Danie Mellor travelling 2014

Artist and chair of Visual Arts Australia council Danie Mellor  out n about at Art Basel Hong Kong and Scotland

Primordial: SuperNaturalBayiMinyjirral, which opens on 1 August at the National Museum of Scotland, his first exhibition in Scotland

http://artery.australiacouncil.gov.au/2014/07/the-work-of-danie-mellor/

Additionally his exhibition Exotic Lies, Secret Ties is at TarraWara Museum until 27 July 2014

Danie Mellor Exotic lies and sacred ties (The heart that conceals, the tongue that never reveals) 2008. I
nstallation: pastel, pencil, glitter, Swarovski crystal and wash on Saunders Waterford paper, framed, with mosaic china, taxidermy animals and painted wood. 325.0 x 325.0 x 130.0 cm variable.
Collection of The University of Queensland, purchased 2009.

Archives | Australian art

Australian art archives online
Design and Arts Australia Online here

How the internet liberated Australia's art history by Joanna Mendelsshon

Researchers using the Design and Art Australia Online database no longer need to trek across the country to examine works such as Jean Goldberg’s “Wheels”. Powerhouse Museum, CC BY-SA

Starling murmuration

Link to RSPB website of Starling murmuration in the Cambridgeshire Fen Drayton Lakes

David Kjaer

Also in Avalon Marshes in Somerset

Starling murmuration is studied by computational biologists

George F. Young,

Luca Scardovi,

Andrea Cavagna,

Irene Giardina,

Naomi E. Leonard

Their paper Starling Flock Networks Manage Uncertainty in Consensus at Low Cost is here 

Author summary

Starling flocks move in beautiful ways that both captivate and intrigue the observer. Previous work has shown that starlings pay attention to their seven closest neighbors, but until now it was not understood why this number is seven. Our paper explains the mystery: when uncertainty in sensing is present, interacting with six or seven neighbors optimizes the balance between group cohesiveness and individual effort. To prove this result we develop a new systems-theoretic approach for understanding noisy consensus dynamics...more

Watch here - turn the music off (!)

Andrew Ross | Economic disobedience

The Rolling Jubilee is an initiative to free people from debt by buying debt then releasing it
The website is here - its a bail out of the people by the people.

'debts are the wages of the future claimed in advance'

This is a strike debt project from Occupy Wall Street and I heard of it from Prof Andrew Ross at Crossroads in Cultural Studies 2014 in Tampere, Finland

Australian Art in Paris

Commercial gallerist Stephane Jacob Arts d'Australie promotes and exhibits a wide range of work
His website here

art history & art writing

James Elkins is leaving art history
link to his website here
Link to Elkins 'writing with images' book project here
What is interesting writing in art history?

Durkheim links

Encyclopedia of Religion and Society: Hartford Institute for Religion Research | Durkheim

Wiki entry for Frances Gillan

Chicago University summary of The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

The Durkheim Pages: Robert Alun Jones, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, History and Sociology at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Link.

David Émile Durkheim (April 15, 1858 – November 15, 1917) was a French sociologist, social psychologist and philosopher. He formally established the academic discipline and, with Karl Marx and Max Weber, is commonly cited as the principal architect of modern social science and father of sociology. Wiki link.

r e a

Link to reference to r e a  PolesApart at Breenspace gallery in 2009 with essay by Dr Christine Nicholls

Enwezor on Sydney & Melbourne contemporary art scene

Curator Okwui Enwezor travelled to Melbourne and Sydney, checking out the scene and researching for the 2015 Venice Biennale
"I think this cross-section of practices, in a sense, describes the landscape of contemporary art – which means, rather than an Australian-ness of the work I see here, the key for me is the specific individual artist's own language"

"I'm excited about Australia on two levels – first of course, Fiona's work. We met and had a discussion of what she might be working on, but she was a bit cagey about it! Which is normal – it needs to be surprising," says Enwezor. "Second is the new pavilion. This is very exciting – it will be the first contemporary architecture in the Giardini since the South Korean pavilion. I'm looking forward to it. It's a very important milestone for Australia's presence in the Biennale."

 June 2014

Read more:

Fiona Hall's Big Game Hunting was at dOCUMENTA(13)

Link to audio from ABC radio

Fiona Hall and Big Game Hunting

(photo Sophie Reid http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandartsdaily/fiona-hall-image-1/4671784)

Christian Thompson

Links for reference to artist
We Bury Our Own at Pitt Rivers Museum in 2013
Blouin Artinfo link to article by Nicholas Forrest 2013

Alex Speed article includes biog, Tree of Knowledge, Charlie Perkins award

At PICA in Western Australia for Hijacked III in 2012 link

one image from the series King Billy

Kimberley artists recorded

ABC Open Project archive
I am an artist: I come from the bush series on ABC open here