Evolution, Time Nature Library, 1964.
“Marrickville council has some ART In THE PARK thing at Manudrell Park at Petersham. It sounds Ghastly and they should get someone new to rewrite their press releases. Fortunately I do KNOW some of the artists involved – and know that they are the sculptors from the STONE VILLA – some of whom used to be at that fun studio at the back of Kelly Country studios – before it got Dog Boxed. So I reckon it won’t be the ususal frightening community arts event (with unshaven members of the ALP left doing their pseudo boho thing by wearing patchwork batik pants- argh!!!) but maybe more like a traditional sculptors pissup.”
Stuff This Week, Art & Mayhem
“We’re in the middle of autumn, but it feels like summer. Or at least it felt like summer for quite some time, with sunny days (no good for the drought in regional New South Wales, but my laundry isn’t complaining). But now it feels like time to bid this unofficial summer farewell.”
Goodbye Summer,Semiophile
“There is a holy book, a scripture whose word is inherrant and may not be doubted, which has such absolute authority that it trumps every other. Everything, even the discoveries of science, has to be judged against what the scripture says, and if there is a contradiction, the scripture wins. This scripture might be the Bible, it might be the Koran, it might be the works of Karl Marx.”
Theocracy: some identifying marks, Beware of The God
“Ryue Nishizawa, occasionally of SANAA, has completed a house in the suburbs of Tokyo where every room of the house is a seperate building. Nishizawa – and his SANAA collaborator, Sejima – have explored the idea of fragmenting buildings into their constituent parts many times before, in their various housing studies and notably at the Kanazawa Museum of 21st Century Art. The Moriyama House feels like the natural conclusion to these studies and presents a serious experiment on an alternate pattern of habitation.”
Moriyama House – Ryue Nishizawa Gravestmor
“Here are the coolest finger puppets in the world and the most splendid drawing of tigers by Mimi.Mimi is the daughter of Artist Guan Wei.I especially like the bones next to the little tigers just in case they get hungry. Tigers,penguins and seals are my top 3 favourite animals. Keep it up Mimi!”
TODAYS FAVOURITE: YOUNG MIMI, Shut Up And Follow Me
“It amazes me the extremities of people in the blog world: one minute you’re enjoying a spot of mutual repartee over shared interests, such as the joys of music recorded in 1992 or the astounding cut of vintage coats, the next someone’s bagging you out with the extreme furiousness that I normally reserve for Amanda Vanstone, Tom Hanks, Jennifer Love Hewitt and The Smashing Pumpkins (despite my love of 1992 music I NEVER GOT THEM and still hate them with a passion), or those annoying girls who sing about how hot they think they are. Then you write something you really shouldn’t and all these nice people come and give you great advice and emotional support and you think ‘see, I was right, I don’t need a shrink after all’.”
Being A DJs Girlfriend Is Really Really Boring, And Before You Say Anything, I Don’t Even Care About The Free Drugs, Sublime-ation
“Clubs for artists don’t seem to exist so much any more. There are co-operatives, and collaborations, but clubs? Not really. It seems like in centuries past there were lots of clubs, or groups of artists, which formed due to a shared sense of feeling left out of, or misunderstood by, the mainstream art world. Contemporary Art Societies were formed by artists whose work was so cutting-edge that it wasn’t recognised as art by the establishment, and they provided exhibition and discussion opportunities for artists of like-mind. I don’t think of the Sydney Ladies Artists Club as being a refuge for like-minded artists necessarily, or as a place where artists who are unrecognised can go for mutual support. In this sense the club may be almost a simulation of those artist’s clubs of earlier years, borrowing the framework, but not necessarily arising from the same impulse.”
Why an artists club? Sydney Ladies Artist Club
“Composition method:
i) i trawled through an inner-city newsletter and assembled various phrases and fragments, ‘renovating’ them fairly often –
ii) added my own images and phrases as they made their presences felt –
iii) used a line from arnold’s ‘the scholar gypsy’ –
iii.a) & a slessorian gesture –
iv) referenced a billboard ad from the kings cross underground railway station –
v) took particles from articles and ads in a business magazine or two –
vi) and that scam email [at last put to work – tho haven’t had one of those for ages]”.
Joanne Burns, Haiku Review
Stop Rubbishing The Avant Garde, Open Source Art School
