Mix Tape 1980s : Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style

              

The Ian Potter Centre : National Gallery of Victoria 

until 1 September

online promo (detail) featuring Mike Brown's Manifestations 1982  

         
        
Split the diff :

1. NGV media release here
2. Robert Nelson / 'The Age' review here
3. Christopher Allen / 'The Australian' review here

     
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This is for the headsets loving the mix,

My people in the front, all covered in spit ...
      

The Nosebleed Section

Hilltop Hoods

Your correspondent was asked to compile a 1980s avant-garde and experimental music mixtape for this exhibition. The selection made is a personal one, a Melbourne one :

   

David Chesworth album cover : Tyndall / Brophy

       

David Chesworth

Who’s Asking?

from Layer on Layer

        

Stelarc

AMPLIFIED BODY, LASER EYES & THIRD HAND

Sounds- Brainwaves, heartbeat, bloodflow, muscles and motor mechanism of the Third Hand. First performed at the Maki Gallery, Tokyo 2 March, 1986 Performance began when the body was switched on, and ended when the body was switched off. Sound Coordinator- K. Tazaki with medical equipment from Nihon Kohden.

Warren Burt

Samples II for orchestra (Ravel homage) (That which is neither a deconstruction nor an appropriation, neither bricollage nor post-modern)(1987)

http://www.warrenburt.com/

House of Journalists

(Tony Clark as the narrator)

Il Palazzo

from William Furlong's AUDIO ARTS cassette :

ANTI-MUSIC : A SAMPLER

Ad Hoc

( James Clayden, Chris Knowles and David Wadelton  )

Blue From Beyond The Sea (excerpt)

from Artefacts Of Australian Experimental Music Volume II 1974–1983 : 

Shame File Music ‎– SHAM056

Red Megaphone

(John Nixon)

Untitled

Chris Mann, Warren Burt, Astra Choir

Artificial Languages Part 2.

 Chris Mann

SLAVE GUITARS 

formerly SLAVE GUITARS OF THE ART CULT

6

here

Olivier Messiaen

visited Melbourne in 1988 and notated the lyrebird for :

L'Oiseau-lyre et la Ville-Fiancée (The lyre bird and the bridal city)

from Éclairs sur l'au-delà… (lluminations of the Beyond…) 

1987-1991.

Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Porcelijn

Primitive Calculators

I Can't Stop It

 here

    
      

         

We'll rip off our tops
and jump around in the front row.

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Hilltop Hoods
           

 ART CULT tee shirt as seen in the front row

               

You know, I looked around, 

the faces I'd know,
I fell in love with the people

in the front row.

People In The Front Row
Melanie Safka

as sampled by Hilltop Hoods

    

above: as seen at Mix Tapes 1980s                          
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I CAME, I SAW...

           

Another Successful Performance

by

Theatre of the Actors of Regard

at

West Space Fundraiser
       

photo : West Space Facebook 

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2013 West Space Funraiser

      

Opens tonight at 6

West Space
Level 1, 225 Bourke Street
Melbourne, Vic, 3000

    

Participating artists include :

