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Birdlife Launch
Lethologica Press warmly invite you to celebrate the launch of the book birdlife. To be launched by Gregory Pryor, artist 2pm, Saturday 22nd October Clancy’s Fish Pub, 51 Cantonment Street Fremantle ‘Both a playful lament for our lack of feathers, and an elegant celebration of common airs ‘ – Gregory Day, author of The [...]
Read moreArt/Text/Clearinghouse Project Opening 8 February 2012 — DEADLINE 31 JANUARY
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 [...]
Read moreWestern Australian Photographic Book Showcase Opening 8 February 2012 — DEADLINE 31 JANUARY
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: by Western Australian photographers; or substantially about WA; or produced in WA for inclusion in the Western [...]
Read moreblind box fundraiser — Polytechnic West students
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. My box is in [...]
Read moreMeeting for Art/Text/Clearinghouse project + Western Australia Photographic books
Lethologica Press is curating an exhibition of art books at the Perth Centre for Photography opening on 24 November 2011. You can see further details here (and here). We are having a meeting on 26 May at 6:30 pm at PCP to talk through what might be involved. You are encouraged to attend with [...]
Read moreArt/Text/Clearinghouse project + Western Australia Photographic books
An exhibition of art books at the Perth Centre for Photography opening on 8 February 2012. 91 Brisbane Street NORTHBRIDGE WA 6003 Phone: +61 8 92276620 Proposed exhibition dates: 9 February to 10 March 2012 Thur + Fri 12pm – 5pm Sat + Sun 12pm – 4pm See details here http://www.lethologicapress.org/teapot/?page_id=12 and here [...]
Read moreunruly ecologies symposium talks online
Recently I organised/curated/convened the unruly ecologies: biodiversity and art symposium for SymbioticA: A symposium exploring the possibilities and difficulties of the diversity of life through critical investigations in art, ecology and action. The majority of talks can be accessed here: http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activities/events/unruly-ecologies Unfotunately the original website no longer exists. It originally contained an online of survey biodiversity [...]
Read moreProposition 3: shy
Originally I had intended all three propositions for the exhibition How does a network activate a public? to be wall statements only. Thus the third proposition is the most speculative and least determined: World distribution of the Shy Albatross Thalassarche cauta according to http://www.iucnredlist.org/ The Shy Albatross Thalassarche cauta flies in a ‘casual, hump-backed, [...]
Read moreProposition 2: dissolution of the southern skies
This is a project for people who reside in the southern hemisphere (anyone else can cheer us on). The process of photocopying a photocopy degrades an image down to a network of nothing. This exchange process begins by assembling a collection of 100 participants in a list arranged by their Longitude. Starting at the [...]
Read moreProposition 1: entries coming in
Some text entries in no particular order: light and fog SC points and distance.. AH moments LJ space: The relationship between people as objects. The energy we feel. The intimacy and connection. The body language. The distance. The emptiness. Infinity. NC waterfalls… PP nothing NS Love ZS Collect the tears of a happy child. [...]
Read moreProposition 1: to collect what cannot be collected
You are asked to draw or write a response (no bigger than A4 size) to the question: What cannot be collected? You can be as brief/creative/practical/impractical as you like. Post responses to: Perdita Phillips Lethologica Press PO Box 747 Fremantle WA 6959 AUSTRALIA or email: perdy@perditaphillips.com Deadline: to be in the exhibition “How does a network activate [...]
Read moreProposition 1: to collect what cannot be collected
You are asked to draw or write a response (no bigger than A4 size) to the question: What cannot be collected? You can be as brief/creative/practical/impractical as you like. Post responses to: Perdita Phillips Lethologica Press PO Box 747 Fremantle WA 6959 AUSTRALIA or email: perdy@perditaphillips.com Deadline: to be in the exhibition “How does a network activate a [...]
Read moreWorld Listening day photos
The Time Cannon at the Roundhouse in Fremantle shortly before being fired. Volunteer guide and honorary firer World Listening Day particpants nearing the end of the walk. Joel put his sound files up here: http://joelong.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/world-listening-day_-listening-to-the-dockers-timegun/
Read moreBruno Latour: “May Nature Be Recomposed? A Few Questions of Cosmopolitics”
The Neal Wheeler Watson Lecture 2010, given by Professor Bruno Latour: “May Nature Be Recomposed? A Few Questions of Cosmopolitics”. The Lecture is given every spring at the Nobel Museum by an international scholar of excellence. Location: Nobel Museum, Svenska Akademiens Börssal, May 11 2010. Your comments please: long, hard to decipher and convoluted; [...]
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