OzAsia 2018: mutualism & displacement; interview, Joseph Mitchell

Keith Gallasch

Joseph Mitchell’s enticing program features striking works by female Asian visual artists, a Chinese performance about young women living in a social media bubble, theatre from Iran, Syria and Malaysia, dance from Japan and Indonesia, and South Australian-Asian collaborations.

On having no style

Linda Marie Walker

While reflecting on writing for RealTime, Linda Marie Walker had been commissioned by a magazine to write about a visual art exhibition. The magazine’s rejection of her piece threw up for the writer questions around house style, poetic language, the general reader and writing as a way of being in the world.

Vicki Van Hout, dancing on a cultural knife-edge

Keith Gallasch

Vicki Van Hout’s new dance theatre work for FORM Dance Projects, plenty serious TALK TALK, is wickedly funny, existentially intimate, culturally complex, bitingly political and superbly danced beneath an exquisite grass sculpture woven by the artist.

Back to Back, In Between Time & RealTime

Osunwunmi

Osunwunmi visits the making of the latest account of Back to Back Theatre’s The Democratic Set for the We are Bristol Project, and, with In Between Time Festival Artistic Director Helen Cole reflects on IBT’s relationship since 2006 with RealTime.

Editorial 22 August 2018

RealTime will take performative shape on 21 October. Titled RealTime in real time and part of the just launched 2018 Performance Space Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art program, it’s a five-hour open conversation focusing on a quarter of a century of extraordinary change in the arts — for artists and audiences and not least reviewers.

Performance in a progression-regression helix, Adelaide 2011-17

Ben Brooker

While reflecting on works, companies and festival productions that deeply engaged him when reviewing performance for RealTime in 2011-17, Ben Brooker worries at the disadvantages suffered by the city’s small-scale innovators.

Andrée Greenwell’s Cinéaste: reflections & refractions

Keith Gallasch

Cinéaste Vol. 1 is a fascinating assemblage that allows composer Greenwell to lovingly reflect on the idiom of film scoring and to inventively refract her own compositions, yielding aural gems: riffs, ostinatos, hooks and soundscapes, the stuff of movies actual and imagined.

Sky Blue Mythic: Angela Goh’s fantastical myth-making

Keith Gallasch

More essay than review, Keith Gallasch’s response to Angela Goh’s Sky Blue Mythic explores the relationship between experiencing a powerfully disconcerting work, reviewing it and engaging with the artist’s account of it.

Narcifixion: Watching the narcissists

Keith Gallasch

Anton’s vigorously propulsive, grimly funny dance work, Narcifixion, about screen-bred narcissism provokes Keith Gallasch, watching a finely streamed performance, to appreciate the logic of its structure and respond to its account of a complex condition.

Rakini Devi’s nightwork: the performer as visual artist

Keith Gallasch

The exhibition Inhabiting Erasures powerfully attests to a passion to arrest the wrongs done to women, conjures a magical otherworld of female strength and beauty and exquisitely reveals painting to be the foundation of Devi’s practice.

Excellent everyday Kathak: Raghav Handa’s TWO

Keith Gallasch

With amusing conversation and exquisite partnering dancer Raghav Handa and tabla player Maharshi Raval reveal much about collaboration, Kathak dance and the testing of boundaries.

Album review: Offspring Bites 3: En Masse

Keith Gallasch

From Ensemble Offspring potent works by Alex Pozniak (dramatically assaying weight in music), Holly Harrison (a witty take on instrumental and other distortions) and Thomas Meadowcroft (a gently vibrating meditation that opens out to a pulsing expansive vision).

Editorial Thursday 27 August 2020

Keith Gallasch & Virginia Baxter

The highly successful 2019 exhibition In Response: Dialogues with RealTime, which celebrated the interplay between RealTime and the artists Martin del Amo, Vicki Van Hout and Branch Nebula, is now exhibited online. We also interview instigator and co-curator Dr Erin Brannigan about her motivation for mounting this innovative exhibition. In another bold archival venture, Madeleine Hodge and Sarah Rodigari have created Timely Readings, a visual mapping of live art in Australia.