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.


30 October 2018

... and acts of ‘hard looking’.



Tuesday 30 October, 6pm

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


Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
 detail
 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something... 
         
 LOGOS/HA HA