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.
Theatre of the Actors of Regard
proudly presents
1. Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet
A lass, poor Yorick.
I am a lass.
] applause (
2. The child actor Sam Sara
This Life'oArt
Conceptual Conception
Conceptual PainThing
Conceptual Skull PT you are
] polite applause (
3. Wallace Greenslade - The Goon Show
It's all in the mind, you know.
] "Not a cracker" - Bluebottle (
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] applause, cheers, laughter, some jeers (
THE MONTH IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE DAY IN REVIEW
THE HOUR IN REVIEW
THE MINUTE IN REVIEW
THE SECOND IN REVIEW
THE SMALLEST IMAGINABLE UNIT OF
TIME IN REVIEW
or
NEVER IMAGINE YOU ARE LOOKING BACKWARDS
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sum ] detail (
one
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From the staff of bLOGOS/HA HA
"SEASONS GREETINGS"
to all our guests.
And
in appreciation
this little something...
*click image to open your gift
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Staff at our Paris bureau have been sorting through the in-house archive from their fin de siècle period.
In 2013, we will share some of that with you.
In the mean time, we had asked them to keep a lookout for anything that might serve as Regard for a Christmas Tree.
Le Bingo! Here's a detail of their artist's brushwork drawing, with caption ("Nous avons pourtant été plantés le même jour!..") and blue pencil layout instructions: section a, section b, a-b width etc
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And from that, out of the diamond matrix, emerges our 2012 bLOGOS/HA HA Christmas Tree Regard.
Tomorrow, at the foot of this tree, we'll put a little something for you.
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Today at 3pm
Minimalism x 6 REVISITED :
MAL ENRIGHT + JENNY WATSON
"In June 1983 Brisbane's Institute of Modern Art hosted Minimalism x 6. Curated by Malcolm Enright, it included works by Jenny Watson, Peter Tyndall, Imants Tilllers, John Nixon, Robert MacPherson, and Robert Jacks, and advanced a polemic that Minimalism was an unfinished project. While such a proposition is perhaps self-evident today, in the early 1980s, with the artistic landscape dominated by expressive figuration, it was less than certain. Join Mal Enright and Minimalism x 6 artist Jenny Watson as they cast their minds back to that moment, almost 30 years, when Minimalism appeared to be at the crossroads."
David Pestorius Projects
Pestorius Sweeney House
39 Eblin Drive
Hamilton, Brisbane
for Malcolm Enright and Robert Johnson
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Theatre of the Actors of Regard have directed our attention to this recent newspaper item & caption
CONTEMPORARY VIEW
Attempts to define the contemporary in art - beyond it being art made today - can lead to a paralysing notion that the globalised "contemporary movement" is too vast and too slippery to be grasped at all. Influential New York based critic Claire Bishop gives a lecture at the NGV on Wednesday night (Clemenger BBDO Auditorium, 5.30pm) titled 'What is contemporary in museums of contemporary art?'. She will look at three European museums that act "as a radical and transdisciplinary space of experimentation".
Dylan Rainforth/The Age
Wednesday 19 Dec 2012
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Peter Tyndall has been exhibiting again in Sydney, twenty years after his previous solo show in that city. There has been no mention of it in the local major newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian.
As newspapers wither, the online community thrives. The following is from ARTFORUM online.
Sydney
Peter Tyndall : detail
ANNA SCHWARTZ GALLERY | SYDNEY
Peter Tyndall has long been recognized as a seminal contributor to the development of postmodern art in Australia. Curated by Doug Hall—a former director of the Queensland Art Gallery—this uncluttered exhibition provides a historical overview of Tyndall’s career, and it eschews the venerative undertones that would have accompanied the same exhibition in a state- or federally run space. Unfussily displayed, each of Tyndall’s paintings—twenty-two in total—hang from two short pieces of string attached to the gallery walls, in a manner that emulates his frequently used graphic symbol of a frame adjoined by two lines. Near the gallery entrance, this symbol features in four small AbEx-influenced works from the mid- to late 1970s, which are accompanied by the equally recurring title detail/A Person Looks At a Work of Art/someone looks at something. The artist’s pared down black-and-white graphic style figures prominently throughout the exhibition, and it is used to depict other regularly used motifs by the artist, such as eyes and 1950s-era family scenes.
In detail/A Person Looks At a Work of Art/someone looks at something . . . LOGOS/HA HA, 1996, Tyndall spells out the word LOGOS using black-and-white iconic symbols such as a skull, a silhouetted human figure, and a vertical infinity motif that acts as the letter S. Referring to the plural of logo as well as the ancient Greek term for reason and word, here, as in all of his work, Tyndall searches for universalist perspectives on how and why we look at and think about art. Evoking comparisons to more internationally recognized artists such as John Baldessari, Joseph Kosuth, and On Kawara, Tyndall’s relentless yet rarely pious focus on the fundaments of viewing art is showcased in this excellent survey exhibition, demonstrating his works’ relevance beyond an Australian art-historical narrative.
