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09 April 2015

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Opening Celebration Thursday 9 April, 5:30-7:30pm

Iakovos Ameridis, Boni Cairncross, Christian Capurro, Scott Donovan, Alex Gawronski, Biljana Jancic, Astrid Lorange, Sean Lowry, Dane Mitchell, Salvatore Panatteri, Patrick Pound, Ilmar Taimre.

A group of artists consider the nature of blankness as a signifier of creative potential (in the sense of capturing the dilemma of approaching a blank piece of paper, digital file, gallery space or canvas with the intention of creating something). As such, the exhibition will ask questions such as: “What is a blank space?”; “Can there be a blank space?”; “What are the power dynamics associated with framing or designating a blank space?”; and “What are the aesthetic potentials of blankness?”

Something else about nothing: blankness as medium

Catalogue essay by Sean Lowry

Margaret Lawrence Gallery
40 Dodds Street  Southbank VIC 3006
9 April - 16 May 2015

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08 April 2015

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Re. correspondence received :

The actual subject matter of the book is the position of the artist in the world and in history :
of the man who does not "do" like human beings but who "creates" like God - though in appearance only. The artist is forever excluded from reality, and banished into the "empty province of beauty". His playing at eternity - and this bewitching game that we call beauty - turns into the "laughter that destroys reality," the laughter that springs from the terrible intuition that the Creation itself, and not merely man's playing at creating, can be destroyed.

- Hannah Arendt, p.124 Reflections on Literature and Culture

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07 April 2015

Upstairs Downstairs at NGA

rock paper scissors nudes ?

Nudes trump all, every time. So it's not surprising the amount of 'coverage' Stuart Ringholt's nude gallery tours receive.

The latest of these outings is to James Turrell : A Retrospective at the National Gallery of Australia.

Skinny-dipping in the void: the day I toured James Turrell's art show naked here

Monica Tan / The Guardian

Naked art lovers tour National Gallery of Australia in after-hours, adult-only viewing of James Turrell exhibition here

ABC.NEWS

The National Gallery of Australia is hosting nude tours of its new exhibition here

Business Insider_Australia : Executive Life

Art And Private Parts here
Patrick Boyle / Broadsheet : Arts

Art lovers visit James Turrell in the nude as first naked tours hit the National Gallery of Australia here

Jill Hogan / Sydney Morning Herald

Naked art lovers attend after-hours tour of Australia's national gallery here

Jonathan Peralman / The Telegraph (UK)

James Turrell Nude: the naked truth here
HILARY WARDHAUGH / Her Canberra

National Gallery of Australia launches its first ever naked art tour here
Karla Cripps / CNN
Each of these reports shows at least one photo of the event. Only coy CNN imposes rectangular blurs over the naughty bits.

Would I do a nude art tour? Sod that here

Jonathan Jones / The Guardian

James Turrell: Art lovers must turn up NUDE for after-hours tour of national gallery here
Mhairi Macfarlane / Mirror (UK)

Putting everything on display: National Gallery of Australia's first ever naked art tour promises to reveal all here
Heather Mcnab and John Carney / Daily Mail (UK)

Art in the buff: Australian museum offering naked tours of Turrell exhibition here

YAHOO! News

Art lovers get naked in Canberra here

Amber Elias / ELLE Australia

THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA IS NOW RUNNING A NAKED TOUR (NSFW) here
Gay News Network : Gay Life

National Gallery of Art in Canberra Offers Naked Tours of James Turrell's Artwork here

Cait Munro / ARTNET News

First ever nude tour exhibition to be hosted by National Gallery of Australia! here
ANI / INDIA.com

Nude Canberra museum exhibit attracts art-loving starkers visitors here
AFP / The China Post

and so on ...

Duchampian Theatre of the Actors of Regard

presents

'Upstairs Downstairs'

Marcel Duchamp

Nu descendant un escalier, n° 2

1912

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05 April 2015

Get Thee Images

Today is Easter Sunday.

As that third sun rose

they saw the impediment gone from the mouth of the cave

they understood the Logos ] to be ( free of that dark place

they spoke with new tongues and they beheld

as for the first time

anew

Re. The Sign of the Cross (continued)

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03 April 2015

Project/ion

Today is Good Friday.

some scenes and meta-scenes from
The Stations of the Projection-Space :

'Simon of Cyrene Helps Jesus Carry the Cross'

Titian, c. 1565

The Logos speaks to his disciples / The weight of
the projection-space is borne by the curators

The Logos carries the Projection-Space

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02 April 2015

Concept/ion

Last night, David Malouf spoke with Tony Jones on Late Line. Here's an extract from that interview :

Tony Jones : Let me take you at a broader level to the implications of what writing is and what writers can do in society as citizens.

And you say the real enemy of writing is talk. What does that mean?

David Malouf : That means…

Tony Jones : …because you’re quite good at talking.

David Malouf : That means that writers, who are sometimes good talkers, know that if you have some kind of idea or something that has caught your interest and you talk about it too much you’ll talk yourself past it.

And that what writing is about is not to indulge quickly in the annunciation of ideas, but to say to yourself What is this idea, and where does it go?

And that may mean being quiet and working slowly, and letting the idea declare itself to you rather you to declare the idea.

And it’s almost as if the writing was like an angel at your/waiting to speak, and if you speak too quickly the angel will have nothing more to say.

The Annunciation, fresco by Brother Angel / Fra Angelico,
1438–45, Museum of San Marco, Florence

The Self conceives ] of ( The Other

Malouf and the angel of the writer.
The Bible and The Annunciation of the Logos.

The Life of The Creator

The mystery of concept/ion

Acceptance of the seed of an other

Patience, quietude and humility in gestation

Birth, revelation

The Annunciation, tempera on wood by Brother Angel /
Fra Angelico, 1430-32, The Prado, Madrid

Malouf's advice also reminds of the fourth ailment of the curia as described by Pope Francis last year :

4) Planning too much

“Preparing things well is necessary, but don’t fall into the temptation of trying to close or direct the freedom of the Holy Spirit, which is bigger and more generous than any human plan.”

The Annunciation, fresco by Brother Angel / Fra Angelico,
late 1430s, Museum of San Marco, Florence. The interior depicted reproduces that of the cell in which it is located.

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