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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04 June 2020

nothing something anything everything


Sometimes everything looms so large.
Friday Night Dinner  
The simplest enquiry can suddenly appear overwhelming when encountered by Mark Heap (Spaced, Upstart Crow, Friday Night Dinner).

 She : Is everything all right?

 He : Everything?

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04 April 2020

draw draw draw your oar gently o'er the see


MELBOURNE.- The National Gallery of Victoria has launched a new four-part virtual series of its popular Drop-by Drawing program.

This virtual iteration of the program invites audiences to watch a video tutorial of a Drop-by Drawing class, which features tips and tricks on how to draw from some of Victoria’s most engaging contemporary artists.

The series features Victorian artists Minna Gilligan, Lily Mae Martin and Kenny Pittock giving a step-by-step guide on how to draw, whilst taking inspiration from some of their favourite artworks in the NGV Collection.

Tony Ellwood AM, Director, NGV said: “Our Drop-by Drawing program is one of the NGV’s much-loved programs where our visitors can hone their drawing skills in the setting of the wonderful NGV Collection. We know drawing is a very mindful and therapeutic activity, and during this time we are delighted to be able to give audiences a chance to experience virtual Drop-by Drawing tutorials at home.”
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      free pencil movement protest NGV Drawing Ban (2004)

 PART ONE - SUNDAY 5 APRIL
PRESENTED BY LILY MAE MARTIN ON NGV CHANNEL 
The first virtual drawing class hosted by Lily Mae Martin, takes viewers into the NGV’s 19th Century European Paintings Gallery where she takes inspiration from the life-size marble sculpture Musidora, 1878 by Marshall Wood. Musidora was a mythological ancient Greek goddess, who inspired all forms of literature and the arts and is the striking centrepiece of the gallery.

Martin encourages at-home participants to focus on simple drawing exercises, including observational drawing and mark making, to begin their sketch of Musidora. These practical skills demonstrate to viewers how working on a drawing in stages builds consistency in their work.

“It is about getting comfortable with drawing and embracing the practice of mastering the technique. The key to drawing is practice! Take time to look at the object and study it. Be comfortable in your setup and your space, whether you are drawing a sculpture or the kettle in your kitchen. It's something you can do at home with everyday objects,” she said.
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23 January 2020

Vale Terry Jones (1942-2020)


MENU
- Egg and bacon
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 Wife: (shrieks) I don't like spam!
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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)
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Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art and Spam/
 someone looks at something and Spam... 
  
 LOGOS/HA HA and Spam



25 May 2017

On Laughter :


regarding an uncertain disposition

 Hermes Trismegistus - Theatre of the Actors of Regard

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l   a   u   g   h   a   l   f   u   l   l
l  a  u  g  h  a  l  f  u  l  l
l a u g h a l f u l l
laughalfull
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laughTAR cLub  
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13 April 2017

Sight Gag

 

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10 April 2017

Vale John Clarke (1948 - 2017)


John Clarke : writer, satirist, broadcaster, actor, comedian, everyman, everywoman. 

Of wit, wisdom and compassion (Shakespeare). 
Up there and down there with Spike Milligan.
     
 John Clarke and Fred Dagg - the early years 

Fred Dagg's Greatest Hits (1976) 
 John Clarke and Sam Neill -
 an antipodean Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

Death In Brunswick , 1990 
 John Clarke and Brian Dawe for 27 years

  Look, again : nothing, everything, nothing, everything...

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05 March 2017

The Blue Angle





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16 January 2017

TAR NEWS : Trump to Arrest Reformer

       
The writer and theatre reformer W.B. Yeats will give a lecture at Molesworth Hall, Dublin, on the fourteenth of March 1903. Seats may be reserved.

They gave me three seconds to say this, so: An actor’s only job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us, and let you feel what that feels like, and there were many, many, many powerful performances that did exactly that: breathtaking, compassionate work. But there was one performances this year that stunned me; it sank its hooks in my heart, not because it was good. There was nothing good about it. But it was effective and it did its job—it made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth.

 It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter—someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I still can’t get it out of my head because it wasn’t in a movie; it was real life. And this instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, filters down into everybody’s life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing.
      
