Open Space 22 : For Chris Mann

Dame Nellie Melba GBE (born Helen Porter Mitchell; 19 May 1861 – 

23 February 1931) was an Australian operatic soprano. She became one of the most famous singers of the late Victorian era and the early 20th century, and was the first Australian to achieve international recognition as a classical musician. She took the pseudonym "Melba" from Melbourne, her home town. (Wikipedia)

Melbourne/Naarm has a rich and diverse music culture. Some have won recognition beyond Melbourne These include :

Nellie Melba (1861-1931) 

Percy Grainger (1882-1961) 

Barry Kosky  

Nick Cave 
Roland S Howard

Warren Ellis

Kylie Minogue

Lisa Gerrard 

John Rose  

The Avalanches 

Hiatus Kaiyote 

... and Chris Mann (1949-2018). 

We have admired Chris, his art and his wit, since the early 1970s. 

In 2014, we blogged in praise here.

 Chris Mann, Events/Structures, Ewing Gallery, Melb.Uni 1974  

photo by FIAPCE

In his later years, Chris lived in New York. Last year, New York's Open Space magazine dedicated its issue#22 For Chris Mann. 

There's an accompanying online publication with lots of Chris for the listening at Open Space Magazine Issue 22 : For Chris Mann. We got our copy from Fenrick Books, New York. In Australia, it can be bought from Shame File Music. 

Jon Forshee, a curator of the the OS Web-Magazine page "For Chris Mann". In this first reading of the book Jon is assisted by Rocket. (Dorota Czerner)

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prefix-Use-suffix Value

  
Use value (German: Gebrauchswert) or value in use is a concept in classical political economy and Marxist economics. It refers to the tangible features of a commodity (a tradeable object) which can satisfy some human requirement, want or need, or which serves a useful purpose. In Karl Marx's critique of political economy, any product has a labor-value and a use-value, and if it is traded as a commodity in markets, it additionally has an exchange value, most often expressed as a money-price.[1]

Marx acknowledges that commodities being traded also have a general utility, implied by the fact that people want them, but he argues that this by itself says nothing about the specific character of the economy in which they are produced and sold.

Origin of the concept

The concepts of value, use value, utility, exchange value and price have a very long history in economic and philosophical thought. From Aristotle to Adam Smith and David Ricardo, their meanings have evolved. Smith recognized that commodities may have an exchange-value but may satisfy no use-value, such as diamonds, while a commodity with a very high use-value may have a very low exchange-value, such as water. Marx comments for example that "in English writers of the 17th century we frequently find worth in the sense of value in use, and value in the sense of exchange-value."[2] With the expansion of market economy, however, the focus of economists has increasingly been on prices and price-relations, the social process of exchange as such being assumed to occur as a naturally given fact.

In The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, Marx emphasizes that the use-value of a labour-product is practical and objectively determined;[3] that is, it inheres in the intrinsic characteristics of a product that enable it to satisfy a human need or want. The use-value of a product therefore exists as a material reality vis-a-vis social needs regardless of the individual need of any particular person. The use-value of a commodity is specifically a social use-value, meaning that it has a generally accepted use-value for others in society, and not just for the producer.

- Wikipedia

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Should auld aquatints be forgot, keep your eye on the Red and the Blue!

AFL 2021 Grand Final result

Melbourne Football Club           21.14 (140)

(after 57 years) def.

Western Bulldogs                        10.6 (66)

"In the blink of an eye, it was gone."

Luke Beveridge, coach of Western Bulldogs

Artist               Francisco Goya (1746–1828)
Title                 Asta su Abuelo  (And so was his grandfather)
Description    No. 39 of the "Caprichos" series 

                         (1st edition, Madrid, 1799).
Date                1797-1799
Medium         etching and aquatint

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 (Triumph of the Demons over the Bulldogs

 after Tommaso Siciliano, 1585)

   

     

        

AFL Grand Final Eve : Demons or Doggies?

Melbourne and the Western Bulldogs. Both teams have treated us to so many highs this season. Below, a few weeks ago, Cody Weightman takes a screamer over Max Gawn as Tim English looks on.

photo Michael Wilson/Getty/AFL 

It's hard to pick the winner...

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Q: Mirror, Mirror...? A: Pist Idiots

Idiocracy (Pist Idiots) : Four young men from Western Sydney with fresh ear piercings, mirror guitars and cars. What's not to like?!

Liked by : SLAVE GUITARS

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Dog Wins 2021 Brownlow Medal

No second guess as to which golden haired player we were barracking for in last night's Brownlow Medal count.

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 PS  Ollie Wines won

   

re. escapoLOGOS/HA HA and re-entry

At the time, we let it pass without taking notes, but it has stuck: seen on YouTube, said as an aside, someone at a seminar proffered (alluding to Klein's Leap into the void) 

... a leap into the world.

Below, Yves Klein breaks through (1960) and sees ahead ... Houdini (1907).

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Melbourne Lockdown : Extraordinary Scenes

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As protestors in Melbourne decry the state of their constraints, the escape artist Houdini appears before a camera in the chains of ignorance, desire, afflictive emotions and illusion/distraction.

Today, on a bridge over the Yarra. 

By the Yarra River at Queen's Bridge, Melbourne, surrounded by a large crowd, the artist prepares to liberate himself.

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Meanwhile, how the hell...?!

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... emphasized the process of ideation over realization, wrote Mr God Free (pron.)

 
Through skillful means,
they do not abide in nirvana,
and through wisdom, not in samsara.

Having abandoned the two extremes,
Buddhas engage in universal welfare,
free from conceptual thought.

- Asanga, Mahayanasamgraha

 January 5-31 1969 : from left - Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, 

 Joseph Kosuth, and Lawrence Weiner. Photo by Seth Siegelaub

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Knife Throwers (see : Dagger Definitions)

1. Defining the Definition 

   

definition

/dɛfɪˈnɪʃ(ə)n/
noun
        1.  a statement of the exact meaning of a word, 

             especially in a dictionary.
             "a dictionary definition of the verb"
        2.  the degree of distinctness in outline of an object, 

             image, or sound.
             "the clarity and definition of pictures can be aided by

             ... throwing knives [see: TARget)
Similar : clarity  clearness   visibility  precision  sharpness  crispness  acuteness  distinctness  resolution  focus  contrast
Opposite : blurriness  fuzziness

2. The Initiate

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3. The Practice of Law 

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4. The Record

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4. Projection-Space Concept(s)

  Lucio Fontana with knife and canvas (Milan 1964) photo Ugo Mulas

  Lucio Fontana and four of the 'Fine di Dio' series, photo Orazio Bacci

5. Defining the TARget

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