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.
Stop the presses, everyone! Gerald's on the radio.
What a pleasure it was this morning to listen to Gerald Murnane's every thoughtful word.
Last month we posted some review links (here) when his latest book A Million Windows was published. We also made mention at that time about the book's covers. Covers, plural. So it was of interest to hear Gerald comment about the cover at the start of this morning's interview.
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Michael Cathcart : Some music there by Brian Eno, which seems a nice way to set the scene for our next discussion.
The reviewers think the world of the Australian writer Gerald Murnane. One calls him a genius, a writer widely considered to be the next Australian winner of the Nobel. Peter Craven, who is one of our best literary critics, says 'No living Australian writer has higher claims to permanence or a richer sense of distinction'. And a bloke called Blair Mahoney, who's a reviewer on Goodreads, just says that 'Gerald Murnane's a treasure'.
He's 75. He's here with his eleventh book. It's called A Million Windows, which comes from a line by the American writer Henry James : 'The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million'.
Well, it's a strange and dreamlike book about a writer who is constantly reflecting on the act of story telling even as he tells us a story.
Gerald, good morning. Welcome to the show.
Gerald Murnane : Thank you, Michael.
Michael Cathcart : Nice to have you here. Congratulations. It's a lovely book. It's actually a lovely book to handle. Did you feel that when it arrived? It just had this lovely weight to it.
Gerald Murnane : Everybody praises the cover. I had a different cover in mind, but that doesn't matter.
Michael Cathcart : Publishers are like that. They say, mate... the cover is our call, I know.
to listen to the full interview click here
'Books and Arts Daily', ABC.RN
31 July 2014
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Dear Sir/Madam
Thank you for submitting an expression of interest for the Melbourne Art Trams project.
The selection panel has met and unfortunately your expression of interest was not selected to become a tram artwork. We received over 100 expressions of interest including a significant number of very high quality submissions which made the selection panel’s task all the more difficult.
The eight successful artists will be announced in the next week and the first of the Melbourne Art Trams will roll out in early October. Keep an eye on our website for further updates:
melbournefestival.com.au/trams
Kind regards
Melbourne Art Trams
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Some of us like to think about things.
Qu'est-ce que c'est un vélo?
Thinks : Must
the front wheel always win, in relation to the rear? What colour is the maillot jaune, the yellow jersey, really? Is it not an anachronism that a Republic honours the King of the Mountains? Is
the brain a binary cycler-ist? And it's rider?
c.1920 - artist unknown
Some of us simply like to go along for the ride.
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Today on the Champs-Élysées and tonight here on late night winter TV another great Tour de France will conclude. Winner of the mailllot jaune for 2014 is likely to be Vincenzo Nibali of Italy. Vive le Tour!
Louis Malle, 1962 Theatre of the Actors of Regard
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Teen thugs plead their case:
"Sure we run into walls and crash through windows.
And yeah we do break our noses and we do bust our heads.
But hey it's not our fault.
We just can't see where we're going like this?!"
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Post Script : 23 July 2014
It must be a zeitgeist thing. Doodled "Lets all merge the fan base!" on Monday evening, posted it here on Tuesday morning, then today in the Wednesday 'Age' we read :
Utopian Slumps founder Melissa Loughnan to join Anna Schwartz Gallery (article here)
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UNDRESSED :
350 Years of Underwear in Fashion :
Bendigo Art Gallery until 26 October
POURQUOI ON VA EN VERNISSAGE
L'arrivée à la galerie des femmes à la mode de Bendigo :
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POUR EXHIBER UNE TOILETTE SENSATIONNELLE.
Un|dressed for Regardism : Bridget Bardot wearing lingerie designed by Robert French in the 1960s.
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This morning we watched in disgust as The Senate finally passed the Abbott Government's AXE THE TAX legislation.
A few days ago, Bill Shorten made one of his better speeches, we reckon. You can read it HERE on page 31 of Hansard.
The extract below is the conclusion of the Minister for the Environment, Greg Hunt's advocacy, followed by Bill Shorten.
... Ultimately, repealing the carbon tax will reduce the cost of living, make jobs more secure and improve the competitive position of our country. It will be replaced with a system which actually reduces emissions. Let us be absolutely clear: the Australian people have already voted on this carbon tax repeal bill. They are now waiting for members and senators to honour their commitments to abolish the tax and get the budget back into surplus. As the Prime Minister has said previously to the House: these bills are the government's bill to reduce the Australian people's bills—and so the government and I commend these bills to the parliament.
