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.
Each Friday at 5pm in Daylesford, Victoria ...
... protest continues against the offshore detention
of refugees to Australia.
Last evening,
one driver shouted,
"It's just three words."
Theatre for the Advancement of Refugees
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TARhaus :
Poème Rire Défectueux
- après Wolfgang Sievers
Auction Information
Sale LJ8303
26 June 2019 - 6:00pm
Leonard Joel
333 Malvern Rd, South Yarra 3141
Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 June, 10am-4pm
Provenance
The collection of Deidre Cook
Other Notes
© National Library of Australia
Estimate $600-800
photograph by Wolfgang Sievers
Thoughts turn in rearrangement to
Raoul Hausmann's
Mechanischer Kopf (Der Geist Unserer Zeit)
Mechanical Head (The Spirit of Our Time)"
c. 1920
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AI: More than Human
the Barbican
16 May—26 Aug 2019
Totem
Chris Salter
courtesy of the artist
photography Agustina Isadori
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After a campaign of critical co-option ] Resistance Is Futile ( come auction night, Christie's realised a record price for a Work Of Art by a Living Artist : $US91,075,000 for a Jeff Koons 'Rabbit' (1986), number 2 from an edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof.
A full-page ad in the New York Times to promote the auction
of Jeff Koons’ 'Rabbit'.
A woman looks at Jeff Koons' "Rabbit" from the Masterpieces
from The Collection of S.I. Newhouse at Christie's New York
press preview on May 3, 2019 as part of Christie's Post-War
and Contemporary Art evening sale. (Photo by TIMOTHY A.
CLARY /AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY
MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE
THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION ( Photo credit
should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
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documentation of schemata
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Image Reader considers how do we visually read, internalise, process or decode the images that circulate around us? Engaging with four artists who destabilise a linear reading of the image—Guy Grabowsky, Nina Gilbert, Ry Haskings and Eliza Hutchison—Image Reader explores the power photography has to visually communicate, and subconsciously influence our reading of the world.
Acutely attuned to this subliminal process of visually reading, the artists in Image Reader obscure the lines between the legible and the indecipherable, moving between digital, analogue and sculptural photographic practices. By highlighting the non-linearity of memory, the architectural and site-specific contexts images inhabit, or through drawing our attention to the overlooked in beguiling ways, Image Reader points towards a visual language that is simultaneously perplexing, deeply idiosyncratic and constantly present, whether we can read it or not.
Curated by Madé Spencer-Castle
EXHIBITION
06 April – 02 June 2019
ARTIST TALKS
Thursday, 16th May 2019, 6—7.30pm
CONTACT
Centre for Contemporary Photography
404 George St, Fitzroy Victoria 3065, Australia
info@ccp.org.au
+61 39417 1549
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Image Reader at CCP opening night. Photo: J Forsyth
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Tu es TAR ...
Theatre of the Actors of Regard
Tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram
Aedificabo Ecclesiam meam,
Et portae inferi non praevalebunt adversus eam:
Et tibi dabo claves
Regni coelorum.
Quodcumque ligaveris super terram,
Erit ligatum et in coelis;
Et quodcumque solveris super terram
Erit solutum et in coelis.
Matthew 16:18-19
James Brunt at 2018 European stone stacking championships
Thou art Peter,
and upon this rock I will build my church;
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
And I will give unto thee the keys
of the kingdom of heaven:
and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth
shall be bound in heaven:
and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth
shall be loosed in heaven.
Matthew 16:18 King James Version
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While on this Harry Shunk sequence, here's a reworking by TAR of Shunk's 1969 portrait of Barnett Newman at Universal Limited Art Editions, New York, regarding an edition print of his Untitled Etching #2.
click image to enlarge
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Harry Shunk and János Kender (photography)
and TARpists
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thoughts arise...
This sequence ends with the image that sparked it, or rather, with the caption published under it,
A crowd...
A crowd at TEFAF Maastricht, 2018. Photo: Natascha Libbert.
1. Yves Klein leaps into the Void
2. Yves Klein surfs into a crowd (hand-stretched canvas TARp)
3. A crowd surfs the void
4. Elation (Aldous Harding)
The beauty is so close to me
The beauty is so close to me
A crowd at TEFAF Maastricht, 2018. Photo: Natascha Libbert.
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The current exhibition at ACCA (until 24 March) is The Theatre is Lying. We are reminded of this
in relation to matters below.
The Theatre is Lying is the first in this series of exhibitions, encompassing major works by Anna Breckon and Nat Randall, Sol Calero, Consuelo Cavaniglia, Matthew Griffin and Daniel Jenatsch.
Constructed as an exhibition in five acts, The Theatre is Lying brings together artists who create alternative narratives and worlds through illusionary, cinematic and theatrical devices, including installation, misé en scene, historical re-enactment, digital montage and compositions with video, light and sound. In a series of new commissions, participating artists explore the manipulation of information and images, notions of artifice and illusion, ideas of transparency, reflection and phantasmagoria, and an engagement with the representations and misrepresentations of cinema and media.
