week 2: robert gordon menziesreading machine

Reading:•How Soon is Now: Longing and Desire in the Art of the Late 20thC in this Will Have Been: Art Love and Politics in the 1980s, Molesworth, H. (Ed.), MCA Chicago pp 310 -320 by Elisa-beth Lebovici

•Reading:•Shelter: On Kindness (review), in Architecture Australia (Jan/Feb, 2010), by Helene Frichot & Michael Spooner

•Film: Malcolm – 1986 Australian film

•Essay: Sir Robert Gordon Menzies - PM’s Furniture

•Model making: Reading machine for – Sir Robrt Godon Men-zies

• A5 pamphlet: Documentation Reading Machine

Sir Robert Gordon Menzies12th PM of Australia, longest serving PM for 18 yearsEstablish Liberal party in 1945born in 20th Dec, 1894 - 15 May 1978, Jeparit, VIC

Ming the Merciless

Ming’s Pisspot

living in a joke...

Sir Robert Gordon Menzies12th PM of Australia, longest serving PM for 18 yearsEstablish Liberal party in 1945born in 20th Dec, 1894 - 15 May 1978, Jeparit, VIC

Ming the Merciless

Ming’s Pisspot

living in a joke...

BRITISH TIED

“I did but see her passing by/And yet I love her till I die.”

born in jeparit

Isnt his journey is a joke already?

MELBOURNE

SYDNEY

liberal party communist partyvs

01. international role & relationship

illustrative by Chris Grosz, suze affaire

affair: iron trading with japan

02. local political social event & DISPUTS02. local political social event & DISPUTS

1954, petroe affair

AGAINST COMMUNIST

robert menzies (AU)

cartoon by Gordon Edward George Minhinnick

holyoake’ reluctant commitment

keith holyoake(NZ)

03. STAND UP FOR THE NATION03. STAND UP FOR THE NATION

03. STAND UP FOR THE NATION constructionistcombinded advance technology & engineering

brutalist architecturelow cost angular geometries forms

01. australia identity & internatioanl role

australia

russia

internationalstage

world class ballet company

america

the importance on standing up the international stage

peggy van praach, who estiblish the australian ballet company

sidney nolan, 1946 - kelly series

02. australian local artistic beautythe importance on preserve local characteristics & landscape

sidney nolan, australian artist

robert gordon menziesreading machine

HIU  FAI  CHOI  (Justin),  s321  9893  The  PM’s  Reading  Room  By  Mark  Raggett  &  Time  Prye    Furniture  selection:  Material:  lightweight  carbon  By,  Gio  Ponti    Time  period  covered:  1891  –  1979  Topic  covered:    Australian  Political  Ideology  &  Regionalism        This  selected  pieces  of  furniture  designed  by  Gio  Ponti  aims  to  valuate  on  the  characteristic  of  regionalism  during  the  development  of  modernity,  through  analysing  the  impact  on  the  transition  between  classical  artefact  and  modern  mechanisms,  to  reference  as  a  inter-­‐relationship  on  the  regionalism  of  the  Australian  political  ideology  during  20th  century.    Firstly,  in  terms  of  the  regionalism,  it  is  an  approach  that  strives  to  valuate  the  common  sense  of  identity  under  any  social  negotiation  by  finalizing  a  particular  public  manna  to  identify  the  local  characteristic  within  a  specific  region.    In  general,  materiality  and  style  are  mostly  related  as  an  implement  of  identity  within  a  public  manna.  For  instance,  in  this  selected  pieces  of  furniture,  Gio  Ponti  specifically  point  out  the  regional  identity  in  Milan  through  clarifying  the  artistic  manna  on  materiality  picking,  as  well  as  responding  the  conservation  of  the  local  identity  during  the  rapid  changing  of  the  mechanical  urbanization  in  globalize  development  at  the  beginning  of  20th  century.    While  parallel  the  similar  time  period  back  to  Australia,  where  once  was  a  colonial  country,  the  public  manna  on  regionalism  can  be  seen  as  integration  with  a  political  ideology  against  with  the  multi  background’s  characteristics.  As  the  result,  the  tension  on  characterizing  the  local  identity  becomes  political  alternative  rather  than  purely  one-­‐side  public(s)  manna,  which  I  think  it  makes  the  definition  on  regionalism  in  Australia,  is  strongly  laying  a  political  characteristic.        

Australian  Folk  Music,  Reedy  River,  written  by  Dick  Diamond,  1953  (Forgotten  people)  About  the  Queensland Shearers' Strike of 1891i

Ten miles down Reedy River one Sunday afternoon,

I rode with Mary Campbell to that broad, bright lagoon;

We left our horses grazing till shadows climbed the peak,

And strolled beneath the she-oaks on the banks of Rocky Creek.

Then home along the river that night we rode a race,

And the moonlight lent a glory to Mary Campbell's face;

I pleaded for my future all through that moonlight ride,

Until our weary horses drew closer side by side.

Ten miles from Ryan's Crossing and five below the peak,

I built a little homestead on the banks of Rocky Creek;

I cleared the land and fenced it and plowed the rich red loam;

My first crop was golden when I brought Mary home.

Now still down Reedy River the grassy she-oaks sigh,

The water holes still mirror the pictures in the sky The golden sand is

drifting across the rocky bars,

And over all for ever go sun and moon and stars.

But of the hut I built there are no traces now,

And many rains have leveled the furrows of my plow.

The glad bright days have vanished, for sombre branches wave Their

wattle-blossom golden above my Mary's grave.  

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robert gordon menziesreading machine

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