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 January 2019

Can I help you?


Just looking, thanks.


Theatre of Advice Refused  
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
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30 January 2019

FRAN K Z LINE

  


 Galvanised Tee Bars
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 Garden Supplies for everything you need. We supply an array of
 lintels in a range of materials and sizes, so whatever you’re
 building, we’ll have something to suit.


FIAPCE  
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28 January 2019

Suffrage


            
Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
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27 January 2019

Historical Society


Daylesford & District Historical Society
presents 
POSTCARD IMAGES  

   Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
presents 
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26 January 2019

Australia Day 2019 : towards 'the coming together after a struggle'



We, gathered at the 2017 National Constitutional Convention, coming from all points of the southern sky, make this statement from the heart: 

Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tribes were the first sovereign Nations of the Australian continent and its adjacent islands, and possessed it under our own laws and customs. This our ancestors did, according to the reckoning of our culture, from the Creation, according to the common law from ‘time immemorial’, and according to science more than 60,000 years ago. 


This sovereignty is a spiritual notion: the ancestral tie between the land, or ‘mother nature’, and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who were born therefrom, remain attached thereto, and must one day return thither to be united with our ancestors. This link is the basis of the ownership of the soil, or better, of sovereignty. It has never been ceded or extinguished, and co-exists with the sovereignty of the Crown. 


How could it be otherwise? That peoples possessed a land for sixty millennia and this sacred link disappears from world history in merely the last two hundred years? 


With substantive constitutional change and structural reform, we believe this ancient sovereignty can shine through as a fuller expression of Australia’s nationhood. 


Proportionally, we are the most incarcerated people on the planet. We are not an innately criminal people. Our children are aliened from their families at unprecedented rates. This cannot be because we have no love for them. And our youth languish in detention in obscene numbers. They should be our hope for the future. 


These dimensions of our crisis tell plainly the structural nature of our problem. This is the torment of our powerlessness. 


We seek constitutional reforms to empower our people and take a rightful place in our own country. When we have power over our destiny our children will flourish. They will walk in two worlds and their culture will be a gift to their country. 


We call for the establishment of a First Nations Voice enshrined in the Constitution. 


Makarrata is the culmination of our agenda: the coming together after a struggle. It captures our aspirations for a fair and truthful relationship with the people of Australia and a better future for our children based on justice and self-determination. 


We seek a Makarrata Commission to supervise a process of agreement-making between governments and First Nations and truth-telling about our history. 


In 1967 we were counted, in 2017 we seek to be heard. We leave base camp and start our trek across this vast country. We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.



The Uluru Statement from the Heart was released 26 May 2017 by delegates to an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Referendum Convention held near Uluru in Central Australia.

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23 January 2019

TENNIS




We've been watching the Australian Open tennis 
on TV. On high rotation throughout has been the APT Luxury Travel advertisement 'Live Fully' - made with some irony, wethinks. 




click images for fuller scenes 
The music used for APT's 'Live Fully' comes from 
Major Lazer's 'Live Free' (2013)
... just this bit :
Look at me 
I just can't believe 
What they've done to me 
We could never get free 
I just wanna be 
I just wanna dream 

The 'Live Free' video clip features a homeless man wearing a NIKE ] Just Do It! ( TENNIS tee-shirt.


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Live Free - unabridged 
Never got love from a government man
Heading downstream till the levee gives in
What can i do to get the money
We ain't go the money, we ain't gettin' out
Heading downstream till the levee gives in
And my dreams are wearin' thin
All I need's relief

I need I need some sympathy
Look at me
I Just can't believe
What they've done to me
We could never get free
I just wanna be
Look at me
I just can't believe

What they've done to me
We could never get free
I just wanna be
I just wanna dream

All of my life been wadin in
Water so deep now we got to swim
Wonder will it ever end

How long how long till we have a friend
Comin' down, feelin' like a battery hen
Waves won't break till the tide comes in
What will I do in the sunrise
What will I do without my dreams
Look at me
I Just can't believe
What they've done to me

We could never get free
I just wanna be
Look at me
I Just can't believe
What they've done to me
We could never get free
I just wanna be
I just wanna dream
We're all together in the same boat

