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In the city of New Eridu, deep in the lands of The Homeless Gods, three more locations are unlocked for you to visit: THE ZIGGURAT, APSU MARSHES and GATES OF ANZU.

The Gates of Anzu are the portal to the fortified city at the heart of New Eridu, carved with the image of the lion-headed eagle Anzu - who once stole the Tablets of Destiny.

Within the fortified city lies The Ziggurat. This towering structure is home to the rulers of the city. But it is only a shadow of its predecessor, the grand ziggurat at Ur.

Meanwhile, on the fringes of the city, in the alien environment of the Apsu Marshes (named after the ancient father of the gods Apsu - He of the sweet, fresh waters beneath the earth), two lovers live out the last days of their relationship.

Visit The Homeless Gods: www.thehomelessgods.net

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Newly opened are the gates of New Eridu, in the lands of The Homeless Gods. Here dwell the fallen gods of Mesopotamia.

This poem-world takes the form of an interactive flash animation map, an interface akin to adventure games such as Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter Nights.

www.thehomelessgods.net

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The stunning, newly opened State Library of Queensland will host the launch of art quarterly Artlink’s first issue for 2007, The Word As Art. The launch will be held at SLQ auditorium 1 on Wednesday 14 March – 6pm.

Speakers include artist Richard Bell, writer and curator Timothy Morrell and academic Professor Pat Hoffie.

The flyer can be viewed here

The issue has been guest-edited by Richard Tipping and explores the practice of text-based art in all its forms here in Australia. It will be available for sale nationally. Alternatively, visit www.artlink.com.au.

Sydney-siders (or very interested parties) may wish to look at this exhibition of artists books at the Art Gallery of NSW.

This exhibition examines the process of notation by two artists of their travels in Australia and overseas. There is a questioning of the forms such books may take and the many approaches to expressing content using both text and image.

The books range from collections of drawings or prints of a journey or place, to the ephemera of travel, or to images which the artist associates with a particular place. Both artists use a variety of materials and print techniques, ranging from intaglio and embossing by hand to computer printing, often on paper specifically made by hand for a particular book. A variety of bookbinding techniques will be used and considerable thought given to the display of the books with several presented in slip cases or sculptural boxes.

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Today we post a moody collaboration of image and text, between poet Jill Jones and photographer Annette Willis. It explores issues of memory and mortality through the gravestones and tombs of Paris’s famous Pere LaChaise and Montparnasse cemeteries.

Visit Part 1 and Part 2 here.