TAR : To Apprehend Relativity

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TAR : The Arts in Review [ 2023 )

Christopher Allen - Visual Arts in Review (2023) - The Australian (23-24  December) - Peter Tyndall at Buxton Contemporary

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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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TENEZ LE DROIT / Uphold the Right [Angle]

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TAR presents A Toast :

 

Toast : To All, Regard!
Reply : To All, Regard!

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Flags of the World (continued) Under bondage

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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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Towards an ArithmeTAR of Regard

Melbourne's Lyon House Museum shows this image online ...

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... and asks :

Should a painting be explored as a whole or as the sum of its parts? Or both?

How is it composed and structured? How does it set up a relationship with us as the viewer?

These questions will be explored by Dr Mimi Kelly and Corbett Lyon as they analyse four works from the Lyon Collection.

LOOKING AT PICTURES 🖼️
Sunday 20 August, 3pm – 4:30pm
$25pp



Towards an ArithmeTAR of Regard asks 

Should TAR be explored as a whole or as the sum of its parts? Or both?

How is TAR composed and structured? How does TAR set up a relationship with us as the Actor?

FIAPCE presents LOOKING AT LOOKING

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TAR : “It’s really about ...

We received an email captioned :

Art Guide Australia #474
What to see at “the art fair that artists love”

and noted with interest this sub-section teaser, "It's really about..."

“It’s really about looking at images and putting them together, and looking at how they behave,” says David Noonan. 

Theoria

The Greek theoria (θεωρία) meant "contemplation, speculation, a looking at, things looked at", from theorein (θεωρεῖν) "to consider, speculate, look at", from theoros (θεωρός) "spectator", from thea (θέα) "a view" + horan (ὁρᾶν) "to see".[9] It expressed the state of being a spectator. Both Greek θεωρία and Latin contemplatio primarily meant looking at things, whether with the eyes or with the mind.[10]

According to William Johnston, until the sixth century the practice of what is now called mysticism was referred to by the term contemplatio, c.q. theoria.[4] According to Johnston, "[b]oth contemplation and mysticism speak of the eye of love which is looking at, gazing at, aware of divine realities."[4]

Several scholars have demonstrated similarities between the Greek idea of theoria and the Indian idea of darśana (darshan), including Ian Rutherford[11] and Gregory Grieve.[12]- Wikipedia

Darshan

In Indian religions, Darshana, also spelt Darshan, (Sanskrit: दर्शन darśana lit. 'showing, appearance,[1] view, sight') or Darshanam (darśanam) is the auspicious sight of a deity or a holy person.[2]

The term also refers to any one of the six traditional schools of Hindu philosophy and their literature on spirituality and soteriology.[3]

Etymology

The word darshana, also in the forms of darśana or darshanam, comes from the Sanskrit root of दर्शन dṛś 'to look at', 'to view', vision, apparition or glimpse.^[1]

Definition

Darshana is described as an "auspicious sight" of a holy person, which bestows merit on the viewer.^[2]

It is most commonly used for theophany, meaning a manifestation or vision of the divine, in Hindu worship, e.g. of a deity (especially in image form), or a very holy person or artifact. One can receive darshana or a glimpse of the deity in the temple, or from a great saintly person, such as a great guru.^[4]

In Hinduism

The term darshana also refers to the six systems of thought, called darshanam, that comprise classical Hindu philosophy.^[5][6] The term therein implies how each of these six systems distinctively look at things and the scriptures in Indian philosophies.^[6][4] The six orthodox Hindu darshana are Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Samkhya, Yoga, Mīmāṃsā, and Vedanta. Buddhism and Jainism are examples of non-Hindu darshans.^[4]

Mahayana Buddhism

On the significance of darshana in Mahayana thought, Paul Harrison writes: "By the second century CE... the vision of the Buddha (buddha-darśana) and the accompanying hearing of the Dharma (dharma-śravaṇa) are represented as a transformation experience of decisive importance for practitioners, be they who have renounced (mundane life) 'ascetics' or householders."^[7]

The Abhidharma, collections of systematic summaries of the sutras, mention Darshana-citta, i.e. visions.^[8]

Indian Mahayana philosophers Vasubandhu and Asanga acknowledged five paths to liberation, of which the third is darshana-marga, the "path of seeing".^[9]

Nagarjuna, a prominent philosopher of the Madhyamaka school of Mahayana Buddhism, wrote that the wise person perceives tattva-darshana, true reality.^[10][11]

 “It’s really about looking at images and putting them together,

 and looking at how they behave,” says David Noonan. 

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Tri-Angle of Regard (SELF-LIGHT-OTHER)

  
Theatre of the Actors of Regard enjoyed looking at this Herald-Sun photo from 1962.

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 @heraldsunphoto_retro : 1962. Melbourne recently took a step backwards into the more gracious, less frenzied days of "the gaslight era" when the Lord Mayor, Cr M. Nathan, lit this shapely old gas lamp in Collins St. The lamp, now nearly 80 years old, had been preserved for the city by a private estate and, with enthusiasm all round, the State-controlled Gas and Fuel Corporation co-operated to bring the lamp back into full operation. This they did by laying new pipes and fitting the lamp with a time clock which turns it on at dusk and off at one a.m. daily. Girl at the base is Jenny Boyle, POST cover girl, dancer and gaslight admirer.

Here are a couple of TARmatic others :

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TAR : The Art Race

 Four runners, their barrows and a marker post.

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 Susie was fourth that time.

 Declared a draw!

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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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