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Nature: In his Discourse on Inequality (1753), Rousseau describes a history of the degeneration of humanity via increasingly corrupting social forms. Instead of providing a means of improvement and emancipation, society emasculates our natural capacities and leaves us in thrall … Continue reading →

In order to obtain university patronage, art must position itself as research that produces new knowledge. Art as new knowledge? I suppose you could just about argue this when the notion of art is retroactively fitted to various societies that … Continue reading →

I must collect my thoughts in order to write this, in order to distinguish what properly belongs inside this account and what should properly be left out. Any delimited interior is of course an artifice. This account could have been … Continue reading →

Computational space is an abstraction. There are certainly x and y screen coordinates, but space is ultimately an epiphenomenon. Underlying the sense of space and spatial navigation are abstract structures – the array, the linked list, the tree. If the … Continue reading →

Can murder be aesthetic? My immediate response is no. This is in terms of a conception of aesthetics that is fundamentally concerned with social realisation – for establishing the ethical grounds of society and looking ultimately towards a basis for … Continue reading →

Hospitality in socially engaged art. To invite somebody in. To permit them to participate. To describe/circumscribe a context for participation. This is, after all, your artwork. You are named. A group of you are named. The group has a name. … Continue reading →

For the past year or so I have been playing guitar at night. Have discovered Open G tuning and have started playing fingerstyle. Whenever I come up with a tune I record it in a single take on my iPad. … Continue reading →

Thanks to the person who very kindly sent me a pencil and a pen in an effort to encourage me to write more. Do my best, but I’m afraid that I follow my own patterns of wayward and sporadic writing … Continue reading →

Aesthetics is political, but is not itself directed to the political. In the classic formulation of Schiller, the aesthetic paves the way for enlightened political society. It provides an education at the level of sensibility that is vital towards individuals … Continue reading →

Kim, Lucas and I follow creeks up from the beach to the escarpment. Lucas re-enacts materialist film events with Louise. I bought a banjo last night from Clive in Unanderra. He was in his pyjamas. A MANIFESTO OF FOLLOWING What … Continue reading →

Have released a new album out on bandcamp. It’s called Whenever.

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Rough notes. Aesthetic experience may conventionally be associated with the so-called higher senses – sight and hearing – but it is intimately connected also with the lower senses – touch, taste and smell – as well as with features of … Continue reading →

Fieldwork is a form of research. It involves leaving the lab and going out into the world. Fun to leave the lab, but also important. Research must be extended beyond the artifice of the lab. In this sense, fieldwork is … Continue reading →

‘Field’ is a complex term with a wide set of meanings. Etymologically – and most concretely – it refers to an open area of land. Yet this openness is complex. A field is less an entirely exterior wilderness than an … Continue reading →

Artists as ethnographers – social practice Artists along with scientists – artists on ANARE trips to the Antarctic (Mawson Station), etc. Artists pursuing procedures rigorously in the field – sampling, systematic observation and documentation, etc. (affinities with science, but with … Continue reading →

Jeff Wall’s ‘Fieldwork’ (2003) depicts archaeological fieldwork in British Columbia. Two fieldworkers excavate the remains of a Native American (Sto:lo Nation) floor, now part of a field. No longer an interior, the floor has passed outside. The walls and roof … Continue reading →