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.
We don't understand what's meant by we.
Abstractly speaking, we don't understand what's meant by abstraction.
Writing by Drawing. When Language Seeks Its Other
(English version)
Edited by Andrea Bellini and Sarah Lombardi
Skira editore, Milan-Paris-Geneva
English edition
June 2020
ISBN 9788857243504
Hard cover
21 × 29 cm
312 pages
PRICE
CHF 75
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見るところ花にあらずと云ふことなし、
思ふところ月にあらずと云ふことなし。
tokoro hana ni arazu to iu koto nashi,
omou tokoro tsuki ni arazu to iu koto nashi
There is nothing you can see
that is not a flower,
There is nothing you can think
that is not the moon.
Classical Japanese Database
Translation #172 : Reginald Horace Blyth
Matsuo Basho
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Activists Splatter Red Paint on Roosevelt Monument at American Museum of Natural History
The early-morning action, by a new activist group calling itself the Monument Removal Brigade, is the latest in a series of protests demanding the statue’s removal. (article here)
I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now, but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face.
- John Ruskin writing about James Whistler (1877)
A pot of paint has been flung in the face of the public.
- Camille Mauclair (1905) riffing on Ruskin; commenting on the 1905 Salon d'Automne by the artists Louis Vauxcelles dubbed as Les Fauves (The Beasts)
F = ma
- Theatre of the Actors of Regard (-2015-)
Ash Keating with Gravity System Response #2 - photograph by Amanda Fordyce
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re-present :
JOHN HEARTFIELD AND THE
AGITATED IMAGE
Photography, Persuasion, and the Rise
of Avant-Garde Photomontage
by Andrés Mario Zervigón
Suck My Cuts : this special re-edition book cover celebrates
the cut-and-paste Ministry of George Brandis QC, Director of Excellence and Efficiency Dividender to the Arts of Australia.
We Are All John Heartfield Now : Lots more GB cultural collage at The George Brandis Live Art Experience
Australians for Artistic Freedom : open letter to George Brandis - sign here George Brandis : The Australian Academy for Excellent Art : here Defining the Modern Australian Landscape : here
Fosterville Institute of Applied & Progressive Cultural Experience
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Out Lasseter's Reef way...
mur wall
mur(al) wall picture
1400-50; late Middle English < Latin mūrālis, equivalent to mūr (us) wall+ -ālis -al
Watcher at the One Gable House, after Drysdale
murmur to say something in a low or indistinct voice; a softly spoken or almost inaudible utterance
murmur wall wall, meta-wall, "If these walls could speak"
murmur LOGOS/HA HA
1275-1325; (v.) Middle English murmuren < Latin murmurāre; (noun)Middle English < Latin
Watcher at the House of Two Gables, after Drysdale
mu
"Mu" is the shorthand name of the first koan in a collection called the Gateless Gate or Gateless Barrier, compiled in China by Wumen Huikai (1183-1260).
Master Wumen himself worked on Mu for six years before he realized it. In his commentary on the koan, he provides these instructions:
So then, make your whole body a mass of doubt, and with your 360 bones and joints and your 84,000 hair follicles, concentrate on this one word No [Mu]. Day and night, keep digging into it. Don't consider it to be nothingness. Don't think in terms of 'has' or 'has not.' It is like swallowing a red-hot iron ball. You try to vomit it out, but you cannot. [Translation from Boundless Way Zen]
Watcher at the House of Three Gables, after Drysdale
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mu mu
Justified and Ancient
KLF
& Tammy Wynette
All bound for Mu Mu Land
All bound for Mu Mu Land
(hey)
(hey hey)
All bound for Mu Mu Land (justified)
(hey hey)
All bound for Mu Mu Land
(Bring the beat back!)
They're Justified, and they're Ancient,
And they like to roam the land.
(just roll it from the top)
They're Justified, and they're Ancient,
I hope you understand.
(to the bridge, to the bridge, to the bridge now)
They called me up in Tennessee
They said "Tammy, stand by The Jams"
But if you don't like what they're going to do,
You better not stop them 'cause they're coming through
(bring the beat back)
(Hey hey)
All bound for Mu Mu Land (justified)
(Hey hey)
All bound for Mu Mu Land (justified)
(Ancients of Mu Mu)
Mu Mu Land
Mu Mu Land
All bound for Mu Mu Land
They're Justified, and they're Ancient,
And they drive an ice cream van.
