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 May 2023

TAR (The Alternative Render) presents



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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
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30 May 2023

TAR (Trauma of the Arid ReplicaTAR) presents


‘The Persecution and Assassination of Pierre Bonnard as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of TAR Under the Direction of the Marquis de TAR’, usually shortened to Bonnard/TAR (pronounced : bon-ah-TAR), after a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.


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29 May 2023

Mark of the Year (1960)


Theatre of the Actors of Regard
presents

Mark of the Year (1960)
Awarded to Elena Palumbo-Mosca

Theatre of the Actors of Regard 
Trends in Aussie Rules 
Towards Anthropometric Registration 
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28 May 2023

TAR presents The Ascendant Reversed



This is the “mark” that set off this MARK OF THE YEAR sequence of posts. In Australian Rules Football, it is usually the reach-for-the-stars “screamer” or spectacular “specie” that wins this annual award, Mark of the Year ... even as the player often then “crashes back to earth”.



This, however, on Friday night (Carlton v Sydney) is Blues star Charlie Curnow reversing that Triumph of Ascendency. Appropriate to the Sir Doug Nicholls Indigenous Round, Charlie takes his mark (“makes his mark”) at full stretch downward, groundward, sealing it upon the ground, “on country”.



Theatre of the Actors of Regard
presents
Tweaking Aussie Rules :
The Ascendant Reversed


Theatre of the Actors of Regard 
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25 May 2023

Vale Tina Turner (1939-2023)


In August 1984, Linda Marrinon, Geoff Lowe and I were staying at The Royalton (44 West 44th Street) in New York. For Linda and I, it was our first overseas excursion. With Vivienne Shark LeWitt, we started our Grand Tour in Rome, exhibited at ‘ANZART’ in Edinburgh, then continued to London where Vivienne stayed on. Steven Bush joined us in NY (*his exhibition at Sutton Gallery has just opened) where we spent our days mostly visiting museums. (Experiencing 'Ghost Busters' in a New York cinema was fun, too. Very meta.) After a substantial renovation, MoMA had just re-opened with ‘An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture’.  It included some Australians, a rare event even for white Anglo male non-indigenous: Peter Booth, Paul Boston, Tony Coleing, Mike Parr.

I had grown up admiring Tina Turner’s awesome 'River Deep, Mountain High' (1966), before my similar regard for Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone and Janis Joplin. While in NY, one afternoon I heard on local radio that Tina Turner was about to start a new tour in the wake of her breakthrough return single ‘What’s love got to do with it?’. She would be at The Ritz (119 East 11th Street) that night.

So, beer and pizza in an East Village restaurant with another music survivor Screamin' Jay Hawkins busking us with his ‘I put a spell on you’ (1956), then off to join the queue at The Ritz. Hawkers stalked the queue trying to sell us their (real or fake?) inflated-price tickets. Eventually I bit and was one of the last to get inside before FULL HOUSE and a great performance.

Today, news that Tina has died aged 83. The final para of a New York Times review of that August 1984 Ritz concert season :
“Miss Turner doesn't mind mocking herself; after a hip-shaking, knee- swinging rendition of a rock song, she pauses for a deep, sweeping, bow, delivered with a diva's hauteur. Yet in her own way, Miss Turner has as much dignity as any performer now working. If there have to be sex symbols, Tina Turner is the best kind - wise, tough and adult.”

VALE TINA

Tina's Audience of Respect 
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23 May 2023

a female gaze


Theatre of the Actors of Regard
present

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
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LOGOS/HA HA

* The female gaze is a feminist theory term referring to the gaze of the female spectator, character or director of an artistic work, but more than the gender it is an issue of representing women as subjects having agency. As such all genders can create films with a female gaze. Wikipedia


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21 May 2023

TAR war co-respondent


Theatre of the AnticipaTARy Report
after Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847 – 1915)
present

‘The journalist Fukuichi Gen'ichiro’
from the series : Instructive models of lofty ambition
1885 - 2023




Theatre of the AnticipaTARy Report  
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
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09 May 2023

detail : my love has no beginning, my love has no end


Theatre of Amorous Regard 
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