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.


13 January 2017

Theatre of the Antipodean Regard presents : anti-Gravitas

 

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12 January 2017

Theatre of the Antipodean Regard presents : Giotto Baselitz Dutton

   


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11 January 2017

Jump! | Don't Jump!

   
TAR Florence : pictured, a despondent replica of Michelangelo's David threatens to self-topple. Zealots of the Florentine Truth-In-Art faction (offspring of Savonarola) mock the repro with "Jump!" and "Just do it!" A rescue party of Matrix Men (ex Angeli del Fango) rush to the aid of the facsimile with an image of Christ the Logos, Great Net and Savior.
  
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The rest, as they say, is ...

Historia vero testis temporum, lux veritatis, vita memoriae, magistra vitae, nuntia vetustatis, qua voce alia nisi oratoris immortalitati commendatur?

By what other voice, too, than that of the orator, is history, the witness of time, the light of truth, the life of memory, the directress of life, the herald of antiquity, committed to immortality? 

Cicero, De Oratore, II, 36
        

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09 January 2017

Keeper of the Label Drawers


Accordionist of TAR : Geoff Sobelle in The Object Lesson 
Gerd Arntz for Nederlandse Stichting voor Statistiek 
FIAPCE for AAA_Art Archive Australia 

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07 January 2017

] ] ] ] ] ] ] ] ] Accordionist of TAR ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (

   
That most of us maintain - and effectively are - our own museums is the premise of “The Object Lesson” 
Ben Brantley / The New York Times (6 Nov 2014)
Geoff Sobelle’s ‘The Object Lesson’
Geoff Sobelle  
HAND SPACE 
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06 January 2017

_9 Frs.

      

HAND SPACE manifesto, 1981 
 Andre Kertesz, 'My Friend Brassai, Paris, Nov 25, 1963'

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05 January 2017

book received | MCA HANDBOOK


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MCA COLLECTION HANDBOOK


 Author :
  Natasha Bullock
$29.95 (AUD)  

Description
  • The MCA Collection Handbook is an A to Z of over 150 artists' works from across Australia. This lavishly illustrated publication features new and accessible texts and an introductory essay charting the evolution of the MCA Collection.
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03 January 2017

XVII ] 1917 - 2017 ( vale John Berger

   
Once a tree
was felled and sawn
and set to gatepost border work

 Today a letter from the Queen
congratulates our seventeen Centurian 
Emeritus at Bonzaview


         
[A Day in the Life - The Beatles : Verse 1]
I read the news today, oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph
He blew his mind out in a car
He didn't notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They'd seen his face before
But nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords
I saw a film today, oh, boy
The English Army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
But I just had to look
Having read the book
I'd love to turn you on
John Berger 
dead at XC

 vale

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01 January 2017

haiku 2 0 (5) (7) (5)


  seven
  teen 
  silly bells



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31 December 2016

New Year's Eve :


      The bridge of dreams
Floating on the brief spring night
      Soon breaks off:
Now from the mountaintop a cloud
Takes leave into the open sky.

      Teika, aged 32, 1194

      Japanese Court Poetry 
      Robert H. Brower, Earl Roy Miner

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Out of 
now|here -- 
a bridge

      poeter      
      after Basho
      for Yves Klein
            of Leap into the Void
by Matsuo Basho (1664-1694)    
One fellow traveller 
observed --
17 lines

       for I R    
        

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