19 March 2014

Theatre of the Actors of Regard at MELBOURNE NOW (4)

         
      
Normal Performance of Regard
by Theatre of the Actors of Regard
Documentation of Normal Performance of Regard
by Peter Tyndall

        
at NGV-Australia (Federation Square)
6-9pm Friday 14 March 2014
       
TAR unplanned Act : Cousin Paula arrives shortly after 6pm, expecting a public lecture. She gives to the TAR documentor a photo made by his Aunt Elva at Crusoe Reservoir, Kangaroo Flat, in the early 1960s.
   


TAR tableau vivant :  
"Boys. We're here. It's over. Come back."
        
On 'Hannah Gadsby's OZ' (ABC TV) last night, there was that same pose again. Aussies at war in Europe, 1915, looking back at us across time and water : "Boys. Come over here. You're wanted".
   
http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/1719020/poster-boys-come-over-here-you-re-wanted-australian-world-war-i-1915
poster : Museum of Victoria   
 detail
 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something ... 

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