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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Just in from Mitch of Chicken Dinners at The Met, NY :
Beyond Mitch as he makes this photo... beyond the woman with the blue top and dangling earing... beyond the woman with headphones and camera... a wall with a pair of dangling wires and a sign that states Temporarily Removed for Exhibition.
Q : Conceptual Art?
A : Conceptual Regard!
Years ago your correspondent made special note of this succinct wisdom from the great Lama Zopa :
The future of every collection is its dispersion.
Hence, this later study for a temporary collection of letters and words and wall panels with a label and passing parade :
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LOGOS : The Speaking into Being of the World :
speech, reportage, information, debate, journalism
LOGOS/HA HA : present imperfect
JOURNALISM IS NOT A CRIME : Last month in Egypt, the Australian journalist Peter Greste and his two Al Jazeera colleagues Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were jailed for 7-10 years for their journalism.
(Keep on) Rockin' in the Free World
We are deeply concerned that this verdict is part of a broader attempt to muzzle the press freedom that upholds democracies around the world.
Julie Bishop, Australia's Foreign Minister
SMH, 23 June 2014
LOGOS Ships Sink Lips : Meanwhile, two boats with several hundred Sri Lankan asylum seekers, mostly Tamil, are reported to have left Southern India bound for Australia. All media questions to Scott Morrison, the Australian Government's Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, are absorbed by him into the Sovereign Silence.
LOGOS LOUDIMUS : The response has been loud.
Michelle Grattan in The Conversation
What is offensive about this government is not that it is pursuing tough policies, but that it is trashing accountability and is so lacking in empathy.
The boats did need to be stopped; the budget does require fixing.
But an empathetic government would bring some humanity to the first and greater sensitivity to the second, while a less arrogant administration would show more respect all round.
The week-long refusal of Scott Morrison and Tony Abbott to give information (or confirmation) about asylum seekers reportedly being transferred at sea - with perfunctory process - and sent on their way to Sri Lanka shows extraordinary disdain for the public’s right to know.
It reeks of the masters-of-the-universe mentality.
- full article (here)
Malcolm Fraser on twitter
Malcolm Fraser @MalcolmFraser12 · Jul 3 Handing AS [Asylum Seekers] back to SL [Sri Lankan] navy at sea redolent off handing Jews to Nazis in 1930s
"The case of the disappearing boats" (AGE)
Last night I saw upon the sea,
A little boat that wasn't there,
It wasn't there again today,
Oh, how I wish it would go away
- with apologies to Hughes Mearns
All week, Scott Morrison had been wishing away the little boat from India. The Immigration Minister steadfastly refused to acknowledge its existence or that of its human cargo, 153 Tamil asylum seekers; or that of another boat carrying 50 Tamils, which had come from Sri Lanka. By week's end, it seemed Morrison's wish had come true.
In a high-stakes, high seas operation – which Morrison never confirmed, preferring to call it speculation – Australia set out to deliver these boat people back into the hands of Sri Lanka, the regime they had fled, a country the United Nations suspects of systematic abductions, torture, rape, extrajudicial killings and the "disappearing" of its citizens. Now Australia had "disappeared" their boats. It was as if their odyssey had never happened.
SMH/AGE : Rick Feneley, Jason Koutsoukis, Sarah Whyte
full article here
Fran Kelly to Senator Abetz
In an interview with ABC's Insiders program, host Fran Kelly put to Senator Abetz that the transfer of 200 Tamil asylum seekers into the custody of the Sri Lankan Navy was a matter of public interest, and that the government’s lack of transparency aroused concern. She then asked "since when does our government disappear people?"
“We don’t disappear people,” Mr Abetz replied. “What I think every Australian will know and understand is that our professional people in the Australian Navy, in the Australian Border Protection force, treat everybody with due care and respect and according to international obligations.”
SMH : Ben Doherty (here)
LOGOS NULLIUS : Let's muzzle the ABC
Turnbull says he was not consulted on ABC board appointees
The
appointment of conservative columnist Janet Albrechtsen and former
deputy Liberal leader Neil Brown to the panel overseeing ABC and SBS
board appointments this week sparked fears the government was preparing
to stack the board with partisan appointments.
