FIAPCE postcard collection
the see within
the red net
the see without
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
29 January 2021
28 January 2021
27 January 2021
beholding pattern
Front, Kien Situ, Shanshui (Column), 2020, Chinese Mò ink, gypsum plaster, 136 x 24 x 24cm.
Back left: Kien Situ, Shanshui (Scroll), 2020, Chinese Mò ink, gypsum plaster, 88 x 64 x 8cm.
Courtesy the artist. Photo by Kai Wasikowski.
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
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
26 January 2021
Australia Day/Invasion Day/Survival Day/ Recognition Day/
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.
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.
2021, Daylesford Town Hall, Dja Dja Wurrung country
"Unfurl your flag definitions. Flagness is the whatness of allflag." (after James Joyce, Ulysses)
- For Those Who Think They Need A Flag
Theatre of the Actors of Regard (-1996-)
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something...
LOGOS/HA HA
23 January 2021
Yosa Buson & specific-bonding detail
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
22 January 2021
Praxis
"Un pour tous, tous pour un."
- Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers (1844)
"One and Three Chairs"
- Joseph Kosuth (1965), collection MoMA
Praxis : "I was just sitting there trying to keep warm, trying to pay attention to what was going on."
- Bernie Sanders, Inauguration Day (21 January 2021)
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
21 January 2021
Catch and Release
RITA FELSKI
200 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 2020
How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song
surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we
love, or fall into a funk when a favored TV series comes to an end? What
characterizes the aesthetic experiences of feeling captivated by works of art?
In Hooked, Rita Felski challenges the ethos of critical aloofness
that is a part of modern intellectuals’ self-image. The result is sure to be as
widely read as Felski’s book, The Limits of Critique.
Wresting the language of affinity away from accusations of sticky sentiment and manipulative marketing, Felski argues that “being hooked” is as fundamental to the appreciation of high art as to the enjoyment of popular culture. Hooked zeroes in on three attachment devices that connect audiences to works of art: identification, attunement, and interpretation. Drawing on examples from literature, film, music, and painting—from Joni Mitchell to Matisse, from Thomas Bernhard to Thelma and Louise—Felski brings the language of attachment into the academy. Hooked returns us to the fundamentals of aesthetic experience, showing that the social meanings of artworks are generated not just by critics, but also by the responses of captivated audiences.
Literature and Literary Criticism:
General Criticism and Critical Theory
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
20 January 2021
Journey to the Heart of the Compass
and I still wear
straw hat and straw sandal.
Matsuo Bashô translated by Zoltan Barczikay
above, Matsuo Bashō and Kawai Sora on pilgrimage,
scroll by Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) collection FIAPCE
above, enso-painted straw hat
below, ditto hung with interdependence ideogram cork seals
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
18 January 2021
Term 1 : Orientation Week
The Student (continued)
FIAPCE 1970
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
15 January 2021
Theoria : Term 1
Study regard
Study interconnectedness
Study 'The Student' ] Tom Bass, 1953 (
Study 'The Student' ] Tom Bass & TAR, 2021 (
Installation at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney University
A.S. & 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
13 January 2021
On First Seeing another something ...
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
conducTAR class [ Prof M Francis Casadesus )
I conduct you
You conduct too
He he he he conducts
We conduct ourselves
Yous conduct yourselves
They conduct themselves
collection FIAPCE
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
12 January 2021
Composer to conduct The See of Regard
Canute
The See of Regard
] calma (
collection FIAPCE
Canute
The See of Regard
] agitata (
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
10 January 2021
TAR On Parade | Draw the curtain
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
09 January 2021
On Parade
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
08 January 2021
Famous Chess Games : Duchamp v Eve Babitz
The Queen's Gambit
Theatre of the Applaud of Regard
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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something...
LOGOS/HA HA
07 January 2021
Famous Chess Games : Duchamp v Sisyphus
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
06 January 2021
TAR re. TAR (Teddy Watkins)
It's heap-sorting time : this from The Age (2009.11.11)
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
05 January 2021
Bridge of Sighs
if
then
if shit
then mud
if the reflecting under-can of Manzoni
then the bog-free aspiration of Rengetsu
The Buddhist nun, poet and potter Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875),
her chosen name Rengetsu translates as Lotus Moon.
The lotus begins life in the dark settlement of obscuration, in mud,
then grows towards the clearer water realm above,
and, beyond that, reaches and opens for the bright moon of the enlightened mind.
Her name reflects her aspiration, so too her vessels formed of mud
and fire.
if
then
if
then
if
then
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something...
LOGOS/HA HA
04 January 2021
regarding The Unbearable Likeness of Being
(1967) and Jeff Koons' mirror surfaces, from his Rabbit (1986) to the NGV's recent $25million reflecTAR folly.
regarding TARists as specific-bonding detail
Mirror productions in general. About self-projection and self-reflection. About ] being ( created in the image and likeness of God, in the image and likeness of...
About image. About projection-space and the projectionauts of TAR.
Fortnightly Review, 1 September 1914
as quoted by John Bown, Framing W.B. Yeats and Samuel Beckett: How and Why Two Writers Used Fine Art/Its theories in their Texts
At just 200 pixels wide, our first impression reckoned the reflecting surface to be the base of a Piero Manzoni can of Artist's Shit. Not so, but alike.
Beholding pattern - to be and to hold. Regard as radiant node!
About image. About projection-space and the projectionauts of TAR.
'the image is not an idea. It is a radiant node or cluster...a VORTEX, from which, and into which, ideas are constantly rushing'
Ezra PoundFortnightly Review, 1 September 1914
as quoted by John Bown, Framing W.B. Yeats and Samuel Beckett: How and Why Two Writers Used Fine Art/Its theories in their Texts
Beholding pattern - to be and to hold. Regard as radiant node!
Mirror mirror in my hand
who's the est-est in the land?
Piero Manzoni beholds can (1963) foto Giovanni Ricci (1963)
Kid Kubist beholds block (1951) foto Reg v. Brock
a penny for y/our thoughts
regarding The Unbearable Likeness of Being
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
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