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.


18 September 2014

What is it about Melbourne that it continues to generate these slave actions?

   
SLAVE GUITARS  
(1979 - )
here  here  here

SLAVE PIANOS
(1988 - )
here  here

Christian Capurro : SLAVE
(at ACCA until 28 September 2014 - )
here  here  here  here
 

Entranced: A work from Christian Capurro's exhibition Slave at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Photo: Andrew Curtis
    
The image-caption above is from Robert Nelson's review in the online version of The Age : 
Christian Capurro: A slave to the screen?
  
The newsprint edition's caption for this image is :
    
Christian Capurro's Slave raises questions about both artist and audience. Photo: Andrew Curtis
     
Since we first re-published these two captions, information received now corrects them both to :

Entranced: A work from Christian Capurro's exhibition Slave at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Photo: Christian Capurro
  
Christian Capurro's Slave raises questions about both artist and audience. Photo: Christian Capurro

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