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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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17 November 2023

after Tachihara, the Architecture of Regard : From the Mountains to the See

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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19 September 2023

T - + - R

This glossy 8x10 arrived out of the blue with several others placed inside an old folded movie poster.

Recognised as a classic Theatre of the Actors of Regard document worthy of further regard, Henry Weatherfield & Associates were commissioned to sign-write it as it now appears.

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14 August 2023

Twombly of the AssisTARed Readymade

Theatre of the Actors of Regard

Let ][ ---- )(

equal

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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06 August 2023

TAR : Taking After Redon

The exhibition 'Photography and the Performative' at Sydney University's Chau Chak Wing Museum, displays a work by Imants Tillers, If I close my eyes. His instagram website describes it thus :

Curated by Katrina Liberiou, the show explores the intersection between photography and performance.

Imants Tillers
If I close my eyes (2021)
189 Polaroids 1980–1982, nos. 112966–113161
10.7 x 8.9 cm (each); 75 x 239 cm (overall)
University of Sydney Art Collection

This conceptual work comprises 189 Polaroids made between 1980 and 1982. Tillers carried a camera with him during his daily life and documented those he encountered, asking his sitters to close their eyes. Interspersed with these portraits are landscape scenes depicting the view from his flat overlooking Sirius Cove.”

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‘Taking After Redon’ re-imagines ‘If I close my eyes’ with the views of Sirius Cove replaced by views of Odilon Redon’s ‘Les yeux clos’ (Closed Eyes) c.1890.

Theatre of the Actors of Regard

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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14 February 2023

The Look of Love, on this very special day...

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Teatro dell'Amore e della Rivelazione

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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08 November 2022

Theatre of Eclipse

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20 March 2022

Circle Work

Bonzaview dawn yesterday

moon setting west

sun rising east --
morning piss

Theatre of the AstroLOGOS/HA HA of Regard

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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08 March 2022

Vincent van TAR

Immersive : see/be a Vincent van TAR self-portrait mounted on the 2001 A Space Odyssey monolith set inside a Francis Bacon prisoner cage.

17 MARCH 2021 – 17 JULY 2022

FESTIVAL SQUARE

EDINBURGH

The most visited immersive multi-sensory experience in the world.

Having dazzled over 8.5 million visitors across 75 cities worldwide, the most visited immersive, multi-sensory experience in the world is making its hotly anticipated Scottish debut in Edinburgh’s iconic Festival Square, opening in spring for an exclusive four month run.

Hosted within a stunning, purpose-built venue from March 17th to July 17th, this Covid-safe and family-friendly experience is anticipated to become Scotland’s biggest visitor attraction along with Edinburgh Fringe; providing a truly world-class cultural experience in the heart of Edinburgh.

Prepare to transcend time and space as you accompany Van Gogh on a journey through the Netherlands, Arles, Saint Rémy and Auvers-sur-Oise, where he created many of his timeless masterpieces. Set to an evocative classical score, a thrilling display of over 3,000 inspirational images transforms every surface that surrounds you in what has been described as an “unforgettable multi-sensory experience”.

At Van Gogh Alive you don’t just look at his paintings, you step inside them and feel their power.

Theatre of the Actors of Regard

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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14 February 2022

circumscripTAR dance

"It was in my mind to say that a portrait should be the image of one spirit received in the mirror of another"
- PORTRAIT IN A MIRROR, Charles Morgan (1933)

Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Archibald Prize, Archie 100 explores the history of Australia’s most prestigious portrait award. The exhibition presents a diverse selection of Archibald portraits from the last century—the triumphant and the thwarted—and honours the artists who have made the prize the most sought-after accolade in Australian art today.

Archie 100 is an Art Gallery of New South Wales touring exhibition.
Geelong Gallery is the exclusive Victorian venue for Archie 100.

Archie 100 @ Geelong Gallery until 20 February 2022

Theatre of the Actors of Regard

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23 January 2022

Vale Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 -2022)

The Fourteen Precepts of Engaged Buddhism (click here)

on office wall at bLOGOS/HA HA

Penguin | Random House

HAND SPACE/FIAPCE/TAR

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20 January 2022

To see

a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower

- William Blake, the opening lines of Auguries of Innocence

Painting on silk, 9.2 x 4.3 cm. Toyok, 8th-9th century.

(Ethnic Uighurian region in Northwestern China)

Museum fur Indische Kunst (MIK III 6348)

The Flower Sermon is a story of the origin of Zen Buddhism in which Gautama Buddha transmits direct prajñā (wisdom) to the disciple Mahākāśyapa. In the original Chinese, the story is Niān huā wēi xiào (拈花微笑, literally "Pick up flower, subtle smile").