Adam J Cullen | Akira Akira | Alasdair McLuckie | Amanda Marburg | Anastasia Klose | Andrew Hazewinkel | Andy Hutson | Anna Finlayson | Ben Sheppard | Betra Fraval | Bridie Lunney | Brie Trenerry | Camilla Tadich | Charles O'Loughlin | Charlie Sofo | Christian Capurro | Christopher Dolman | Christopher Koller | Christopher Scutio | Claire Lambe | Craig Burgess | Dan Moynihan | Dane Lovett | Daniel Price | Daniel von Sturmer | Darren Sylvester | David van Royen | Dell Stewart | Dom Redfern | Drew Pettifer | Emily Ferretti | Fleur Summers | Glenn Walls | Gosia Wlodarczak | Grant Nimmo | Greatest Hits | Helen Johnson | Ian Haig | Ieuan Weinman | Irene Hanenbergh | Isobel Knowles | Jacqueline Felstead | Jake Walker | Jan Murray | Jason Maling | Jennifer Mills | Jeremy Bakker | Jessie Bullivant | John Meade | John Nixon | Jon Campbell | Jonas Ropponen | Jordan Marani | Josh Petherick | Julian Smith | Justin Andrews | Justine Khamara | Kain Picken | Kate Daw | Kate Matthews | Kathy Temin | Kay Abude | Kez Hughes | Kiera Brew Kurec | Kieran Boland | Kieran Stewart | Kiron Robinson | Kirra Jamison | Kit Wise | Laith McGregor | Lane Cormick | Lisa Radford | Lou Hubbard | Louisa Burfadeci | Lyndal Walker | Madeline Kidd | Martine Corompt | Masato Takasaka | Max Creasey | Meredith Turnbull | Mia Salsjo | Michael Ciavarella | Michael Graeve | Minna Gilligan | Nat Thomas | Natalie Ryan | Nathan Gray | Nick Selenitsch | Nick Waddell | Oscar Perry | Patrick Pound | Peter Tyndall | Pip Ryan | Raafat Ishak | Renee Cosgrave | Richard Giblett | Richard Lewer | Rohan Schwartz | Ross Coulter | Rowan Mcnaught | Ry Haskings | Sally Smart | Sam George | Sam Songailo | Sangeeta Sandrasegar | Sarah CrowEST | Sarah Stubbs | Scott Mitchell | Sean Peoples | Sharon Billinge | Sharon Goodwin | Sherry McLane Alejos | Simon MacEwan | Simon Zoric | Siri Hayes | Skye Kennewell | Sophia Hewson | Spiros Panigirakis | Stephen Giblett | Stuart Ringholt | Sue Dodd | Susan Jacobs | Tai Snaith | Taree Mackenzie | Tim Hillier | Toby Pola | Tom Nicholson | Tony Garifalakis | Torie Nimmervoll | Trevelyan Clay | Tully Moore | Valentina Palonen | Veronica Kent | Viv Miller | Vivian Cooper Smith | +more

Participating things include :

 postcard edition of 10                        click image to enlarge  
         

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NEVER

This ripper from The Gestian Poet.
      


Same for the Crowd Selfie!
      


One hundred years ago : Crowd Selfie at the Capture of the Monument by Two Suffragettes
         

    

Photograph: Crowd Selfie at the Scene of the Capture of the Monument by Two Suffragettes

        
Producer : Central News

Date : 1913

Crowds gathered to witness the capture of the Monument by two suffragettes. At 10 o'clock on 18 April 1913, the suffragettes Miss Spark and Mrs Shaw climbed the 345 steps to the top of the Monument. They managed to distract the attendants and trap them in their office. The two women then attached the Women's Social and Political Union purple, white and green flag to the great pole carrying the City of London flag, and tied a banner that read 'Death or Victory' to the railings. Finally they released hundreds of handbills promoting the Votes for Women campaign that fluttered into the street below. It took some time before the police broke down the barricade, removing the women and the W.S.P.U. insignia, and freeing the attendants from their office.

While all this was happening, the happy throng spotted a Crowd Selfie Photographer setting-up high above them. They responded with the chant NEVER NEVER NEVER (a reference to the century later dictum NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR SELFIES). No charges were brought against any of those responsible for this publicity stunt : the suffragettes, the Selfie Crowd, the photographer.

Below : Selfie as popular London street poster, overprinted with NEVER NEVER NEVER (Frame font).

 Crowd Selfie : Museum of London  

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The Outsider

          
Our favorite blacksmith is John Madigan. 

A few days ago The Weekend Australian wrote of Senator John Madigan :  

He is the "most outside of outsiders" in federal politics but come September, the DLP's John Madigan might find himself at the centre of the action 

JOHN MADIGAN FORGES THE HEAVY METTLE OF DLP
Stuart Rintoul / The Australian
1 June 2013

A photo in that article shows Madigan at his forge, not far from our own office.

photo : John Nowakowski 

John set up here as a blacksmith when still a boy.

       

In the late 1970s, one of our staff commissioned him to make a branding iron in the manner of the early hunters and hearders of the Canvas Animal.

 

Above and below, John prepares two equal-length iron lines of inter-dependence for the ideogram brand.

      

   

The parts are then heated soft in the forge, ready to smite and shape together.

   

    
The result...

    

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The facts are the facts and the facts are these ] Albanese meta-mix (

         

For our sins, bLOGOS/HA HA sometimes watches Question Time of the Australian Federal Parliament. 

Below is an edited detail of an exchange that tickled our fancy last week during the 28 May 2013 House of Representatives Question Time.

