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.


30 November 2012

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29 November 2012

Koan : The Original Mask

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28 November 2012

The Power Behind The Frame

    
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The Man Who Would Be Thing
    
We know people who think it's wrong to see faces in things.
       


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27 November 2012

Scream in a Museum ] no one will hear you (

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until 29 April 2013 :  
      
Edvard Munch : The Scream  

 
         
At Anna Schwartz Gallery  Sydney 
where, in image-space-time
no one can hear you scream 
"The Title!"
until 22 December 2012 :
     
   
 
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26 November 2012

SOMEONE REVIEWS SOMETHING

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One of our favorite film meta-Titles is  
analyse this
   

     
And the sequel, analyze that  
   
Theatre of the Actors of Regard pitched for a third such : analyze something

The concept was promoted to the producers of the previous two films, but without success.
     
analyze something : On the run from others of the mob, de Niro attempts to hide-out in a Korean Buddhist monastery. There he encounters Billy Crystal as a trainee monk, still rattled after this and that, trying to get his life together. Hilarious exchanges between the two as they struggle to make sense of the Zen view of the world. 

In the Korean Zen tradition, one generally meditates on the koan What is this? This question derives from an encounter between the Sixth Patriarch, Huineng (638–713 C.E.), and a young monk, Huaijang, who became one of his foremost disciples:

Huaijang entered the room and bowed to Huineng. Huineng asked: “Where do you come from?” “I came from Mount Sung,” replied Huaijang. “What is this and how did it get here?” demanded Huineng. Huaijang could not answer and remained speechless. He practiced for many years until he understood. He went to see Huineng to tell him about his breakthrough. Huineng asked: “What is this?” Huaijang replied: “To say it is like something is not to the point. But still it can be cultivated.”
  
What is this?       
written by Martine Batchelor      
read full article HERE


SOMEONE EXHIBITS SOMETHING
PETER TYNDALL’S QUIRKILY COOL WORKS OF ART

In the ever-percolating art world one genre, artist, culture or medium can come to the fore and take the stage as the ‘next big thing’. But sometimes an artist whose intrinsically fascinating work has already been appreciated throughout the decades comes to light anew.

Australian conceptual artist Peter Tyndall is ready for his close up once more: his status as one of the country’s most important late 20th-century painters is underscored by a new exhibition that curates his work throughout the decades, from the early '70s to the present day.

The Anna Schwartz Gallery at the Carriageworks Arts Centre, a vast industrial space in Sydney’s inner city, has commissioned a personal friend of the artist’s from the late 1960s to curate. Doug Hall, former Queensland Art Gallery director, allows the observer to follow the narrative arc of Tyndall’s distinctive pictorial iconography from the maze-like busyness of his black-and-white work in the '70s, to the more starkly graphic symbolism and pop colour of the nineties and boldly simplistic figurative work of the noughties.

The one thing that remains eternal is each work’s title, which is always A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/someone looks at something.... Tyndall rejects the fundamental status quo of individual titles in favour of describing the overall act that occurs with each painting – observation and the meaning we then attach to it. He also eschews the traditional exhibition bio as another “convention that irks”. As the bio is a ‘construction’, Tyndall will only craft one as a one-off enhancement of a particular show.

Stripped of the usual props, it is the intrinsic work of art that contains, as Hall puts it, “all that we were required to know” – the act of subjective observation completing a reciprocal circle of connection. Texts, logos, symbols, rectangles, graphics and figures are subject to the intuitive and intellectual appreciation of the viewer, who brings their own morass of associations and assessments. 

Thanks to Schwartz’s passion for gathering works by an artist hung in Australia’s most prestigious national galleries, other generations can enjoy the wry rejection of convention by an elder of the local art tribe – who is also one of the art community's liveliest bloggers: blogging something…

The exhibition runs from November 21st – December 22nd, 2012.

Cleo Glyde | Departures | HERE
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25 November 2012

I Am Curious (Yellow matrix)

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"Don’t think you’re going bananas when you read the titles of all the works on display by Peter Tyndall at Anna Schwartz."

read full article at  Concrete Playground  
     
I Am Curious (Yellow)
1967 Swedish drama film written and directed by Vilgot Sjöman and starring Sjöman and Lena Nyman.

A favourite film seen many times in the early 1970s.
    
 

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24 November 2012

Title ]banana matrix remix(

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"Don’t think you’re going bananas when you read the titles of all the works on display by Peter Tyndall at Anna Schwartz. They are all the same."

read full article at  Concrete Playground



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Banania : An awesome game. The object of the game is to collect all the bananas in each level to proceed to another level. A little bit tricky game but Interesting one, It has totally 50 levels.
       

click here to download the free game BANANIA

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23 November 2012

Bon Appétit ] "You are what you eat" (

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"Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es." 
Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are. 
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Physiologie du Gout, ou Meditations de Gastronomie Transcendante, 1826 
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"Don’t think you’re going bananas when you read the titles of all the works on display by Peter Tyndall at Anna Schwartz. They are all the same."

read full article at  Concrete Playground




Actually, the original of the above image has the text "New Tempting ways to serve BANANAS". Which makes the knowing wink of this self-serving banana seem even more curious.
  


