Writing the art experience: Itching shaking crying being held – Part I: Of silence and silencing

Zsuzsanna Soboslay

In the first of two intensely felt, lyrical accounts of works she wrote about for RealTime for over two decades, Zsuzsanna Soboslay tracks her physical and emotional responses with concomitant observations about the writing body and the politics of gender and ability.

Editorial 1 August 2018

The utterly distinctive artist and radically dissenting thinker Philip Brophy is one of RealTime’s most popular writers, his words spilling from our pages over the decades, demanding to be read aloud given their inherent rhythms and oratorical drive.

Move fast and hear things: writing Audiovision

Philip Brophy

Reflecting on the random and contradictory perceptual impulses in works that drive his passion for audiovisuality, and the driven writing that flows from it, Philip Brophy surveys his output for his Audiovision column 2012-2017.

Andree Greenwell: Listen to Me

Keith Gallasch

Composer Andrée Greenwell’s new digital album, Listen to Me, addresses the subject of gendered violence with intensely lyrical and dramatic songs framed by musically underscored personal statements that lend this timely project documentary immediacy.

Editorial 18 July 2018

In this edition we look to the present that forges the future — the 2018 OzAsia Festival’s distinctive deepening of the relationship between Asia and Australia — and to the past.

Visual Arts, RealTime 1994-2004: Part 2, Convergence & Resurgence

Katerina Sakkas

Katerina Sakkas finds that RealTime’s writers “illuminate the complexities of cross-cultural exchange arising from new waves of contemporary Asian art; contextualise the millennial flourishing of photography, painting and video art; and bring linguistic playfulness to idiosyncratic installations.”

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.