from Type Books, Toronto
from Type Books, Toronto
situation awareness
quangic realignment
Resilient
buffering
safe to fail
cross-scale interactions
Arts industry statistics from the Australia Council. Is art more like religion or a gambling addiction?
Lethologica Press is please to announce that we are well on the way to exhibiting a diverse range of collaborative art/text books in November at the Perth Centre for Photography. Current participants include Eleanor Leonne Bennett, Denise Brown, Nandi Chinna, Thea Costantino, Liana Joy Christensen, Emmanuela Dos Santos Dias, Vivienne Glance, Marie Lochman, Eric James Mitchell, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Perdita Phillips, Gail Robinson, Flavio Rosa, Dianne and Kathryn Souphandavong and Andrea Smith.
Submit your book: if you have a recently produced book and want to exhibit it contact teapot@lethologicapress.org ASAP. Tell us about your book by filling in the submission form and emailing it to teapot@lethologicapress.org ASAP.
Submit your book by 31 January to:
Western Australian Photographic Book Showcase + Art/Text/Clearinghouse Project
Fitzgerald Photo Imaging
350 Fitzgerald Street
NORTH PERTH WA 6006
Make sure you include a copy of the submission form with your book.
If you can’t make the deadline contact teapot@lethologicapress.org to make alternative arrangements. Books can be mailed to Lethologica Press with return postage included.
Proposed exhibition dates: 9 February to 10 March 2012
What kind of books are accepted?
The types of texts accepted include all forms of contemporary literature including nonfiction, fiction and poetry and also critical essays and theoretical texts. Books can even include forewords by a second person!
Cost of submission = $60 per title. This money goes to paying for the gallery hire, marketing and catering.
We will feature your exhibited books on the Lethologica Press website with a link to your own website.
Sales: From 10 February 2012 to 11 March 2013 we offer to host sales of your book through the Lethologica Press website either by linking to the sales area of your website (more convenient for you) or by utilising a paypal plugin we have installed on our website.
Check out the art/text/clearinghouse FAQs here http://www.lethologicapress.org/teapot/?page_id=131
Time is running out for WA photographers to exhibit their photographic books in a curated exhibition at the Perth Centre for Photography.
Submit your book: Lethologica Press are looking for photographic books (including small pamphlets) that are:
for inclusion in the Western Australian Photographic Book Showcase. Books do not necessarily need to be published by established publishers — they can be self-published.
We wish to document the historical development of photographic books in Western Australia and we are aware that many photographers these days are utilising recent developments in digitally printed and Print On Demand services to produce professional portfolios and short-run books.
Tell us about your book by filling in the submission form and emailing it to teapot@lethologicapress.org ASAP.
Submit your book by 31 January to:
Western Australian Photographic Book Showcase + Art/Text/Clearinghouse Project
Fitzgerald Photo Imaging
350 Fitzgerald Street
NORTH PERTH WA 6006
Make sure you include a copy of the submission submission form with your book.
If you can’t make the deadline contact teapot@lethologicapress.org to make alternative arrangements. Books can be mailed to Lethologica Press with return postage included.
Proposed exhibition dates: 9 February to 10 March 2012
Cost of submission = $30 for up to 3 titles. This money goes to paying for the gallery hire, marketing and catering.
We will feature your exhibited books on the Lethologica Press website with a link to your own website.
Check out the FAQs here http://www.lethologicapress.org/teapot/?page_id=124
A short snippet of this extensive audio-video installation by Saba Skabern called Conversation with the Ancestors.

Saba Slakabern at Novo Mesto, Slovenija (studio shots of works being prepared)
Above is one of the works being prepared in the studio but check out the visualisation here of the entire show http://virtualen.si/demo/Saba_3D/virtualen.si_Pogovor_s_predniki.html. Saba collaborated with Saska Sagadin so there is a sound component to the piece as well which we unfortunately can’t experience.
Check out the website and project for What is missing? by Maya Lin http://www.whatismissing.net/ (also see details on her website http://www.mayalin.com/). I’m always a little dubious about mournful environmental art but the website is very moving in an informational sort of way.
Someone has uploaded and extract of Marcus Coates’ Dawn Chorus online.
Here is a baltic bites about it
The Australian, Weekend Review, August 13-14, p. 4
Was surprised to read that according to Jane “when Mt Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines in 1991 it threw out more greenhouse gas into the atmosphere than the entire human race had emitted in its entire time on earth”. Googled this phrase and its part of a climate denying email going around.
