Firstly, darch has been invited by the Museum of Contemporary Art to participate in the conversation space at the Craigie Horsefield exhibition that is currently showing.

Craigie Horsefield is an artist who focuses on exploring time and community through photography, with his photographs often developed and printed many years after they are taken. The MCA website tells us that:

“He has been a radical proponent of ideas concerning art and community since the 1960s, exploring the central role of the audience in relation to a work of art, and how the individual relates to society. Duration and time often influence his work, challenging our inclination towards instantaneous responses, and investigating the theory of “slow time”. His work has anticipated much current thinking in art practice concerning the way in which art relates to the wider community.

Shortlisted for the Turner Prize 1996, Horsfield has said: “The work I make is intimate in scale but its ambition is, uncomfortable as I find it, towards an epic dimension, to describe the history of our century, and the centuries beyond, the seething extent of the human condition.”

One room of the exhibition has been given over the a ‘Conversation Space’ - a place for talks, meetings, and various other happenings. DARCH is using the Conversation Space on Sunday’s each fortnight beginning this weekend, to hold a series of discussions on the city. Each week we will look at particular theme and will record a podcast and put on an interactive-exhibitioney-data-gathering-thing.

This weekend’s theme will draw on the concern’s of Horsefield and concentrate on the idea of ’slowness in the instaneous city’. We will start at 1pm so, if you are in town, drop by and have a look….

Secondly, Col Madigan is speaking at Tusculum next Monday night. Now 85, Madigan is one of Australia’s preeminent architects and responsible for the National Art Gallery. You should go to this. It will be good for the soul.