MY MY MY: Amala Groom’s Have you seen MY Emily?

Keith Gallasch

In Have you seen MY Emily?, a wickedly amusing six-channel video installation, artist Amala Groom, performing multiple roles, recreates a tense conversation about cultural ownership with the wealthy owner of an Emily Kngwarreye painting.

NORPA’s Djurra: Dreaming theatre

Vicki Van Hout

Vicki Van Hout travels to Lismore to see NORPA’s Djurra, a multidisciplinary production with deep cultural roots, physical theatre, musical and visual strengths and rich potential for script and performance development.

A home for experimentation: new music in Adelaide

Chris Reid    

Chris Reid speaks with Stuart Johnson aka Wolfpanther, the curator of the Hotel Metropolitan’s Metro Experimental Night, who reveals a program rich in diverse genres in Adelaide’s developing new music scene.

Editorial 6 December 2017

This week we’re foregrounding dance with reports from Cleo Mees and Nikki Heywood on the Interchange Festival. Produced by Sydney choreographic laboratory Critical Path, it focused on issues of identity, ability and intercultural exchange via forums, workshops and dialogue with international artists.

Interchange Festival: The Start and the End of the Body

Nikki Heywood

Matters of site, proximity, language, alchemical states, excess and ritual constellate around the body in Nikki Heywood’s report on the Interchange festival’s final day of workshops, talks and forums.

JOLT’s musical myth-making

Elyssia Bugg

While appreciating the experimentation and sense of joy that JOLT brings to the field of sound-based performance, Elyssia Bugg is uncertain of the capacity of the ensemble’s new works to fully engage her.

The mutable body: Thomas E S Kelly and Fishhook at PACT

Keith Gallasch

In strikingly expressive productions in PACT’s program of new works from emerging artists, Thomas E S Kelly and Taree Sansbury evoke the drama of shape-shifting in Aboriginal culture and Fishhook face female fears head-on.

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.