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Melbourne Cup

       

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   This old man
   He stayed home
   Stopped The Nation
   On his own.

   With a knick-knack paddywhack,
   Give the nag a name,
   The Cliffsofmoher
   A sporting shame.

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GERTRUDE CONTEMPORARY

Join us THIS WEEKEND

for a special look into our new building in its entirety

including the galleries and artist studios.

Saturday 28 July - Sunday 29 July

11am - 4:30pm

21 - 31 High Street, Preston VIC 3072

Theatre of the Actors of Regard  

Twenty minute tours guided by Gertrude Contemporary staff 

will be held at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm & 3pm  

No bookings necessary.
   

Designed by architecture firm Edition Office,

Gertrude’s High Street premises includes custom-made

spaces for our two exhibition galleries, sixteen artist studios

for our two-year studio program and administrative offices. 

 Gertrude Contemporary was recently shortlisted for the 

Victorian Architecture Awards 2018.
  

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> Noh > TAR >

Noh Theatre (Sakai YUITSU b.1878)  

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KNULP fundraiser

KNULP ANNUAL FUNDRAISER AUCTION 2017 / 
SATURDAY DECEMBER 9 / 
VIEWINGS FROM 3PM / 
LIVE AUCTION 4PM SHARP WITH CHRIS FOX /

Featuring works from an array of KNULP associates including:

Iakovos Amperidis 
Hany Armanious
Dylan Batty
Margaret Brink 
Vicky Brown
Jessie Bullivant
Mitch Cairns
Camilla Cassidy
Consuelo Cavaniglia
Carla Cescon
Maria Cruz
Mitchel Cumming
ADS Donaldson
Scott Donovan
Jack Lanagan Dunbar
Mikala Dwyer
Alex Gawronski
Matthys Gerber
Sarah Goffman
Agatha Gothe-Snape
Jasmine Guffond
Michelle Hanlin
Patrick Hartigan
Shane Haseman
Matt Hinkley
Matthew Hopkins
Anna John
Locust Jones
Sean Kerr
Geoff Kleem
Hyun Lee
Del Lumanta
Jason Markou
Luke Parker
Kenzee Patterson
Tanya Peterson
Elizabeth Pulie
Robert Pulie
Elvis Richardson
Zoe M. Robertson
Nicola Smith
Nick Strike
Isabelle Sully
Jelena Telecki
David M. Thomas
Teo Treloar
Justin Trendall
Ronnie van Hout
Philipa Veitch
Justene Williams
Gianni Wise

KNULP

15 Fowler St
Camperdown
Sydney, Australia
knulpknulpknulp@gmail.com
Saturday and Sunday 12-5pm
Monday to Friday by appointment

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Everyone at Once or What the Worm Saw

A bird's-eye view is an elevated view of an object from above, with a perspective as though the observer were a bird, often used in the making of blueprints, floor plans, and maps.

      

It can be an aerial photograph, but also a drawing. Before manned flight was common, the term "bird's eye" was used to distinguish views drawn from direct observation at high locations (for example a mountain or tower), from those constructed from an imagined (bird's) perspectives. Bird's eye views as a genre have existed since classical times. The last great flourishing of them was in the mid-to-late 19th century, when bird's eye view prints were popular in the United States and Europe.

- Wikipedia  

LONDON — Sometimes, curatorial conceit need be nothing more than a conceit, a frame that occasions the presentation of stellar art. While lacking a sharp concept, the exhibition Everything at Once offers a bird’s-eye view of the global contemporary art scene’s ascendance, convergence, and rupture.

- full article here  

 Anish Kapoor, “At the Edge of the World II” (1998)
 photo by Jack Hems
, © Anish Kapoor, courtesy Lisson Gallery

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The Hou_e That sLaughter Built (Le Regard Mental)

       
In my Father's house are many mansions: 

if it were not so, I would have told you. 

I go to prepare a place for you.

- John 14 : 2 (King James Bible) 

 Rene Magritte, Le Regard Mental, 1946

Those houses!... Just like in my dreams!

  FIAPCE (Black Bats) at Architectura Picta, Ewing Gallery, 1984

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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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Brutalist Block Party

     

Brutalist Block Party is a May-long program of talks, workshops, lunches, dinners, social situations and a weekly produce market – presented by Assemble Papers and Open House Melbourne in a vast concrete-fronted warehouse in Clifton Hill. It’s a celebration of the under-celebrated – an homage to the site’s Brutalist heritage and to post-war architecture everywhere; a convivial nod to the spirit of community at the heart of this architectural approach.
       

