Outside Pakenham Street Art Space (PSAS) in Fremantle, I tighten my jacket: the cool winter air h... more Outside Pakenham Street Art Space (PSAS) in Fremantle, I tighten my jacket: the cool winter air holds wood smoke, long black shadows join the growing night, and asphalt glistens from the recent rain. In just a few moments Jacobus Capone's latest body of work, Dark Learning, will open. The Perth-based artist came to my attention in 2013, but Capone's laborious performances have been occurring since 2006, when he stopped talking for six months (Enounce). Other patiently undertaken works such as To love (subtitled Walking from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific, to pour water from the Indian Ocean into the Pacific) involved Capone trudging from Perth to Wollongong over the course of five-and-a-half months, to pour a vessel of water from one ocean into another. Commenced in 2014, Dark Learning represents the beginning of a series of works inspired by the eastern philosophical concept of Xuanxue, which encourages unknowing or unlearning - distancing intellectualisation from actions ...
A piece of short creative writing exploring an imagined experience of speculative catastrophe in ... more A piece of short creative writing exploring an imagined experience of speculative catastrophe in Western Australia's South West region.
Outside Pakenham Street Art Space (PSAS) in Fremantle, I tighten my jacket: the cool winter air h... more Outside Pakenham Street Art Space (PSAS) in Fremantle, I tighten my jacket: the cool winter air holds wood smoke, long black shadows join the growing night, and asphalt glistens from the recent rain. In just a few moments Jacobus Capone's latest body of work, Dark Learning, will open. The Perth-based artist came to my attention in 2013, but Capone's laborious performances have been occurring since 2006, when he stopped talking for six months (Enounce). Other patiently undertaken works such as To love (subtitled Walking from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific, to pour water from the Indian Ocean into the Pacific) involved Capone trudging from Perth to Wollongong over the course of five-and-a-half months, to pour a vessel of water from one ocean into another. Commenced in 2014, Dark Learning represents the beginning of a series of works inspired by the eastern philosophical concept of Xuanxue, which encourages unknowing or unlearning - distancing intellectualisation from actions ...
A piece of short creative writing exploring an imagined experience of speculative catastrophe in ... more A piece of short creative writing exploring an imagined experience of speculative catastrophe in Western Australia's South West region.
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