Through the white cube of the gallery and the black box of cinema, The Theatre is Lying proposes the gallery as a transformative threshold addressing ideas of truth and fiction, perception and abstraction, and the warping of time and space. The exhibition also considers the role of the spectator as an active agent in a world in which we are all actors, and the increasing interplay between subjective and objective, or psychic and social structures. Set against theatres of media and politics that are increasingly informed by trickery and sleight of hand, The Theatre is Lying offers a means to reflect upon, critique and even escape – if only momentarily – the everyday reality of our fictive life and times.
Today, Cardinal George Pell was sentenced to six years imprisonment for child sexual assaults at Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, in 1966.
Cardinal George Pell
by David Roberts
2007 (printed 2012)
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2015
This portrait was commissioned through the Knights of Malta to commemorate Cardinal Pell's inauguration as Prefect of Secretariat for the Economy. The Cardinal is a "a Bailiff Grand Cross of the Knights of Malta, that’s the decoration around his neck," Gow said.
In 2016, the portrait was unveiled in the Vatican to commemorate Pell's inauguration as one of the Vatican’s most senior figures, Prefect of Secretariat for the Economy.
cover portrait used for :
Quarterly Essay #51 - September 2013
by David Marr
The Prince : Faith, abuse and George Pell
Last night, as a prolog to today's sentencing, this was the crime scene on the set of Saint Patrick's Theatre of the Actors of Regard, Melbourne.
@evo_lens
Tonight in so called Melb on Wurundjeri land, we honour child sexual abuse survivors, and those who didnt survive. Gather together to tie ribbons to the fence and projections from 8pm to let the catholic church know, we are watching them.
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This Sunday 10 March is the 60th anniversary of the first major popular Uprising against China's rule - in Lhasa in 1959 - when the Dalai Lama was forced to escape from Tibet (below, centre). He reached safety in India on 30 March 1959.
Whilst Tibetans are paying tribute to the courage of generations both past and present, China is preparing to befuddle the UN Human Rights Council with its response to last November's Universal Periodic Review. As previously, China has rejected most of the Tibet-related recommendations, include basic requests for UN officials to visit, calling them “inconsistent with China’s national conditions, contradictory with Chinese laws, politically biased or untruthful.” Bizarrely, China claims to have "already implemented" a recommendation to restart dialogue on Tibet, when in fact there has been no acknowledged formal contact with the Dalai Lama's representatives since 2010. - International Tibet Network
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We weren't able to get to Canberra today for the ANU Japan Institute symposium OBJECTively - Connecting Australia and Japan: objects, cultural stories, people.
However, online, we have just enjoyed a similar symposium lecture from 2012 by Louise Allison Cort.
March 15, 2012, Louise Allison Cort, Curator for Ceramics, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. gives her lecture "Fine autumnal tones": Charles Lang Freer's Collecting of Asian Ceramics ( click the lecture title to watch video ) for the symposium The Dragon and the Chrysanthemum : Collecting Chinese and Japanese Art in America organized by the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection, March 15-16, 2012.
from the lecture : Charles Lang Freer in 1903 looks at his 'Venus
Rising from the Sea' by Charles McNeill Whistler (c.1869-1870)
FIAPCE
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another downfall
flows to the see
Xiao Lu: Impossible Dialogue 肖鲁:语嘿 is the first retrospective of leading contemporary Chinese artist Xiao Lu. The exhibition is anchored by Xiao Lu’s performance work
Dialogue from the landmark China/Avant-Garde exhibition at
the National Art Gallery, Beijing, in February 1989. This work,
in which the artist fires a gun at her own art installation, is a milestone in the development of contemporary art in China.
It has also has been read as a critical turning point in China’s recent history. While Dialogue remains an iconic work of that era, it is also one of the most misunderstood pieces of contemporary Chinese art. Xiao Lu: Impossible Dialogue 肖鲁:语嘿 examines Xiao Lu’s creative interest in deep emotion, extreme action, and chance. Spanning a period of 30 years, the exhibition presents significant performance works by Xiao Lu including a new commission that explores the artist’s ongoing connection to Australia.
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, until 24 March
Xiao Lu, One, performance, 5 Sept 2015, Valand Academy
University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Photo by Lin Qijian
Defining Place/Space: Contemporary Photography from Australia represents the current state of contemporary photography in Australia through the work of thirteen artists including several whose work is being shown in the United States for the first time. The featured photographers were nominated by five Australian senior curators of photography; finalists were selected by MOPA’s Executive Director and Chief Curator, Deborah Klochko.
The exhibition shows that art-making in Australia is not just about the flora and fauna of the country. The artists reflect many different perspectives on the creativity that exists in the country. The nomination of four Aboriginal artists touches upon the country’s relationship with indigenous people, and the ways that history affects art-making. Defining Place/Space is more than what people will expect...
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, until 22 September
Pat Brassington, Fall (2016) courtesy of ARC ONE Gallery
The two images above presented around the same time, along with this Mount Fuji, Dragon and signature brushwork by the renowned Samurai swordsman and Zen calligrapher Yamaoka Tesshū (1836-1888).
...flow to the see
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