I know you, you know me
Baby, you know me
We're all together in the same boat
I know you, you know me
Baby, you know me
We're all together in the same boat
I know you, you know me
Baby, you know me
I Just wanna dream


Songwriters: Dave Taylor / Thomas Wesley Pentz / David Donnell Longstreth / Amber Coffman
click images for fuller scenes 



Theatre of the Advertisements of Regard 
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22 January 2019

Hitoshi Shinso and the Responders of TAR

   
Hitoshi's Quirk allows him to mentally control people who verbally respond to him and, as a result, they will be forced to do whatever he wants. However, this Quirk will not activate if he does not will the brainwashing on the responder.

Though he can have multiple people under his brainwashing at once, he has stated that trying to brainwash multiple people simultaneously could cause him to fall unconscious. He is also unable to have his victims do things that require some kind of advanced brain function, like writing a name from their memory.

Using a megaphone or anything that makes his voice artificial will not allow his quirk to activate, which is why his Artificial Vocal Chords only modify the tone of his voice, and nothing else.


Theatre of the Actors of Response  
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21 January 2019

Vale the museum [ 思斎の墓 ]



Theatre of the Actors of Repose  
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
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20 January 2019

taggers of TAR : Matsuo Basho


見るところ花にあらずと云ふことなし、
思ふところ月にあらずと云ふことなし。


tokoro hana ni arazu to iu koto nashi,
omou tokoro tsuki ni arazu to iu koto nashi


There is nothing you can see

                                              that is not a flower,
There is nothing you can think
                                              that is not the moon.

Classical Japanese Database

Translation #172 : Reginald Horace Blyth


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19 January 2019

KA (Loud Laughter) | Frozen ink ] HA HA (






 Artist

Inoue Yuichi (YU-ICHI)

 (1916–1985)
 Title

KA (Loud Laughter)

1962
 Medium
Works on paper,                            
Frozen ink on paper on frame
 Size
96 x 143 cm. (37.8 x 56.3 in.)
 Price
Price on Request
 Movement
Japanese Art


FIAPCE 


FIAPCE -1979-  
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18 January 2019

‘Haha’ (Mother) | HA HA ] Mother Tongue (



Artnet auction records      

  Artist

 Inoue Yuichi (YU-ICHI) 

(1916–1985) 
  Title

 ‘Haha’ (Mother)

, 1962
  Medium
 India Ink on Japan paper, on hardboard
  Size
 102.2 x 134 cm. (40.2 x 52.8 in.)
  Description
 *
  Sale
 *
  Estimate
 *
  Price
 *

         m o t h e r
         m a t e r
         m a t r i x
         m e t a 
         H A   H A



                               

         m o t h e r
         m a t e r
         m a t r i x
         m e t a 
         H A   H A


Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
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16 January 2019

Buson Reinhardt TAR | see : Fabric of Regard



 Yosa Buson (1716-1784)           Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
 Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967) 

Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
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15 January 2019

TAR + TAR = Fün|f (after Alphonse Allais)




Deux et deux font cinq.

Alphonse Allais 
Création : 1 janvier 1895

Bibliothèque nationale de France


Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
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14 January 2019

Alas!



Detective Swan Laurence (Samuel Labarthe) and his secretary Marlène Leroy ( Élodie Frenck) in Les petits meurtres d'Agatha Christie.


Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
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12 January 2019

Archetypes live, OK!


On 18 December we posted here about Clement Meadmore: The art of mid-century design 
at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, focussing on a 1956 work we'd not previously encountered :


Clement Meadmore, 1956 
To that we added this by FIAPCE :


Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
Now, from the summer heap sorting, we add this from 2014. Archetypes live, OK!
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
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11 January 2019

a matter of looking | A Matter of Looking : regarding optical-perceptual-conceptual matter (Theatre of the Actors of Regard)


Regarding meta-matter : 
    What sort of question(s) is 
        "What's the matter?"?
    What sort of answer(s) is 
        "What sort of question is that?"?


At the end of this clip, Clement Meadmore says, 
"I guess, to me, the common denominator of all this is a matter of looking."


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