The SPEAKER: The member for Kooyong will resume his seat. There are other forms of the House in which to raise that concern. The Prime Minister has the call and will be heard in silence.

Ms GILLARD: The facts are the facts and the facts are these : ...

Opposition members interjecting —

           
Ms GILLARD: ..................... — for those who are yelling, and I know the facts do not suit you but these are the facts — ..................... They are the facts. The Leader of the Opposition should stop misrepresenting them and this despicable — (Time expired)

                
Mr ABBOTT (Warringah—Leader of the Opposition) (14:11): Madam Speaker, I have a second supplementary. I refer to ......................

Ms GILLARD (Lalor—Prime Minister) (14:12):
The Leader of the Opposition may be startled to learn that .......................  Nothing the Leader of the Opposition can say or do, nothing he can shout, no spectre that he an raise of fear in our community changes those facts and I direct the Leader of the Opposition's attention to them.

The SPEAKER: Is the Leader of the Opposition seeking to table a document?
          

Mr ABBOTT: Madam Speaker, I seek leave to table the speech yesterday from the member for Holt describing these matters as .............................

          
The SPEAKER: Order! The Leader of the Opposition will resume his seat. The Leader of the House, is leave granted to table the document?

           
Mr Albanese: I seek your clarification, Speaker.

Opposition members interjecting —

           
The SPEAKER: Order! As I said gratuitous advice is wearing very thin. The Leader of the House has the call.
              

Mr Albanese: I seek your advice, Speaker, over whether it is possible even to table Hansard in Hansard.

             
The SPEAKER: Leave is not granted.     

         *Read the full Hansard record of this on pages 21-22  HERE      

 FIAPCE                            National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 
          

FIAPCE : The facts are the facts and the facts are these :

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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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You Are Here

You Are Here (detail #3)

Fig.3  Exploded Diagram

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Dear Diary,

A long discussion yesterday with J and L about the ways some one might order a heap of Art and non-Art things. 

We talked about 'Art and its Objects' (Richard Wollheim). About Logos - the Speaking into Being of the Interverse - and, from the other end of the bag of wind, farts n laughter. About language as thing and as intermediate projection veil. About the possibility or not of Clear Seeing. 

We talked about various Label formats -  past, present and possible. About entity, identity-fication, classification, taxonomy trees and the Axeman Cometh. Archives, files, cataloging and access ability. About the Thing-In-Itself and interconnectedness. About Indra's Net. About vertical hierarchies and the horizontal postmodern plain. Ditto: the structures of institutions and their divisions of regard and responsibility.

Later, neuron drifts ebb toward sleepytown... patterns of connection... floating layers of exploding diagrams...

Snap awake, draw this...

P

You Are Here (detail #2)

Fig.2  Radiance of the Exploding View

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You Are Here (detail #1)

Fig.1  Exploded View

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Same as it ever was...

Collingwood Football Club president Eddie McGuire, who a few days ago was generally praised for his response to the racial abuse of Adam Goodes by a young Collinwood supporter, has now had his own brain fade, joking on radio that Adam Goodes could be used to advertise the forthcoming theatre production of King Kong. Go figure?!

articles at :

Eddie McGuire, Adam Goodes and ‘apes’: a landmark moment in Australian race relations
The Conversation : Tom Heenan & David Dunstan
31 May 2013

The ape insult: a short history of a racist idea
The Conversation : James Bradley
31 May 2013

Looking through a 1990s footy file, article after article is about Collingwood & Co being taken to task for racial vilification.

At the 1995 Anzac Day drawn match between Essendon and Collingwood, in front of 95,000, Damian Monkhorst racially abused Michael Long. Much media, obligatory mediation and an official handshake between the players but Long not happy with the outcome.

The following weekend the Collingwood cheer squad hit back with their banner of STICKS AND STONES MAY BREAK MY BONES BUT NAMES WILL NEVER HURT ME beside an image of a red and black Essendon dummy (spit).

More articles of condemnation...

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Same as it ever was...
       

Saburo Murakami, Passing Through (21 panels of 42 papers)

at the second Gutai exhibitions. Tokyo, 1956

2012 cover of : Explosion! Painting as Action

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Practice single-pointed concentration.

       
Stare at a bLOG detail for an hour.

               

 - mid 1980s -                          collection : Ian Potter Museum of Art                   

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