TAR (Théâtre des Acteurs qui Rient) presents

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more mental fabric | scatter brain

  Noel Counihan, Laughing Christ, 1970

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before Big Fig

Little fish, big fish, swimming in the water.

- P J Harvey

 Yosa Buson (1716-1784) 

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In Other Words podcast #57 : Then and Now : Paula Cooper Gallery

PODCAST EPISODE #57

Then and Now: Paula Cooper Gallery

In Other Words

Apr 2019 (40 minutes)

Episode Description : Paula Cooper Gallery has survived and thrived in a mercurial art world for more than five decades. 

On today’s show, the legendary dealer talks about the history and future of her gallery together with Steven Henry, who has been the gallery director for more than two decades, Allan Schwartzman, co-founder of Art Agency, Partners, and host Charlotte Burns. 

Charlotte Burns: As we round out, I wanted to ask the three of you: from your combined experiences over the years, are there other words of wisdom that you would give either to collectors or artists who are listening to the show?

Paula Cooper: Look. Look more. Just look. And be patient and look.

Steven Henry: Trust your eye and —

Paula Cooper: And relax! Jesus, people get very uptight sometimes and nervous like it’s a test or something.

[Laughter]

TARist with 'Paula', oil on canvas by Rudolf Stingel  

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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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Spokesperson for the Self

Yesterday we wrote and posted this re. nature, lineage, one's head, drip-drip-dripping, laughter, regard...

this old head : Jackson 

Pollock said 'I am nature'

drip drip drip drip drip

       FIAPCE (transl. FIAPCE)

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Last night, across no known bridge, we watched an online performance of Samuel Beckett's 'Endgame'. This bell-wringing extract :

HAMM (wearily):
Quiet, quiet, you're keeping me awake.
(Pause.)
Talk softer.
(Pause.)
If I could sleep I might make love. I'd go into the woods. My eyes would see... the sky, the earth. I'd run, run, they wouldn't catch me.
(Pause.)
Nature!
(Pause.)
There's something dripping in my head.
(Pause.)
A heart, a heart in my head.
(Pause.)
NAGG:
Do you hear him? A heart in his head!
(He chuckles cautiously.)
NELL:
One mustn't laugh at those things, Nagg. Why must you always laugh at them?
NAGG:
Not so loud!
NELL (without lowering her voice):
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. But—
NAGG (shocked):
Oh!
NELL: Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.
(Pause.)
Have you anything else to say to me?
NAGG:
No.
NELL:
Are you quite sure?
(Pause.)
Then I'll leave you.

Everything is everything, sang Lauryn Hill.

Sometimes it seems
We'll touch that dream
But things come slow or not at all
And the ones on top, won't make it stop
So convinced that they might fall
Let's love ourselves and we can't fail
To make a better situation
Tomorrow, our seeds will grow
All we need is dedication
Let me tell ya that

Everything is everything
Everything is everything
After winter, must come spring
Everything is everything

Everything is everything
What is meant to be, will be
After winter, must come spring
Change, it comes eventually

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The Terror ] pron. TAR (

During COVID lockdown, we've been re-reading some Australian art criticism.

  John McDonald, 'A hollow, self-conscious laugh' 

  SMH : 21 November 1987 

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Vale Terry Jones (1942-2020)

MENU

- Egg and bacon
- Egg, sausage and bacon
- Egg and Spam
- Egg, bacon and Spam
- Egg, bacon, sausage and Spam
- Spam, bacon, sausage and Spam
- Spam, egg, Spam, Spam, bacon and Spam
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- Spam, Sausage, Spam, Spam, Spam, Bacon, Spam, Tomato and Spam
- Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, baked beans, Spam, Spam, Spam and Spam
- Lobster Thermidor aux Crevettes with a Mornay sauce, Served in a Provençale Manner with Shallots and Aubergines, garnished with Truffle Paté, Brandy and a Fried egg on top and Spam.

Wife: (shrieks) I don't like spam!

Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam and spam!

Vikings: (singing) Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!

Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off.

Man: Well could I have her spam instead of the baked beans then?

Waitress: You mean spam spam spam spam spam spam... (but it is too late and the Vikings drown her words)

Vikings: (singing elaborately) Spam, spam, spam, spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spaaam! Lovely spam! Wonderful spam. Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am! Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am! Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am! Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am! Lovely spam! (Lovely spam!) Lovely spam! (Lovely spam!) Lovely spaaam! Spam, spam, spam, spaaaaam!

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Laughing Songs of TAR ( Olivier Messiaen )

DANCE OF BÉBÉ PILULE (FOR MY LITTLE PASCAL)
words and music by Olivier Messiaen

Pilule, come let’s dance.

Malonlanlaine, ma.

