bLOGOS/HA HA: AAA_Art Archive Australia

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.

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29 December 2023

TAR : The Arts in Review [ 2023 )

Christopher Allen - Visual Arts in Review (2023) - The Australian (23-24 December) - Peter Tyndall at Buxton Contemporary

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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16 November 2023

TENEZ LE DROIT / Uphold the Right [Angle]

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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10 November 2023

re. the stakeholder and the short end of the stick

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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22 October 2023

Flags of the World (continued) Under bondage

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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13 August 2023

Towards an ArithmeTAR of Regard

Melbourne's Lyon House Museum shows this image online ...

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... and asks :

Should a painting be explored as a whole or as the sum of its parts? Or both?

How is it composed and structured? How does it set up a relationship with us as the viewer?

These questions will be explored by Dr Mimi Kelly and Corbett Lyon as they analyse four works from the Lyon Collection.

LOOKING AT PICTURES 🖼️
Sunday 20 August, 3pm – 4:30pm
$25pp

Towards an ArithmeTAR of Regard asks

Should TAR be explored as a whole or as the sum of its parts? Or both?

How is TAR composed and structured? How does TAR set up a relationship with us as the Actor?

FIAPCE presents LOOKING AT LOOKING

Theatre of the Actors of Regard

detail

A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

someone looks at something...

LOGOS/HA HA

06 August 2023

TAR : Taking After Redon

The exhibition 'Photography and the Performative' at Sydney University's Chau Chak Wing Museum, displays a work by Imants Tillers, If I close my eyes. His instagram website describes it thus :

Curated by Katrina Liberiou, the show explores the intersection between photography and performance.

Imants Tillers
If I close my eyes (2021)
189 Polaroids 1980–1982, nos. 112966–113161
10.7 x 8.9 cm (each); 75 x 239 cm (overall)
University of Sydney Art Collection

This conceptual work comprises 189 Polaroids made between 1980 and 1982. Tillers carried a camera with him during his daily life and documented those he encountered, asking his sitters to close their eyes. Interspersed with these portraits are landscape scenes depicting the view from his flat overlooking Sirius Cove.”

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‘Taking After Redon’ re-imagines ‘If I close my eyes’ with the views of Sirius Cove replaced by views of Odilon Redon’s ‘Les yeux clos’ (Closed Eyes) c.1890.