TAR : To Apprehend Relativity

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TAR presents The Assured Result

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re. the stakeholder and the short end of the stick

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Flags of the World (continued) Under bondage

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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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One taste.

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Practise non-attachment ] GO BOMBERS and GO TAR ( Report from the field of general play

1. Essendon so far this year :

Essendon (72) v Geelong (138)
Essendon (75) v Brisbane (97)
Essendon (70) v Melb (99)
Essendon (103) v Adelaide (99)
Essendon (59) v Fremantle (107)
Essendon (82) v Collingwood (93)
Essendon (71) v Bulldogs (103)
Essendon (108) v Bulldogs (81)
Essendon (47) v Sydney (105)
Essendon (48) v Richmond (80)
Essendon (50) v Bulldogs (66)
Essendon (54) v Carlton (80)



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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.”

Saraha, Sarahapa, Sarahapāda (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 

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The Solid Valise

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... emphasized the process of ideation over realization, wrote Mr God Free (pron.)

 
Through skillful means,
they do not abide in nirvana,
and through wisdom, not in samsara.

Having abandoned the two extremes,
Buddhas engage in universal welfare,
free from conceptual thought.

- Asanga, Mahayanasamgraha

 January 5-31 1969 : from left - Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, 

 Joseph Kosuth, and Lawrence Weiner. Photo by Seth Siegelaub

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Bridge of Sighs

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then

if shit

then mud

if the reflecting under-can of Manzoni

then the bog-free aspiration of Rengetsu

The Buddhist nun, poet and potter Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875),
her chosen name Rengetsu translates as Lotus Moon.
The lotus begins life in the dark settlement of obscuration, in mud,
then grows towards the clearer water realm above,
and, beyond that, reaches and opens for the bright moon of the enlightened mind.
Her name reflects her aspiration, so too her vessels formed of mud 

and fire.

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regarding The Unbearable Likeness of Being

A penny for y/our thoughts re. Ian Burn's Mirror piece 

(1967) and Jeff Koons' mirror surfaces, from his Rabbit (1986) to the NGV's recent $25million reflecTAR folly.

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Mirror productions in general. About self-projection and self-reflection. About ] being ( created in the image and likeness of God, in the image and likeness of...

About image. About projection-space and the projectionauts of TAR.

'the image is not an idea. It is a radiant node or cluster...a VORTEX, from which, and into which, ideas are constantly rushing'

Ezra Pound
Fortnightly Review, 1 September 1914
as quoted by John Bown, Framing W.B. Yeats and Samuel Beckett: How and Why Two Writers Used Fine Art/Its theories in their Texts

About likeness. A recent encounTAR with this staging of money-mirror-light-reflection-regard.

At just 200 pixels wide, our first impression reckoned the reflecting surface to be the base of a Piero Manzoni can of Artist's Shit. Not so, but alike.

Beholding pattern - to be and to hold. Regard as radiant node!

                         Mirror mirror in my hand

                         who's the est-est in the land?

 Piero Manzoni beholds can (1963)    foto Giovanni Ricci (1963)

 Kid Kubist beholds block (1951)                      foto Reg v. Brock

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Immoral Tales (continued)

2020 : NGV acquires $25million Blood Bath of Venus
see installation below :
after Immoral Tales (1973), Walerian Borowczyk / TAR

We calculate with some concern the sparsity of drainage fittings ...

TARist models regard Venus stepping into ...

(knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock)
That must be the first architect now. Ah, yes. It's Mr. Wiggin of Ironside and Malone.
MR. WIGGIN: Good morning, gentlemen. Uh, this is a twelve-storey block combining classical neo-Georgian features with all the advantages of modern design. Uhh, the tenants arrive in the entrance hall here, are carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort and past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives. The last twenty feet of the corridor are heavily soundproofed. The blood pours down these chutes and the mangled flesh slurps into these large containers--

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CITY GENT #1: Excuse me.
MR. WIGGIN: Hmm?
CITY GENT #1: Uh, did you say 'knives'?
MR. WIGGIN: Uh, rotating knives. Yes.
CITY GENT #2: Are you, uh, proposing to slaughter our tenants?
MR. WIGGIN: Does that not fit in with your plans?
CITY GENT #1: No, it does not. Uh, we -  we wanted a... simple... block of flats.

MR. WIGGIN: Ahh, I see. I hadn't, uh, correctly divined your attitude...
CITY GENT #: Uh, huh huh.
MR. WIGGIN: ...towards your tenants.
CITY GENT #: Huh huh.
MR. WIGGIN: You see, I mainly design slaughter houses.
CITY GENT #1: Yes. Pity.
MR. WIGGIN: Mind you, this is a real beaut. I mean, none of your blood caked on the walls and flesh flying out of the windows inconveniencing passers-by with this one. I mean, my life has been building up to this.
CITY GENT #2: Yes, and well done, huh, but we did want a block of flats.
MR. WIGGIN: Well, may I ask you to reconsider? I mean, you wouldn't regret it. Think of the tourist trade.
CITY GENT #1: No, no, it's-- it's just that we wanted a block of flats and not an abattoir.
MR. WIGGIN: Yes, well, that's the sort of blinkered, philistine pig ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage. You sit there on your loathsome, spotty behinds squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker's cuss for the struggling artist. You excrement! You whining, hypocritical toadies, with your color TV sets and your Tony Jacklin golf clubs and your bleeding Masonic secret handshakes! You wouldn't let me join, would you, you blackballing bastards! Well, I wouldn't become a freemason now if you went down on your lousy, stinking knees and begged me!
CITY GENT #2: Well, we're sorry you feel like that, but we, um, did... want... a block of flats. Nice, though, the abattoir is. Huh huh.

- from Monty Python, The Architects Sketch 

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class system

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re. object matter

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Definition of Object Matter by Oxford Dictionary :

noun.
the matter that is the object of an action or study,
the matter dealt with or treated.
"subject matter" is the more commonly used term.

By binary convention, we usually write 

    the subject regards the object

Similarly, we might further write 

    the subject matter regards the object matter

However, if we write 

    the subject matter regards the subject matter

that suggests a very different view : 

    meta-matter

meta- 

The third sense, "higher than, transcending, overarching, dealing with the most fundamental matters of," is due to misinterpretation of metaphysics (q.v.) as "science of that which transcends the physical." This has led to a prodigious erroneous extension in modern usage, with meta- affixed to the names of other sciences and disciplines, especially in the academic jargon of literary criticism: Metalanguage (1936) "a language which supplies terms for the analysis of an 'object' language;" metalinguistics (by 1949); metahistory (1957), metacommunication, etc. 

Expert, texpert choking smokers

Don't you think the joker laughs at you 

(ho ho ho, hee hee hee, hah hah hah)

See how they smile like pigs in a sty, 

    see how they snide

I'm crying

- 'I Am The Walrus', John Lennon/The Beatles

matter (n.) 

c.1200, materie, "the subject of a mental act or a course of thought, speech, or expression," from Anglo-French matere, Old French matere "subject, theme, topic; substance, content; character, education" (12c., Modern French matière) and directly from Latin materia "substance from which something is made," also "hard inner wood of a tree." According to de Vaan and Watkins, this is from mater "origin, source, mother" (see mother). The sense developed and expanded in Latin in philosophy by influence of Greek hylē (see hylo-) "wood, firewood," in a general sense "material," used by Aristotle for "matter" in the philosophical sense.

I am he as you are he as you are me

and we are all together

- 'I Am The Walrus', John Lennon/The Beatles

matter derives from mater, mother, origin

as does material 

matrix, too, to which all matter returns :

  matter to matter

  mother to matrix

  dust to dust

  

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