http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral /// art / exchange / events / re-enactment /// Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:28:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [...screengrab from Sydney Morning Herald, January 4, 2010...] - - - ...and so it turns out that Ben Southall, who "won" the "best job in the world" (his assignment - to live in the lap of luxury on the islands of Queensland's Great Barrier Reef while writing a blog about his ... http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/best-job-boring-blog/ The following is a book review I wrote for Artlink Magazine, Vol 29, No.1, 2009. It's about Donald Brook's new book, "The Awful Truth About What Art Is". Artlink has published Brook's book -- it's a print-on-demand number, you can find out more about it, and order it if you wish, ... http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/brooks-way-with-kinds-categories-and-memes/ Laura Hindmarsh, an artist from Perth, recently wrote an article for UN Magazine entitled Art as public forum: the art of blogging. Laura and I met just over a year ago when I was visiting Perth and working on the Bon Scott Blog. Together with her colleagues Claire and Anna, ... http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/art-as-public-forum-the-art-of-blogging-by-laura-hindmarsh/ Latest stuff... I'm in Melbourne at the moment, for the launch of The Sham exhibition at George Paton Gallery. It's to be an adaptation of my Bilateral Petersham project for the gallery, which I first did in 2007 at Artspace in Sydney. The exhibition will launch on Wed 29 July, ... http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/shows-shows/ This is a little animation I made a few years back for my sister's self-published children's literature magazine Alphabet Soup. It's a great mag, targeting kids between 5 and 12 years old. Alphabet Soup is based on the philosophy that kids will write better by reading more - and the ... http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/alphabet-soup/ [image from 1963 version of Push and Pull...] Kaprow's Push and Pull launches tonight in Sydney, folks. Some thoughts on our version of the work are here... http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/push-and-pull-redfern/ [...to follow on from my post about Two Types of Blogs... here is a post related to some of the processes involved in what I, in that post, called "type 2 blogging"...] Last November, after I attended a permaculture course run by Kirsten and Nick, Kirsten asked me some questions about ... http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/the-bloggers-voice-and-the-wave-of-learning/ Following on from all the recent goat-excitement... A few days ago, Steph from Sugargum Farm forwarded me a goaty plea from the suburbs of Melbourne. Maja, a goat owner in the council area of Kingston, has been hassled by the council to get rid of Paddy (pictured above), a cute ... http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/a-homeless-kid/ To follow on from my recent post about "good" blogs... I want to get down on blog-paper a few thoughts rattling around my brain about blogging... Last year my friend Kirsten asked me about blogging - about how to go about making a "good" blog. She, of course, has a good ... http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/two-types-of-blogs/ A few scribbled notes... Last night we went to a lecture by Lucy Lippard at Sydney Uni. It was a rare treat to see this legend, who beautifully chronicled "dematerialization" practices in the late 1960s and 70s, and who has done some terrific work more recently on art and place ... http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/three-failed-escape-attempts-one-successful-drift-away-from-the-artworld/