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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Terrors of the Angle-Right
The Anvil of Truths
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"Everything has got to change: the authority, the federation, the economy... and the position of the individual."
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And we have just the thing... c.1976 Art Cult convict jacket collection FIAPCE [Convictions]
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A centaur is a creature from Greek mythology with the upper body of a human and the lower body and legs of a horse. - Wikipedia
A centipede is an elongated metameric creature with one pair of legs per body segment. - Wikipedia
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The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is a 2009 Dutch horror film written, directed and co-produced by Tom Six. The film tells the story of a deranged German surgeon who kidnaps three tourists and joins them surgically, mouth to anus, forming a "human centipede".
A cenTARpede is an elongated metameric composite from TAR mythoLOGOS/HA HA.
The Human CenTARpede
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On TV, a COVID sign outside a London court :
PLEASE OBSERVE SOCIAL DISTANCING
which triggers memories of studying Brecht in our matriculation year, of being very interested in his deconstructive meta-strategy verfremdung (*have never forgotten that term) variously translated as ESTRANGEMENT, ALIENATION, DISILLUSION, DEFAMILIARISATION, DISTANCING EFFECT.
MAKING THE FAMILAR STRANGE sits best here. David Barnett writes :
The Difficulty of Translating the Term
Translating the term has caused all manner of problems in English, primarily because it was once almost universally known as ‘alienation’. This is not a useful translation because of the negative connotations the word has in English (if you alienate an audience, for example, spectators tend to leave the theatre). I prefer to consider Verfremdung as a single word that describes a process: making the familiar strange. The editors of the latest edition of Brecht on Theatre have decided to keep the word in its original German to acknowledge the lack of an easy translation into English.
‘Making the familiar strange’ is an example of a dialectical process : the audience encounters something it recognizes; that thing is then presented as strange (that is, the ‘thing’ is now in contradiction with itself); and the audience then has to reach a new understanding in order to move beyond the contradiction.
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The Revolution Is Never Coming
by The Red Paintings (2013)
Track 10 : Hong Kong
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What would Australia look like without the ABC?
The ABC has not only helped shape Australia, we are the national voice that unites us.
It’s about democracy. Without the ABC we would have a balkanised and parochial bunch of broadcasters that are in danger of being compromised by profit and more intent on dividing than unifying.
Imagine what it would be like during the bushfire season if we had to rely only on state-based or even regionally based media outlets. When we are in the middle of bushfires, don’t we want to know that they are being covered by a knowledgeable and experienced network of journalists with all the supporting infrastructure of a large national network?
The ABC, funded by all of us, regardless of our creed – race, age, political beliefs – is us. It’s the way we build cross-cultural understanding, the way we help each other in times of need. It’s who we are collectively. Why would anyone want to diminish that and make us less than who we are?
This has been a devastating week for the ABC. With unemployment at an all-time high to have to inform up to 250 people they no longer had a job has been an incredibly difficult task.
Cuts to services caused by the ongoing reduction in our budget forced this action upon us and although we knew what had to be done, our hearts were with our employees.
Let me clarify the cuts because there seems to be some confusion in Government circles about them. The 2018 Budget papers clearly state that the Government’s savings measures reduce funding to the ABC by $14.623 million in 2019-20, $27.842 million in 2020-21, and $41.284 million in 2021-22. This reduction totals $83.75 million on our operational base.
It is true that over the three years the ABC budget does still increase but by a reduced amount, due to indexation on the fixed cost of transmission and distribution services. Previously, it was rising by a further $83.75 million over the same three years for indexation on our operational base. This is the funding that has been cut and considered a saving by the government.
These funding cuts are unsustainable if we are to provide the media services that Australians expect of us. Indexation must be renewed.
The strength of the ABC and its relationship with the nation comes from the very people who work for us. They are passionate about public broadcasting and are prepared to work for less than they would be paid by commercial media to deliver it. The creativity in the programs they produce, the dogged and independent journalism they pursue and the connection with communities everywhere they provide through conversations is at the very heart of what the ABC delivers to our audiences.
The ABC has a statutory requirement to operate as efficiently as possible. We have a strong track record in identifying savings and reinvesting them in services. This is how we created ABC News 24, ABC iview and a range of packages to boost services in rural and regional Australia.
There is no other authority better placed to manage the ABC than the ABC itself. We know our business and we are determined to honour our commitment to independence. All Australians expect this of us just as they expect the Government to provide the appropriate funds to allow us to do so.
The ABC is essential in generating and preserving Australia’s democratic culture. An independent, well-funded national broadcaster allows Australians, wherever they live, to connect. It is how we share our identity, how we tell our stories, how we listen to each other, how we ask for help and how we give it.
Ita Buttrose AC OBE
ABC Chair
Posted 26th June 2020
Same as it ever was. ABC supporters, including Kerry O’Brien, left, and Allan Hogan, make their feelings known in 1976.
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Today, two announcements from the Australian government.
First announcement : a prepared statement read by the Prime Minister Scott Morrision is serious and concerning : re. computer attacks on Australian "critical infrastructure" by "a sophisticated state-based actor", presumed by many to be the Government of China.
"This activity is targeting Australian organisations across a range of sectors, including all levels of government, industry, political organisations, education, health, essential service providers and operators of other critical infrastructure."
T S Eliot, six days after being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, as artist-in-residence at Harvard (1948) lecturing about the structure of his play 'The Cocktail Party'
Joey Ramone (The Ramones, 1979) 'Rock N' Roll High School'
Second announcement : delivered by a less sophisticated state-based actor, Education Minister Dan Tehan : business-oriented education courses will be halved in their cost to students. This will be balanced (paid for) by doubling the cost of Arts and Social Science degrees. Again, serious and concerning. Again, an attack on critical infrastructure. This time from within.
