Can a poet speak on economy?

This week I gave a talk as part of the La Trobe University Art Forum lecture series about how my solo work found its way into the all encompassing collective practice of Artist as Family. What happens when artists cease to be co-opted by an industry enframed by the imperatives of capital and augment new economic narratives? A radical-homemaking, permacultural-neopeasantry springs forth!

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Kruger:Refuse (or, Required myths of the hypermediated)

The image on the left belongs to the art of Barbara Kruger.

The image on the right shows OJ's hoody (at the Daylesford Refuse and Recycling Centre today).

An historical context to Kruger and Refuse in Australia

Gender may be more irrelevant than life imitating art...

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All Rights Relinquished

There is a colourful stoush going on at Overland about:

PLAGIARISM:–
More virulent than MODERNISM
More critical than POST–MODERNISM
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Home, Stewart. Plagiarism: Art as Commodity and Strategies for its Negation, London: Aporia Press, 1988.

Tipping, Richard & Mansell, Chris. Lessons for Plagairists (with a Special Proem by Bill Posters, Complete with Precepts and a Handy Compendium of Instructions), Sydney: Well Sprung Productions, 2013.

And more grist for the mill at Notes from the Sinister Quarter.

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Permeate (on Radio National)

The first installment of the Permeate series.

Throughout the year, Miyuki Jokiranta will bring us the stories of artists who draw inspiration from the environment. This week we hear from musician and improviser Jim Denley, who has recorded extensively in the Australian outdoors.

In the weeks to come Permapoesis will be featured in this series. I'll keep you posted.

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Greenwash #19 in Trouble - carless company

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Greenwash #18 in Trouble - composted & upcycled (part 2)

According to David Holmgren, co-originator of modern permaculture, history has revelled in humanism while remaining largely ignorant of energetic and ecological factors. For well adjusted progressive types, by which I mean schooled believers in human progress, this anthropocentric worldview is easily developed through the arts. But to those sensitive to the plight of nonhumans, ecologies and the world’s poor at the hands of progress, art can be seen as just another instrument of civilised brutality and species intransigence. Welcome to part 2 of Greenwash’s ‘composted and upcycled’. (see part 1)

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Greenwash #10 in Trouble - Art, Abstraction and Animal Cruelty

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Greenwash #4 in Trouble

Glen Dunn recently made a short film about a kiln firing in Southern Tasmania, posted it online and found an unexpected viral enthusiasm for it around the globe. The film’s fusing of the ancient and the modern, the physical and the digital, taps into some of our most basic inclinations to form meaning of the present with things and activities that are common to the past. Things such as clay and wood and fire.

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Greenwash #3 in Trouble

Waste. No other single word defines our civilisation better. Ninety years of crude oil extraction, refinement and burning has turned the planet and its atmosphere into a monumental toxicological dump. But the rapid exploitation of oil deposits is only one corollary of our anti-ecological state, our mindset for waste has been gradually developing over 6,000 years.

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