Meryl Streep, extract from her 2016 Golden Globes acceptance speech

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Donald J. Trump 
@realDonaldTrump

Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn't know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes. She is a.....

Hillary flunky who lost big. For the 100th time, I never "mocked" a disabled reporter (would never do that) but simply showed him.......

"groveling" when he totally changed a 16 year old story that he had written in order to make me look bad. Just more very dishonest media!

10:43 PM - 9 Jan 2017
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06 September 2016

before | art moderne | after


Looking at some comic sketches in a volume of Le Monde Illustre, we note with interest that by 1865 (see the various dates discussed below) there was already reckoned a readership for a public spoof about "a project for a symbolic statue of modern art". Consolidation of this new movement is clear in the terminoLOGOS/HA HA (''l'art moderne") and in its mock monumental stature. (What is that thing he's holding out?)
 Projet d'une statue symbolique de l'art moderne.
 Le Mois Comique, par Edmond Morin et Zed.
 Le Monde Illustre, p.269, 1865

 History of modern Art: roots in the 19th century
Although modern sculpture and architecture are reckoned to have emerged at the end of the 19th century, the beginnings of modern
painting can be located earlier.[5] The date perhaps most commonly identified as marking the birth of modern art is 1863,[6]
the year that Édouard Manet showed his painting Le déjeuner sur l'herbe in the Salon des Refusés in Paris. Earlier dates have also been proposed, among them 1855 (the year Gustave Courbet
exhibited The Artist's Studio) and 1784 (the year Jacques-Louis David completed his painting The Oath of the Horatii ).[6] 
NB  It is The Oath of the Horatii that the Outsiders run past and leave us to regard in Goddard's 'Bande à part' (Band of Outsiders) a century after the Projet d'une statue symbolique de l'art modernes, making this another contender worthy of consideration at the starting line of post-Modernism. 
- Ed. bLOGOS/HA HA
In the words of art historian H. Harvard Arnason: "Each of these dates has significance for the development of modern art, but none categorically marks a completely new beginning .... A gradual metamorphosis took place in the course of a hundred years."[6]
- from Wikipedia


 Jean-Luc Goddard "Bande à part" (Band of Outsiders) 1964

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01 September 2016

New Museum Opens Today

     
Fosterville 
Institute of
Applied &
Progressive
Cultural
Experience

ppesents
presents
poesents
puesents
pdesents
plesents
pyesents
       
A 
New 
Arrangement
Gives
Readers 
Another 
Museum
     

FIAPCE  
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16 February 2016

Polly Krome + The Gnu Glove Puppets


Sweet Gloves
"When Catherine de' Medici came to France by way of marriage, she brought with her several trends from her native Florence, including cooking utensils and techniques, Italian architecture, and beauty rituals. Italy in the 16th century was a fragrant place where perfume was used to scent skin as well as all articles of clothing. Catherine arrived in France with her personal perfumer, René le Florentin, and a vast collection of custom perfumes. 
She promptly introduced perfumed gloves–or sweet gloves–to the French court, where men and women wore them as the ultimate emblem of prestige. Leather was the most popular choice for sweet gloves, but scenting a leather glove was no easy feat. To start with, the leather tanning process at the time used animal excrement, which gave the finished product a smooth finish but a repulsively rancid odor. This was why leather glove makers had turned to perfume to mask the less than luxurious smell in the first place."

- extract from 

HOW CATHERINE DE MEDICI MADE GLOVES LACED WITH POISON FASHIONABLE

Julia Davis / Atlas Obscura  12 February 2016




Polly Krome + The Gnu Glove Puppets
         


 That's Polly out front in the mosh pit...

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31 January 2016

2016 : year of the sketchie

 
Further to yesterday's vainglorious solipsism, from Theatre of the Actors of Regard (Dolce & Gabbana, Milan, September 2015) it's Selfies On Parade.

 Best in category.


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We're tipping as the next reflexive : the sketchie (via selfie-sketch, meta-sketch).
           
It's already happening : yesterday at the bakery on the otherwise bare counter a lone brown paper bag sketchie. Bread on the shelves but no one there to serve. The customer examined the bag. Eventually bought some bread and took the bag home.
    
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One side : three dimensions of space tightly wrapped and all self contained.