— Wes Hill
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(‘The Praise To Dependent-Arising,
Called The Heart Of Good Explanation’,
by Je Tsong Khapa)
Aphex Twin - Piano Tuners ] CLICK 2C&H\EAR (
I was watching very old cartoons while listening to Aphex Twin 26 Mixes for Cash.
This is the result. I did not edit it to match,
but I did cut down the song to be shorter.
Aphex Twin remix of Curve's Falling Free
Cartoon - Tom and Jerry the Piano Tuners
residentofboxfive
for I and S of
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Since bLOGOLINKS and the Butterfly Man below, we have intended to make some mention of the Prince of Thin Inkers.
Here is a recent register of that persona.
Prince of Thin Inkers as Title Scribe
] after John Olsen (
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Peter Tyndall says
“Usually I don’t provide a bio when I’m exhibiting. From my side, it’s a
convention that irks : the de rigueur list of Selected Places of Study,
Selected Exhibitions, Selected Collections. If I do give one it’s
usually a one-off construction (all bios are constructions), a creative
complement to some aspect of the particular show.” The man's bio is a
work of art. His works all bear the same title 'A Person Looks At A Work
Of Art/someone looks at something… LOGOS/HA HA'. The man is a riddle
wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma accompanied by a press release
written in invisible ink. Visit this exhibition of his works from the
mid '70s to the present, and join the dots. The dots are also invisible.
Cleo Braithwaite
Two Thousand
Sydney, December 2012
Peter Tyndall, 'detail'
245 Wilson St, Darlington
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This one sent in by TH
with added matrix clarifixation - Ed.
click HERE to see a view from the other side
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L.H.O.O.Q.
What kind of figure of speech or figure of text would you call that? The Free Online Dictionary gives it a shot, which we've further assisted.
Acronym Definition
L H O O Q not an acronym;
auditory pun
Elle a Chaud au Cul
French - U.S.
She Has a Hot Donkey
French - Australian
She has a hot arse
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Assisted readymade by Marcel Duchamp (1919)
Below, an anti-clerical carte postale from before 1904. The divided-back format was introduced to French postcards in 1904 : address on the right, message on the left.
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3AB OQP HIE = 3QBC ...
3 abbés occupés hier = 3 culs baissés
3 abbots occupied yesterday = 3 asses lowered
From these, one does get a sense of the times...
Messengers Run Amok
...of F--k Art! and F--k The Church!
bLOGOS/HA HA claims to be Le bLOG qui rit ] scroll to the the base of this page to see this writ ( after Benjamin Rabier's famous 1924 meta-image of La Vache qui rit.
In this context, it is interesting to note the critical comments of the four cows who look down upon the three crapping clerics. "Disgusting", says one. "Oh my brother", another. This one reckons the priest a "Pig".
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"The Prime Minister said the commission would look at all religious organisations, state care providers, not-for-profit bodies as well as the responses of child service agencies and the police."
Nov 12, 2012
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Another spontaneous tableau of regard by
Theatre of the Actors of Regard, as forwarded to bLOGOS/HA HA
MC takes a standing Leap into the Void at Peter Tyndall's detail : Anna Schwartz Gallery_Sydney
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(The Supreme Goddess as Void,
with projection-space for image)
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The SPEAKER: The Prime Minister will return to the question.
Ms GILLARD: Then when they are called on to actually make good on this evidence, they failed to do so. Here we are, a Godwin Grech moment for the Leader of the Opposition, and there is the Deputy Leader of the Opposition with her smear—
Mr Pyne: Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. You asked the Prime Minister to return to the question and she completely ignored you, and kept talking about something that has nothing to do with the question. Was she there or wasn't she?
The SPEAKER: The Manager of Opposition Business will resume his seat. The difficulty with the word 'relevance' does not mean you will get the answer you want. Often you have in mind an answer you think is out there. It does not mean that someone is not being relevant to the entire question asked. The Prime Minister has the call and will refer to the question before the chair.
Ms GILLARD: In terms of the question before the chair, I have answered about how I witnessed documents as a lawyer. The nature of sleaze and smear is that you come in and try to engage in these broadbrush statements.
- extract from Hansard for 29 November 2012, the last day of Parliament for this year.
Q: What are you looking at?
A: you are looking at What you are looking at.
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The local Theatre of the Actors of Regard repertory company have responded to our posts of the last three days - The Original Face, The Original Mask and Eyes Without A Face - with this period piece tableau vivant.
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3AB OQP HIE = 3QBC ...