Strands of sunshine.

Malonlanlaine, ma.

It’s the alphabet of laughter

at your mother’s fingertips.

Her perpetual yes

was a tranquil lake.

Malonlanlaine, ma, ma.

Gentleness of staircases,

surprise at the turnings of doors.

All the light birds

take flight from your hands.

Light birds, pebbles,

refrains, light cream.

Into blue fish,

into blue moons,

halos of earth and water,

a single lung in a single reed.

Io, malonlaine, ma.

The disarmed eye,

an angel on the head, 

your little nose raised

towards the blue which swallows itself,

hemming the glass horizons

with gilded cries, you offered

your heart so pure.

To sing, to sing, ah! to sing,

gleaner of stars, braids of life,

could you sing

more delightfully?

The wind on your ears,

Malonlanlaine, ma.

Plays leap-frog,

Malonlanlaine, ma.

and your mother’s

watchful eye and presence

Shedding one hour

around my smile.

Malonlanlaine, ma.

lo! ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, io, io!

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via Hotel Bellevue

Bonzaview 
by Label cascade 
to the see

 1946 photo by Marcel Duchamp : Hotel Bellevue and waterfalls

  Marcel Duchamp, Étant donnés : study for waterfalls backdrop

  Étant donnés in progress at 14th Street studio, New York 1965

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The Inter-lock-uTAR

Bosse de Nage, on secondment to bLOGOS/HAHA 

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Label-Crazed Triple-Gourd Void Vase Regard

Above, 19th century celadon crackle glazed porcelain gourd vase of good scale. This vase employs a delightfully pale shade of celadon glaze. The cracquelle surface is especially pleasing as it exists in two shades: jet black lines over much fainter and lighter crazing. 

Below, Label-crazed triple-gourd void vase regard.

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figure with guiTAR

We go together 

like John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John

We go together
Like rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong
Remembered forever
As shoo-bop sha wadda wadda yippity boom de boom
Chang chang changitty chang sha-bop
That's the way it should be
Wah-oooh, yeah!
We're one of a kind
Like dip da-dip da-dip doo-wop da doo-bee doo
Our names are signed
Boogedy boogedy boogedy boogedy
Shooby doo-wop she-bop
Chang chang changitty chang sha-bop
We'll always be like one, wa-wa-wa-one... 

We Go Together : songwriters Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil

Cubism and guiTAR go together
like Picasso and Braque

 Pablo Picasso 

 Guitar, Gas-Jet and Bottle

 1913
 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

 Georges Braque

 Man with a Guitar

 1911-1912 

 MoMA

And later, like...

  Roy De Maistre
  Figure with guitar
  c.1932 – 35
  soon for auction in Sydney :

smash and guiTAR go together 

like Simonon and The Clash
Hendrix and The Who
Tai-ki, Sengai and the
slave guiTARs of the ages

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Slave Guitars of the Art Cult | The Laugh-ist  
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Not the Wind, Not the Flag

The Gateless Gate #29

Not the Wind, Not the Flag

  Two monks were arguing about a flag. 

     One said: 

         'The flag is moving.'
     The other said: 

         'The wind is moving.'

     The sixth patriarch happened to be passing by. 

     He told them: 

         'Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving.'

   

Mumon's comment : The sixth patriarch said: "The wind is not moving, the flag is not moving. Mind is moving." What did he mean? If you understand this intimately, you will see the two monks there trying to buy iron and gaining gold. The sixth patriarch could not bear to see those two dull heads, so he made such a bargain.

      Wind, flag, mind moves,
      The same understanding.
      When the mouth opens
      All are wrong. 

The Gateless Gate, by Ekai, called Mu-mon, tr. Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps [1934], at sacred-texts.com

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Mechanical Headline

TARhaus : 

Poème Rire Défectueux 

- après Wolfgang Sievers

    Auction Information  

    Sale LJ8303

    26 June 2019 - 6:00pm

    Leonard Joel
    333 Malvern Rd, South Yarra 3141 

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Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 June, 10am-4pm 

Wednesday 26 June, 9am-4pm

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Lot 47

Lot 47

WOLFGANG SIEVERS (1913-2007)
Milkbottle Patternmaker, Australian Glass Manufacturers,
   Spotswood, Victoria 1956
silver gelatin photograph
titled, dated and signed verso
50 x 40cm

   Provenance
   The collection of Deidre Cook

   Other Notes
   © National Library of Australia 
   Estimate $600-800

    photograph by Wolfgang Sievers  

 Thoughts turn in rearrangement to 
 Raoul Hausmann's
 Mechanischer Kopf (Der Geist Unserer Zeit)
 Mechanical Head (The Spirit of Our Time)" 
 c. 1920 

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