TAR : To Apprehend Relativity

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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TAR presents The Assured Result

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Original Face

"Sweep away thoughts!" means one must do zazen. Once thoughts are quieted, the Original Face appears. Thoughts can be compared to clouds. When clouds vanish, the moon appears. The moon of suchness is the Original Face. Thoughts are also like the fogging of a mirror. When you wipe away all condensation, a mirror reflects clearly. Quiet your thoughts and behold your Original Face before you were born!

— Daito

Cease practice based
On intellectual understanding,
Pursuing words and
Following after speech.
Learn the backward
Step that turns
Your light inward
To illuminate within.
Body and mind of themselves
Will drop away
And your original face will be manifest.

— Dogen

You cannot describe it or draw it,
You cannot praise it enough or perceive it.
No place can be found in which
To put the Original Face;
It will not disappear even
When the universe is destroyed.

— Mumon

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after Tachihara, the Architecture of Regard : From the Mountains to the See

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FLOWER DRUM SONG

A cover version of yesterday’s “Flower Sermon” in which one of the actors was a percussionist.

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            for Margaret Plant  

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Three Act Regard (Part 2)

Theatre of the Actors of Regard yesterday presented Three Act Regard (Part 1) in which the first regard brought forth laughter at the appearance of a Label Flower.

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Today, another represenTARtion of the “Flower Sermon” offered by Guatama Buddha to his followers at Vulture Peak. There, it is said, he twirled a flower...

“At this, they all remained silent. Only the venerable Kashyapa broke into a smile. The World-Honored One said: “I have the eye treasury of the true Dharma, the marvelous mind of nirvana, the true form of no-form, the subtle gate of the Dharma. It does not depend on letters, being specially transmitted outside all teachings. Now I entrust Mahakashyapa with this.”

The scroll shown here is by Yosa Buson from the collection of Henry Weatherfield & Associates.

[Wikipedia : Yosa Buson or Yosa no Buson (与謝 蕪村, 1716 – January 17, 1784) was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period. Along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, Buson is considered among the greatest poets of the Edo Period.)

Three Act Regard (Part 2)

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Three Act Regard (Part 1)

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   Three Act Regard   

][             Observe the mind             )(

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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 LOGOS/HA HA

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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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)

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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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Vale the great Glenda Jackson (1936-2023)

We first saw Glenda Jackson as Charlotte Corday in the early 1970s, in Peter Brooks 1967 film of 'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade'. 

The title is usually shortened to Marat/Sade, after a 1963 play by Peter Weiss. She, the film, the play (we even bought the Peter Weiss script) all impressed greatly. 

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Jackson quit acting in 1991 to concentrate on politics – she had joined the Labour Party at 16. In 1992 she was elected as a Labour member to the House of Commons in the UK Parliament where she remained for 23 years, before retiring at age 79.

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TAR (Théâtre des Acteurs qui Rient) presents

Canned LaughTAR  

 

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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”.



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Tweaking Aussie Rules :
The Ascendant Reversed

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The Look of Love, on this very special day...

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letter to an art student

THE VICTORIAN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS 

                      24th April, 1974.

Mr P. Tyndall, 

49 McIlwraith Street, 

NORTH CARLTON. Vic. 3054  

Dear Peter,  

I have to notify you that the mid-term reports are now being compiled by the teaching staff. In your case it will be exceedingly difficult as you rarely if ever work in the school. I wish to point out that an unsatisfactory report or no report at all ultimately means that you will not be promoted to the successive year. Let me also remind you that you are required by the College authorities to comply with 80% attendance unless you have been granted permission of leave from the Dean of the School of Art.  

                      Yours sincerely,  

                      Marc Clark 

                      Senior Lecturer 

Towards Atelier Reform  

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of s/word & mythoLOGOS/HA HA

Judas betrays Jesus the Logos

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and Peter cuts off Vincent's ear

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Vale Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022)

   

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Clean

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breakthrough : The Wounded Logos

The header to this blog refers to an historian's "inner wound". 

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.

Judeo-Christian mythoLOGOS/HA HA has many such breaches and wounds, each requiring identification, acceptance and application of the correct salve. 

In the beginning was the Word... 

     Historians are the trustee re-porters of the word.

Logos : the Speaking into Being of the World. 

     Nennius, lisps the Word : I have lispingly put together

LOGOS/HA HA

And the Word was made flesh : on the Cross, Christ the Logos is five times wounded : his hands, his feet and his side are pierced. The Five Wounds of Christ. In this depiction of the Crucifixion by Jean the Black, Jesus the Labelled - INRI - points to the wound in his side. As God is His Witness, so also two angels, mother Mary and 'brother' James.

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A few pages forward in that volume (The Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg, before 1349, collection of The Met, New York), the illuminator depicts that side wound... 

...aureola-like, mandorla-like (below), vulva-like too, surrounded by the Instruments of the Passion.

We are new to that wound image, so add it here to the heap as we recall also that the inside of the breach of this 1995 two panel broken-word LOGOS (below) is also painted red. From its first exhibition, the cover of the 1995 cataLOGOS/HA HA :

It is now in the collection of the Art Gallery of NSW :

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