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.


31 October 2016

NGV : Stupid as a painter (continued)

        
After two serves of Painting. More Painting at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art earlier this year...
          

   ACCA 
...now comes a course of 'Shut Up and Paint' at the National Gallery of Victoria.


not Lawrence Weiner : NGVi  
No, you shut up !

"Shut up and paint," the iconic quote from Britain’s greatest living painter David Hockney, suggests the relevance of the medium in art today.
- NGV
        

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'Stupid as a painter', Marcel Duchamp
     
Shut up !
      
'Das schweigen von Marcel Duchamp wird überbewertet' (The silence of Marcel Duchamp is over-rated), Joseph Beuys
        
No, you shut up !
       
'Stupid as a painter', Juan Davila
      
Shut up !
      
"The Silence", Joseph Beuys
       
No, you shut up !
         

 Sam Parker, 'No You Shut Up' (2009)/not by Christopher Wool
 - from the Jonathan Parker film 'Untitled' (2009)
         
Shut up !
         
'The Silence of the Lambs', Dr. Hannibal Lecter

No, you shut up !
       
'I AM YOUR VOICE', Donald J Trump

Shut up !
      

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30 October 2016

L ] M O (((( )))) O N [ S

 
Yesterday, high noon, this liquid crystal screen 
untwist again old Sengai's paper scroll 
moon illusion 
         

       
Last night, at 1% wane, watching RAGE
Echo and the Bunnymen

The Killing Moon
           

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28 October 2016

I Am matrix-Curious (yellow)




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 Kazimir Malevich
 Yellow Plane in Dissolution
 1917-1918

     

 Kazimir Malevich
 Complex Presentiment : Half-Figure in a Yellow Shirt
 1928-32

        
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 Who's afraid of matrixial intercourse (yellow) 
 - after Barnett Newman


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26 October 2016

meTARmatic


Before and after another from 1980 : 
- James Foxx, 'Metamatic' -

Metamatic is an album by John Foxx, released in 1980. 
It was his first solo album following his split with Ultravox the previous year. A departure from the mix of synthesizers and conventional instruments on Systems of Romance, his last album with the band, Metamatic included a more hard-edged electronic sound.[4] The name 'Metamatic' comes from a painting machine by kinetic artist Jean Tinguely, first exhibited at the Paris Biennial in 1959. - Wikipedia


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Meta

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Meta (from the Greek preposition and prefix meta- (μητά-)
meaning "after", or "beyond") is a prefix used in English to indicate a concept which is an abstraction from another concept, used to complete or add to the latter.

Original Greek meaning

In Greek, the prefix meta- is generally less esoteric than in English; Greek meta- is equivalent to the Latin words post- or ad-. The use of the prefix in this sense occurs occasionally inscientific English terms derived from Greek. For example: the term Metatheria (the name for the clade of marsupial mammals) uses the prefix meta- merely in the sense that the Metatheriaoccur on the tree of life adjacent to the Theria (the placental mammals).

About (its own category)

In epistemology, the prefix meta- is used to mean about (its own category). For example, metadata are data about data (who has produced them, when, what format the data are in and so on). In a database, metadata are also data about data stored in a data dictionary and describe information (data) about database tables such as the table name, table owner, details about columns, – essentially describing the table. Also, metamemory in psychology means an individual's knowledge about whether or not they would remember something if they concentrated on recalling it. The modern sense of "an X about X" has given rise to concepts like "meta-cognition" (i.e. cognition about cognition), "meta-emotion" (i.e. emotion about emotion), "meta-discussion" (i.e. discussion about discussion), "meta-joke" (i.e. joke about jokes), and "metaprogramming" (i.e. writing programs that manipulate programs).[citation needed]
In a rule-based system, a metarule is a rule that governs the application of other rules.[1]

On Higher Level Of Abstraction

Any subject can be said to have a meta-theory, a theoretical consideration of its properties, such as its foundationsmethodsform and utility, on a higher level of abstraction. In linguistics, a grammar is considered as being expressed in a metalanguage, language that operates on a higher level in order to describe properties of the plain language (and not itself).
Meta is also gaining currency as an adjective, as well as a prefix, as in the work of Douglas Hofstadter.

      
 Cyclogravure, by Jean Tinguely, 1959
      
automatic (adj.) 
"self-acting, moving or acting on its own," 1812, from Greek automatos, used of the gates of Olympus and the tripods of Hephaestus (also "without apparent cause, by accident"), from autos "self" (see auto-) + matos "thinking, animated"(see automaton). Of involuntary animal or human actions, from 1748, first used in this sense by English physician and philosopher David Hartley (1705-1757). In reference to a type of firearm, from 1877; specifically of machinery that imitates human-directed action from 1940.
       

Laughing Woman of TAR, 1961
aboard the metamatic Cyclogravure by Jean Tinguely, 1959

Metamatic is an album by John Foxx, released in 1980. It was his first solo album following his split with Ultravox the previous year. A departure from the mix of synthesizers and conventional instruments on Systems of Romance, his last album with the band, Metamatic included a more hard-edged electronic sound.[4] The name 'Metamatic' comes from a painting machine by kinetic artist Jean Tinguely, first exhibited at the Paris Biennial in 1959. - Wikipedia

Pictured below, photograph by Paul Almasy : 
with Le Méta-matic n°17, Jean Tinguely making Méta-marks for the randomly arranged André Malraux and the Officials of TAR at L'inauguration de la Première Biennale de Paris 'QUAND L'ART DEVIENT MÉCANISÉ', 2 October 1959. 
        

