Returning to Melbourne via a snowy but Spring-like New York. Just a couple of days, and will see the Whitney Biennial tomorrow. Some interesting shows today — the Guggenheim (Anish Kapoor, Tino Sehgal), Marian Goodman (Steve McQueen) and others. And […]
I am now in Halifax, I gave the talk, which was a very rewarding experience, and the installation at the Anna Leonowens Gallery is up and I am pleased with it. Even better, it has extended my creative process, as […]
Bird Diary Coburg Front Room 7.45am Sun 24th ‘Weh, weh; woh woh woh’ Then again ‘Weh, weh; woh woh woh’ A crow (Corvus mellori) calls loudly. Ambient doves; odd wattlebird; odd car. Then, faint carolling of magpies down along the […]
Bird Diary Hong Kong Airport Gate 60 8.15am a few days ago Two unidentified birds land briefly on the supprts of the enclosed walkway between gate and plane. Caught them as smudges on camera as they flew off.
Some timely visits to retrospectives of John Baldessari (Tate Modern) and Ed Ruscha (Hayward) both West coast Americans of a similar era, both hovering on the boundaries of conceptual art and minimalism, with reference to Dada. The wit in the […]
“How many people turn on the radio and leave the room, satisfied with this distant and sufficient noise? Is this absurd? Not in the least. What is essential is not that one particular person speak and another hear, but that, […]
“What happens when nothing happens?” Stephen Johnstone Intro to Recent Art and the Everyday in The Everyday: Documents of Contemporary Art 2008 “The banal, the quotidian, the obvious, the common, the ordinary, the infra-ordinary, the background noise, the habitual? (…) […]
Bird Diary entry Mon 21st winter solstice northern hemisphere West London 7.20 am Sun rising – prussian blue lightening to cobalt, and light blue in east. Very cold – minus 2′, patches of snow now re-frozen and all water solid […]
Bird diary entry Wed 16th Dec 09 Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon en route to UK Low cloud cover, mild, 20’c, rain showers, tops of sky scrapers in cloud. Pigeons swoop from roof of hotel – fast and high. Birds of […]