What’s on at VCA and MCM In Flesh and Blood: The Animal in Art and Philosophy Part 224 April 2012

A symposium series convened by Dr Elizabeth Presa and Dr Louise Burchill in 3 parts with leading artists, writers and philosophers, focusing on animals in philosophy and art.

Part 2. Key note speaker: Raimond Gaita  “The Philosopher’s Dog”

Raimond Gaita is Foundation Professor of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University and Professor of Moral Philosophy at King’s College London. He is currently Professorial Fellow in the Melbourne Law School and the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne and Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy at King’s College London.

When:  Tuesday 24 April, 10.30am -5pm
Where: Federation Hall, Victorian College of the Arts, Grant Street, Southbank.
Admission: Free. No bookings required.

Part 1. Key Note Speaker: Peter Singer “Animal Liberation”
Part 3. Key Note Speaker: Andrew Benjamin “Of Jews and Animals”

Presented by the Centre for Ideas Art & Philosophy Project funded by the Sidney Myer Foundation.

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Custom Built Frieght Container, With Wax strips, Magnetic Security mIxed with Media on Archival Paper

Hey Sam! Check out this Do or DIY show with a Carl Stone mix, where he carlstones some Cambodian Pop.

Paradise Dam in Biggenden Queensland had a problem.  Fish tried swimming upstream and thier heads kept hitting wall. Solution?

A fish lift:

Documentation of my one-day residency at C3 as part of STUDIO APARTMENT, a project curated by Jon Butt/Simon Macewan. I tried a few different things in my one-day residency at C3. Most of the time, you can't finish good things in one day.

I planned my next video. I tried to make a new edition of our popular game for groups of friends, MAKE THAT SOUND, wherein players are challenged to make noises of known things with only their mouth. A group of 4 virtual strangers played a round, and I was eliminated straight away when I couldn't make the sound of 'Bioplastics'. I got a Japanese Lunch and as payment had to 'respond' to a snippet of a old folk tale about a miserable sprite. I made a spinoff of MAKE THAT SOUND, called SOBBING, where everyone sobs and the most sobbing sobber gets to sleep. Wrestled with FCP. Also, there's a mix I made for the opening. Just in case my man Lionel Richie wanna come through and holla at me.

I'm calling this “Learning with Abbas”, feauturing Italian-Job-tense toy car racing (Tom Sachs, U jelly?), and a structural repetition based around the enchantment of putting coloured stuff in glasses of water, which, come on, was like inventing your own softie, and also features practically every other kidnip: a duck's feet, farm equipment, goldfish, chugging from the box, and who can forget shooting chromatically-sequential bottles on a shelf with a massive revolver?

via Belog

A little while ago, I think two months, we made a cake for a Bus fundraiser '@' Blindside. Check this out:

OK, so we're not looking as artisanally engrossing as some of the other entries but this has a little pluck: a gigantic Costco apple pie, hosting a archetypal Safeway Mud, followed by a discounted marzipan-topped christmas pudding. That was the original plan and fine-enough for a 'crazy pie' but it lacked brute Ferrero. Hence the central, and contrapuntal, Tower of Hazel.

I mean, check out that apple sauce, saplike and tantalising, shining up the edges. Hey – if you bid on/won/ate this thing, drop us a line at rowan@taylorslakesupercolony.org or holly@pocketclock.org and let us know how it was! I have a rough idea already. But, still.

Here it is in the Cordillera Golf Club in Colarado:

via Johnny B

Slightly-unhinged grandson of Milton Friedman, Patri Friedman, proposes turnkey 'island products' modelled on oil platforms, each one experimenting with an alternative social/political system. By being small and nearby each other, the idea is that government becomes more like the free market; if you don't like a government, you just hop over to another. Mr PayPal likes it $500,000.

Doesn't it seem like these experimental/super-libertarian endeavours (like Dubai) are aesthetically guided by the visualisation functions of CAD software? It's like the real constructions aren't right until they look exactly like the clunky renders.

Download the new album of my musical project, Pompey.

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New work by Rowan McNaught until 20 Nov.

'… going from top left clockwise, fleece hanging from a red ring, a bull, a ship and a whale. The four cantons represent the main activities of which the economy of the City of Melbourne was based in the mid 19th century. They are fellmongering, rustling, shipping and whaling.'

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I will be in the space from 4pm – 4 am.

1. It’s a simple gas –  Number 2 on the Atomic Scale.
2. Sound travels almost 3x faster in Helium than it does in air. This explains the pitch shifting phenomena of the average balloon sucker at a party.
3. It is becoming extinct on earth.
4. It is the 2nd most abundant gas in the universe.
5. Helium was first noticed 142 years ago.
6. It took 4.5 billion years to make Earth's supply, so we can say that we are from the Helium era.
7. Most of the helium comes from Texas.
8. Inhaling helium can be dangerous if done to excess.

Image utilizes The by Ed ruscha, 2009

To readers of lifestyle magazines, does the world come as a geometrically refracted series of European Piers and modular planning documents? Does jumping upside-down, backwards, head-first, off a European Pier feel like the bit in Fleetwood Mac songs when everything but the bass and drums drop out?

Screen shots from an upcoming video work. Just like the Michael Jackson video clip, these air conditioners slip in between one another. ONE WORLD!!!

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