In 1983, Daniel Thomas, then Senior Curator at the National Gallery of Australia, contacted the Fosterville Institute of Applied & Progressive Cultural Experience to discuss institution Label differences.
FIAPCE had previously requested the NGA use the FIAPCE Label format when exhibiting Works Of Art created by FIAPCE. The NGA had presumed its own Label Claim Right to re/describe all its dis/contents, even those belonging to others. Daniel Thomas suggested the compromise of two Labels, displayed together. One representing the art/worldview of the NGA and one representing the art/worldview of FIAPCE. "The more the merrier", FIAPCE responded, and so it was agreed. (Even so, the NGA placed its Label above rather than beside the "Artist's label".)
Governor Bourke visited Port Phillip in March 1837, confirmed Lonsdale's choice of a site for the new town and named it Melbourne on 10 April 1837[13] after the then British prime minister William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, who resided in the village of Melbourne in Derbyshire. The General Post Office opened under that name on 13 April 1837.[16] Before being officially named, the town had several interim names – including Batmania, Bearbrass, Bareport, Bareheep, Barehurp and Bareberp.[14][15][16] - Wikipedia
If the Crown Nameplate Stampers are too stricture bound to easily make change, then those closer to the ground feel less such restraint as they re-state their preferred place name claims on envelope addresses and official forms. Observed today on ABC TV (Victoria), the presenter introduced a news update with,
"I'm Nate Byrne, coming to you from the land of the Wurundjeri People."
Closer to home, between (Captain) Hepburn and Castlemaine on Dja Dja Wurrung country, the stream name 'Jim Crow Creek' is once again under review, this time with a suggested alternative.
Swiss Tunnel at Jim-Crow Diggings, c. 1858, by Richard
Daintree (1832 - 1878), courtesy State Library of Victoria.
"Hepburn Shire Council is working with project partners, Mount Alexander Shire Council, North Central Catchment Management Authority and Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation (DJARRA), on the proposed renaming of Jim Crow Creek to Larni Barramal Yaluk."
- 'A New Name for Jim Crow Creek?', The Wombat Post, October 1, 2021
Place names, knighthoods, State Holidays, Standing Order Prayers in Parliament, public statues and other prominent signage. From below, all are under use-by-date review.
In 1931, at the official Official Opening of the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Museum, the Flag of Australia (inset with the British flag) was displayed vertically and self-mirroring at either side of the symmetrical entrance.
Theatre of the Actors of Regard
Leading up to the SINCLAIR+GALLERY stage review at CAM (December 2021- June 2022), we note this 'Take two' re-staging of the official opening of the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Museum (recently renamed Castlemaine Art Museum).
Theatre of the Actors of Regard
The horizontals, verticals and diagonals of the Union Flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain are here re-presented in the manner of the Diamond and the Square mythoLOGOS/HA HA and the Southern Cross constellation projection is re-presented according to the Great Net mythoLOGOS/HA HA
Theatre of the Actors of Regard
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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something...
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