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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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 
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something...
  
 LOGOS/HA HA


    

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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 LOGOS/HA HA



01 January 2023

re. Covers & Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire

   
Yesterday, @livres_hon posted a photo of a page of the new journal KAFAY LARDAY. It showed various responses to the question WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE ABOUT THE ART WORLD?.

Elizabeth Pulie wrote: “If I could, I would change the art world’s relation to, and view of, the period of conceptual art that occurred in Lippard’s ‘six years’ between 1966 and 1972. In my view, the aims of the original conceptual artists were, broadly : to practice art conceptually, in dematerialised or ephemeral forms, to escape the institutions of the object, the market, the exhibition space and even “the artist” itself, as identity. Unfortunately, these aims seem to be badly known in the current moment: this is something I would change. I would change the fact that, as predicted by Kosuth, conceptual art forms became a ‘style’ in the post-conceptual era. I would change the fact of conceptual art’s romanticisation or poeticisation in much current art, in order that its less romantic origins be made clearer.”

This morning, we listened to The Music Show on Radio National. Andrew Ford in discussion with James Gavin, responding to Ted Gioia’s new book The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire (2nd Edition).

Thus, this first drawing of 2023, headlined standards and covers; and the second, riffing on The Way You Look Tonight, original lyrics by Dorothy Fields.

TheaTAR and the Art Repertoire  
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25 September 2022

0.0.0 v 0.0.0 1st Q 19min 27sec TAR 100.024 Dom Sheed angle ...


In the opening minute of the Cats v Swans Grand Final at the MCG yesterday, one hundred thousand-plus TARists hold their breath as Tom Hawkins lines up a Dom Sheed angle to goal. It's a faction to the right for one point only. Hawkins then kicks the opening two goals and it's Cats all the way to the finish.


Theatre of the Angles of Regard 
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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
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LOGOS/HA HA
        
      
     

04 August 2022

STORE 5 | Kerrie Poliness | 1992


From the heap, the announcement sheet for a Kerrie Poliness exhibition at STORE 5, September 1992...
 Below, Pitch Your Own Tent, MUMA exhibition catalog, 2005 
 Cover image, Marco Fusinato (at Store 5), 100%, 1993
 ...plus attendee's overdrawn fanfare.
Theatre of the Announcements of Regard 
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04 July 2022

re. TRIBUTARIES AND TERRITORIES OF AUSTRALIA : PERMIT ONE ITEM OF CORRESPONDENCE TO FLOW


photo courtesy : Theatre of the Archives of Resistance  
 LET THE RIVERS FLOW 
 Save The Franklin - 1982 
 Daylesford Embroidered Banners Project

 LET ALL THE RIVERS FLOW
Theatre of the Admittances of Regard  
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 LOGOS/HA HA



           

09 June 2022

CrickeTAR Fit To Bat

             
Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
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
       
     
          

04 June 2022

Um ...


This bloke we saw,
he sTARted real confident like,
but,
um ..
.


Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
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 LOGOS/HA HA
       
     
        

21 May 2022

Election Night Special : Here we go...

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Theatre of the Actors of Regard   
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 LOGOS/HA HA
       
     
    

05 May 2022

update :


 Adolf Mas touching up an image (detail) c.1909
Theatre of the Actors of Regard 
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02 May 2022

prefix-spiro-suffix

     
spiro- : word-forming element meaning "twisted, spiraled, whorled," from combining form of Latin spira "a coil, twist," from Greek speira (see spiral (adj.)

inspire : Middle English enspire, from Old French inspirer, from Latin inspirare ‘breathe or blow into’ from in- ‘into’ + spirare ‘breathe’. The word was originally used of a divine or supernatural being, in the sense ‘impart a truth or idea to someone’.

Spirax

Theatre of the Analogs of Regard 
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 LOGOS/HA HA

  
   

27 April 2022

DirecTAR


  
Brian Taylor calling the final minutes of the 2022 Anzac Day clash between The Bombers and The Magpies at the MCG : “They’re all pointing. Verbaleyesing directions.”

SarahaSarahapaSarahapāda (or, in the Tibetan language མདའ་བསྣུན་, [danün], Wyl. mda' bsnun The Archer), (circa 8th century CE) was known as the first sahajiya and one of the Mahasiddhas. The name Saraha means "the one who has shot the arrow.".[1]  According to one, scholar, "This is an explicit reference to an incident in many versions of his biography when he studied with a dakini disguised as a low-caste arrow smith. Metaphorically, it refers to one who has shot the arrow of non duality into the heart of duality."[2] - Wikipedia 

"Everything without exception
shares the nature of open space,
and never moves from it at any time.
Space is called 'open space',
but in its essence, nothing at all exists.
It is neither existent nor nonexistent,
nor not existent and not nonexistent -
it transcends any other domain of illustration.
Thus, mind, open space, and the nature of reality are not separate in the slighest."
Saraha 

Theatre and the Arrow of Regard  
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 LOGOS/HA HA


        

23 April 2022

10dazeinbed_

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Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
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 LOGOS/HA HA

  
     

08 April 2022

Vale Ken West (1958-2022)


In February, we showed some drawings made at the first Sunbury Music Festivalfifty years ago.
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Theatre of the Anniversaries of Rock 
Today we're wearing a Big Day Out tee shirt in remembrance of Ken West, co-founder of that great Australian touring festival.
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06 April 2022

re. Visible means of support (#5)


White With Wire Wheels aka W4 is the Title of a play by Jack Hibberd, first produced in 1967 at Melbourne University and published in Plays (1970, ed. Graeme Blundell). We didn't see that play, nor the poster until now, but early on we knew of and liked its Title.


In the early 1970s your correspondent exhibited several times at Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne. And also did occasional odd jobs there : minding the gallery, re-stretching and rehanging paintings for gallery clients, and before shows repainting the gallery's white hanging wires. 

White wires on white walls : With regular repaints, a painterly crust had accumulated, vulnerable to chipping and to re-exposing the dark metal core.

Theatre of the Attachments for Regard 
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 LOGOS/HA HA


       

24 March 2022

hanging by a thread | by a thread | by a thread | by a thread | by a thread | by a thread | by a thread | by a thread | by a thread | by a thread | by a thread to and from ...



Theatre of the Attachments of Regard  
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
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 LOGOS/HA HA


     

21 March 2022

Bonza viewpoint(s)


Josh Bowes has left another drawing on the chair by the front door. 



Theatre of the Altitudes of Regard   
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16 March 2022

A Great CollecTAR



             photographs by Nadar (Gaspard Felix Turnachon) 1860  

    
Theatre of the Accumulations of Regard   
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 LOGOS/HA HA


   

14 March 2022

Present Moment x6 | after R.L. Six Patties



  Richard Larter, Six Patties, 1976 currently at Niagara Galleries, Melb.
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Theatre of the Actors of Regard 
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04 March 2022

Gift of monochromes


A friend of TAR has donated four monochromes. Preserves under glass with hand written labels. Thank you Red.
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Theatre of the Archives of Regard   
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something...
   
 LOGOS/HA HA