Listened to BBC Arts and Ideas podcast while walking through Jubilee park in Glebe. Philip Dodd spoke with Tudo Historian David Starkey who made an interesting observation about how identity will be invented for you unless you take up the reins yourself. Also listened to ceramic artist Grayson Perry discuss how contemporary artists will step [...]
Spent the evening editing words written and pictures taken. Considered Jean-Paul Sartre and the twenty published pages he wrote each day of his working life. Also considered James Joyce who would consider two well crafted sentences a successful day of writing. Considered how much writing I would get done if I continued to read trivia [...]
Arrived at Sydney College of the Arts at dusk. Spent most of the day sitting in the park attempting to put words to paper. On the way here I passed an old man on the footpath. He was sternly shaking his fist at the other side of the road. There was nobody there. Maybe he [...]
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Due to server side problems I have been unable to post my comings and goings for a while. They are still being recorded and will be updated very soon when the problem is solved. Apologies.
I have solved the problem but will not upload the missing posts until I have some more spare time. In the [...]
Purchased an Imagewall by Compuvision at Mitchell Road Aucitons with Kenzie Larsen and James Brown. The Imagewall consists of nine televisions that stack together to form a wall and an old school computer that converts one image to display across the nine televisions. Couldn’t get it to work.
Analysed a graph depicting the death of Marxism, postmodernism, and ‘other stupid academic fads’. Collected my own data and created a graph that depicts articles that mention postmodernism in academic journals versus the Sydney Morning Herald. It shows that while the Herald publishes more articles that mention postmodernism, the academic journals begin to publish less. [...]
Slightly unsettled by daylight saving. Played an old piano outside the sculpture studios before coming in. The keys kept on sticking. Played guitar in the morning. Added a new combination of four chords to my four chord combination repertoire.
Listening to Gram Parsons. Reading Gary Hill (PAJ Books: Art + Performance). Scraping the roof of my mouth with my tongue. It is numb.
Bill Henson featured in the Good Weekend. David Marr treading softly softly. Boring read about the whole Henson event that says nothing and explains less. I still might buy his book but I will wait to be impressed by his Sydney Ideas talk.
Left a Becks in the freezer for too long. Archived some artworks and sent some emails.
Repressive heat today. I felt like I was walking through a chocolate milkshake that had been left in the oven. I saw Mount Eerie and Lucky Dragons last night at Paddington Uniting Church. Incredible music. Odd venue. Lucky Dragons had stangers tickling and tapping each others hands as they were wired up to something, generating [...]
Stared at a wall for a while. Thought of a quote from The Floating Opera by John Barth “I have in my office, opposite the desk, a fine staring-wall, a wall that I keep scrupulously clear for staring purposes”
There was a man wearing an orange helmet hanging outside my window this morning. Window cleaning. I remembered abseiling as a child. Walking down a cliff face. Facing the ground beneath me. It was as if the world had turned sideways.
Posted ‘Art, Journalism and Economics in the Age of Reproduction’ on the Jackette. Read
‘Of theses and of theatricality’ by Richard Nile. Listened to Mingus Ah Um and slowly went blind in one eye. Silent migraine.
The Rudd government is not about ideologies or national narratives but the mechanics of managing a nation and finding solutions of complex policy problems.
Wrote a post on The Jackette about The Floating Opera by John Barth, a book I recently finished reading. Also briefly distracted by ‘What you know vs how much you know about it’ graph.