(just roll it from the top)
They're Justified and they're Ancient,
With still no master plan.
(to the bridge, to the bridge, to the bridge now)
The last train left an hour ago,
They were singing "All aboard"
All bound for Mu Mu Land,
Then someone starting screaming "Turn up the Strobe"
(bring the beat back)
(Hey hey)
All bound for Mu Mu Land (justified)
(Hey hey)
All bound for Mu Mu Land (Ancients of Mu Mu)
(Bring the beat back)
Justified and Ancient, Ancient and a-justified,
Rocking to the rhythm in their ice cream van
with the plan and the key to
enter into Mu Mu
Vibes from the tribes of the Jams
I know where the beat is at,
'cos I know what time it is
Bring home a dime,
Make mine a "99"
New style, meanwhile, always on a mission while
Fishing in the rivers of life
Fishing in the rivers of life (hoi)
Fishing in the rivers of life (hoi)
Fishing in the rivers
Fishing in the rivers
Fishing in the rivers of life (hoi)
Voo-va-voolie
Za-shi-va-zom
Voo-va-voolie
(Bring the beat back)
(Hey hey)
All bound for Mu Mu Land (justified)
(Hey hey)
All bound for Mu Mu Land (Ancients of Mu Mu)
They have travelled the world
With the ice cream van
Their voyage, the bottom of time
They have entered the place
with the Mu Mu mate
And their children so pride
Mine as a "99"
(Bring the beat back)
Mu Mu Land (Ancients of Mu Mu)
Mu Mu Land (Ancients of Mu Mu)
All bound for Mu Mu Land
Mu Mu Land (Ancients of Mu Mu)
Mu Mu Land (Ancients of Mu Mu)
All bound for Mu Mu Land
Mu Mu Land
Mu Mu Land
All bound for Mu Mu Land
IN PRINCIPIO ERAT VERBUM
In the beginning was the Word :
the Word, extract from wikipedia :
John 1:1 is the first verse in the Gospel of John. The King James Version of the verse reads,
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God". The phrase "the Word" (a translation of the Greek word
"Logos") is widely interpreted as referring to Jesus, as indicated in other verses later in the same chapter.
IN PRINCIPIO ERAT VERBUM
In the beginning was the Word :
Black Swan extract from wikipedia :
Ernest Lalor "Ern" Malley was a fictitious poet and the central figure in Australia's most celebrated literary hoax. He and his entire body of work were created in one day in 1943 by writers
James McAuley and
Harold Stewart in order to hoax
Max Harris and
Angry Penguins, the modernist magazine Harris had founded and edited, and now co-edited with John Reed of Heide.
James McAuley and Harold Stewart decided to perpetrate a hoax on Harris and Angry Penguins by submitting to the magazine nonsensical poetry, which they felt captured the worst of modernist tendencies, under the guise of a fictional poet. They came up with a fictional biography for the poet "Ern Malley", who, they claimed, had died the year before at the age of 25. They chose the name "Malley" as a pun on the word
Mallee, denoting a class of Australian native vegetation and a bird, the
Malleefowl. Then, in one afternoon, they wrote his entire body of work: 17 poems, none longer than a page, and all intended to be read in sequence under the title
The Darkening Ecliptic.
Their writing style, as they described it, was to write down the first thing that came into their heads, lifting words and phrases from the Concise Oxford Dictionary, a Collected Shakespeare, and a Dictionary of Quotations: "We opened books at random, choosing a word or phrase haphazardly. We made lists of these and wove them in nonsensical sentences. We misquoted and made false allusions. We deliberately perpetrated bad verse, and selected awkward rhymes from a Ripman's Rhyming Dictionary." They also included many bits of their own poetry, though in a deliberately disjointed manner.