Do volcanos emit more CO2 than human induced causes? No. “Human activities, responsible for a projected 35 billion metric tons (gigatons) of CO2 emissions in 2010 (Friedlingstein et al., 2010), release an amount of CO2 that dwarfs the annual CO2 emissions of all the world’s degassing subaerial and submarine volcanoes (Gerlach, 2011).” http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hazards/gas/climate.php
Pinatubo did have a measurable effect on global climate temperatures through SO2 emissions. “The Pinatubo cloud was the largest sulfur dioxide cloud ever observed in the stratosphere since the beginning of such observations by satellites in 1978. It caused what is believed to be the largest aerosol disturbance of the stratosphere in the twentieth century, though probably smaller than the disturbances from eruptions of Krakatau in 1883 and Tambora in 1815. Consequently, it was a standout in its climate impact and cooled the Earth’s surface for three years following the eruption, by as much as 1.3 degrees at the height of the impact. ” http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hazards/gas/climate.php
In effect Pinatubo did cause a dip in the overall trend for increasing global temperatures. Regrettably, volcanic eruptions with SO2 emissions of the size of Pinatubo are not common.
see also article here http://www.agu.org/pubs/pdf/2011EO240001.pdf
You can see a longer analysis of Jane Fraser’s piece here http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2011/08/the_australians_war_on_science_71.php
Friedlingstein, P., Houghton, R. A., Marland, G., Hackler, J., Boden, T. A., Conway, T. J., Canadell, J. G., Raupach, M. R., Ciais, P., and Le Quéré, C., 2010, Update on CO2 emissions, Nat. Geosci., v. 3, n. 12, p. 811–812, doi:10.1038/ngeo1022.
Gerlach, T.M., 2011, Volcanic versus anthropogenic carbon dioxide: Eos Trans. AGU, v. 92, n. 24, p. 201-202. (http://www.agu.org/pubs/pdf/2011EO240001.pdf)
…”You are entitled to your own opinions — but not your own facts”
Wonderful to take the time to step out of the usual stream of ‘life matters’ and listen and be present. Among the many beautiful moments during the walk I found myself also exploring the ‘what if sounds’ in the realm of imagination – what would it have sounded like if I was standing here when that giant limb tore itself from the trunk of that tree and crashed to the ground? What would it have sounded like if I was in the middle of the lake when that bird started to flap its wings for take off? What would it have sounded like when there was no background traffic noise?
Because I spend a lot of time in the desert listening – a very quiet landscape – I was surprised at the amount of sound at North Lake – what a busy little place it is! Lets hope it will be saved from the roadmakers.
SC
Comments by Annamaria Weldon in her online Journal here: http://www.annamariaweldon.com.au/pages/events/index.htm#
20 people came to walk around North Lake, Western Australia as part of World Listening Day 2011. With still conditions we could hear the Kwinana Freeway to the east but this didn’s stop the large number of frogs from calling (active after the recent rain). Bird species calling included black swans, black ducks, grey teal, mudlarks, Australian ravens, magpies, grey butcherbirds, wrens, great wattlebirds, swallows, williewagtails, twenty-eights, rainbow lorikeets, lbjs (unidentified) and silvereyes (we think) passing in a flock overhead.
Around the far side of the lake walking at the water’s edge was rewarded with a high-fidelity frog chorus and a dragonfly caught in the plastic of a rehabilitation plant guard. The east side of the lake was a peaceful contrast to the surrounding road network.
Also highly noticable was the large number of introduced rainbow lorikeets calling whilst flying over head and which were also nesting on the east side of the lake. Apart from radically changing Perth’s soundscape with their strident calls, lorikeets outcompete twenty-eight parrots (Western Ringnecks) for nesting hollows.
The rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus) was introduced into the wild in Perth, Western Australia, during the 1960s. When lorikeets were first recorded in the wild in Perth no action was taken to remove them. From fewer than 10 escaped or released birds, the population is now distributed over a large part of the metropolitan area and may expand to number over 20 000 birds by 2010.
Tamra Chapman, Department of Environment and Conservation and Marion Massam, Department of Agriculture
and Food. Pestnote 200 March 2007 see http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/PC_93047.html
Trees with nesting hollows large enough for parrots such as twenty-eights are found in Perth’s remaining wetlands and remnant bushland patches such as North Lake. If approved the 70 metre wide 6 lane highway extension to Roe Highway will pass between North Lake and Bibra Lake, not that far from where these photos were taken.