On
Friday Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull distanced himself from
the appointments of Dr Albrechtsen and Mr Brown as he acknowledge
concerns of political influence, but said the nomination panel for ABC
and SBS boards is appointed by Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
boss Ian Watt.
''You have to assume that Dr Watt chose Neil Brown and Janet Albrechtsen in his own discretion,'' Mr Turnbull told ABC radio.
''I
was not consulted nor was it the intention of the legislation that the
Minister for Communications should be consulted on the membership of the
panel.''
SMH : James Massola, Matthew Knott ( here )
HA HA HOORAY : Last week, as those boats were setting out for Australia, it was announced that Hieu Van Le would be the next Governor of South Australia.
South
Australia's Lieutenant Governor and University of Adelaide graduate
Hieu Van Le came to Australia in 1977 as a Vietnamese refugee. His
remarkable journey to Australia is the stuff of legend and his
achievements within Australia almost as extraordinary.
If
there was a defining moment which said to the world that Hieu Van Le
would be a leader, it came in a small wooden fishing boat crammed with
more than 50 seasick people three days out to sea from Vietnam in 1977.
Read Robyn Mills' full account of The Remarkable Journey here
Tony Abbott says Australia
benefited from foreign
investment because it was
'unsettled' before the
British
When
explaining why foreign investment was so important for a country like
Australia, Mr Abbott said the country would be unimaginable without it.
“As a general principle we support foreign investment. Always have and always will,” he said.
“Our country is unimaginable without foreign investment."
“I
guess our country owes its existence to a form of foreign investment by
the British government in the then unsettled or, um, scarcely settled,
Great South Land,” he said.
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A big shout out to fellow blogger Mark Holsworth.
Thanks heaps Mark for your post today : here
Both blogs were started in 2008 and have much in common, including a broad view of art/Art and community, from the local to the world historical
- Coburg, Hepburn Springs, Melbourne, Australia, The World - and a Pepse-like commitment to regard and record.
These are the subsets at BLACK MARK
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Black Mark – Melbourne Art & Culture Critic
I started this blog in 2008 because there was a lack of critical discussion about Melbourne’s art world. There are over 200 art galleries in Melbourne and most art exhibitions go un-reviewed. There are many artists who exhibit but never get any critical review good or bad. I want to provide a critical view of the Melbourne’s visual arts and other aspects of culture. I want to cast a critical eye on the whole for Melbourne’s visual arts from the major galleries to the ARIs and alternative spaces, from public sculptures to the street art, from art history to fashion.
BLACK MARK
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Das Schweigen von Scott Morrison wird überbewertete
see also : Images of Beuys performance banned
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see also : Lutiers of the Art Cult
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We recently referenced (here) The Meanies' great 10% weird.
Now we find this learned article at guitarnerd about Link Meanie's first guitar :
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from the songs, another thing that
caught my eye was the guitar Link
was
playing. It was a weird square thing... kind of
Bo Diddley looking
but a lot less refined.
I loved how unique it was, how it sounded
and how Link had made it himself.
Here's Bo Diddley with his ornamented Gretsch guitar, late 1950s.
There's such a vast cultural expression of acoustic and display engineering for this, O so very simple, intention and action : to tension a string between two points, to vibrate it and hear it, to enjoy the bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz yeah!
Here's one such, below, designed to delight by its exceptional contrivance. Long before Kraftwork performed We are the Robots, it is attributed to the great French maker of automata Jacques de Vaucanson (1709 - 1782); repaired, apparently, in 1859 by the master magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805 - 1871) after whom the young Erik Weisz would later name himself Harry Houdini. More recently, c.1979, it was further augmented to detect and visually project ambient Slave Guitar vibrations.
More from guitarnerd regarding the Link Meanie axe :
On closer inspection, this guitar is VERY
home-made. Link explained it was actually
his first ever guitar… some Japanese Strat
thing, that he chopped up and then
surrounded the body in a box.
So basically… there’s a guitar
inside a guitar.
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