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.
.Following on from yesterday's "Double Feature", this morning Petrus referred me to the 15 minute online presentation
Golan Levin makes art that looks back at you. (
click here )
In it artist engineer Golan Levin (
website here ) succinctly demonstrates half-a-dozen playful works of his devising that use and reflect upon the performance activities of the beholder. Here are a couple of glimpses, the first is from
Eye Code.
In another, Jaap Blonk performs Kurt Schwitters
Ursonate with reactive real-time typography sub-titles mixed into the visual record.
"The idea behind this last project (
Snout) is to make a robot that appears as if it's continually surprised to see you. It's other name is "Double Taker", taker of doubles. It's always kind of doing a double take."
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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something . . .
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Adrian Tomine titles his cover image for the latest New Yorker
"Double Feature". (
here )
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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something . . .
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It could be seen as a communal celebration of The New Yorker's own enigmatic house character,
Eustace Tilley. He is usually depicted looking through his monocle at a butterfly.
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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something . . .
LOGOS/HA HA
Our resident inspector
Baby BlockOS/HA HA takes it one step less.
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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something . . .
LOGOS/HA HA
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This poster scene of playful synæsthesia is by
Uncle Charlie.
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someone looks at something . . .
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Hello again to
regular readers. After a week confined to Sniffletown, your correspondent re-emerges in the role of cubo-muso Philip Lemarchand.
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someone looks at something ...
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Lul0 lo lo ks at a guitar.
We look at Lulo side-on; Lulo looks at the guitar side-on.
The guitar looks at us front-on; we look at the guitar front-on.
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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something . . .
LOGOS/HA HA
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Low Trance Assembly 4
2009
Acrylic on canvas
phot0 : A. Stuparich
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someone looks at something . . .
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Tonight at the Corner Hotel...
EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT THE WEATHER
is a one-off showcase featuring four titans of the Melbourne exploratory music/avant-rock scene in a blistering, bone-shaking display from the far corners of the sonic spectrum. Oren Ambarchi (guitar/electronics), Robin Fox (laser/electronics), Marco Fusinato (guitar/electronics) & Anthony Pateras (electronics) all perform rare solo sets in a memorable night for anyone sick of talking about the weather and wanting to talk devastating sound devoid of any bullshit trend or flash in the pan cyberhype…
The violinist Isaiah looks at a Stradivarius
stolen from a concert at the Mariinsky Theater
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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something . . .
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Yesterday, the regard of proximate consciousness. In that dream, the mighty being came so close at one moment I drew back in trepidation.
This morning, looking at Andre Dias' cinema blog
We have yet to start thinking, I saw again a familiar and similar image to that of my dream; but here the exchange is actually in the water/
consciousness and it is not going well. Klaus Kinski in Werner Herzog's
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) :
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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...
LOGOS/HA HA
"On November 26, 1965, Beuys put the hare into the leading role in an Action. The title: How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare. The place: Galerie Alfred Schmela, in Dusseldorf, a gallery that had commited itself early and strongly to Beuys and had done a great deal to promote his reputation. Beuys sat on a chair in one corner of the gallery, next to the entrance. He had poured honey over his head, to which he had then affixed fifty dollars worth of gold leaf. In his arms he cradled a dead hare, which he looked at steadfastly. Then he stood up, walked around the room holding the dead hare in his arms, and held it up close to the pictures on the walls; he seemed to be talking to it. Sometimes he broke off his tour and, still holding the dead creature, stepped over a withered fir tree that lay in the middle of the gallery. All this was done with indescribable tenderness and great concentration."
Heiner Stachelhaus, Joseph Beuys, Abbeville Press, New York, 1987, (Translated by David Britt) p.135
Several days ago another such image, one of a more equal regard, arrived in the mail: this poster, FACE TO FACE (2004), by Lindsey Kuhn of (as chance would have it)
Swamp posters.
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someone looks at something ...
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bL spent a week at Varanasi in 1998. Arrived after dark, found a room not far from the Ganges. Next morning first thing took a ride in a low row boat. Solicited to do so, placed a lighted candle on that holy water and watched it drift in the great river spirit of India as pink dolphins gently rose and rolled, in and out and all around. Did not sight these beings again but have never forgotten that welcome.
After last night's dream of watching and wondering from a low grassy bank as a .../dolphin/porpose/shark/whale/... its dorsal fin cutting the air as it circled so near in the crystal clear water... this poster from
Spike Press.
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Greetings comrades, the image has now changed its status* : great topic and title, thought
bLOGOS/HA HA. Especially the phrasing that has "the image" to be self-governing, the rest the mere town crier reportage of a passing ideoLOGOS/ HA HA. Imagine that: self-creator Image. Or rather, "That, imagine you!". If these graffiti covered walls could speak they would surely text bubble :) {Created in the image of G-d"]
And so it goes, and so it goes: projection-space Other spinning through mutable dualistic imaginary space-time :
Tommaso Siciliano
The Triumph of Christianity over Paganism
1585
Pavel Poluyanov
Downfall of the Theater and Triumph of the Cinema
1925
cover by N. Il'in
A. Latsis and L. Keilina
Cinema and Children
1928
cover by Varvara Stepanova
A. Latsis and L. Keilina
Cinema and Children
1928
cover by Varvara Stepanova