Please add your personal comments to this online letter in support of the Stop Roe Highway and Save Beeliar Wetlands! campaign now. More information about the Beeliar Wetlands can be found here: http://www.savebeeliarwetlands.com/
A fundraiser for Polytechnic West (Midland) Art and Design students for their graduate show. Pick up works by Eva Fernandez, Nalda Searles, John Parkes, Donna Franklin, Peter Dailey and Stuart Elliott (to name a few) for $100. Please come on the 27th and support WA’s next crop of emerging artists.
dowload blind box fundraiser invitation
My box is in there too.
This year I am organizing two walks in Perth to celebrate World Listening Day. If you wish to participate please let me know perdy@perditaphillips.com
For pics last year’s walk see here: http://www.perditaphillips.com/projects_blog/?p=1290
When: Sunday 17 July 9:30 am to approximately 10:45 am
Where: Meet at the northern (first) carpark on Progress Drive for a 930 am walk around North Lake with a mix of nonhuman (environmental) sounds and suburban sounds. We are hoping to link up with the Save Beeliar Wetlands and Stop Roe 8 Highway! campaign.
What to bring: We will be walking on limestone paths and through open bushland in a circuit around the lake. Wear walking shoes and appropriate clothes for the weather.
A night walk through the centre of Perth chasing sounds of humans, machines and the ever-present environmental phenomena that we live in.
Starting point: Perth Town Hall below the clock tower at precisely 7:30 pm
Please note: Bring your multirider card. Wear walking shoes and appropriate clothes for the weather.
We are still taking suggestions for places to go in Perth so don’t forget to contact me by Sunday 17th perdy@perditaphillips.com
It’s a walk that encourages you to listen and to explore the soundscapes that surrounds us. It allows you to discover familiar environments in a new way, alerting you to things that you might normally take for granted and letting you experience new and unexpected combinations of sounds and places. You will hear human and nonhuman sounds as well as becoming aware your own sounds (voice, footsteps, etc.) in an environmental context.
World Listening Day is an annual celebration of our aural landscapes. It is held on 18 July each year, the birthday of Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer, who established the World Soundscape Project in the late-60s at Simon Fraser University. Schafer’s 1977 book, The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World was a culminating publication about the research of the WSP that provided a foundation for the interdisciplinary field now known as Acoustic Ecology (for more information see here: http://www.worldlisteningproject.org/?p=1037)
I have been posting the mail art piece compose/decompose to the Animals, people a shared environment exhibition as part of the Australian Animal Study Group 2011 conference exhibition at the POP Gallery and QCA Project Space in Brisbane. There are 20 cards in all and the work is a tribute to the Molluskian Hermaphrohood.
The initial difficulty was locating snails. After a decade of drought and a week of cold weather I only managed to find 4 tiny cone shaped snails from my garden and one mediterranean white and one garden snail from the local park/people’s fences. Project looked like it was heading for disaster until some friends came to the rescue.
Cards 3 and 4 (after addition of 25 snails from Bev and Peter)
On Sunday we went for a walk up from Bibra Lake.
Whilst at the lake we found an egg exposed out on the sandy bank. It looked like a duck egg and it was still warm to touch. There were some pairs of ducks roosting, head under wing, further down on the edge of the water. Just as I stood there a very persistent and quite unafraid crow came down to take the egg.
Whether these are the ducks (Australian Black Duck) that laid the egg is unknown (there was another pair nearby and none of the ducks were near where the egg was laid)
The 200th Anniversary of the Publication of the First Map of Australia
Presented by the Australia on the Map Division of the Australasian Hydrographic Society, in association with the Embassy of France
This year marks the bicentenary of the publication of the first map of Australia, compiled by French navigator and cartographer Louis de Freycinet. The map, published in Paris in 1811, showed the full outline of Australia three years before the publication of Matthew Flinders? “A Voyage to Terra Australia”.
This symposium is one of the highlights of the anniversary commemorations.
Notable speakers include Emeritus Professor Margaret Sankey, Rupert Gerritsen, Professor Jean Fornasiero, Associate Professor John West-Sooby and Henry de Freycinet.
Collection viewing included.
Sunday 19 June, 11 am-4 pm
National Library of Australia, Canberra
Free!!
Bookings: http://nla.eventbrite.com or 02 6262 1271
Dreamed I had written a book entitled “Goodbye and good luck: sustainability and death”