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.
Sign Riders arriving at the Town Hall David Holmgren and Su Dennett, permaculture pioneers
Andrea Lindsay and an earlier campaign's re-purposing of a
Hepburn Shire councillor's address to "You people...
Meg Ulman referencing the disputed LL2 (Local Laws version2) to be voted on at this evening's Shire Council Meeting
Patrick Jones
Peter O'Mara
Petrus Spronk
Mark Dickenson and Jen Bray photo Natasha Morgan
SINGing and SIGNing against LL2 busking laws
Theatre of the Actors of Regard
...and many more. Tomorrow, what happens when the Festival moves inside for the Shire Council Meeting and vote on LL2.
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STOP THE PRESS just in from Mr D
Signs The 5 Man Electrical Band lyrics as recorded by The Five Man Electrical Band in 1971 and included on the 1990 compilation album "Made In Canada - Volume Three 1965-1974" And the sign said "Long-haired freaky people need not apply" So I tucked my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him why He said "You look like a fine upstanding young man, I think you'll do" So I took off my hat, I said "Imagine that. Huh! Me workin' for you!" Whoa-oh-oh
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?
And the sign said anybody caught trespassin' would be shot on sight So I jumped on the fence and-a yelled at the house, "Hey! What gives you the right?" "To put up a fence to keep me out or to keep mother nature in" "If God was here he'd tell you to your face, Man, you're some kinda sinner"
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?
Now, hey you, mister, can't you read? You've got to have a shirt and tie to get a seat You can't even watch, no you can't eat You ain't supposed to be here The sign said you got to have a membership card to get inside Ugh!
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And the sign said, "Everybody welcome. Come in, kneel down and pray" But when they passed around the plate at the end of it all, I didn't have a penny to pay So I got me a pen and a paper and I made up my own little sign I said, "Thank you, Lord, for thinkin' 'bout me. I'm alive and doin' fine." Wooo!
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?
Scott Morrison in Australian Parliament - photo by Mike Bowers
Experts slam Morrison’s false equivalence between emissions targets and hazard reduction
Michael Mazengarb / RenewEconomy
Climate and fire experts have slammed prime minister Scott Morrison’s claims that hazard reduction burns carry equal importance to that of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, saying it shows Morrison still does not understand the link between bushfires and climate change.
In an interview with former chief of staff to Tony Abbott, Peta Credlin, Morrison told Sky News that he was keen to avoid a focus on his government’s climate change targets, and instead sought to focus on the ongoing debate about hazard reduction burns.
“Hazard reduction is as important as emissions reduction and many would argue, I think, even more so because it has even more direct practical impact on the safety of a person going into a bushfire season,” Morrison said in an interview with Peta Credlin on Sky News.
“There’s been plenty of chat about emissions reduction, and that’s fine. Hazard reduction, though, is the thing that is going to take a more practical effect on how safe people are in future fire seasons.”
Following a summer that has been dominated by an unprecedented bushfire season in Australia, the Morrison government has refused to commit to doing more to reduce Australia’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions.
Researching Sister Corita Kent's artwork recently, we found this image & quote from the Vatican Two instigator and reformer Pope John 23 (1958-1963).
A skew second to the open spirit of that statement, nonetheless noted, was the pun-ish play between guard and garden.
From there to thoughts of the observer ("I like to watch") and projection-space 'Chauncey Gardiner' in Being There.
Yesterday, reading the following description of the National Gallery of Victoria by a former NGV guard rang that same odd sense of right and wrong delight.
"I can't even walk into the NGV anymore … it's lost its reputation for me and I consider it now to be like an illegal sweatshop."
The ABC report included this image of a blur-headed guard, with the same caption as below.
Portrait of Rengetsu, age 81, by Ueda Kokei The chosen name Otagaki Rengetsu translates as Lotus Moon. The enlightenment progress of the beholder of the sake cup below (upturned) begins at the lotus roots in the mud and the darkness beneath the cup. From there upward, divided, the stems reach through the realm of words and other symbols to the surface of the light-beckoning water : beyond to the full open enso moon, enlightenment.
