VERSUS RODIN GIFT PACKAGES

Surprise an art-loving friend with a Versus Rodin Gift Pack   

To celebrate the major exhibition Versus Rodin: Bodies across space and time, showing exclusively at the Art Gallery of South Australia in early 2017, gift packs are now available for online purchase. Deliveries or collection from the Gallery Shop available from 1 November 2016. Please allow from 5-7 business days for deliveries.

Versus Rodin Ticket Gift Pack 
Two exhibition tickets beautifully presented in special gift envelope. 
$40.00 
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Versus Rodin Exhibition Publication Gift Pack 
Voucher to collect a copy of the exhibition publication during the exhibition season. Each voucher is beautifully presented in a special gift envelope. 
$55.00 
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Versus Rodin Ticket and Publication Gift Pack 
Two exhibition tickets and voucher to collect a copy of the exhibition publication during the exhibition season. Tickets and voucher beautifully presented in a special gift envelope. 
$95.00 
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Enquiries: please contact the Gallery Shop on 08 8207 702

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