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.


10 March 2021

TAR Witness Statement : Regarding that WOA had a real impact on me.


Call for Panels | IMPACT
AAANZ 2021 Conference , 8-11 December 2021, The University of Sydney

The Sydney Conference Committee invites proposals for panels for the AAANZ conference, to be held at University of Sydney, 8-10 December 2021.

All proposals are due by midnight, Friday, 23 April 2021.
Submit your applications here: https://powerinstitute.submittable.com/
Call for papers as a pdf here PDF

Conference Theme: Impact

We seek panel proposals that examine the vexed term ‘impact’, in its relation to art, design, film, culture, society and politics. 

This includes the impact of history, colonialism, politics, technology, capital, nature, migration, and markets on art, design, film, and visual culture. The consequences of impact may be: aesthetic, sensory, social, epistemological, environmental, economic, material, institutional and/or bodily, and may involve consideration of human-animal-plant relations, as well as intersections of race, ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality.

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where considerations include :
· How does art impact conceptions of futures?
· How might art resist impact? How and when does art fail to have impact? Who or what bears the labour of having impact?
· How is art’s impact instrumentalised and measured? Might art’s impact be beyond measure?

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"...also the way that we use "impact". Impact, unless it's referring to your teeth, in which case you need to go see a dentist, IMPACT IS NOT A VERB. In some conditions it is an adjective. But it is not to be used either grammatically or aesthetically or in any proper human company to refer to something  being effected by or influenced by something else. So all of these things, I think, are part and parcel of the hyperbolisation of language, things that used to be the extreme or limit cases are now being used to describe something that is fairly, kind of, medium."

Scott Stephens, The Minefield, ABC.RN, 4 March 2021

  FIAPCE (-1974-1984-)                collection : Monash University

(And while she shares a sense that disrupting conventional reading habits can disclose new possibilities of thought and feeling, Hunt, who has worked as a housing organizer and labor reporter, seems skeptical of the avant-garde fantasy that writing difficult poetry constitutes meaningful political action: “One troubling aspect of privileging language as the primary site to torque new meaning and possibility is that it is severed from the political question of for whom new meaning is produced.” *)

*See Hunt’s “Notes for an Oppositional Poetics” in The Politics of Poetic Form: Poetry and Public Policy, edited by Charles Bernstein (Roof, 1990).

- from 'Past Imperfect', Ben Lerner in the New York Review of Books re. Erica Hunt, 'Jump the Clock: New and Selected Poems'.  February 25, 2021 issue


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