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22 November 2012

GOING BANANAS Vs. THE ENDLESSLY REPEATING TITLE

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I eat the same thing every night...  food!

- Non Epicurious
   
"Don’t think you’re going bananas when you read the titles of all the works on display by Peter Tyndall at Anna Schwartz. They are all the same. Clearly concerned with the way we process visual art, this critically acclaimed Australian conceptual artist names everything ’A Person Looks At A Work Of ARt/someone looks at something… LOGOS/HA HA. When you think about it, for an artist, naming every artwork the same probably saves as much time as if you and I were to never again ponder what’s for dinner and just eat the same thing every night."

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19 November 2012

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Sculptures? 
Yes and no :
tampons, sceaux.
     
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18 November 2012

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Click go the HEREs boys, 
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click HERE to see the full invitation above

click HERE for exhibition images 

click HERE for text by Doug Hall 

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16 November 2012

FIFO Artists At Large

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FIFO workers criss-cross Australia. 

Usually these are thought of as the fly-in fly-out gouge drones unearthing the nation's great mineral reserves.

FIFO artists are also part of this movement, especially this month. Radiohead perform in Melbourne tonight - O for a ticket - Sigur Ros in Sydney tomorrow. And so many more: the great flower of local bands in Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, all very much at large.

FIFO artists and Theatre of the Actors of Regard performers will fly-in fly-out tomorrow for various exhibitions openings. Francis Bacon at the Art Gallery of NSW; Robert Owen at Arc One (Melbourne); Peter Tyndall at Anna Schwartz Gallery (Sydney). Others will be harvesting Peter Cripps at the Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane); Robert MacPherson at Yuill/Crowley (Sydney); Geoff Lowe & A Constructed World at Ian Potter Museum of Art (Melbourne University); Lindy Lee at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (Sydney). 
    
FIFOs in the know will be seeking out Mitchel Cumming's INVITE ONLY and the work of Samuel Quinteros.
          

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07 November 2012

How It Looks

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Close on the scandal about Lance Armstrong and other top cyclists taking illegal enhancements, yesterday's Melbourne Cup drew more media comment about the three participating jockeys who have admitted they previously placed bets on opposition horses than about the race itself.
  
Scent of scandal hangs over Melbourne Cup

TONY EASTLEY: It's the race that stops a nation, but there's a lingering whiff of scandal surrounding today's Melbourne Cup.

This morning there are Fairfax newspaper reports that champion jockey Damien Oliver has admitted to breaching racing rules by betting $10,000 on a rival horse in a race in which he was riding two years ago.

The horse he bet on won. It's posed a lot of questions for Racing Victoria.

AM Program : ABC Radio National 
Read full article here

Perhaps this card, without any verso advertising or explanation, might fit here.
  


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06 November 2012

Expert Opinion

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Bet / Better / Boast

We don't know much about The Spring Racing Carnival
but we know what we like.

I like the sound of the name ("Smart Punter") of that horse
I like the name ("Smart Punter") of that horse
I like the black/brown/white/spotted horse
I like the jockey's colours for that horse 
I like the look of that local horse 
I like the trainer of that horse
I like the odds on that horse
I like the French horse
I like the big horse

Bet / Better / Bust
     

   
We don't know much about Art
but we know what we like.
 
Today, Melbourne Cup Day 2012, we thought we might turn the tables (into tableaux). Get the word straight from the horse's mouth, as they say. To do this, we transported a selection of Cup Prospects to view a number of putative art works en plain air


In the scene above, it looks as if it might be the artist-critic Jeff Makin appearing somewhat anxious as he awaits the critic's judgement.
  

      
Meanwhile, back at Flemington, how did all the experts fare?
  
Green Moon stuns stellar Melbourne Cup field
Shocking a field of foreign stars, Green Moon, trained by Robert Hickmott, won the two-mile classic by a length from Fiorente and Jakkalberry, with Kelinni fourth.

Green Moon started at $20. Fiorente started at $31 and was the third Cup runner-up for trainer Gai Waterhouse. The unfancied Jakkalberry started at $81


Stuart Rintoul : The Australian 
6 November 5:42PM

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05 November 2012

WE COME NOT TO BURY MEDIA

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BUT TO PRAISE COLVINIUS
   
It was a black tie and evening gown affair in the office of bLOGOS/HA HA last night when past and present staff gathered around the telly to honour one of our battler inspirations Mark Colvin aka  Colvinius (Twitter) as he delivered the 2012 Andrew Ollie Lecture.

We were not disappointed. 

If you have any interest in the past present future of journalism(s), do yourself a serious favour and listen to or read the transcript of Mark Colvin's lecture on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse for journalism : HERE
  

Mark Colvin
@Colvinius
Presenter of PM & Friday Late, ABC Radio.
Lifetime Lance-Corporal in the Awkward Squad.
   
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