bLOGOS/HA HA: July 2023

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.

17 July 2023

TerminoLOGOS/HA HA Arrives Relentlessly

(for Nick the SorTAR)

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 July 2023

dependent-arising : space-time-conscious : before-after Donald Judd

Today, this :

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Fifty years ago, regarding 'Some Recent American Art' at National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne :

Some years earlier, Theatre of the Actors of Regard (Bendigo)

Theatre of the Actors of Regard

detail

A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

someone looks at something...

LOGOS/HA HA

09 July 2023

Thesis

Theatre of the Actors of Regard
presents

Thesis : All is Regard
from
'The Analects of Robin'

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The Analects of Robin

detail

A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

someone looks at something...

LOGOS/HA HA

08 July 2023

Holy Instruments

Theatre of the Actors of Regard
presents

Holy Instruments of the Passion
from
'The Analects of Robin'

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The Analects of Robin

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

someone looks at something...

LOGOS/HA HA

07 July 2023

"Holy, holy, holy."

Theatre of the Actors of Regard
presents
"Holy ...

holy ...

holy."
] haec sacra mundi /
these sacred things of the world (
from
'The Analects of Robin'

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The Analects of Robin

detail

A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

someone looks at something...

LOGOS/HA HA

05 July 2023

Telling the children about TAR [ The Art of Rego )

Theatre of the Actors of Regard

detail

A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

someone looks at something...

LOGOS/HA HA

02 July 2023

TAR : This Annual Repost

This Annual Repost is first from 2021 then 2022 and now 2023 after last night's loss by The Bombers to top side Port Adelaide from a 55m kick delivered by Dan Houston after the siren.

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