Richard Tipping

Jaw harp – two tunes

RT — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:39:56 +0000

In this video, Richard Tipping plays two tunes on jaw harp: Waltzing Matilda and a kind of Scottish jig. Recorded as a part of his poetry performances in Germany in 1985, including the city of Wuppertal and its famous university. The jaw harp has a history as old and mysterious as the flute and the drum – appearing in many different places, made of many materials, but with a distinctive sound.

The jaw harp is sometimes called the ‘jews harp’ – an English mishearing of the Scottish saying jaw harp back in the eighteenth century, according to a dictionary of musicology.

Mangoes (poem in performance)

RT — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:16:08 +0000

Richard Tipping performs his poem Mangoes. Mangoes is a funny and sexy take on eating mangoes as a sensual experience.

This reading of the poem was recorded in a television studio in Germany in 1985, with all the flavour of the times. Mangoes was included in Richard Tipping’s second book Domestic Hardcore, published by University of Queensland Press in the Paperback Poets series in 1975.

Finger Licking Good (1972)

RT — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:43:23 +0000

A visit to a chicken ‘processing’ factory, where live white birds are converted into frozen carcasses. This film shows the whole process, and the migrant women working on the production line.

Made as a short political documentary in 1972 by three students studying drama and filmmaking at Flinders University. This film was inspired by anger at the arrival in Australia of American junkfood giant Kentucky Fried Chicken. On the advertising billboard which closes the film, a roast chicken under the gaze of Colonel Sanders is declared as ‘Womens’ Liberation’. Feminists and their supporters read this as an insult to their cause, others saw it as yet more foreign cultural imposition.

The film is set with a mix of good old fashioned big band music. Soundtrack includes a section of silence where the plucked chickens have their heads removed by a neck-stretching machine. Shot on a Bolex H16 Reflex camera, using black and white 16mm film, on a low editing ratio of about 1:2.

Direction, camerawork and editing by Richard Tipping.
Producer: Tess McGough.
Soundtrack by Bernard Neeson (Doc Neeson).
Finger Lickin’ Good was distributed by the Sydney Filmmakers’ Co-operative during the 1970s.

Committee (1971)

RT — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:19:23 +0000

Committee is a short film in an Expressionist style which pictures the dictatorship hiding behind a committee. Set in the main meeting room on the campus at Flinders University, which is empty. The shadow of a door handle. A frightened student hides in a corner. A leather-clad man with sunglasses and shaved head appears, sitting in the high-backed leader’s chair, then lying on the huge table. The film ends with a close up of a large painting hanging in the room which shows people in a state of terror. The soundtrack of two voices echoing through variations of words beginning with the letters ‘con’, like convene, convert, condemn … Made by Scott Hicks and Richard Tipping when they were studying at Flinders University in 1971. Starring Murray Copeland as the Dictator, with a cameo by Richard Tipping as the Student. This film was shot using a Bolex H16 camera, using reversal film (the film put through the camera is developed and becomes the master print – there is no negative).

Faces (1973)

RT — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:27:02 +0000

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Collaboration with Peter Lyssiotis

RT — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:07:55 +0000

Richard Tipping and Peter Lyssiotis are currently collaborating on a new artist book, related to Richard's word work Neoeon, and Peter's photographs of neons at night. The Neoeon word work plays through iterations of the words 'neon', 'eon' (a vast amount of time) and 'neo' (a word element meaning new). NEO NEO NE N EON N ON EON and so on Peter Lyssiotis is a highly regarded Australian artist book maker, based in Melbourne. His many publications are held in important collections including the State Libraries of Queensland and Victoria. EON

Soft Riots

RT — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:42:34 +0000

Soft Riots was a title in the Paperback Poets series published by University of Queensland Press. The book collects poems written between 1969 and 1972, including the title poem 'Soft Riots / TV News' which has recently been included in the Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry edited by John Kinsella (Penguin, 2009) Sample poem: Winter two oclock -- me drunk on vodka you sick & sober, both parties a drag on our way home, up in the hills, saw the giddy rain but no sound – coming down slow in all directions / stopped the car & my first time! SNOW i danced, blowing out smoke air stupidhappy while you coughed inside the glass. it couldn’t have lasted long; the distance between us & the way the snow melted as it touched the ground

Notes towards Employment

RT — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:27:38 +0000

This book collects early poems, written between 1966 and 1969, which should have been included as the first section of Soft Riots. Sample poem: Fragments Autmn is ten cents doubtful when the gulls are gone and leaves wait for rain Angular women come and go – their restlessness. He sat for an hour in the park watching the street unwind. Trouser bagginess – reflections in a dusty window.

Shop

Stu — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:13:42 +0000

Artpoem Press publishes original works by Richard Tipping, and distributes some in association with other publishers.

Richard’s latest publications are
Subvert I Sing by Redfox Press in Ireland (2008), a 40 page hardback of A6 size. This can be ordered direct from Redfox for 15 euro or US$20, postage included.
www.redfoxpress.com/dada-tipping.html

The Openotherend watch by Artikel Editionen in Berlin (also available as a clock). These can be ordered direct from Artikel, price on application.
www.en.artikel-editionen.com/article.php?AID=120

Selected works by Richard can be viewed at these commercial galleries:
Sydney and Melbourne Australian Galleries (full representation)
www.australiangalleries.com.au

Adelaide Greenway Art Gallery (associated artist)
www.greenaway.com.au

Brisbane Grahame Galleries and Editions
www.grahamegalleries.com

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Small artpoem signs by Richard in open editions are for sale at many art museum shops.
Please note: Artpoem Press does not sell on-line at this stage, only by wholesale orders. Terms are a minimum order of 5 of any one item, and payment in advance. For wholesale enquiries, please use our Contact page.

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Artpoem signs and multiples are distributed by:

EUROPE
London Tate Modern
The Bookartbookshop
Berlin Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin
Hamburg Multiple Box Hamburg

USA
New York The Museum of Modern Art
Paul Smith (108 Fifth Avenue store)
Chicago The Museum of Contemporary Art
Los Angeles Santa Monica Museum of Art
The OK Store
Sante Fe Design Warehouse

AUSTRALIA

Adelaide The Art Gallery of South Australia
Brisbane The Gallery of Modern Art
Canberra The National Gallery of Australia
Lake Macquarie Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery (New South Wales)
Sydney The Museum of Contemporary Art
Multiple Box Sydney

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Sculpture

Stu — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:18:08 +0000

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