Mr SHORTEN (Maribyrnong—Leader of the Opposition) (12:51): I rise to speak on the Clean Energy Legislation (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2014 and related bills. In late 2009, this nation was on the verge of making a decision about which we could have been collectively proud. We could have made this parliament a place of inspiration, with a national response to climate change, supported by both government and opposition. It was a policy of both government and opposition that built upon the previous government's decision—a government not of our party—but consistent with the best practice in the world Indeed, this week is the seventh anniversary of Prime Minister Howard announcing his support for an emissions trading scheme...
Gauge the seriousness of concern here by the uncommon language of the conclusion, addressed to the future and to history :
... Today, the parliament has a choice: we can enter the history books as the generation that ignored the perils of climate change; we can be marked down as the generation that surrendered to the selfish, shouting clamour of vested interests; or we can guarantee that Australia does its fair share to deal with this global problem. This parliament can vote for an emissions trading scheme that puts Australia in step with the rest of the world. Today, I give Australians this promise: Labor will always fight for serious, credible climate change policy. We will never surrender to this Prime Minister's bullying denialism and his government's extremism.
Sadly, we have run out of time to deal with climate change. The decisions made by us, the elected representatives of the people, over these final six years of this critical decade for climate action will have an irrevocable impact on the quality of life for future generations. We all have choices in history, and some are more than important than others. Today, we can embrace the extreme risk of doing nothing, and when, in the future, it is proved wrong, the costs will not be measured by a rye laugh of those opposite, an embarrassed smile or a belated and sincere expression of regret. No apology will suffice. It will be forever remembered as your greatest voting folly. There is no mistake greater. There is no blunder more serious. It is inexplicable. It is unjustifiable, not because we were responsible but because we did not accept our responsibility in this parliament.
If we embrace the risk of doing something, then we shall take our place in the progressive world supported by a society that saw this issue as political but above politics. This parliament has choices. Each of us here knows that the political process can be exciting and exhilarating. We all know that it can be cruel and exacting. On this side of the House, we know that on the other side of the House and in the other house in this place there are people of character and commitment no less convinced than we are of the severity of the problem. But, for Labor, we will reach for the higher ground, always and constantly. In the blink of an eye of Earth's history, we have seen climate change that is staggering and frightening. In the blink of an eye that responds, let there be no tears for humanity.
AXE THE AXE : We turn in this moment of frustration to a what-goes-around-comes-around drawing made by a local primary school student ten years ago.
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Post Script :
After four days of deliberation, The Age publishes this Editiorial:
To read it click here
This notice was posted on facebook a few days ago at GERTRUDE CONTEMPORARY :
Gertrude studio artist Ross Coulter will be shooting his photographic series "Audience" tomorrow (Tuesday July 15) at Gertrude Contemporary. Based on 70s art documentation photographs, Ross intends on photographing every gallery in Melbourne and would like to extend an invitation to all to participate in the shoot at Gertrude.
What's required? You will form part of an audience by standing around the empty gallery, in which there is no art, imagining watching a performance that doesn't exist while he takes photographs of the group.
How long does it take? 1/2 hour.
Where? 200 Gertrude st, Fitzroy.
When? 1:30pm, tomorrow, Tuesday, July 15
If you have any other questions, feel free to call the gallery.
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Yes Sasha, it was the last act at Conical.
Post Script : We roughly recall that in the mid-1970s the artist John Davis (1936-1999) placed an artwork of his at the door of 'every' gallery in Melbourne and made a photo of each such placement. As usual there's nothing about any of this documented online. (Whither History of Art in Australia? Archive, archive archive!)
We'd like to see those photos. Perhaps as a double exhibition with Ross Coulter's "Audition" series?
John Davis c.1992 Photo by Penelope Davis
A further post script :
Seeking more information about that action and those photos, we contacted Ken Scarlett, author of ‘The Sculpture of John Davis: Places and Locations’, published by Hyland House in 1988.
Ken writes :
"On page 85 there are four BW photos of John’s cylinder placed outside the entrances to the four galleries. The caption reads as follows:
John Davis: The Artist’s Dream (1974) Fourteen ceramic cylinders placed outside fourteen galleries and one bronze cylinder outside National Gallery of Victoria. Fifteen Black and white photographs taken by John Davis.
The four illustrations were of NGV, Realities Gallery (when in Ross Street) Pinacotheca and Sweeney Reed Galleries.
I don’t know if John ever exhibited the photographs and I don’t know of any online images."
Seriously interesting! Lest we forget.
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