The first poem in the sequence,
Durer: Innsbruck, 1495, was an unpublished serious effort by McAuley, lightly edited to appeal to Harris:
I had often cowled in the slumbrous heavy air,
Closed my inanimate lids to find it real,
As I knew it would be, the colourful spires
And painted roofs, the high snows glimpsed at the back,
All reversed in the quiet reflecting waters –
Not knowing then that Durer perceived it too.
Now I find that once more I have shrunk
To an interloper, robber of dead men's dream,
I had read in books that art is not easy
But no one warned that the mind repeats
In its ignorance the vision of others. I am still
The black swan of trespass on alien waters.
- Ern Malley
IN PRINCIPIO ERAT VERBUM
In the beginning was the Word :
WO R.D. Tyndall
In 1944, James McAuley and Harold Stewart were both in the Army
Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs.
In 1944, this blog writer's father
W O R.D. Tyndall was in the RAAF, a tail gunner on the Black Swan as it trespassed on alien waters.
photo : W.R. Anderson, from the Australian War Memorial
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In the beginning was the Word :
The Liberator
Digri, Bengal, India. 1944-11-28. Group portrait of some of the RAAF members in No. 159 (Liberator) Squadron RAF of Eastern Air Command's Strategic Air Force, operating in India, beside the aircraft nicknamed 'Black Swan'. This unit has more Australians on strength than any other unit, but all are not shown.
Back Row:- Warrant Officer (WO) H. D. Scott of Launceston, Tas; WO W. G. Hazard of Lower Ferntree Gully, Vic; WO S. J. Gregory of Granville, NSW; WO R. D. Tyndall of Shepparton, Vic; WO A. L. Baker of Wagga, NSW; WO J. W. Gribble of Abbotsford, Vic; Pilot Officer W. R. Anderson of North Perth, WA; WO A. R. O'Malley of Elizabeth Bay, NSW; WO L. M. Peerman of Paddington, Qld; Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) C. Fristrom of Caloundra, Qld; Pilot Officer L. A. Hendy of Elwood, Vic; Flying Officer (FO) A. J. Beattie of Tallangatta, Vic; FO C. Bowden of Indooroopilly, Qld; Flt Sgt J. V. Shillito of Murchison, Vic; WO C. R. Delaine of Winkie, SA; FO V. E. Willing of Rose Bay, NSW.
Front Row:- WO K. R. Weller of Thornleigh, NSW; FO S. J. Smith of Moss Vale, NSW; Flt Sgt J. P. Donnellan of Kelmscott, SA; Flt Sgt A. L. P. Fisher of Queens Park, WA; WO W. H. Wheeler of Bellevue Hill, NSW; WO K. Brandon of Eagle Junction, Qld; WO A. R. Williams of Richmond River, NSW; WO R. K. Davey of Swan Hill, Vic; FO W. R. Wright of Walkerville, SA; Flt Sgt F. G. Barclay of Mortdale, NSW; Flt Sgt R. M. Edwards of Portland, Vic; FO L. Marsh of East Coburg, Vic.Back Row:- F/O K. Clifton-Dobing DFM, F/Eng. F/Sgt K. Patten, WAG. F/Lt W. Andrews, Co-Pilot. F/Lt Roy Beattie DFM, Captain. F/Sgt L. Devereux, Air Gunner. F/Sgt A. Hogg, Air Gunner. F/Lt H. Stroud, Navigator
IN PRINCIPIO ERAT VERBUM
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presents
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on
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the front cover of The Monthly
presents
an image of Julie Bishop,
with HAND SPACE projection
as
Supreme Goddess of the Void,
with projection-space for image
for
the consumption production of
Theatre of the Actors of Regard
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A VoidScape Production :
The ] The Beholder ( Beholder
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Dear Sir/Madam
Thank you for submitting an expression of interest for the Melbourne Art Trams project.
The selection panel has met and unfortunately your expression of interest was not selected to become a tram artwork. We received over 100 expressions of interest including a significant number of very high quality submissions which made the selection panel’s task all the more difficult.
The eight successful artists will be announced in the next week and the first of the Melbourne Art Trams will roll out in early October. Keep an eye on our website for further updates:
melbournefestival.com.au/trams
Kind regards
Melbourne Art Trams
melbournefestival.com.au
10-26 October 2014
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