The program unfurls amidst Brutalist Bollards and Pillars of Contention – a specially commissioned spatial installation by Practise Studio Practise. The Brutalist Bar ensures that the brutalist banter continues before, during and after each event.

Brutalist Block Party is part of a broader Open House Melbourne program called ’What’s the beef with Brutalism?’ – a series of screenings, talks and tours that consider people’s beef with a Béton brut, explore the social significance of the style, and consider what is the new, new brutalism?

    

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Artist As Family theartistasfamily.blogspot.com.au

What a joy this morning to listen to our inspirational frontier friends Patrick Jones and Meg Ulman being interviewed by Michael Williams on the national broadcaster.

Blueprint for Living
'Frugal Family Adventure'
ABC Radio National : click here to listen

Here they are on their recent 6,000 km adventure. Zero out front of Patrick and Zephyr ...


... and Meg and Woody.



Now, from Newsouth Books ... 
     


Permaculture co-founder and yet another extraordinary local resident David Holmgren launched The Art of Free Travel at the Daylesford Library and Community Garden earlier this month.

       
This week Artist As Family will set off on their bikes again, from Daylesford to Sydney and back for a 3 month book tour. If you encounter them along the way, please make them welcome.

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Border Incident : Operation Farce

         
At 10 am today, the Australian Border Force announced Operation Fortitude.  

Operation Fortitude seems to have been named using the wrong f-word. Many would work, but let’s go with Operation Farce.

Not since Tony Abbott gave Prince Philip a knighthood has the nation appeared so immediately united in calling out a truly stupid and offensive notion.

It began with a morning press release, announcing proudly that our new “border force” – a revamped and armed version of the frontline activities of immigration and the customs service that began operations in July – would be part of a big “crime crackdown” in Melbourne on the weekend.

“ABF officers will be positioned at various locations around the CBD speaking with any individual we cross paths with,” said the border’s force regional commander in Victoria and Tasmania, Don Smith.

F is for farce: how Australian Border Force united the nation against it
Lenore Taylor : The Guardian

    
Those with a bit of historical background, especially those interested in simulacra and the art of deceptive appearance, will recall that Operation Fortitude was a famous WW2 dummy (literally so : see the image below) operation intended to mislead German Intelligence prior to the D-Day invasion.


                 
That was funny and clever and effective. But wtf was today's Operation Fortitude in the Melbourne CBD really about? Another show of dummy tuffness by pugilist Abbott and his hardline cronies? Intended to distract from the recent political stumblings of the Government? What does the responsible Minister Dutton say about today : "it is an operational matter".


     
Within a few hours of this morning's press release there were protests at Flinders St Station in central Melbourne and a few hours later Operation Fortitude was cancelled, already publicly rehashed as #Operation Farce.


Theatre of the Actors of Regard : Canberra in July, at the grand ceremonial launch of Australian Border Force : Dutton, Abbott and Highly Decorated

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Major Look!

   
What a beaut. Mrs Chook with bonnet and apron, her bird's head umbrella tucked under her wing as she looks at this semi-attached poster. Its lower part is pinned to the fence, the upper part directly to the postcard's image-space.
      
Lovely back view : behind the poster, behind the fence, behind the semi-detached. Behind this postcard (verso) this verse : to Miss M Bishop, 
with loving wishes from PJ.

           

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Behind Mrs Chook's boots, too. See :
         

Printed in gold, the rectangular projection-space with the monogram RTS (Raphael Tuck & Sons), supported on an easel and with an artist's palette and brushes (Artistic Series) in the foreground.

   

Do you see all that? 

And did you see this? 

Well, "Made you look you dirty chook!"

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Melbourne Now : THE AGE editorial

   
All our own work, and how!
 
Sometimes, Melburnians can surprise even themselves. For example, last February, 300,000 of us jammed into the CBD for the first White Night arts and cultural festival. From 7pm to 7am, the city glowed and pulsated so resoundingly, successfully and happily, that summer without such an event is now unthinkable.
     
There is the same feeling of simultaneous discovery and celebration with the National Gallery of Victoria's Melbourne Nowexhibition of contemporary art. This description does not adequately summarise what is more exposition than exhibition: it involves more than 175 individual and group presentations across art, architecture, design and performance, and there's barely a millimetre of space to spare inside or outside either gallery.
       