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original performance 1952
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22 October 2016

Melbourne & the little bands, these years later : Lisa Gerrard, Arf Arf, Primitive Calculators, Use No Hooks


Reading Michael Dwyer's review of the Melbourne Festival concert of Melbourne's own Lisa Gerrard and Arf Arf in The Age yesterday brought back lots of c.1980 memories|ries|ries|ries|ries|ries

MELBOURNE FESTIVAL 2016 
Lisa Gerrard ★★★★
Hamer Hall, 19 October 2017

Michael Dwyer / The Age
   
Lisa Gerrard's performance a revelation

The first time they came to hiss like pestilence and cackle like demons. The next time they bickered in lockstep stutters and harmonic drones. The fourth time they just stood there and bore witness to Lisa Gerrard's unearthly wail.

Arf Arf is a trio of … let's call them poets: Marisa Stirpe​, Frank Lovece​ and Michael Buckley. Part comedy, part anxiety, their scurrying invented-language chatterings were gritty relief to the immense airborne sound sculptures that ultimately silenced them.

     
photo: Carbie Warbie  
It was an unfair fight from the leading lady's grand entrance, swathed in voluminous bolts of regal cloth that hung deathly still from her perfectly poised frame.

Her musicians were attired as medieval courtesans, or maybe angels, offering cello, bamboo flute, congas and keys to the sonic cathedral where the high priestess channelled her message of love.


Yep, channelled. "Singing" doesn't describe the way Gerrard commands the air to behave, rumbling from the deep and soaring to astonishing contralto highs, ringing in endless caverns of reverb, somehow more revelation than invention.


As always she spoke almost exclusively in tongues to disarm logical thought; in her own words to "defy the prisons of judgment and academia". So we surrendered, as cascades of glorious, unthinkable melody took flight in mystical middle-eastern swirls and trance rhythms and lofty operatics suddenly cut with playful soul and gospel asides.


Sleep came at last in words we could literally understand: the earth mother's sublime murmur of comfort in a bickering and stuttering world. Funnily enough, we'd been feeling that all along.
By 1980 Lisa Gerrard was an already charismatic regular performer at the little bands nights around Melbourne. 

Sometimes she held our focus solo, accompanying herself with a dulcimer or accordion; other times, we remember her performances with fellow high stylist Lee Smith (RIP) on thrash guitar, together as Junk Logic as listed in the poster paste-up below


Another from around then.

           
Michael Buckley, Marcus Bergner, Marisa Stirpe​ and Frank Lovece​ formed Arf Arf in 1985. 

All were part of the little bands scene from the start. Michael and Marcus in Too Fat To Fit Through The Door, Marisa in Thrush and the Cunts, and Frank in Primitive Calculators.

In 1978, members of Primitive Calculators, an experimental post-punk group from Melbourne, formed a short-lived side band, the Leapfrogs. Using it as their own opening act, Primitive Calculators decided to form other "little bands" with friends, including members of Whirlywirld, who lived next door to the group in Fitzroy North, with rehearsal spaces in each house.[4] By sharing their equipment with the little bands, it made it easier to practice and set up for each gig. Soon they started staging "Little Band nights" at various inner city venues, and at first, rules were strictly imposed: no little band was allowed to play more than twice and could have no more than fifteen minutes worth of material.[1] According to Primitive Calculators frontman Stuart Grant, it was "the punk ethos of disposability, novelty and working against the grain of the standard modes of procedure in the music business."[5] Many of the little bands were composed of non-musicians who enjoyed the opportunity to realise their naive musical ideas. - Wikipedia
When Primitive Calculators played their break-up gig at The Seaview in 1981, they shared it with another of the little band cores Use No Hooks.

No poster for that, but here's one for the Equal Local debut, with Use No Hooks again in support.
(Dean Richards and Philip Jackson formed Equal Local video here after their departure from Whirlywirld in 1979.)


                   
Primitive Calculators returned at The Tote in 2009 after 29 years. (here)

 Always there : Alan Bamford, participant, advocate and key 
 archivist of the Melbourne little bands scene
           
Tomorrow night at the Belleville in cbd Melbourne, the founding duo of Use No Hooks, Mick Earls and Arne Hanna will return as Use No Hooks after 32 years.
        

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19 October 2016

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 Image: Claire Lambe, Untitled production still 2016
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We are delighted to invite you to:
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Friday 18 November 2016
from 7pm – 11pm


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Hosted by Andrew Taylor & Rachel Griffiths
 
The Inaugural ACCA Party will unfold with new artistic works, unexpected encounters, performances, choreography, announcements and events. Join our luminous community of artists, friends and supporters for a night of celebration, discovery and merry-making. Grace us with your illustrious presence. Join us to champion new art and bold ideas. 
 
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   The QAGOMA Foundation invites you and your guests to  

FUTURE COLLECTIVE  
PROJECT PITCH 2016  

Wednesday 19 October
6.00 – 8.00pm 

Queensland Art Gallery
Stanley Place, Cultural Precinct
South Bank, Brisbane

Join us for the second annual ‘project pitch’, a lively contest between QAGOMA Curatorial and Learning and Public Engagement teams who will each offer a special project with the aim of securing the Future Collective’s support in 2016. 

Members and guests will be presented a series of exciting options at the Queensland Art Gallery and enjoy a rare behind the scenes tour of the Gallery’s temporary collection storage area

Voting and refreshments will follow in the Sculpture Courtyard. 

Tickets $40.00 (GST incl.)


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