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Unheimlich
to put the following review in some reflexive perspective I'll admit that i'm feeling just a lttle mentally fragile. OK more than usual.My major form of stress management consists in reading obscure...
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dissent, dissonance, discord
I wish I had more time.I'd love to write a long meaty rant about the delights of the Howard Arkley show up in Brisbane over the weekend.Mayhem has long been a big fan of dayglo - but the shimmering...
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I'm SORRY Lauren!!!!!
starella with schappylle scragg's nanna at the Sham bowling club.Mayhem was horribly remiss and failed to publicise the really amazing important things that happened last weekbut there were so many...
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Art, Activism, Newness
Mayhem has been seriously ensconsed in thesis land. My mind is currently somewhere between Bristol, Euston Road, TriBeCa and Darlinghurst in the mid 1970's, Rozelle in the 1990's and the lining of my...
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towing the Party Line
Scragg ain't the only one taking a stand!Mayhem is on the campaign trail: looking for democracy:Part One comes courtesy of Get UpThe Prime Minister can now call the election any day, and many think...
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answer to the previous post
Ohhhh I've had long days and longer nights in the bowels of sydney uni's main quad.But I'm popping my head up very briefly coz....Marrickville contemporary Art Prize awards night is on tomorrow at 'at...
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Nuff and Stonsense
Mayhem went and saw some art. Lots of it. Drank lots of goon. got very drunk. then got very ill. Now hiding from worldWriting lecture about blindness: cultural blindness, contoured blindness, visual...
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Multiple Personality
Mayhem ain't doin a lot right now except trying to cure my ice like addiction to facebook...ohhhh what a slippery slide into chronic aphasia that is....apart from my guest lecture at NAS tomorrow -...
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Looking for Demoocracy?
Mayhem's buggered off to Melbourne, so Schappylle has taken over for this weekHope youse are all coming along to me show this thursday, eh?It's gonna be bloody unrool, eh? Maaayyte you should see some...
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Taking Leave
This could be taking some time off or taking leave of my senses - and probably is about both.Mayhem is officially heading for the hills and a temporary retirement from being an artscribe - while I head...
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Art in Heartland
I spent bits of the past month in sydney sneaking out to delicious bits of shows in strange hours of the afternoon or night - when punters were absent and I could just look at work, and not feel the...
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Keep Australia Beautiful
(image courtesy of Jane Polkinghorne)Dear AllI made a quick trip to Sodomy City so Scragg could knife Howard, and now I'm finding it VERY HARD TO LEAVE.The sydney Sumer Arty Party Frenzy is PEAKING...
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Interstitial Spaces
the 'true' artist is supposed to help the world by revealing 'mystic' truths about things This was - scrawled (in jest) byt mathew hopkins, around some target style painted thing on the walls at SCA....
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OMIGODOMIGOD!!!!
I tried to pretend that January consists of some sort of major art hiatus just coz the ACGA galleries are closed till feb, but it's a lie... a silly fantasy.Sydney art NEVER stops, just like the...
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Flagging rainbows
I've actually feasted the eyeballs on a LOT of ART lately - and acutally turning up to the shows I promote. However my fingers have been full of THE TOME lately so I kept my opinions to myself... for a...
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Weird Science and wetness
My entries have been getting crappier and crappier and I *do* apologise profusely.Punters will be pleased to know that I have been keeping up the eyeball activity - jut the connection between eyeball...
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Spinning Out
ahh the joys of AGNES!!!!Sadly nerddom has kept me confined to the quad this Mardis Gras - and I'll probably miss out on the great painters piss-up too - next week at the Archibald, Wynne And Sulman...
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Milky bits and Pink
On the theme of Mates.... err, well... here's another plug.Mayhem's partner in Crime - aka Schappylle's hubby darryll has an astonishing project about to gush forth onto the streets of dulwich...
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Appropriation: my favourite things
I've have been hideously remiss in blogging, and pretty much disappeared for the previous month. I even vanished from the blogosphere, and cut down my facebook time, and barely checked my...
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Reasons to emigrate
Thanks to Ruark Lewis for this image above. If *only* I had more time I'm sure shcappylle could have arranged something with Uncle Kev on a similar theme....Is it necessary for me to join the chorus of...
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The Missing Link?
For those looking for a bit more of the Bill Henson biffo the MCA has a FORUM this Thursday at 6pm - with lots of different concerned types in attendance........Meanwhile the Alter egos of Schappylle...
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Animating Space
Sadly this blog continues to become more of a chronicle of stuff that I'm missing than stuff that I've actually been able to get out and even sniff out, let alone have a decent contemplative sigh...
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Terminality
In case this isn't blindingly obvious - I haven't been posting here of late......In fact - it's probably time to announce the end of this blog since I've moved to melbourne - and ain't up to updating...
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Steve Kirby: Between Choice and ChanceArt is that moment at which life can touch chaos, most joyously… art is that momentaryopening up to chaos where we can enjoy a fragment of chaos, now bound safely,...
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