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.
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Tuesday 30 October, 6pm
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Join the roundtable discussion on the intersection of form,
space and movement in contemporary practice, alongside
ACCA’s exhibition Eva Rothschild: Kosmos.
Speakers include multidisciplinary practitioners working across
art, architecture, design, choreography and theory.
Together they will consider the social potential of sculpture,
the idea of deceptive materiality, as well as the negotiation
between colour, space, scale and disruption in relation to
our experience of sculpture and acts of ‘hard looking’.
Speakers:
Jane Caught, architect and co-founder of multi-disciplinary
collective, SIBLING
Jo Lloyd, choreographer and dancer; and choreographer of
CUTOUT in collaboration with Eva Rothschild at ACCA
Grace McQuilten, art historian, artist and curator; Leader of
the Contemporary Art and Social Transformation Research
Group in the School of Art, RMIT University
Simone Slee, artist and academic at the Victorian College of
the Arts
Fleur Watson, curator and editor specialising in architecture
and design; and Executive Curator, Lyon Housemuseum,
Melbourne
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Theatre of the Actors of Regard
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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something...