The other side, same bag, same container : three free lines (or possibly they support an unseen container) and three lines as supports for an ideogram of dependent arising. 
       
Paper bag, teacher, projection-space, container : same bag, aware and self-illustrating as both Relative (one side) and Absolute/empty of inherence (the other).
        
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30 January 2016

Self Serving Sentence


She sees See Selfs by the Self Sure

I self 
you self
he/she selfs
we self
you self
they self
 Mary Anning of palaeontoLOGOS/HA HA fame

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She sees See Selfs

 subject verb object
subject verb object
subject verb object
subject verb object
subject verb object
subject verb object
           
 Genesis : Self Made Sign

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Self self self (Self is all you need)

self self self
self self self
self self self
self self self
self self self
self self self
 20teens : Age of the Selfie Sketch

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18 August 2015

LINE!


The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare.
Infinite monkey theorem - wikipedia

And so to the ever-wonderful David Pope of the Canberra Times :

For crying out loud, stick to the script, people!...


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Word has leaked that earlier this week Tony Abbott "read the Riot Act" to his Cabinet about falling into line and following the script - what script? - on same-sex marriage. Hence, the courting scene above with that manly hardliner Scott Morrison and the lineless small l liberal Malcolm Turnbull. Out front on keyboard, the infinitely hammer-fisted monkey. Author! Author!
          
Three Laughers of TAR enact I fLawnt  the Line


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17 June 2015

TAR TREK PROTEST

           
MARCH WITH US TO CANBERRA ON 18 JUNE    
JOIN THE ART WORKERS PROTEST    
AGAINST HIS EXCELLENCE    
GEORGE BRANDIS    
QC    

ARTS SECTOR CALLS ON PARLIAMENT TO BLOCK FUNDING CUTS
Crikey / Daily Review
16 June 2015

George Brandis unites the crossbench in votes against the government
Heath Aston / The Age
17 June 2015
The legal and constitutional affairs references committee will now review the handling of the letter sent by Martin Place siege gunman Man Haron Monis to the Attorney-General and, separately, Senator Brandis' decision to divert $105 million from the Australia Council to a new program that has been branded by Labor as his own "arts slush fund", the National Program for Excellence in the Arts. 
The vote to establish both inquiries, held on Tuesday, was the first time all eight crossbenchers have voted with Labor and the Greens to refer the government to an inquiry chaired by the opposition.
Below, protest street poster by Theatre of the Actors of Regard, after Un collège en promenade by CHAM, Le Charivari, 6 March 1869.
            

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10 June 2015

I AM THE LOO KING

         
Theoria Rex
                
] who with unblinking gaze (         
        

Theoria : the act of looking, the act of regard 

TAR : Theatre of the Actors of Regard
           
Theoria Rex : The Loo King 

'I am the Loo King' : Anthem of the Loo King. Sung at the Court of TAR to the melody of Russell Morris's 'Real Thing' (1969).
Come and see the loo king, come and see the loo king, come and see
Come and see the loo king, come and see the loo king, come and see
There's a meaning there, but the meaning there doesn't really mean a thing
Come and see the loo king, come and see the loo king, come and see 
I am the loo king ! 
Oo mama mow-mow
Oo mama mow-mow
Oo mama mow-mow
Oo mama mow-mow
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Oo mama mow-mow
Oo mama mow-mow
Oo mama mow-mow
Oo mama mow-mow
                  
             

06 June 2015

John Heartfield & The John Heartfields

re-present : 
        
 JOHN HEARTFIELD AND THE 
 AGITATED  IMAGE  
 Photography, Persuasion, and the Rise 
 of Avant-Garde Photomontage 
by Andrés Mario Zervigón
    
Suck My Cuts : this special re-edition book cover celebrates 
the cut-and-paste Ministry of George Brandis QC, Director of Excellence and Efficiency Dividender to the Arts of Australia.

 We Are All John Heartfield Now : Lots more GB cultural collage at  The George Brandis Live Art Experience

 Australians for Artistic Freedom : open letter to George Brandis - sign here
             
George Brandis : The Australian Academy for Excellent Art : here
       
Defining the Modern Australian Landscape : here
             
 Fosterville Institute of Applied & Progressive Cultural Experience
          
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