TAR of Babel

   

Theatre of the Ancients of Regard 

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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 LOGOS/HA HA

  

   

     

Spoiler Alert re. 'Logan'

     
Last night, we watched 'Logan' (2017).

At the grave, Laura quotes from 'Shane' (1953).

Then, coming upon the SINCLAIR+GALLERY research, comes Laura's parting act. Turning upon turning...

Theatre of the Actors of Regard  

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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Minister for Education, Alan Tudge MP re. National Education Standards

  
In the morning, this broad discussion on The Art Show (ABC RN) re. about Public Art.

In the afternoon, at Question Time in the House of Representatives, the Minister for Education re. National Education Standards. Hansard (20 October 2021) :

Mr ALEXANDER (Bennelong) (14:51): My question is to the Minister for Education and Youth. With many students in my electorate returning to school this week, will the minister outline how the Morrison government is ensuring the national curriculum will help our kids roar back and instil a factual, positive view of our history and love of our country.

Mr TUDGE (Aston—Minister for Education and Youth) (14:51): I thank the member for Bennelong for his question and his contribution to his electorate and indeed to our nation. It is fantastic that kids are returning to school in Melbourne and Sydney, and it is such a relief for parents and for kids. As they return to school, we are absolutely backing them in to roar back. We're doing that through record funding to every single school; we're doing that through additional mental health support; we're doing that through keeping the economy strong so that there are opportunities for them post schooling—and, of course, we're also doing this through revising the national curriculum to ensure that standards are high and that we instil that love of country which the member for Bennelong referred to.

Mr Speaker, as you'd be aware, the national curriculum is presently under review. But I've got to say that I would not support what the independent Australian curriculum authority has presently put out, the reason being that, in some cases, standards haven't been lifted but have in fact gone backwards. The clearest example of that is in the teaching of the times table. Presently, kids are being taught that in year 3, but under the revised national curriculum, which ACARA, the independent body, has put out, it would be taught in year 4. In some other countries it's actually taught in year 2. But I'll tell you what is suggested to be taught in year 2, and that is to suggest or to analyse whether a statue is racist. So you can't learn the times table, but you can do an analysis of a statue in year 2, when you are seven.

My biggest problem, though, is actually in the history curriculum—

Opposition members interjecting—

The SPEAKER: Members on my left!

Mr TUDGE: and it is in this history curriculum where I have the greatest problem. As you know, we live in the greatest, egalitarian, freest, wealthiest country that has ever existed in the history of humankind, but if you read that national draft curriculum on our history, you wouldn't think this. It has such a miserable view of our history. Frankly, we're not going to stand for that, because there is a reason that we are the greatest country in the world, and kids need to learn about that reason so that they can defend it, so they can be proud of it and they can do what previous generations have done.

I notice whenever I talk about this topic, whenever I talk about pride in Australia and I talk about pride in our history, the Labor Party opposite get so upset, because they equally have such a miserable view of our history and they want that miserable view imparted to kids. Well, we don't on this side of the House. We are proud of our country. We know that mums and dads are proud of their country, and we want to ensure the kids are equally proud.

Culture Wars 101 (continued) : He did the same thing in Question Time yesterday. Again, he had one of his own backbenchers set him up with a Dorothy Dixer. 

Mr STEVENS (Sturt) (14:27): My question is to the Minister for Education and Youth. Will the minister outline how the new draft national school curriculum proposes to teach Australian children about our rich history and our successful democracy?

Mr TUDGE (Aston—Minister for Education and Youth) (14:28): 

I thank the member for Sturt...

...I am not satisfied with the current draft which has been presented, because some of those core things which underpin our democracy are not there. It has a negative view of our history. It has a negative view of Australia. It omits some of the great people in Australia's history. It omits even things such as Christianity, more or less, even though it's one of the great influences on modern Australia.  

Opposition members interjecting— 

Mr TUDGE: Again I speak about this desire to instil love of country into the national curriculum and into students, and again the Labor Party get so upset when we dare to suggest that kids should learn about our democracy, should have pride in our country, should absolutely celebrate our democracy and should make a contribution to it. I don't understand why. The only reason I can suggest is that they share that miserable view of our nation and want our kids to equally have that miserable view of our nation. We won't stand for it.

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Theatre of the Actors of Regard  

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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specTAR

Sometimes, seeing one thing...


 Hilma af Klint

 Group X, Altarpiece, no. 1

 1915

 oil and metal leaf on canvas

 237.5 x 179.5 cm

 currently at AGNSW : Hilda af Klint - The Secret Paintings

... resonates with having seen another thing

  

  FIAPCE  -1992-                                         Theatre of the Actors of Regard     

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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 [after The Triumph of Christianity over Paganism

 by Tommaso Laureti Siciliano, 1585)

   

     

Looking To See

  

photo Caroline Tisdall  

Joseph Beuys at Sandycove urinal lookout, Eyeland, 1974

Theatre of The Actors of Regard  

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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Lindy Lee at MCA

Lindy Lee : Moon in a Dew Drop

A major survey exhibition

MCA Sydney

2 Oct 2020 – 28 Feb 2021

 MCA forecourt with 'Secret World of a Starlight Ember' by
 Lindy Lee, 2020 - photo by Anna Kucera

Theatre of the Actors of Regard   

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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Praxis

"Un pour tous, tous pour un."

- Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers (1844)

"One and Three Chairs"

- Joseph Kosuth (1965), collection MoMA

Praxis : "I was just sitting there trying to keep warm, trying to pay attention to what was going on."

- Bernie Sanders, Inauguration Day (21 January 2021)

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Theatre of the Actors of Regard  

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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 LOGOS/HA HA
     

     

    

Theoria : Term 1

Study regard

Study interconnectedness

Study 'The Student' ] Tom Bass, 1953 (

Study 'The Student' ] Tom Bass & TAR, 2021 (

  

Installation at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney University  

A.S. & Theatre of the Actors of Regard  

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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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--

specific-bonding detail / Theatre of the AnaLOGOS/HA HA of Regard

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 

Theatre of the Actors of Regard  

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

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text paperweights

 

A paperweight, elongated brass cube inscribed on two sides with poetry by Yosa Buson. We use it to heap and hold recent Spirax drawings such as that below.

collection : FIAPCE  

Title paperweight with copper green patina...

FIAPCE  

...after Edgar Degas's 'Danseuse regardant la plante de son pied droit, quatrième étude' (Dancer looks at the sole of her right foot, fourth study) c.1882–1900 [collection QAGOMA] in which a woman of bronze regards her pedestal Title reflection/growth/formation/installation.

Theatre of the Actors of Regard   

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

 someone looks at something...

  

 LOGOS/HA HA