In the story, the Buddha gives a wordless sermon to his disciples (sangha) by holding up a white flower. No one in the audience understands the Flower Sermon except Mahākāśyapa, who smiles. Within Zen, the Flower Sermon communicates the ineffable nature of tathātā (suchness) and Mahākāśyapa's smile signifies the direct transmission of wisdom without words. The Buddha affirmed this by saying:

I possess the true Dharma eye, the marvelous mind of Nirvana, the true form of the formless, the subtle [D]harma [G]ate that does not rest on words or letters but is a special transmission outside of the scriptures. This I entrust to Mahākāśyapa.[1]

Jung and Kerényi demonstrate a possible commonality in intent between the Flower Sermon and the Eleusinian Mysteries:

One day the Buddha silently held up a flower before the assembled throng of his disciples. This was the famous "Flower Sermon." Formally speaking, much the same thing happened in Eleusis when a mown ear of grain was silently shown. Even if our interpretation of this symbol is erroneous, the fact remains that a mown ear was shown in the course of the mysteries and that this kind of "wordless sermon" was the sole form of instruction in Eleusis which we may assume with certainty.[2]

- Wikipedia : Flower Sermon

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30 December 2021

Tibetan Children...

Shocking new information has come to light that as many as one million Tibetan children & youth – as young as 6 years old – are being held in China's colonial boarding schools, removed from their parents, families, culture, and religion, and faced with intense political indoctrination.

Please take action to demand Chinese leaders stop the use of colonial boarding schools in occupied Tibet.

TAKE ACTION NOW!

Tibet Action Institute's report shares heartbreaking stories from survivors and witnesses about the brutal impact of China's colonial boarding schools.

One anonymous witness told them, "I know of children aged four to five who don’t want to be separated from their mothers. They are forced to go to boarding schools. In some cases, the children cry for days, sticking to their mother’s laps, begging not to be sent away."

This spine-chilling practice is similar to historic residential schools for indigenous children in Canada, the US, and Australia that aimed to destroy their indigenous language, culture, and identity. We can’t let this happen again.

Please take a few minutes to email China’s Vice Premier and Minister of Education to demand this practice is stopped?

We're now developing plans and resources for Tibet groups to build more urgent action about China's colonial boarding schools to ensure Tibetan children are not forgotten.

Thanks for all that you do to support Tibet.

Mandie, Lobsang, Pema, Terluz and the team at Tibet Network

TAKE ACTION NOW!

Read more about China's Colonial Boarding Schools:
Separated From Their Families, Hidden From The World
Tibet Action Institute

The horrors of Canada’s residential schools are being repeated in Tibet
Globe And Mail - Tsering Yangzo Lama

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19 December 2021

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday

Today is Sunday.

Three Sundays ago in New York, members of the Broadway theatre community gathered in tribute to Stephen Sondheim.

Together they sang 'Sunday' from 'Sunday in the Park with George.'

ALL

Sunday,
By the blue,

Purple, yellow, red water
On the green,

Purple, yellow, red grass
Let us pass
Through our perfect park,

Pausing on a Sunday
By the cool,

Blue, triangular water
On the soft,

Green, elliptical grass
As we pass

Through arrangements of shadows
Towards the verticals of trees

Forever ...

By the blue

Purple, yellow, red water
On the green

Orange violet mass
Of the grass
In our perfect park,

Made of flecks of light
And dark,

And parasols ...

GEORGE

(Hums as he works)
Bumbum bum bumbumbum
Bumbum bum ...

ALL
People strolling through the trees
Of a small suburban park
On an island in the river
On an ordinary Sunday
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday

Below, Lin-Manuel Miranda reads from 'Look, I made a hat : Collected Lyrics (1981-2011)'.

"This is the only lyric I've written that consists of one long incomplete sentence. I wanted it to be like the descriptive caption you might read in a museum next to the painting."

- Stephen Sondheim

Theatre of the Actors of Regard

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07 September 2021

Congratulations bLOG Appreciator

FIAPCE -1998-

Yesterday, researching Gordon Parks' 1956 photographs of the Chico Hamilton Quintet for LIFE magazine, this popped up...

Theatre of the Actors of Regard
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21 July 2021

see scene

This makuri (unmounted/dis-mounted scroll work) is by the master printer-painter Masanobu Okumura (1686-1764). We cannot see the head the face the eyes the mind of the depicted samurai figure, so to caption the scene 'secretive samurai sees the see' would be speculative and limited.