Last week Prime Minister Scott Morrision stated, in relation to Australian #blacklivesmatter protests, "there was no slavery in Australia"... thus demonstrating his ignorance or spin mis-use of Australian history.
Responding to the objections of historians, the Prime Minister :
So I don't intend to get into the history wars, my comments were not intended to give offence and if they did I deeply regret that and apologise for that. This is not about getting into the history wars.
So the Liberal-Nationals assault on critical thinking/criticism continues : Peter Costello v student unions; John Howard v Black Armband History; John Howard v Political Correctness; Tony Abbott v Climate Change science; Tony Abbott promotes teaching of 'Western Civilisation'; ... ongoing cutbacks to ABC National Broadcaster; George Brandis v arms-length Arts funding; Scott Morrison abolishes Arts Ministry*; Scott Morrrison v whistle-blowers & journalists (raids by AFP on ABC and Annika Smethurst); Australian Government Secret Trial since 2004 bugging East Timor Govt v Bernard Collaery and Witness K; Scott Morrison vs COVID-19 JobKeeper payment to Arts sector and Tertiary Education sector; Scott Morrison v Humanities courses...
* "Thursday’s ministerial restructure creates a situation where, for the first time since the existence of a cultural portfolio, there is no government department with the word “arts” in its title."
- The Guardian 6 Dec 2019
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from Pedestal to chopping block
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
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Native American Activists Topple Columbus Statue in Minnesota
The Twin Cities branch of the American Indian Movement (AIM) led a group of protesters in removing the Columbus statue — one of multiple monuments to the colonizer that has been defaced or brought down this week.
Hakim Bishara 11 June 2020 read article HERE
below : Police officers regard the toppled Christopher Columbus statue outside the Minnesota State Capitol.
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As mass protests continue after the world stage killing of handcuffed Afro-American George Floyd by a white US policeman, persons and symbols of black oppression (#blacklivesmatter) are named and shamed. Publicly brought-down.
In the US, statues of Robert E Lee and Confederate generals are being removed, and today Columbus.
Yesterday (above) in the UK, down came the so-called philanthropist (lover of human beings) slave-trader Edward Colston. White supremacist Cecil Rhodes appears to be next.
In Belgium, it's the monstrous King Leopold II.
In Australia, Cook is under review, again.
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This theme of over-throw (impermanence sub-set) struck home when your correspondent first visited The Vatican, in 1984, and encountered the Sala di Costantino, the War Room ('In this sign, conquer') painted by assistants of Raphael.
On that ceiling is Tommaso Laureti Siciliano's mundane and naked 'The Triumph of Christianity over Paganism' of 1585.
It remains ] as ( a core reference.
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Jane Sutherland, Obstruction, Box Hill, 1887, oil on canvas,
41.3 x 31.1cm. Art Gallery of Ballarat.
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and re-read Part 5 of T S Eliot's The Hollow Men :
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Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
. . . ."Now all I have is a reproduction, and it is not enough. Sometimes it just isn’t. I can’t wait for all this to be over, so I can get out of my paddock and go and see for myself. Like the young girl in Sutherland’s painting—and, needless to say, this is to make it just another in that long line of works of art that are seen somehow to be prophetic of our current plague—I feel obstructed. I feel cowed. I feel covid.
The painting reaches over to me, across the fence separating us. But more than anything, I just want to stand there before her and it and be judged. Have I done right by them? Have I let them out of the paddock?"
- Rex Butler
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MELBOURNE.- The National Gallery of Victoria has launched a new four-part virtual series of its popular Drop-by Drawing program.
This virtual iteration of the program invites audiences to watch a video tutorial of a Drop-by Drawing class, which features tips and tricks on how to draw from some of Victoria’s most engaging contemporary artists.
The series features Victorian artists Minna Gilligan, Lily Mae Martin and Kenny Pittock giving a step-by-step guide on how to draw, whilst taking inspiration from some of their favourite artworks in the NGV Collection.
Tony Ellwood AM, Director, NGV said: “Our Drop-by Drawing program is one of the NGV’s much-loved programs where our visitors can hone their drawing skills in the setting of the wonderful NGV Collection. We know drawing is a very mindful and therapeutic activity, and during this time we are delighted to be able to give audiences a chance to experience virtual Drop-by Drawing tutorials at home.”
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free pencil movement protest NGV Drawing Ban (2004)
PART ONE - SUNDAY 5 APRIL
PRESENTED BY LILY MAE MARTIN ON NGV CHANNEL
The first virtual drawing class hosted by Lily Mae Martin, takes viewers into the NGV’s 19th Century European Paintings Gallery where she takes inspiration from the life-size marble sculpture Musidora, 1878 by Marshall Wood. Musidora was a mythological ancient Greek goddess, who inspired all forms of literature and the arts and is the striking centrepiece of the gallery.
Martin encourages at-home participants to focus on simple drawing exercises, including observational drawing and mark making, to begin their sketch of Musidora. These practical skills demonstrate to viewers how working on a drawing in stages builds consistency in their work.
“It is about getting comfortable with drawing and embracing the practice of mastering the technique. The key to drawing is practice! Take time to look at the object and study it. Be comfortable in your setup and your space, whether you are drawing a sculpture or the kettle in your kitchen. It's something you can do at home with everyday objects,” she said.
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SIGN FIELD
Festival 'O' Signs
Daylesford Town Hall
Hepburn Shire Council Meeting
Jen and Dru present the amendments sought
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TAR responds with BODY SIGNS
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Tomorrow, how will the councillors respond?
