Independent Brisbane: Four Plays [BOOK REVIEW]

Independent Brisbane: Four Plays is, as the title suggests, a collection of plays by independent theatre-makers and theatre-making collectives in Brisbane in the 2002– 07 period, including Marcel Dorney’s Harriers (6–51), the nest’s The Knowing of Mary Poppins (52–102), Linda Hassall’s Post Office Rose (103–71) and Maxine Mellor’s Magda’s Fascination with Wax Cats (172–216). According to the contextualising information on the book’s back cover, these plays are ‘distinctive’ in content, story and style, ‘[y]et carry with them what is characteristic of the city they come from – a preoccupation with landscape, creation in tightly knit collaborative teams and brave, often unexpected, theatrical choices’.

Marcel Cousins : every little thing

This review considers the artwork of Melbourne artist Marcel Cousins showed at Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane in April 2012. The review traces Cousins' doctoral study in Tokyo. It then assesses his paintings and installations that explore the transformation of generic objects in exhibition contexts, as well as the aesthetic dimensions of such processes.

Amor, muerte y esperanza : reflexiones desde Gabriel Marcel

Resumen: No vivimos solos ni morimos solos. Por ello el acompañamiento del enfermo terminal desde una actitud de amor, sostenido en su base por la esperanza trascendente, es ciertamente necesario como actitud cristiana de donación, y su reflexión se incorpora a toda antropología que no deje de lado la tanatología. Si la antropología margina el “thanatos”, se torna fragmentaria e incompleta. Morir no es el fin de la biografía que le “pasa” a los demás: es la experiencia universal a la cual cada uno ha de prepararse. Este asunto será analizado teniendo como guía a un destacado filósofo francés, Gabriel Marcel, quien, de algún modo, ha dado luz con sus escritos y su preocupación vital sobre esta temática.

Oratio dominica CL linguis versa, et propriis cujusque linguae characteribus plerumque expessa : edente J. J. Marcel, typographeii imperialis administro generali

Referência: Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres /Jacques-Charles Brunet. 1862. v.3. pg.1394.

Distributed Sounding Art – Practices in Distributing Sound (eds. Barry Truax, Marcel Cobussen and Vincent Meelberg)

This chapter examines distributed sounding art by focusing on three key aspects that we consider essentially tied to the notion of distribution: assignment, transport and sharing. These aspects aid us in navigating through a number of nodes in a history of sounding art practices where sound becomes assigned, transported and shared between places and people. Sound or data become distributed, and in the process of distribution, meanings become assigned and altered through differing socio-cultural contexts of places and people. We have selected several works, commencing in the 1960’s as we consider this period as having produced some of the seminal works that address distribution.
We draw on works by composers, performers and sound artists and thus present a history of sounding art, which is amongst the many histories of sounding art in the 20th and 21st century.

Les Horizons / dir. Marcel Millet

1912/06 (A1,N3).

Les Horizons / dir. Marcel Millet

1913/06 (A2,N10).

Les Horizons / dir. Marcel Millet

1912/02 (A1,N1).

Les Horizons / dir. Marcel Millet

1913/03 (A2,N8).