I seem to have this thing for maps recently. I’ve noticed over the last few years that there’s almost always an underlying theme that shapes my thinking: water was it for a while; maps, or a sense of ‘this place’ seems to be it now. My head is overflowing with ideas about knowing where we…
We were in at the NGV yesterday, and popped in to see Bill Viola’s ‘Ocean without a shore’ installation again… it was still lovely. I really like that it’s not in the contemporary art section, but that you have to walk through the Greek and Egyptian antiquities section… Craig responded to my last post about…
so many things i’ve been meaning to write about… it’s finished now, but Ecstatic City at the ngv was simply superb. Due to the water crisis in melbourne the fountains in the moat at the front of the gallery have been switched off, so Chris Doyle made a fountain by projecting images of melbourne people…
parking day there’s a park set up down at our local shopping strip today… makes me happy.
we went down to federation square this morning to watch the federal government’s apology to indigenous people on the big screen. last time i was at fed square with a group this size was when we were protesting some of the policies of the last government. it was unbelievably good to be listening to a…
They took him on a stretcher to the Home for the Appalled where he lay down in a corner and he bawled and bawled and bawled. ‘There’s nothing wrong with me,’ he wailed, when asked about his bawling, ‘It’s the world that need attention; It’s so utterly appalling.’ ‘It’s so utterly appalling,’ he sobbed and…
Looking forward to this on Wednesday morning… Cartoonist, philosopher, poet and artist Michael Leunig, will be joining Archbishop Philip Freier on Wednesday in the next of the series of Conversations at BMW Edge, Federation Square. This month’s conversation with Michael Leunig will explore the topic, “What is the role of the prophetic voice in the…
Paul from urbanseed and i went down to Docklands yesterday to meet with Father Bob… having only talked to him on the phone it was lovely to meet him in the flesh. he’s as eccentric, passionate and forthright as he seems on tv and radio [speaking of which, he’s going to be on denton in…
i’m filling in the booking form for the big screen at federation square – part of the idea to put advent installations in public spaces. if you’re interested in being involved in making this happen on a production level, let me know…
