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.


12 March 2014

Theatre of the Actors of Regard at MELBOURNE NOW (1)

    
       
In principio erat Verbum
In the beginning was the Word 
- first words of Genesis

And the Word was made flesh
- John 1:14 

Logos 
Speaking Into Being 

HA HA
mis-Speaking Into Being
 
Human Being
Human Bean
Person Being
someone Being
sentient being
 
Verb from the Latin verbum, meaning word, 
is a word (part of speech) that in syntax conveys
an action (look, listen, observe, behold, witness, regard, think, speak), an occurrence (happen, become) or a state of being (be, exist, stand).
- via Wikipedia 
    
We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
with our thoughts we make the world.
- first words of The Dharmapada

someone verbs
         
someone acts

someone clicks or decides not to click the image below 
to see it appear larger

Honoré Daumier, 1865
Devant le tableau de M. Manet
In front of the picture by Manet.
"Why the devil is this fat, red-faced woman in her nightdress called Olympia?"
"But my dear, perhaps that's the name of the black cat." 
          
someone looks at
    

Albert Guillaume, Le Frago (A Fragonard) circa.1900
     
the act of looking
          
Norman Rockwell, The Connoisseur, 1962  collection: FIAPCE

the act of regard
     
Looking at Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles, NGV 1974
photos by Fosterville Institute of Applied and Progressive Cultural Experience

the actor of regard
    



free pencil movement
Theatre of the Actors of Regard at
'Fred Williams : Infinite Horizons' retrospective, NGV_A 2012
      
      
UPDATE!
      
Theatre of the Actors of Regard at
    
MELBOURNE NOW
     
NGV_Australia
  
Friday 14 March 2014, 6-9pm
     
*professional, occasional and secret actors
   
to be observed by :
   
to be recorded by :
  
Peter Tyndall
    
                                                                
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   A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
   someone looks at something ...
 
   LOGOS/HA HA
       
      
      

10 March 2014

TAR - after Daruma

          
The Daruma Muralists,
a sub-set of Theatre of the Actors of Regard :
   

   

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LOGOS/HA HA
   

      

08 March 2014

Transfield Latest Biennale Transferee

     

Biennale of Sydney facing uncertain future after severing ties with Transfield


"The Biennale of Sydney has announced it will sever ties with its founding partner Transfield, caving in to pressure from artists angered by the company's links to Australia's offshore detention centres.

The board of the Biennale of Sydney also announced on Friday that Luca Belgiorno-Nettis had resigned as chairman, less than two weeks before the event is scheduled to begin.

Mr Belgiorno-Nettis's resignation after 14 years and the severing of ties with Transfield represents a huge win for artists and refugee advocates and an embarrassing backdown for the Biennale board, which claimed the Biennale could not exist without Transfield and pledged its loyalty to the Belgiorno-Nettis family two weeks ago."  
Andrew Taylor
Sydney Morning Herald / The Age
Read full article here
     
Australia's Shame : the notorious Cockatoo Island Detention Centre just off the coast of Sydney (see: Biennale Pacific Solution) :
     

       
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LOGOS/HA HA
   

      

06 March 2014

MATERIAL No. 4 published today ($3)

West Space announcement :
           

MATERIAL

16TH JAN 2014 – 18TH DEC 2014 · WEST SPACE · 
In 1998 in Sydney, John Nixon published a weekly one page magazine MATERIAL, commissioning 50 artists to create unique artworks to be placed centrally on an A4 page. Produced on pink photocopy paper in editions of 100, MATERIAL offered a snapshot of artistic activity at the time.
Some of the artists who participated in this first series include Rose Nolan, Mike Parr, Hany Armanious, Howard Arkley, Aleks Danko, Mikala Dwyer, Kathy Temin, Nike Savvas and DAMP.
MATERIAL operated as a lo-fi limited edition print run retailing at $2 each. This project evolved out of a previous one page magazine project John Nixon published in 1981 called ‘Pneumatic Drill’.
In 2014 West Space will publish a new fortnightly edition of MATERIAL using similar parameters as the first edition. This will be available from the West Space reading room from 30 January 2014. We’ve adapted the original masthead design with updated details, and will sell them in an edition of 100 for $3 each. (inflation over 16 years! – still cheaper than a cup of coffee).
If you would like to reserve a full 2014 set of 25 pages, contact WEST SPACE via email.
MATERIAL is co-edited by John Nixon and Danny Lacy.
MATERIAL No. 4 by Peter Tyndall will be launched tonight. Peter is the first artist to be represented across both the 1998 and 2014 series.


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 someone looks at something ... 

 LOGOS/HA HA
     

        

04 March 2014

Void Storm

     
"Noi viviamo sommersi nel fondo d'un pelago d'aria."
  
We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air.

- Evangelista Torricelli, in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci, 11th June 1644. Torricelli was the first to scientifically describe the cause of the wind. 

  
Riders on the Storm 
Riders on the storm 
Into this house we're born 
Into this world we're thrown 
Like a dog without a bone 
An actor out alone 
Riders on the storm 

- The Doors, 1971
      
courtesy : Theatre of the Actors of Regard  

Torricelli regards his invention the mercury barometer.

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LOGOS/HA HA
     
 
      

03 March 2014

...because something because...


Yesterday nothing (not)anything

Before that, everything nothing

Today,



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LOGOS/HA HA
      
      
             

02 March 2014

nothing (not)anything


Following on from the previous post everything nothing, today nothing (not)anything.

 Question : How many spin doctors does it take to maintain the silence?

The answer from Bianca Hall's article in today's Sunday Age/SMH :
          

Scott Morrison has 66 spin doctors

The Immigration Department employs a 66-strong team of spin doctors, dwarfing the 39 media and communications staff employed by Prime Minister Tony Abbott and the ministers on his frontbench.

 Last August, immigration employed 72 media staff, but the 66 officers who now work in the department's media unit are supported by a further 33 personnel who work on media operations and events in the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service.

 In 2011, the Immigration Department reportedly employed just 13 spin doctors.
     

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LOGOS/HA HA
     

        

01 March 2014

everything nothing

      
Over previous weeks we've been in wonderment at the two part UK series Everything and Nothing on SBS TV. It's an update on the research and discoveries of cosmologers and quantum physicists.
    


above and below : Professor Jim Al-Khalili 

speculate : from Latin speculātus, past participle of speculor (look out), from specula (watchtower), from specio (look at)


      
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Nothing - In the second part of this intriguing documentary, Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores science at the very limits of human perception, where we now understand the deepest mysteries of the universe lie. 



Jim sets out to answer one very simple question - what is nothing? 



His journey ends with perhaps the most profound insight about reality that humanity has ever made. Everything came from nothing. The quantum world of the super-small shaped the vast universe we inhabit today, and Jim can prove it.
     

      
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ... 

LOGOS/HA HA
   

       
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