In the beginning, there was no set price for her pottery. People gave what they could. One day, a wealthy customer left quite a tidy sum of money in a payment envelope. (In Japan, money is presented in an envelope to be opened later.) When Rengetsu discovered how much he paid her, she became perturbed. If regular customers found out that Rengetsu’s pottery was valued at such a high price, they would feel compelled to offer more money so that they would not look cheap, the market price would rise, and her work would be less affordable. Thereafter, Rengetsu established a fixed price for her wares, the same cost for everyone.
I’m a printmaker... a very democratic form, since it enables me to produce a quantity of original art for those who cannot afford to purchase high-priced art.
- Corita Kent Corita Kent, F is for food, 1964
Corita Kent, Phil and Dan, 1969 (brothers Philip and Daniel Berrigan were Catholic priests and anti-war activists)
Corita Kent, commission - ellsberg poster, 1972 (Daniel Ellsberg was the compiler of The Pentagon Papers - cf. Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning)
Sir Robert Menzies Director of Australia from 1939 to 1941and
Director of Australiafrom 1949 to 1966 Sir Robert Menzies by Eric Westbrook, c.1960, when Director of the National Gallery of Victoria
J. S. Macdonald, 1936–41 Sir Ernest Daryl Lindsay, 1942–55 Eric Westbrook, 1956–73 Gordon Thomson, 1973–75
Melbourne artists in 1975 protested at the NGV about their relationship with the NGV.
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For some reason, it was not the NGV Director who addressed the protesters' grievances but Eric Westbrook, by then several years retired from that role and since installed at the new Victorian Ministry for the Arts. In this photo from that protest, Eric Westbrook is standing to the left; in the centre, representing the artists, is John Davis; to the right, arguing for other related matters is Terry Smith. (A detailed account around this event can be read in Jonathan Holmes'Going Solo: a report on survey exhibitions in Australian public museums in the 1970s.)
photo : FIAPCE
Dr Eric Westbrook
Prime Minister of the NGV from 1956 to 1973
above : self-sketch by Eric Westbrook, 1950.
collection National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
below : sketch-in protest at NGV, 2004.
collection AAA_Art Archive Australia
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* On 26 May 1975, Ivan Durrant dumped the carcass of a "freshly slaughtered cow" on the forecourt of the National Gallery of Victoria.[4][5][8][9] -Wikipedia
Today, in Sydney, the winner of the 2016 Archibald Prize for Portraiture will be announced.
The Archibald Prize is awarded annually to the best portrait, 'preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in art, letters, science or politics, painted by any artist resident in Australasia'. This open competition is judged by the trustees of the Art Gallery of NSW
Meanwhile, in Paris, there are just three more days to visit the exhibition Apollinaire, le regard du poète at the Musée de l’Orangerie. The exhibition poster features Giorgio de Chirico's"Premonitory portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire", 1914 :
It is almost one hundred years since Guillaume Apollinaire died at thirty-eight in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. The many portraits of him painted by his contemporaries - Rousseau, Picasso, de Chirico, Chagall, Man Ray, Metzinger, Picabia, Vlaminck, Larionov, Marie Laurencin, Robert Delaunay, Modigliani, Dali, Duchamp and others - attest to the extraordinary person he must have been.
Picasso and Duchamp with Apollinaire at their headwaters, flowing into the twentieth century.
Amazing!
Pablo Picasso, project for a monument to Apollinaire, 1928
Marcel Duchamp, Apolinere Enameled, 1916-17
One more of the portraits : atop his 1918 obituary portrait GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE : IRRITABLE POETE Picabia wrote (after a phrase from Horace) “Tu ne mourras pas tout entier” (You will never completely die).
A calligramme (calligraphy-ideogramme) by Apollinaire : Apollinaire, La Mandoline, l'oeillet et le bambou (Mandolin, Carnation and Bamboo), 1913-1916 A calliTARgram by Theatre of the Actors of Regard :
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