Melbourne Now's first two days attracted more than 18,000 people, the NGV's biggest opening weekend in 10 years. There might have been substantial turnouts for the gallery's blockbuster shows, but this one seems set to notch up its own records, as well as attract an eager younger generation of art lovers.
      
The remarkable thing - an overwhelming endorsement of NGV director Tony Ellwood's determination to sharpen the institution's focus on contemporary art - is that Melbourne Now is entirely a local show, devoted to the here and now. It exists to display the immensity of cultural talents in this city at this particular time. That its popularity is assured from the outset, offers confirmation that contemporary art is not to be feared, but something to be embraced and celebrated in all its forms. The walls of the NGV's St Kilda Road building may appear tall, grey and unbreachable, but behind them lie new wonders to behold.

 

THE AGE : Editorial

2 December 2013

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Reinventing the Wheel : The Medium Is the Medium Is the Message Is the Massage

    

Yesterday our sales rep. traveled to Acronym City to spruik at MADA and MUMA for blogs and bLOGOS/HA HA.

Loman says he was well received - the presentation well attended and the TAR attentive - but, again, no sales. 

At the conclusion of his spiel, Bill asked for a show-of-hands : Who here has a blog? No one. Why not, asks Bill? Old media, they told him.

Loman is long-in-the-tooth old media too, but he reckons this threw him. Apparently he then asked if Publication is now old media?

All morning he's been going on about Fukuyama and Black Mirror and Marshall McLuhan and The medium is still the message : bloody Painting, bloody post-Conceptual bloody Twitter bloody bloody bloody...

We're a bit worried about old BL. 

Here, to regard your regard, an image of the amused and mediated Mr. McLuhan.
      

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Venice Biennale 2013 : The Encyclopedic Palace

Following on from yesterday's post, "...about the ways some one might order a heap of Art and non-Art things", we note the theme of this year's Venice Biennale : The Encyclopedic Palace.

From a New York Times article :
         

“The Encyclopedic Palace” is the theme. It is taken from the title of a symbol of 1950s-era Futurism - an 11-foot-tall architectural model of a 136-story cylindrical skyscraper that was intended to house all the knowledge in the world. Its creator, the self-taught Italian-American artist Marino Auriti, dreamed it would be built on the National Mall in Washington. The model now belongs to the American Folk Art Museum in Manhattan, which is lending it to the Biennale. “It best reflects the giant scope of this international exhibition,” Mr. Gioni said, “the impossibility of capturing the sheer enormity of the art world today.”

              

courtesy : Theatre of the Actors of Regard  

Within the matrix of interconnectedness : curator of the 2013 Venice Biennale, Massimiliano Gioni looks at Marino Auriti's 1950s model of The Encyclopedic Palace.

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Paolo Baratta, the longtime president of the Biennale, said that “after 14 years of having traditional curators I thought it was time to ask a man of the next generation.

“At a time when contemporary art is flooding the world,” he added, “it seemed to make more sense to present a show that doesn’t just include a list of artists from the present but rather looks at today’s art through the eyes of history.”

 
        

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Transcript of Joint Press Conference

                 
Subject(s): National plan for school improvement; Gonski reforms
 

SUN 14 APRIL 2013
          

PRIME MINISTER : I turn now to Minister Garrett for some comments.

MINISTER GARRETT : Thanks Prime Minister, and there’s no question that education is the great enabler.

And today, what we’re saying is that the nation needs a plan to make sure that kids around the country get the support they need to do the best they can and of course correspondingly for both those children and their families, and the nation to benefit in the future.

A National Plan for School Improvement means that we’re putting education right at the front of our vision for Australia; an Australia that is well-trained, highly skilled and where kids in schools now get high-paying jobs in the future, not only here but of course in the increasingly important Asian region.

If I look at schools, in all of the schools that I visit, I know that we can provide targeted additional resources and investment that will make a big difference to the kids in those schools.

And if we look at an average figure of $4000 per student that is the kind of money which might help that kid read or write better...

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Crop Circle

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Case 8 : Keichu's Wheel

Getsuan said to his students, "Keichu, the first wheel-maker in China, made two wheels having fifty spokes each. Suppose you took a wheel and removed the nave uniting the spokes. What would become of the wheel? If Keichu had done so, could he be called the master wheel-maker?" 

This kōan alludes to the Tao Te Ching, one of the main texts of Taoism: 

We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel;

But it is on the spaces of the nave where there is nothing that the usefulness of the wheel depends.

Wikipedia : The Gateless Gate

     
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Le Règne de la Langue

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Le Pont de Pierre

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The Flood

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