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A small well-chalked boulder problem from March 2013. What an utterly long time ago. Just a few moves, but at my limit. Could scarcely believe it when I finally succeeded, grabbing for the good horizontal break and clambering up on … Continue reading →

A common critique of the aesthetic involves delineating its social implications. The aesthetic, it is argued, has served within modern capitalism as a means of naturalising aspects of class difference. As the old explicit delineators of social difference within the … Continue reading →

What is the place of fieldwork within art? Can fieldwork be placed within art? Art is a field. The field beyond art is a field. A field represents an area at once open and delimited. Can there be a field … 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 →

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 →

‘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 →

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 →

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 →

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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →